Recent content by Big_jim

  1. Big_jim

    Bringing the S3 back from the dead. Advice needed!

    Haha, fancy fitting my box?
  2. Big_jim

    Buying a S3

    Buy my AMK S3. I'm losing interest.
  3. Big_jim

    Bringing the S3 back from the dead. Advice needed!

    You want a foreigner????
  4. Big_jim

    Bringing the S3 back from the dead. Advice needed!

    Not as yet. I'm waiting for him to come back from his holiday. Hopefully the price won't treble and I'll still get it done.
  5. Big_jim

    Bringing the S3 back from the dead. Advice needed!

    A friend of a friend. Mike Knight near Birmingham.
  6. Big_jim

    Bringing the S3 back from the dead. Advice needed!

    Bad news! I'd finally got everything in order. Gearbox got delivered Wednesday. Got the clutch Thursday and had a recovery truck booked for Friday afternoon do he could get the gearbox changed today. All was well (other than it being lower than I remember and an ar5e to get on the truck!) Got...
  7. Big_jim

    drove F type R round Rockingham today

    Just sank £450m I to the castle Bromwich plant!
  8. Big_jim

    Bringing the S3 back from the dead. Advice needed!

    No he sold it. Now works as a lifeguard.
  9. Big_jim

    Bringing the S3 back from the dead. Advice needed!

    Yes mate. Needs a bit of paint, window regulator, fog light switch and the dead pixels in the clocks sorted but can't get it on the road and do them as I go.
  10. Big_jim

    Bringing the S3 back from the dead. Advice needed!

    Friend of a friend. Guys name is Darren but the garage is called Mike Knight. Just off the stratford road next to where the Johnson coaches used to be.
  11. Big_jim

    Bringing the S3 back from the dead. Advice needed!

    I thought that, but was worried if there was bits of rivet knocking around the gearbox!
  12. Big_jim

    Bringing the S3 back from the dead. Advice needed!

    Haha, yeah that's possible, and was probably me driving. I flat it down at my parents in knowle then drove it to the bodyshop in Tyseley for him to sort out properly. I doubt she would have noticed you to be honest, she is female! Pretty sure I saw you one coming out of browns lane. Gearbox...
  13. Big_jim

    Bringing the S3 back from the dead. Advice needed!

    No it was never sold as such. Wasn't driven around in primer either. Car lived in knowle. Will be back driving in Solihull within the next few weeks hopefully.
  14. Big_jim

    Bringing the S3 back from the dead. Advice needed!

    Yeah it was probably her.