[steamship]

Just following up on this thread. I did post in another thread (Front arms saga) on 11th April, so have reproduced it below:

Originally Posted by steamship

Currently have my D2 going through the same operation. Got an entire Meyle kit off eBay for £150 and left it with the mechanic last night. After spending the day on it, he calls me just after 5pm and asks if he knows anyone breaking an A8, as the top pinch bolt won't budge. They tried hammers, heat and drills, but still no joy... and this is only the drivers side. Luckily, managed to find A8parts with one available, so ordered it. That was around 6pm, after much scouring of the web and breakers. Won't be posted until tomorrow and the car is up for the MOT on Thursday evening. Nothing like cutting things fine. Fingers, toes, arms and legs crossed that he can get it done in time.

Turns out fingers, toes, arms and legs crossed weren't enough. Despite A8parts shipping the part first thing on the 12th, it never reached Coventry on time to be shipped across. ParcelForce then didn't do any deliveries from Thursday to Monday, so mechanic never got hub assembly until Tuesday morning, somewhat late for the MOT (the previous Thursday). By the time I found out about these delays, I couldn't change the MOT date, so lost the £30.50

Anyway, he finally got the work done and I got the car back last night, and had it up for its MOT this afternoon, which it passed with flying colours. Not even any advisories.

So, all in, it cost me £150 for the full Meyle kit, £130 for the hub assembly, £61 in MOT charges and £120 in labour. Can't really complain at that, as the Meyle kit costs around the £450 mark.

And to finish on a high note, a big thumbs up for LPG conversions. When he did the emissions test, it recorded 0.000% Vol for CO (has to be 3.5% or less) and 18ppm for HC (has to be 1200ppm or less) Driving a V8 and saving the environment at the same time.