corsa Posted December 22, 2008 Posted December 22, 2008 Need to get the Vectra checked out can anybody point me in the direction of a reputable establishment? Davie.
chrissy Posted December 22, 2008 Posted December 22, 2008 Kenneth Brown Motor Engineering 36 Hepburn Road, Block 108, Hillington Industrial Estate Glasgow G52 4RT nice bunch of guys they use my work alot davie, well worth a trip and afaik they are very reasonably priced chrissy
JohnSt Posted December 22, 2008 Posted December 22, 2008 (edited) Kenneth Brown Motor Engineering 36 Hepburn Road, Block 108, Hillington Industrial Estate Glasgow G52 4RT nice bunch of guys they use my work alot davie, well worth a trip and afaik they are very reasonably priced chrissy Davie, I have a conundrum here. ^^^^^^^ If you are setting up a competition car, Kenny is the boy. He's helped me for years and I'll be in there in the next week. He will make a smashing job of this , but it'll be done on string gauges so expect the labour to reflect this. ProGrip in Bonnybridge, are who have squared my car for the last four seasons. State of the art gear , as long as you want factory specs, or are prepared to tell John exactly what you do want. Lots of garages can do this, John does it 8 hours a day, hence my choice. An hour will do it and for a road car the better option cost wise. ---john--- Edited December 22, 2008 by JohnSt
corsa Posted December 23, 2008 Author Posted December 23, 2008 Cheers guys, spoke with Progrip this morning and booking it in for 1st week January. Cheers John. d
marky.t.s Posted December 23, 2008 Posted December 23, 2008 to save starting another thread on this subject i'll throw in a few questions here. 1) how often should the geometry/alignment be checked on a std. roadgoing car? 2) can crashing over potholes/crap roads knock alignment out? The reason i'm asking is, that after getting new droplinks and new tyres and 4 wheel geometry/alignment done just over 14 months ago the car felt great, it didn't follow whitelines on the road like a tramcar anymore and handled well for a bog standard car.Recently though i've noticed the front end "following" lines,cuts or wide cracks on the road surface,also i noticed some wear on the outer edge of the front tyres(more so on the n/s/f). The geo/alignment was done at Hypertech to the usual "fast road" settings or as near as he could get with a std. 00 m/y UK suspension set up. any thoughts/ideas would be great .
JohnSt Posted December 24, 2008 Posted December 24, 2008 Worn bushes, knocking things about hitting potholes, duff dampers lots of other things can have changed in 14 months. I can't comment on Hypertechs work, never used them. The reason I first went to john is that it's what he does all day everyday. So who has the experience ? My philosophy has always been, use a specialist for a specialist job
evil evo Posted December 25, 2008 Posted December 25, 2008 hypertech is a good garage but as john says progrip is the only one to use the man is a guru of suspension settings sorry duncan if you read this
Maxxed_Ross Posted January 3, 2009 Posted January 3, 2009 Progrip is the way to go mate Can't agree more. John was at school with my dad so has always done all the work on our cars, and I've never let anyone else work on mine. The 4 wheel laser system is something else!
Typer666 Posted January 7, 2009 Posted January 7, 2009 Do you find the 4wheel laser set up makes a huge difference as opposed to having the racking etc done at kwikfit?
corsa Posted January 7, 2009 Author Posted January 7, 2009 Just back after getting the Vectra looked at, he adjusted a few settings and advised me of the new tyre pressures to run to solve the problem. Some set up he has. Very reasonable for a check too. Would definately reccommend him. davie
Maxxed_Ross Posted January 7, 2009 Posted January 7, 2009 Do you find the 4wheel laser set up makes a huge difference as opposed to having the racking etc done at kwikfit? It's alot more precise, and can check EVERY perameter on the wheels at the same time, gives live results as you adjust and is generally better. For the same price or less I'd go laser at Progrip every time
JohnSt Posted January 8, 2009 Posted January 8, 2009 how much does the setup at progrip costGeoff Call 01324 810111 and speak to John himself. ---john---
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