dumped around the estate

That says a lot about where you grew up

This place was once likened to beirut in the national press

thanks guys, I've always been pretty logical and like at school maths and physics was what i am good at so school have always pushed me towards those at uni but there's always been just something about that noise that an engine makes, being like a lullaby to me

Its like i have a nervousness as where to start because obviously mistakes are where you learn, but if i make a mistake, i have no money what so ever to sort it out if i cant

so this may be a stupid question from total amateur so bare with me, i have a 1 litre 6n, where should i start?

Get a haynes and service it, build up confidence doing small simple jobs first

Just read up alot and ask a few question's .. I'm in the same boat as its my daily, Just make sure your confident and know what your doing before you start..

Cant wait till i take this off the road so i can properly play and not worry about fucking it up :)

Just read up alot and ask a few question's

And remember 90% of what you read in forums is total horse shit :-)

Haha, Yeah alot of people will make out they know what there on about but in all thruth know fuck all ..

Bit like me tbf lmao

What knowledge? I just know what a hammer is

That's the only tool you need to strip down and rebuild a mk2 - it came with the rest!

Wait until it goes wrong, and then necessity will mean you have to fix it. Steep learning curve, but on more than a few occasions I've been sat outside in the dark working by torch light trying to get my car running for the next day. However, since having a reliable daily, it is nice to have the luxury of time to spend on a project, and not just rushing the job to get the car on the road

Collecting Matchbox toy cars means I could identify a De Tomaso Pantera from 1000 yards aged 9.

haha same!

one of my first words was 'mini' xD

as a kid we always repaired our own cars (including hammering the pushrods straight on a volvo 340 and changing the engine on a passat the blew up on the motorway xD) so when i got my first car i intended to keep on that path.

i'm currently studying motorsport engineering in leamington, which doesnt really teach spannering but the background knowledge of how everything works and why things are made that way i find really helpful. i think i learn most of the useful stuff from working on my own car and engine builds and such.

at work i find i dont learn how to fix cars per se, more the little tricks that help you do the job faster. most of the major work we do is usually on skylines or supras or mr2 so i know alot of shortcuts on those cars but corsas and saxos I'm useless on xD

Breaking shit and being too tight to pay someone else to mend it.

Sounds about right to me

Gran Turismo.

This topic is a repost, i know because i answered the last one, though admittedly it was probably a couple of years ago now.

I bet it's still here, feels like yesterday because my post was like two pages long and i just can't be arsed to go over my whole life story again in detail.

Just to summarise then, i was mad for cars/trucks and anything technical since i worked out how the safety pin on my nappy worked. I was building mecanno before i could walk and pulling toys apart to see how they worked when i wasn't playing with cars. A neighbour gave me a car brochure and then i was as mad for all forms of technical media. One thing led to another and i built my first engine at 14, repaired crashed cars for a coachbuilders as a full time job by 16, rinsed out all the info i could find in various libraries through childhood and on until the internet, spent over a decade trading cars i bought as wrecks and fixed up to sell spat'n'tested, modified a few..

You get the idea - Absolute eat/sleep/shit case.

Have a go hero!

my dad has taught me pretty much everything, hes owned our family buisness ( jessopmotorbodies) since before i was born, I've grown up helping him, was taught to drive at 10 and have always loved getting stuck in, i also have a friend who owns a motorsport based company building all kinds of race cars from classic touring cars to modern day touring cars, stock cars, f3 ect ect, he let me do a work placement with him and taught me a lot, I've been lucky to have a lot of go too people when growing up so all my knowlege is pretty much stolen from others lol

theres only two way to learn with cars in my eyes, 1# ask question (lots of them) and 2# get your hands dirty and get stuck in

3 years of having a Citroen taught me everything I need to know about cars!

Being a Stingey nice person and having a chief navy engineer for a step dad

I left school and went straight into an apprenticeship with Renault, then moved over to vans and now at Peugeot (all within the same company)

I started playing with cars just when I was 17 and could drive.

Been mad about cars from a young age but was never fortunate to have anything to work on.

Started off just bolting cone air filter onto cars and took it from there.

8 years later I find myself with a big garage, with 6 cars all being worked on and pretty much turning my hand to anything just to get experiance.