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I have little to no technical knowledge of cars. Blasphemy I know. But my car has once again to be an A grade butt plug and screwing me over. It has decided that it wants to have cooling issues and is overheating within 5-6 minutes of starting it up. Now this has only occured since my mate put it into a freakin bus shelter. That was made of solid concrete. There was more physical damage to me then to the bus stop and I wasn't even there.

Anyway, It has been on going now and because the insurance company claims they fixed it and it didn't play up for the repairers immeadiatly after the fixit, I gotta sort this shit out. What I am after is a list or series of sugestions on quality mechanics in sydney. Quality of work done, value of the service, turnaround. So on so forth. Maybe some radiator or cooling specialists. Who knows? If you have some hints and tips then I would be glad to here from you.

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Some idiot with an r32 gtst

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I have little to no technical knowledge of cars. Blasphemy I know. But my car has once again to be an A grade butt plug and screwing me over. It has decided that it wants to have cooling issues and is overheating within 5-6 minutes of starting it up. Now this has only occured since my mate put it into a freakin bus shelter. That was made of solid concrete. There was more physical damage to me then to the bus stop and I wasn't even there.

Anyway, It has been on going now and because the insurance company claims they fixed it and it didn't play up for the repairers immeadiatly after the fixit, I gotta sort this shit out. What I am after is a list or series of sugestions on quality mechanics in sydney. Quality of work done, value of the service, turnaround. So on so forth. Maybe some radiator or cooling specialists. Who knows? If you have some hints and tips then I would be glad to here from you.

Sincerly

Some idiot with an r32 gtst

hey mate, i had some cooling issues, i went to a radiator specialist in gladesville, on victoria rd, i dont remember the name of the place, but he fix my problems that i had at the time which was a few years ago, since then ive never opened my radiator cap, he flushed the old stuff out, changed the a few things and he did it in a day, and it cost me $80, i went to another place before and they wanted $300 to fix my probs, powerplay imports sent me to see this guy, also check if your radiator has coolant in it, maybe they filled it with just water, and after a while water just evapourates, hope i was some help, overheating is a bitch of a thing, as for someone giving your front end a make over, my brother totalled my front end into the back of another car a few years back, ive learned to live with it, you forget after a while

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