hello every1

 

me me uncle and brother inlaw have just got ourselfs a workshop in dagenham essex with an oven big enough to paint vehicles up to mercedes sprinter van size.

 

im a mechanic have just left my job at a well known large workshop in dagenham called sfd solutions which work on anything from aston martins, range rovers, porsche, almost anything,

 

wanted to try have ago at doing something for myself,

 

have worked on a few zeds over past couple of years, i have 1, so does my cousin and my uncle use to,

have a couple of friends with them too,

and i always get lumbered when things go wrong lol,

 

have done gearbox conversion, fitted stage2 turbos to mine [with engine in]

timing belts, etc,

 

my brother inlaw paints and he painted my zed about a year or so ago and it looked great straight from the oven no flatting and mopping down how it is now is how it came out the oven

apart from the marks i done on the big rock that run out on me in mcdonalds and ruined my front bumper lol

 

what i was asking would any1 be interested in having a look at our workshop and a look at quite a few zeds between mine family and friends,

and maybee if you ever need work done use us,

 

we aint zed specialists we dont do tuning chipping mapping etc,

but were in south east [dagenham area] were be cheap and can fit brakes, clutches,props,mounts,suspension,timing belts,etc

 

i love working on zeds, they will be well looked after and hope it might help out down south where not many people work on them,

 

what do use think would it be good idea were be doing all cars but would enjoy doing a few zeds

Edited November 3, 200916 yr by Terry
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good luck with it Terry

Good luck with the venture buddy, it sounds like you've got a great little workshop there :D

Nice one Terry, Good luck with the venture, yet another zed specialist in the making :hyper:.....this forum is like a catalyst for enterprise.

 

Jeff TT

 

 

im usually sceptic about anyone posing to know anything about working on zeds but Terry worked on my car over the weekend and all i can say is he is a true enthusiast.

 

What impressed me is the fact he went well out his way to finishing and getting the bits on my car fitted and sorted with attention to detail. not many honest mechanics like this around.

 

certainly recommended from my experience.

went and got all the money together last night

sorted it so we had everything

got their and a polish guy was giving him the money for the unit

what winds me up the most is the polish guy had the unit out back and opened up and showed us around, phoned the landlord for us and made the meet what he said was 1030 this morning and he met him at 1000 and paid him.

 

so were out looking for another unit and aint stopping to we get one?

we will get it done but at the minute were all gutted lol

 

thank you all for the replys

 

and thanks to you to isyss im glad you was happy with work

went and got all the money together last night

sorted it so we had everything

got their and a polish guy was giving him the money for the unit

what winds me up the most is the polish guy had the unit out back and opened up and showed us around, phoned the landlord for us and made the meet what he said was 1030 this morning and he met him at 1000 and paid him.

 

so were out looking for another unit and aint stopping to we get one?

we will get it done but at the minute were all gutted lol

 

thank you all for the replys

 

and thanks to you to isyss im glad you was happy with work

 

To say your gutted must be a real under statement, just hope your determination pays off.Situations like that must make you wild !!!!!!!

Best of luck with search REDZED & Little REDZED.

i am really gutted but i will find another workshop just dont want an old scruffy one, and want one with an oven almost free paint jobs are quite handy when things run out on me,

 

and geoff thats a crazy pic, makes me laugh every time i look at it, how the hell did you get that in one of these boxes to write in.

got myself a workshop 2day in hornchurch essex it use to be a tuning centre called auto injetrics,

 

its 2 buildings

1 building as two 2poster ramps and is the main working area with an office

 

the other as a rolling road in it but only goes to 200bhp

 

whoever owned it before looked like they specialised in ford rs and cosworth cause all the books to work on them are their still

 

all that i have to do now is tidy it up a bit, and get bloody dirty lol

thats good to hear. be good to come check it out

do you want to meet up 2moro in hornchurch mate the address is rm12 6qp [r/o 192, high street] 07522451527 keep meaning to meet up with you anyhow,

or whenever you want just ring me b4 you leave, how are you anyway and hows the z.

The best of luck to you bud , a former member and my best mate since the age of 13, Mantav8 and myself often spoke about setting up on our own , he,s a damn fine mechanic and i,ve been panelbeating for nearly 30 years so it would have been a good combination but we never got round to it and i SOOO regret it now , he,s now emigrated . :cry::cry:

Hindsights a wonderful thing :headvswal:headvswal

It,s probably won,t be easy at first but at least you havn,t got an unskilled moron ( usually called a supervisor ! ) on yer back telling you how to do ya job , that in itself,s worth a fortune .:dance:

thank you

just hope i can cover rent and rates thats my main worry otherwise wont worry about supervisor i will be screaming at myself lol

cleared it all out today,

found loads of performance chips in their most have the cars their for on the boxes their in ,mainly bmw and renault [no z chips] found z airflow meter and cas in thier so someone as worked on one in their,

got bloody loads of new air flow meters and sensors that was left their

and a few of them kits that convert from points to electric ignition,

loads of new rotary arms and condensors but no one really uses them any more thats proberley why their still their lol,

 

gonna take some pics and put some on here

 

might have first job coming in [thanks to issy] head gasket on an alpha romeo twin spark

 

and gonna go have signs made tomorow see if i can get some passing trade

 

anyway guys cheers for replys i post every now and then how its going