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Nov 19th, 2019, 13:07 | #12851 |
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Well, it's been a wahile since I was here. Life has been "going on" like it does. Family bereavement, re-evaluation of my life, etc etc etc.
Anyway, yesterday I removed the broken chrome door handle. Broken in the same way they all do, they're rubbish. It's embarrassing to keep opening the front door stretched in from the rear door, so it needs to be done. So that's what I'm doing. I will say, the P2 cars are even harder than the P1, and they weren't easy in the first place. It's a right kerfuffle, and I'm not enjoying it at all, but there it is. |
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Nov 20th, 2019, 18:56 | #12852 |
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Had mine on the ramp at work today to investigate the cause of the back of the car shimmying about when cornering, especially on bumpy roads, well, I found loads of stuff wrong, yellow denotes the weak bushes, red denotes the completely wrecked ones with some if not all the rubber has disconnected from the metal sleeve, the biggest ones on the trailing arms are so bad that there's practically no rubber left in there at all, this is the same story both sides, no wonder it drives like a p!ssed pig, worrying as the mot is only 2 weeks away, although I'm certain that all of this wear hasn't occured in a year and it passed last time, which in itself is worrying as well, with this list of things it'll probably be more viable to awake the t4 from its slumber and stick it in at the local garage and take them up on their pay monthly option, as it's still the better car of the two.
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Nov 21st, 2019, 18:26 | #12853 |
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Got the ball rolling now with the t4, it's booked in for the engine changed at a local trusted garage, it's now or never.
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Nov 24th, 2019, 22:59 | #12854 |
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T4 is now nearly ready to go for its heart transplant, today I put air in the tyres, fitted a decent battery, played driveway Tetris so it's not behind the caravan anymore, refitted the front indicators, put the dodgy cem back in (I'll swap the one back off the SE once the engines in) and fitted the egg crate grille I purchased a while ago, the car looks a lot better already, next weekends task will be to clear the car out after its had some rodent activity in there at some point, they've found a full 2l bottle of Dr pepper that I didn't know was on the floor in the back and eaten through it, so you can imagine how great the rubber mat looks.
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Dec 17th, 2019, 18:52 | #12855 |
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MOT time for the S40, an easy pass with just the rear discs and pads on an advisory (which I knew about but hadn't had chance to get done). Excellent service as always from David Pengelley Autocare in Nottingham.
Also, picked up a couple of gas struts for the boot from Euro Car parts, not because I necessarily need them but because there's (presumably) an error and they are £2.75 as opposed to £40 each... and the discount code still worked so a pair came to under £4... get buying before they notice! https://www.eurocarparts.com/p/ansch...trut-859660131
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Dec 17th, 2019, 19:24 | #12856 | |
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Dec 17th, 2019, 19:36 | #12857 |
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I was expecting them to be wrong or for them to say when I turned up to pay that there was a price error but no such conversation occurred!
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Dec 17th, 2019, 20:18 | #12858 |
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In my case they could still be wrong as you've got an S40 and mine is a V40, just noticed that bit lol, oh well, either way they were still cheap.
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Dec 18th, 2019, 00:03 | #12859 | |
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Yeah the S40 ones are quite short! Could be worth tapping your reg in though to see if they've also done it on the ones appropriate to V40s, we buy a lot of struts at work for buses and even at trade prices in bulk they are nothing like as cheap as that so like you say, worth hanging on to
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Dec 19th, 2019, 21:36 | #12860 |
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Busy week
Cambelt .....sorted last changed at 25000 nine years ago included water pump as is in the kit anyway lol .
Fitted aero wipers and nighrbreaker laser x4 both cheap and easy even for me . Ordered ...bought full leather steering wheel looking forwards to fitting that not lol Oh and treated her to four 16 alloys with nearly new tyres as 15 nct5 On at moment look brand new but ride is horrid ....lol Anyone know best place for locking wheel things as garage said ones on aren't that great need replacing .... Had hose clamps changed included with cam belt . Busy week but well worth the effort rewarding drive to and from work 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂 Ordered two struts got 50% discount for Xmas.👍👍👍 Last edited by Goco6449; Dec 19th, 2019 at 21:44. |
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