Today I found that my new rear brake pads are knocking.........badly so I have ordered some TRW pads to the correct size. Buy cheap buy twice as they say. I also found that my dying boot release button, has died. Awkward when I needed to get the pram out the boot. :duh:

Today I have mostly sworn a lot as some little s**tbag appears to have reversed into when I was parked up and then driven off without leaving as much as a note, and for some reason my dashcam didn't catch the car I suspect did it driving off :(

8" gouge in the lacquercoat on my NSR wheel arch, there's a fairly sharp fold in the panel, and their paint left on my rear bumper and also on my wheel.

I've paid the shopping center this happened at a tenner to see if they can find the impact on CCTV (they consider this a DPA Subject Access Request and charge accordingly). I should hear in the next fortnight.

If they find the reg number of the NAUGHTY WORD-NAUGHTY WORD-NAUGHTY WORD- who did this then the local police are getting a "Failing to stop" to investigate, and experience says that if you provide this lot with a reg number they're pretty good at putting the frightners on the runaway driver (somebody did this to my girlfriends motorcycle last year - were very suprised with the Traffic cruiser appeared and two slightly surly police officers started making pointed observations about the neat semicircle cut in their rear bumper that was almost exactly the shape of a motorcycle exhaust....)

Not taking this one near the insurance, as given what these cars are going for these days, I'll end up with a ding to my NCD, no money and having to pay myself my excess to retain the car.

It's still drivable, but the plan I had to try and make it genuinely nice has pretty much just been sunk.

Well I thought about doing some tinkering on my ZT-T, but in the end I managed to do........ absolutely nothing at all and just enjoyed the sun for a change. :D:D:D

My 75 finally got some of my attention today, after carrying out a major amount of work on a Dorchester 75 yesterday.
Mine got a working engine fan control box, now we have the air con back :}
Also the under tray got fitted back on after some tidying up of the front sub frame and some cleaning up !
This car is getting better and better, just need more time on it to finish off the other list of jobs............ :eek:

Today I dropped my headlining, removed the loom and spliced in half of an ultrasonic alarm loom, tomorrow I will fit the loom and cut the hole for the alarm sensor.
Then if time I will update the zcs coding...

With bumper off today to replace bonnet latch, finally got round to fitting badges to lower grill. Photo tomorrow watching the new improved Liverpool at the moment.:}

Fixed the suddenly non starting 1.8T (FFS) with a clip from EZ on Ebay thereby impressing SWMBO with my mechanical diagnosis skills ;) (she doesn't know they will all do it eventually)

Fixed ABS fault
 

V6 has been resting in the drive since early December as I have been waiting for better weather to tackle ABS fault that is preventing me putting MOT on it. The arrival of TOAF to pinpoint the fault and the nice weather to work on it has galvinised me:

Here it is :

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Pinpointed with TOAF:

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I was optimistic that the sensor could be pulled out, no such luck, it snapped clean off:

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This resulted in hub and disk needing to be removed, thankfully the hub nut looked as clean as when it left the factory, not bad for a 2001 car:

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Mangled sensor could now be drifted out, notice the corrosion inside sensor hole:

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Cleaned up ready for new sensor:

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The hub looked very dirty and was also cleaned up:

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Reset with software:

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A quick 10 minute drive and the light has stayed off, just need a new exhaust and hopefully iy will be ready for MOT.

Well done Steve, glad you got it sorted. :D

Just a little trick fir folks.... If your sensor is stuck in place, screw a woodscrew into it and use a claw hammer to pry it out.... Saves taking the hub off...;)