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30th December 2017, 18:30 | #7621 |
This is my second home
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Remove the rear seat and check that the ‘tube’ that the seat rests on at the side has not gone rotten from water getting into it from the stupid cable’s that run through it from inside the wheel arch. Mine was tommy cotton when I lifted up the seat to replace the intank pump.
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31st December 2017, 11:27 | #7622 |
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fitted it up with some temporary panels, to make it road legal for the trip to the bodyshop on Tuesday
Still need to remove some other bits and bobs, so not quite there Brian |
31st December 2017, 11:42 | #7623 |
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Looks nice and sunny their Brian, attire, shorts and a vest i would say...
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31st December 2017, 11:49 | #7624 |
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31st December 2017, 15:09 | #7625 |
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Well the weather was kind, so I removed some bits ready for a deep clean tomorrow............
You couldn't make it up really, the idiot who had done the ghastly paint job on this car had knackered the fuel filler flap, presumably to take to the myopic paint stockist to have some paint mixed Hopefully this time next week, the poor lad will have been restored to a much better state.........watch this space Brian |
31st December 2017, 22:08 | #7626 | |
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Thanks Trikey
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When there was severe frost on the car recently requiring massive scraping of ice off the windscreen, this also manifested itself on the inside of the screen. When checking, nine times out of ten my plenum was bone dry. Checked today and had a couple of inches of water in there. Gave it a good rodding with a flexy car aerial that resides permanently inside the bonnet. Now bone dry again. Thanks for the heads up Andy. |
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1st January 2018, 14:22 | #7627 |
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Took the 75 for a drive as it’s been sat over Christmas as we were away. Drove it to where the coupe is in storage and put the battery on charge.
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1st January 2018, 21:29 | #7628 |
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Manufactured a tool to remove the clips securing the finishers on the door tops, removed the door handles, fuel filler flap solenoid, washed all of the muck and detritus from behind the bumper area, and inside the wheelarches.
Tomorrow will see me temporarily refit the old rear bumper, back lights and drive it to the bodyshop, where I will remove both bumpers, and the front wings. Then it is the hands of the painter................I can't wait Brian |
2nd January 2018, 22:11 | #7629 |
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Picked up a replacement fuel filler flap and some trim clips, however on the way to MGR services in Blaydon, some absolute clown ** in an Astra heading in the opposite direction to me decided not only to overtake a car on a zebra crossing, but then proceeded to head the wrong way around a roundabout, forcing me up onto the kerb.
The result is two damaged 11 spokes, one destroyed 6mm Dunlop, and one of my new Continentals fitted for the MOT less than three weeks ago. To say I'm annoyed is an understatement, I'll remove the tyres tomorrow and mount the wheels in the balancer to see if they're buckled And the day started so promisingly with the 75 safely dropped off at the paintshop Brian ** insert your choice of expletive here, I certainly did |
3rd January 2018, 15:37 | #7630 |
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Well it could have been worse I suppose, both tyres are completely U/S as I suspected, however the wheels are still true, and with a bit of careful fettling, the marks will be virtually unnoticeable hopefully.
I've managed to secure a partworn Dunlop to match the one on the offside, and I'll have to see about sorting another new Continental for the rear......at least the offside rear one still has it's bobbles on the tread. So this will have to go down in history as the most expensive second hand fuel filler flap ever Brian P.S. the ZT looks absolutely lush with a set of Comets on the front, like a sort of jacked up 1970's street machine |
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