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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #9810 on: 26 March 2015, 22:02:43 »
Drove it down the hill, filled my face with Naga lamb and Cobra, let Mrs TB drive me back ;D
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #9811 on: 26 March 2015, 22:18:14 »


Hopefully a temporary setback.  :-\  ::)
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #9812 on: 26 March 2015, 22:45:07 »
Used it for work over the past 4 days, and tomorrow it gets checked over for the MoT (second car in a week) MV6 this time :D :o
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #9813 on: 26 March 2015, 22:52:36 »
Quote from: Sir Tigger on 26 March 2015, 22:18:14


Hopefully a temporary setback.  :-\  ::)
Hope you get it sorted easily,  :(
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #9814 on: 27 March 2015, 08:33:13 »
It will be washed and have the tyres inflated ready for a weekend trip.  :y
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #9815 on: 27 March 2015, 08:36:25 »
Replaced wiper rods (the ones from the motor to the spindles) with new ones from Wipex and reset the park position.

Still to be tested in torrential rain, but testing with watering cans and a hose it seems to have resolved the issues of wipers hitting the A post and the bonnet with no adjustment left apart from tangling the blades together!

Big difference between the old rods that were taken off and the new ones which are a much more snug fit on the ball joints.
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #9816 on: 27 March 2015, 10:48:34 »
Oh, and topped up the coolant.  8)
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #9817 on: 27 March 2015, 20:49:10 »
Changed the oil in the Battlebus. Would have changed the frekkin' oil filter as well, but the mongrels gave me the wrong one  >:(

Changed the air filter in the buss as well
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #9818 on: 27 March 2015, 21:00:08 »
Cleaned the EGR again, whilst I had the engine plastics off.
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #9819 on: 28 March 2015, 11:26:42 »
Drove TBE to Burford so she could visit some saddo shop. Bliss to drive a proper car again :)

I'm worried how much old shite she is buying, as she's been in there ages!
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #9820 on: 29 March 2015, 11:51:39 »
No sound from radio been running silent all week had it checked, no output from HU  :'(
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #9821 on: 29 March 2015, 13:37:24 »
Drove TBE over to Silverstone, had meself some fun, drove it home.
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #9822 on: 29 March 2015, 14:05:44 »
Ayup, what's going on here. Had fun driving TBE ? Bliss to drive a proper car?

Has somebody hacked your account? ;D
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #9823 on: 29 March 2015, 14:38:16 »
Over the last few weeks .............

Rear bumper off
Rear plastic arches off
Side skirt end panels off
All rust on suspension mounts, chassis and arches ect removed with a wire brushed / wire wheel
Everything blathered in Crust (anti rust stuff) then hand brushed with black chassis paint with extra underseal for those places that tend to rot.
Rear brakes back plate cleaned up and painted in chassis paint.
Rear discs cleaned up and painted in silver BBQ spray paint.
Calliper's cleaned up painted in metallic blue high temp paint.
Bilstien B4's fitted to the rear.

And before next weekend (weather permitting) ........................
Side skirts off
Front plastic arch liners off
Attack any rust
Paint everything as per the back end
Fit new polybushed wishbones, drop links and track rods
New front B4's

Replace all LPG pipes from the Vaporiser to the injector blocks with new pipe.

After that lot, get the wheels all pointing in the right direction again then pish off down to the burger van for a long (hopefully dirty) weekend
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #9824 on: 29 March 2015, 16:24:58 »
Quote from: chrisgixer on 29 March 2015, 14:05:44
Ayup, what's going on here. Had fun driving TBE ? Bliss to drive a proper car?

Has somebody hacked your account? ;D
Fun was had in a proper car, I just used TBE to get there and back.  That said, compared to a week in the Battlebus, TBE is shear bliss :y
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