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General Car Chat / Old car Maintenance result
« on: 08 August 2016, 13:25:20 »
Just been over my 'accounts' from just after Billing 2014 to Billing 2015... excluding bits I've bought as spares for as-and-when/not fitted yet, service items, and the roof respray, which I can't really count in with 'general use' as that was my decision, for cosmetic purposes, and could as easily apply to a brand new car... my total spend is something in the region of £148...
And service items must come in to, ooh, tens of pounds, thanks to buying my bits via Vx Trade Club, OOF, and ABS. £12 per month!
Happy with that, the only 'hiccup' in the last 12 months was a snapped Drive Belt, which was a 6 month old Genuine GM item which I got fully recompensed for.
she's done us well!
And service items must come in to, ooh, tens of pounds, thanks to buying my bits via Vx Trade Club, OOF, and ABS. £12 per month!
Happy with that, the only 'hiccup' in the last 12 months was a snapped Drive Belt, which was a 6 month old Genuine GM item which I got fully recompensed for.
she's done us well!
After the most excellent service of Autofarce some months ago, as they used the original old, knackered trim strip, it's now starting to part company with the screen. Specifically the rubber part, there's a thin plastic channel which appears to sit slightly beneath the screen. I've compared with the Peanut, and the peanut's rubber appears securely bonded to this plastic trim strip, and even moves around. Now one option is to try and remove the second hand one from the Peanut - but experience tells me that may end in tears. Also, I have no idea if I only need to be taking the rubber bit. No clue! 
appears to be used on every Family II/III and ecotec from the 80s/90s, hundreds of thousands of engines, ah well.