Well spent today fixing my brothers miggy... He had a bump a while back, and he let one of his friends (who's only mechanical experience is fixing model trains) have a go at fixing it... What a bodge...
So few visits to the scrapyard and we have:
New crash bar
2 x Crashbar mounts
Washer bottle from an Elite (even though he has no washers for his headlights)
couple of random sensors
foglight mount (for mine)
screenwash level sensor (for mine again, tested working)
few pockets full of fuses
Had to use a jimmy bar to prise the old crash panel off, undo the old mounts from the chassis legs (and then bang them out a little), just sand it a tad & put on some underseal to hopefully keep the weather out a bit, bolted the new mounts in.
blank off the headlight washer motor & stop it leaking
sort out the screen wash motor filter thingy as it was clogged up
Bolt it all back together (bending some bits back into place still)
Re-attach the bumper and do away with the bodge of a fix which was done (piece of aluminium, few bolts, some self tappers...) but did sand down & coat the part of the wing which the self tappers were in...
Car actually looks semi decent on the front now (except the left upper bumper black plastic bit is still a bit bent, and the headlight lip surround thing on the right is broke still) but it does look atleast 200% better than it did!
Also did the horn, outside air temp sensor, fluids, and fixed the bonnet release cable so we can get in it now without problems
All going well, it 'should' pass its MOT next week (hopefully)
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