So what have you done to your car today?

[Sir Tigger KC]

I mentioned a few weeks ago that my bonnet cable had snapped. Jim kindly found a video showing how to release the bonnet catch from underneath, so on a freezing cold day in February I jacked it up removed the undertrays only to find that on my 2.2 the air intake pipe is right underneath the bonnet catch and you can't get at it.    I went away to tropical climes and forgot about it! 

On my return I found a thread on a Ford forum that said the only way was to cut a hole in the grill, which I did a couple of weeks ago, only to be confronted with a plastic panel blocking any access.   

Today I thought What the hell! and pulled the plastic panel away, and with some sensational gynaecology through the hole in the grill and the gap where I pulled the plastic panel away, I managed to undo the bolts holding the security plate and the bonnet catch and managed to release it!  Hurrah! 

I pulled out the old cable and slid the new cable down the existing sheath, connected it all up, bolted the catch mechanism and security plate back into place, and it works!!    Bit of a fiddly piss arse of a job, bit a whole lot easier than fitting a new cable and sheath that you'd get from Ford. 

Next up, fit the new to me grill that I got from ebay and hopefully jobs a goodun! 

[STEMO]

Well done, young Tigger 

[Sir Tigger KC]

Well done, young Tigger 

Thanks Uncle Stemo! 

In Lord Opti years I'm about 19. 

[Rangie]

It's great when it all comes together,well done..👍

[GastronomicKleptomaniac]

Collected Zeke after his MOT pass last week. As a tight northerner I wasn't going to pay a months tax for a weeks use.

Bloody hell I've missed him. Had a nice brisk run back. Even treated him to some lovely fresh super unleaded. You can tell it was payday yesterday.

[countrywoman]

Middle of Lidl ,polishing machine and a pack of assorted foam pads £35 ! Would have cost that just to get some pads for Ds machine I borrow, now I can give the paint on the Austin some love!

[johnnydog]

Yes, I bought some of those Parkside hook and loop foam pads yesterday - just the job for my Milwaukee mini cordless polisher! They are excellent value - can't go wrong for £4....

[GastronomicKleptomaniac]

Middle of Lidl ,polishing machine and a pack of assorted foam pads £35 ! Would have cost that just to get some pads for Ds machine I borrow, now I can give the paint on the Austin some love!

Oh now I'm interested - DA?

[TheBoy]

As a man of a certain age, I'm proud to say I have never polished a car in my life.  And that ain't likely to start now, no matter what tat Lidls sell - not that we have a Lidl in these parts.

[Sir Tigger KC]

As a man of a certain age, I'm proud to say I have never polished a car in my life.  And that ain't likely to start now, no matter what tat Lidls sell - not that we have a Lidl in these posh parts.   

Amended that for you TB. 

[TheBoy]

As a man of a certain age, I'm proud to say I have never polished a car in my life.  And that ain't likely to start now, no matter what tat Lidls sell - not that we have a Lidl in these posh parts.   

Amended that for you TB. 

Brakkers ain't what I call posh.  Probably why we don't have these new trendy shops for look-at-me's.

Tesco and Saino are our only options.  Plus a couple of corner shops (think they are Co-ops now)

[Doctor Gollum]

Not even a Waitrose 

[Sir Tigger KC]

Not even a Waitrose 

Waitrose yes. Lidl no. Aldi no.

https://www.waitrose.com/find-a-store/brackley?srsltid=AfmBOoq2fGgWKEMHyHHCHQtkxWa-9GvC7Wzgpwr93YPLxeZhh2-Xboum

Brackley is officially posh! 

[Doctor Gollum]

Unless TB only knows places that he's not banned from

[Sir Tigger KC]

I fitted the new to me front grill to the Mondeo this afternoon. 

Turned out that it wasn't missing tabs after all, and the tabs I thought were missing turned out to be on the bumper. So apologies to the scrapyard monkey that I dissed! 

So it was simply a case of prising out the remains of the old one and pressing the new into place, click, click, click as the tabs slotted into place and two fastenings at the top. Easy.