New toy.

Just seen this Vince ,yes I'm hanging on to mine . To be honest I'd love to take it to Tenerife be brilliant there x

Madness to do that, Lots to pay out like ferries, petrol import duty etc, that is why cars are so expensive in Tenerife, I looked into doing it to earn a shilling, I soon gave up on it,
now one way is to bring your stuff in a van then sell the van to somebody taking their stuff home.

Today I have been playing with the new toy, or rather getting my hands grubby. The seller told me it had a water leak, he thought from the water pump, so I bought a new pump, cambelt and an entire head gasket set just to be on the safe side along with a new oil filter. Total cost £104 so I was pleased with that. Took me about an hour to gain access to the engine, jeez, then another hour trying to find the bonnet pull, already had that up so I knew it was there somewhere. Found it eventually, its in the fecking boot.   Another half hour and I have managed to remove the cambelt cover, cant get my fat paws down there easy eh? Then I start it up and armed with a small mirror start looking for a water leak. No sign of any water coming from anywhere, it was running for at least half an hour, temperature guage where it should be, radiator fan never came on once, it was bloody cold out there in the wind, and no sign of any extreme pressure in the system. Well, I'm gobsmacked. I now have a hundred quids worth of spares I dont apparently need. All back together again now and I shall wait to see what occurs. Now I should be happy............

You will need them, trust me

In the manual it says its a good idea to drop the engine out from below if you need to work on it. They aint wrong, you can barely see anything let alone reach it. Theres a specialist garage for these in Thetford, already been there to get the hydragas pumped up and they seem like nice folks. On the facebook group too. I have a feeling they may have a new customer sooner or later.........
Bit off topic tried to read BBC news but they have changed the format. You used to be able to scroll down and read 10 most popular stories. Its gone. Website designer probably related to MGF designer is my guess. 

Have you noticed the front end is a metro subframe complete with CV joints,
hey Charlie what bits we got left, err some metro subframes  that will do 

i could of told you where that was Vince if you had asked me   x

Yeah, I knew where it was last weekend but forgot. Old timers disease I guess. 

Hey up a blue one 222426960267 ebay  

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Awww a blue one , nice but prefer mine x

No picture of the front. Cloudy headlights then.   I can only drive mine in moonlight.

You can polish headlights up, look on utube, doddle

Dont work mate, they soon go even worse. You have to send them away to get them metalled, about 100 quid. Design fault. I would describe them as actually dangerous. Some fog lights would work but nowhere really to stick them. Feck it, I'll stick a frogeye Sprite bonnet on it. 

I'm on about the plastic cover, they go cloudy like cataracts, We do them at the MOT station to get the patern back, your on about re silvering the reflector,

Right performance getting them out as well I have heard so its on back burner for now, one arm wont help either.     Bolux, you have depressed me now.

Janet did hers lifting her shopping, Its a 60 year old thing, Neighbour has a sling on with his  common problem

I use toothpaste on mine x

Did it work??

No but the car has a great smile ,
Seriously tho toothpaste is the same as rubbing compound so it would but also think what it does to your teeth,
Listerene total is your man, you can brush that round your mouth and get a better result

See not as daft as I look   x

Thats good info folks. I've got some T-cut so I'll nick Patsys toothbrush.

Crazy, when a headlight costs more than the car secondhand,,, ...