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Mrs ODM phoned today with a screw in her tyre on the way home.
Compressor managed to get it home and is booked for a new one and mot tomorrow.
Espace needs a service and wheel bearing and it also gave me this today after too many short tip runs.

if anybody needs me I’ll be out having a regenerative fap.
 

Asda in Crawley is the one supermarket I avoid as the mixture of their customers and vagrants, violent shop lifters, etc. has crushed the employees' and security staff ability to be welcoming and polite.
It also has a McDonald's in it!

I fixed the Bini driver side window mechanism, at the fourth time of asking. 
 

 
Would anybody like to read a write-up (shite-up?) about how much of a bitch of a job that was? 

Red diesel is usually cheaper 😀

ooh blimey. Can I suggest the first part you need...

Don't you like him😊?

"There is nothing – absolutely nothing – half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats."

Thought the temporary ford badge on the grill looked rubbish.. so I autoshited it...lol

Got little Zetor fixed today. Had the old exhaust manifold fitted with new gaskets and the new exhaust part in red fitted but reused the old exhaust pipe as it has a few years left in it and replaced the leaking frost plug.


 
I also had the new coolant tool kit tested to pressure test the cooling system and it worked well and the system held pressure. So now it is ready for use again.

I was also unimpressed with the revamp and do not think this old shop front near it on Valebridge rd will survive much longer

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I was also unimpressed with the revamp and do not think this old shop front near it on Valebridge rd will survive much longer

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Thanks I hate it. 

En route back to Warwickshire with @Dick Longbridge 's bike on the back of the Toyota. Found some drips in the boot when I loaded up this morning so my efforts to waterproof haven't worked. I need to get in there with Master Grogee on hose duty and see where it's coming in.
Trip meter says its doing 52mpg which is pretty respectable with 4up and luggage. 
I won't be filling up at Morrisons, it's £1.55 for dizzle here and we're going to stop in Bristol Costco instead for maximum mingebag points. 

From Wrexham local bygones FB page. 1982. My x1/9 was a dickens car in 1988.
 

It can certainly appear that way when everything is lost in N24.  But you actually do a fair amount, and the cumulative content is much more valued than the couple of likes for each post may suggest.  

Just over a year ago this arrived. Miss the old girl and do keep a look out occasionally to see where it's gone. Hopefully not around an oval. 

Always remember - a picture paints a thousand words, so make sure your car ads are selling not just the vehicle but the lifestyle your audience aspires to.
Here’s an excellent example. 

https://www.gumtree.com/p/cars-vans-motorbikes/reliant-rialto-1988-848-cc/1475999076
 
 

Well bugger me sideways, I've only gone and done it.
It's remarkable just how easy it is when you have the correct information to hand - this came in the form of OEM wiring diagrams for the fuse board itself.

With that, I tracked the lines and worked out which continuity checks needed doing. Was surprised to note that the fuse board connectors went in reverse order (6,5,4,3,2,1) as you view it.
It became evident that the very first continuity check was open circuit which was promising.

This meant it had to come out (again) 

With the board on the bench, it was a lot easier to repeat all the required continuity checks, and we finally had the fault pinpointed.

There was an open circuit from the 'cold' side of the fuse socket, to the first junction of the horn/heated screen circuit, namely the high power input for the heated screen relay (this then carries on to the horn side of the circuit)
Unfortunately, it's a double-layered board and I was unable to access the actual board. Luckily, I had a surplus piggyback fuse with a flylead, so I elected to add a flylead to the relay terminal. Ended up using solid core wire on the board half as it's quite a high amperage circuit.


With that all assembled, the board was re-tested and continuity was restored. The board was reconnected to the car and the horn now works!
Also, billy bonus, the HRW works and the switch illuminates, so I must have been talking bollocks about it working beforehand.

With that all confirmed to work, the interior was rebuilt (glovebox light fixed)


As an aside, I noticed the oil level gauge wasn't working any more - this was traced to the sensor plug coming off for some reason so that's an easy win.
So, I'm back to bodywork repairs for the rest of the week, hopefully without any more nasty surprises!
Cheers.

*incoherent excited yelling and pointing*

*image stabilisation has no power over my excitement*

TWELVE YEARS I've been waiting for this to happen!  An Ambassador encountered totally randomly in the wild.  Mike, the owner of the Ambassador, was so surprised to see the Princess as he was leaving and I was arriving that he turned around and came back specifically to say hello.
 
I am inordinately excited and I refuse to contain myself.

You can't beat the satisfaction of making cloudy headlamp lenses look new again.
The sister in law put a wide scratch along the whole length of her caravans side window getting too close to a tree and was in tears but half an hour of sanding with an 600 pad and cutting back with various compounds had it looking like new again.

Round a mate's last night, talking to his daughter (late 20s, hairdresser).  She was telling me that she'd spent several hours that day replacing a front lower arm on her Audi (2003 A4 Avant) in advance of its upcoming MOT, and she was complaining about what an utter bastard the front suspension is to work on on those cars.  She also replaced a rear arm which was a piece of piss by comparison, although she did say the bush on the old one fell to bits as she took it off.
There's still hope for the next generation I reckon.

Found the Fonze mirror. Father inlaw and his mates were fond of an annual beano to the horses. After loosing the bulk of their money they would hit up the market and buy an assortment of gifts for the family to ingratiate themselves to their families when they returned home pissed and skint as fuck. 
Ange says he used to buy up a right load of old tat. This however is fantastic.