Lankytim

Parked up in Barrow at the weekend. These are all apparently owned by the same guy who sounds like a bit of a Shiter. He leaves them parked until they get ticketed by the council and then moves them to a different street where they eventually get ticketed again and the game of musical shite carries on forever. 
 
I’d love to own that Marina estate. It’s a Mk3 in the right colour and 28 days younger than me. Lush! 

Parked up in Barrow at the weekend. These are all apparently owned by the same guy who sounds like a bit of a Shiter. He leaves them parked until they get ticketed by the council and then moves them to a different street where they eventually get ticketed again and the game of musical shite carries on forever. 
 
I’d love to own that Marina estate. It’s a Mk3 in the right colour and 28 days younger than me. Lush! 

Woo! The Laguna went and passed! 

Woo! The Laguna went and passed! 

Woo! The Laguna went and passed! 

Woo! The Laguna went and passed! 

Woo! The Laguna went and passed! 

Woo! The Laguna went and passed! 

Woo! The Laguna went and passed! 

Woo! The Laguna went and passed! 

Woo! The Laguna went and passed! 

Woo! The Laguna went and passed! 

Woo! The Laguna went and passed! 

Woo! The Laguna went and passed! 

Woo! The Laguna went and passed! 

Parked up in Barrow at the weekend. These are all apparently owned by the same guy who sounds like a bit of a Shiter. He leaves them parked until they get ticketed by the council and then moves them to a different street where they eventually get ticketed again and the game of musical shite carries on forever. 
 
I’d love to own that Marina estate. It’s a Mk3 in the right colour and 28 days younger than me. Lush! 

Parked up in Barrow at the weekend. These are all apparently owned by the same guy who sounds like a bit of a Shiter. He leaves them parked until they get ticketed by the council and then moves them to a different street where they eventually get ticketed again and the game of musical shite carries on forever. 
 
I’d love to own that Marina estate. It’s a Mk3 in the right colour and 28 days younger than me. Lush! 

Parked up in Barrow at the weekend. These are all apparently owned by the same guy who sounds like a bit of a Shiter. He leaves them parked until they get ticketed by the council and then moves them to a different street where they eventually get ticketed again and the game of musical shite carries on forever. 
 
I’d love to own that Marina estate. It’s a Mk3 in the right colour and 28 days younger than me. Lush! 

Parked up in Barrow at the weekend. These are all apparently owned by the same guy who sounds like a bit of a Shiter. He leaves them parked until they get ticketed by the council and then moves them to a different street where they eventually get ticketed again and the game of musical shite carries on forever. 
 
I’d love to own that Marina estate. It’s a Mk3 in the right colour and 28 days younger than me. Lush! 

More ‘goona action. The scrubbed up and generally borderline front tyre with inner shoulder wear has finally been swapped for a nicer* part worn. Managed to get an identical Michelin to match the rest too. These things matter on a sub £500 motor. 

I’ve had that a few times before, they often change their tune if their car won’t start or they have a flat tyre. I’m always happy to help though. One old codger was always on my case moaning about everything. When he died his wife often came over and asked me to help with stuff. Before I knew it I was up a ladder on her roof moving the TV aerial around trying to get a signal. I’m not sure what was worse, the moaning or all the odd jobs I ended up doing. 

History repeats itself.
Fit new Michelin to CRV.
Short time after, get a flat.

I finally got around to checking the front springs on the Laguna to see if they were behind the issue with pulling on acceleration/deceleration. I bought this Laguna from Wuvvum and during his ownership he replaced the entire drivers side strut with a used example from a breakers as the top mount failed. I found that the passenger side spring had a blue and white paint dots and the drivers side had white and blue. Different spring rates then? The Laguna came with the old strut in the boot which had ended up in the garage. I had an idea of swapping the top mounts around and refitting the original strut so I had a matching pair but on dismantling it I discovered that the top mounting nut had worked loose and had worn the top of the shock absorber away rendering the strut scrap. No problem, just swap the springs around. 
 
I dug my  dangerous old spring compressors out and got to work. I eat danger for breakfast and negligence for tea and soon both springs were removed, however the  £10 eBay specials bought in approx 2005 completely died a death when I tried to refit the spring, seizing up and stripping the thread. Fecking hell! Fortunately Mrs LT was out and about was able to get me a pair of Laser spring compressors from Euro Car Parts. These worked a treat and the spring was soon refitted and the strut then reinstalled to the Laguna.
On an initial test drive the problem seems to have gone but I’ll need to go on a longer test drive to confirm. It certainly feels much nicer to drive and much less like a shopping trolley. Pretty pleased overall! 

More ‘goona action. The scrubbed up and generally borderline front tyre with inner shoulder wear has finally been swapped for a nicer* part worn. Managed to get an identical Michelin to match the rest too. These things matter on a sub £500 motor. 

The winner of the Lexus LS400 turned out to be a previous forum member "Pogweasel" Not only did he win the Lexus but he also won the Mercedes 300CE a few weeks ago.
What a lucky bastard!