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  • 3 weeks later...

SLK went back to @Jim Bell as it was his and I was just minding it. To aid with logistics after it threw a spanner in the works, idler pulley off, the 206 came from @davehedgehog31 but only stayed briefly before @gm won the roffle.

That leaves me with the Minor, still waiting for me to pick up where I left off ages ago, the Civic which does excellent daily service for my better half and the C1 which does excellent daily service for myself.

having less cars means I should be able to continue with fixing stuff, I can't see that happening!

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  • 2 weeks later...

A few spare minutes today so I thought I would prioritise the work needing done. It hasn't been serviced in a little while so first off was take all this apart.

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New Stereo fitted, new pollen filter fitted and dash cam in place.

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Then I plugged it in

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Then before packing up I decided to do the oil change.

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This needed changed.

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Undertray off and back on with no bother.

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That's about it for today.

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39 minutes ago, Tickman said:

It is by far one of my better purchases. It has a few niggles which should eventually get sorted.

If I hadn't bought it there were a few others lined up to be absolute winners.

I don't want to jinx it, but the main thing I've enjoyed with mine is that it's been stupidly cheap to run and maintain whilst being an interesting enough daily that I haven't wanted to get rid of it out of boredom. The money I've saved through running it can then be directly funnelled into poor decisions on other vehicles. It's a beautiful system!

Am I right in thinking that the big box thing you have there is a mains charger for the hybrid battery pack? That's the only issue I've had with mine bar wear and tear drop links etc., the pack threw a wobbly after being sat for a few years. Charging it and discharging it a few times over has resulted in it settling down and providing reliable service.

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Next up the Civic that has done 6,000 miles since it arrived at the end of May.

Quick oil change, it was obviously desperate to get it out so it made a bit of a mess.

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Then the top up.

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Then since I'd done some underbody cleaning today I thought I'd do a bit more. It looked a bit grotty and looks a lot better after.

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Think that is enough for a bit unles something falls off.

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The Civic has a knock and now a rattle on the front left. Investigation points to the top mount and possibly the drop link on the same side. Nothing is falling off and it will be doing a lot less mileage so it can wait until MOT time at the end of the year.

The headlights were a little* cloudy, before and after.

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Then looking underneath the rear springs have helpers in, one was trying to escape. As I won't be dragging anything heavy they came out with a bit of effort.

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Stance while removing them.

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This was easily and safely achieved by doing this.

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Tidy up time.

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On 10/22/2022 at 1:35 PM, Tickman said:

The Civic has a knock and now a rattle on the front left. Investigation points to the top mount and possibly the drop link on the same side. Nothing is falling off and it will be doing a lot less mileage so it can wait until MOT time at the end of the year.

MOT was on Thursday. Drivers side headlight aim was low which was adjusted and I got some advisories.

The knock was the drop link on the passenger side and the ball joint on the drivers side wasn't going to last another year so these were attacked today.

The ball joint comes as a lower arm complete and a decent one was £160! I was a little shocked.

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Getting the ball joint undone was a war involving the grinder.

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This it the nut.

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Finally for today was one of the rear coil springs that if you looked very closely from a certain angle you could see that most of the bottom coil had broken off.

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So that got swapped too.

It needs a couple of tyres soon so they are getting done on Tuesday after work then I'll do the tracking and it can go back into normal use.

In the meantime I've been using the economic car and a mostly motorway run at 65-70 returned this.

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More than happy with that.

That will do for another while.

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So it has been a month since the MOT and fixing the Civic. It was in the best shape it had been for quite a while so the obvious thing and usual approach I take was to sell it.

It didn't get advertised as someone needed transport for a new job and this fitted the bill.

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Currently have the work van and the Insight to use until something else comes along.

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It has been a while since I updated this.

The Civic left and then this arrived from my regular supplier @davehedgehog31

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My youngest, Meg, had a friend at uni that was getting a new* Polo and had been offered a shit trade in deal. I said I'd sell it for him so this arrived.

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Was a decent car with a lot of miles on the 1.2 engine. It was clear it had been well looked after. This went to a friend of @aldo135

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It was then this one's turn

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It went through no problem, the windscreen had a small crack outside the view of the driver so that got changed shortly after.

Then the indicator telltale decided to not so I climbed up to this

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To get one of these

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I've now got 12,000 miles less but have indicators.

My MOT man said the rear passenger sill was needing attention but not bad enough to get a fail. He knows I sort stuff reasonably quickly.

I gave it some prodding with a screwdriver and got this

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Then came the angle grinder

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Then some MR2 door skin was applied

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It was like I'd forgotten how to weld where I started, on the right if you hadn't noticed...

Started again at the top left and was much happier.

 

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This was finished off and covered up

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Inside the rear arch was also treated

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It recently developed a new fault with the fan blower motor not doing anything, the relay clicks but nothing else. All fuses seem to be ok, removed and checked so the dash will need to come out and the steering column dropped and the clutch pedal needs shifted as well to get to the motor

I'm needing a car to take three of us to Manchester and I'm not likely to get the blower motor sorted in time so this was collected last week

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It did ok mpg on the way home

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Many thanks to @NorthernMonkey for being accomodating and getting me from the station.

Think that is me roughly up to date now.

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The youngest is down in Manchester on placement for a few weeks, I got a message that Tommy, her 107, was not doing too well. A brief investigation showed it had started consuming the coolant and running a bit rough. Some basic maths were done which took about 3 seconds and this was the outcome.

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It has been a fantastic car for the just over two years she has owned it.

Special thanks to @davehedgehog31 for supplying such an ace and economic little car.

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