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New caliper and disc fitted to the Eos, so that should now be usable again.

It could do with one more bleed as the pedal is still slightly soft but I need to top the brake fluid up before I bleed it any more, and the reservoir is a twat to get to and I ran out of daylight before I had a chance to dig out a clean funnel so that's a job for tomorrow.  

I got the caliper put together yesterday (kept the original carrier as that's just a lump of pig iron so can't really go wrong, but fitted new sliders), but the disc didn't get delivered until today so I couldn't complete the job at the weekend. 

I also couldn't fix the Visa as the part that was delivered was wrong, so I spent most of what was a rather lovely Sunday taking various fleet members for a quick spin.  The Volvo and the Innocenti were both on the button, somewhat to my surprise given how long both have been stood up.  The Toyota, Rover and Maxus all needed assistance from a jump pack although none of them was completely flat.  I even dug my bike helmet out and took the electric scooter for a quick run round the block, which was enjoyable.

The Merc has been doing daily duties since the Ampera got hit up the arse, and it's doing a decent enough job although the battery is a tad weaker than I'd ideally like - it's not failed to start yet but it's had me nervous a couple of times.  Also in the cold and damp it really struggles to get the power down at low speed, and I've had a couple of instances where I've gone to boot it out of a busy junction only for Mercedes' trademark nannying ESP to kick in and kill it dead, which is annoying.  It's fine at higher speeds though, and having the grunt to get past dawdlers quickly is a bonus.