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green-oval-nut Member Since: 02 Sep 2016 Location: Tunbridge Wells, Kent Posts: 929 |
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14th Aug 2018 2:55pm |
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green-oval-nut Member Since: 02 Sep 2016 Location: Tunbridge Wells, Kent Posts: 929 |
I feel so lucky today. I now have a dedicated savings account for car maintenance and had built some money up, so I messaged my mechanic last week and booked him to sort my handbrake out. Was expecting to have to replace shoes, discs and associated parts as my handbrake stopped workin after I like a knob, drove with it on. Turns out that brake dust had heavily built up from the shoes being on, which stopped all friction and had slightly moved. Popped them back on, everything was cleaned up, no new parts fitted as they weren't needed, and now my handbrake works. And only cost £60 in labour
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19th Aug 2018 1:10am |
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green-oval-nut Member Since: 02 Sep 2016 Location: Tunbridge Wells, Kent Posts: 929 |
I hope Pagid brake sensors are ok, As I have bought 1 for the front and 1 for the rear as this Friday the brake pad wear fault is going to be sorted. Although after discoving that the rear pads weren't replaced when they were said to have been done with invoice backing this job up just before I bought the car, then I am now starting to wonder if the front pads are in fact going to turn out to be low. So going to reserve some brake pads today while Euro's have 50% off pads. I will be getting pagid though, I won't touch Eicher lol.
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23rd Aug 2018 4:14pm |
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Paul thornton Member Since: 23 Sep 2017 Location: Lancashire Posts: 545 |
Just been sent a buy one get one free offer from Euro car parts for oil. Whilst I was on there I priced up the rest of the service items I need.... £40 for a fuel filter... £23 for an air filter and £10 for the oil filter. I stopped there as even with the 50% discount on oil it would still work out nearly twice the price that the 4x4 specialist I use on eBay would charge. No idea where they get their prices from sometimes! |
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23rd Aug 2018 5:06pm |
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green-oval-nut Member Since: 02 Sep 2016 Location: Tunbridge Wells, Kent Posts: 929 |
I am weary of Ebay and Euro's, Weary of Ebay as you never know if you are getting a fake or not, and Euro's I can at least return the stuff I buy easily. I used to use Island, but the muppets shut the shop. |
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24th Aug 2018 3:10pm |
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green-oval-nut Member Since: 02 Sep 2016 Location: Tunbridge Wells, Kent Posts: 929 |
Discovered the reason for the check brake pad warning message and for the red brake system fault message, this wasn't obvious when the handbrake was being repaired as it was still attached to the caliper ok as far as could be seen. Well, a garage in Crowborough invoiced the previous owner around 3500 miles ago for new pads, discs and sensors which I can catagorically state for a fact have not been touched in at least a year lol.
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25th Aug 2018 12:49am |
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green-oval-nut Member Since: 02 Sep 2016 Location: Tunbridge Wells, Kent Posts: 929 |
The wheels from the Vogue have now been fitted to this one. I do have pictures, but something is stopping them uploading at the moment. This is a permanent swap. The car I think looks much better now. Sadly the 18" wheels have gone onto the Vogue. The Vogue looks really odd now But the wheels on the Vogue are only a short time solution, possibly until next spring, depending on finances.
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26th Aug 2018 9:24pm |
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green-oval-nut Member Since: 02 Sep 2016 Location: Tunbridge Wells, Kent Posts: 929 |
The Autobiography with its new shoes on
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29th Aug 2018 2:40pm |
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green-oval-nut Member Since: 02 Sep 2016 Location: Tunbridge Wells, Kent Posts: 929 |
Decided to take my other half to the Cinema Sunday, tood Tank this time as I didn't want to deal with an overheating gearbox.
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3rd Sep 2018 12:58am |
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green-oval-nut Member Since: 02 Sep 2016 Location: Tunbridge Wells, Kent Posts: 929 |
Went out for lunch, did the typical bloke thing, I know where I am going rubbish, got lost, then ended up at the wrong restaurant and thought it, so parked up and went in It was the same chain we were meant to go to, just in a different location
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5th Sep 2018 8:22pm |
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green-oval-nut Member Since: 02 Sep 2016 Location: Tunbridge Wells, Kent Posts: 929 |
Decided to tackle the tatty damaged rear bumper today. The bodge repair by the previous owner was bugging me as it was too obvious, so I took a craft paint brush and a touch up kit and painted over the damage by hand. Looks fine from a distance
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9th Sep 2018 3:40pm |
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green-oval-nut Member Since: 02 Sep 2016 Location: Tunbridge Wells, Kent Posts: 929 |
Went out to visit a friend of mine back where I used to live, went for lunch at the beach and went down the lanes on the Marshes again. It performed effortlessly. Only thing I am finding though is it needs a little more oomph at the bottom end lol.
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10th Sep 2018 8:09pm |
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wayneg Member Since: 05 Jun 2013 Location: South Fremantle, Australia ( ex London ) Posts: 797 |
The very slow getting up to temperature is a classic symptom of a bad egr thermostat, a very easy DIY from the front, top of the engine 2007 TDV8 VSE
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12th Sep 2018 11:29am |
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green-oval-nut Member Since: 02 Sep 2016 Location: Tunbridge Wells, Kent Posts: 929 |
Cheers, funnily enough I bought one as one of my parts spares as it came up on Ebay. Is it dead odvious to see and easy to get to without removing any other components or not too many other components? Cheers. |
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12th Sep 2018 1:27pm |
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