What jobs does your car need in 2015 for you to be happy?

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Re: What jobs does your car need in 2015 for you to be happy

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Lexi?......will be known forthwith as Lexia :rofl2:

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lexi wrote:Lexi?......will be known forthwith as Lexia :rofl2:
Bloody predictive text! Took me long enough to make it stop auto correcting Lexia and now it's correcting everything to Lexia!! :rofl2:

Once the Spring is back again, the roads are dry and the salt has disappeared we'll have to get you out for a run in the Activa then :)

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i think this year will be the year to tackle the Rust spots!! roof rails where the rack had sat with previous owners, passenger rear arch is spotting up some and a little on the drivers side!
MOT end of jan so will wait till then!! See what comes of this years!! ;-)
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lexi wrote:Lexi?......will be known forthwith as Lexia :rofl2:
I can make it so :wink:
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Shame this topic was left behind ... so I'll add something ... I need to respray/repaint the front end on my car ... bumper & bonnet ...
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Number Plates would help me..........COME ON Dvla !
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I've got a shedful of jobs needing doing ... two activas both off road, one in Dante Red needing an engine leak identified and fixing alongwith a roof and bonnet respray ... it'll never happen. Second activa needs the works ...
both rams leak, abs light us on and i doubt if she'll see a road again. Oh ... and a v6 needing a heater matrix! So ... not a lot to be getting on with eh!
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I need to sell mine and get back to a complete citroen rather than just the engine [emoji48] [emoji4]
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Could do with a speedo that works, still, Tom Tom fills in nicely.........
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vborovic wrote:Shame this topic was left behind ... so I'll add something ... I need to respray/repaint the front end on my car ... bumper & bonnet ...

Purely to make it look shiny and new again ? ...or are you currently driving a mildly shortened C5 in need of some front end repairs ? :-D
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Shiny and new ... the bonnet looks like it came from a war zone, hundreds of small scratches and marks on the paint you can see and feel with your hand, but what bothers me more is that the clear coating dissolved between the chevrons and started to do the same on the front bumper, so I want the car to look better that it currently does
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I don't like to think about it all that much.
Something along the lines of droplinks and sort the hydractive on red. Clutch and cambelt to get things rolling with green.
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macAU wrote:Where do I start? ...
C3 'la petit Citroën' clutch pedal goes to the floor with nothing happening - have to pull apart to see what is no longer connecting
DS BVH suspect fuel pump not supplying fuel at sufficient pressure - fit an electric, low pressure, fuel pump (got a new fuel pump - YET to fit it)
D Super 5 needs radiator hoses replaced (DONE) plus replace water pump (DONE) which has a small amount of 'slop' present in the shaft - Now waiting on new radiator mounts before putting it back together
CX Familiale needs the steering (pull to left) sorted so that I can have it inspected and registered (DONE - steering column loosened, moved two splines, reattached and fine adjustment made) Had initial inspection done, obtained engineers certificate, re-inspected passed and now registered - Drove 120km on Friday, stopped in a loading zone outside PO, when wife returned car refused to start. No pulse at injectors so seems like a sensor fault. Spent night on tray top before being dropped at auto electricians yesterday for more specific diagnosis on Monday!
CX Pallas needs similar attention to steering and a few rusty spots, under the trim, on the rails below the doors, rectified.

As I've been fully engaged with an addition to the local museum - I'm one of the few members with a pulse - and then have additions to the local machinery restoration group shed coming up I can't see me getting to them in the short term. If I was getting paid for the building I'd be able to pay someone to sort the cars :-)
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A little rust treatment in one rear door shut, perhaps stone chip the rear arches, make the airbag light go out, track down an undertray, sort out keys to make the remote locking work, I did the ABS sensor last week following the guide on here, quite easy really, and the £7.50 ABS sensor works just fine, theres a clunk when taking up drive that might be the dogbone, needs investigation.
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None at all would make e happy. :-D

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