I've had my tea and toast, the weather's not looking too bad so I'm off to get this job done. Wish me luck!
P.S.: don't you hate the way Haynes tells you to replace every nut, bolt, washer and circlip you remove
MOT failure - CV boots :(
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Alex
2000 306 HDI GLX: http://oh.is.it/Pic/ViewAlbum.php?id=26
1994 306 XTdt: http://oh.is.it/Pic/ViewAlbum.php?id=25 (now sold )
2000 306 HDI GLX: http://oh.is.it/Pic/ViewAlbum.php?id=26
1994 306 XTdt: http://oh.is.it/Pic/ViewAlbum.php?id=25 (now sold )
I don't think there's a single 36mm socket in all of Bedfordshire! I didn't even get as far as getting the hub nut off
I'm going to have to bite the bullet and book it in somewhere
Alex
2000 306 HDI GLX: http://oh.is.it/Pic/ViewAlbum.php?id=26
1994 306 XTdt: http://oh.is.it/Pic/ViewAlbum.php?id=25 (now sold )
2000 306 HDI GLX: http://oh.is.it/Pic/ViewAlbum.php?id=26
1994 306 XTdt: http://oh.is.it/Pic/ViewAlbum.php?id=25 (now sold )
Well, you're not going to believe this! Dropped the car off at the garage yesterday (the same one that did the MOT) and told them to change the gaiters and re-test. I got a phonecall later in the day from a rather confused mechanic.
The guy couldn't find a split in either of the gaiters Now this was something I wondered when I had the car up at the weekend; the gaiters certainly had grease in the creases but I couldn't find any splits So the mechanic concluded that the chap who did the MOT was getting lazy as it was 4:30pm on a Friday afternoon, saw the grease and assumed they were split without checking closely
They apologised and issued a clean MOT pass
I don't know how I should be feeling: angry that they got it wrong in the first place or happy that they admitted their mistake and didn't charge me for it.
The guy couldn't find a split in either of the gaiters Now this was something I wondered when I had the car up at the weekend; the gaiters certainly had grease in the creases but I couldn't find any splits So the mechanic concluded that the chap who did the MOT was getting lazy as it was 4:30pm on a Friday afternoon, saw the grease and assumed they were split without checking closely
They apologised and issued a clean MOT pass
I don't know how I should be feeling: angry that they got it wrong in the first place or happy that they admitted their mistake and didn't charge me for it.
Alex
2000 306 HDI GLX: http://oh.is.it/Pic/ViewAlbum.php?id=26
1994 306 XTdt: http://oh.is.it/Pic/ViewAlbum.php?id=25 (now sold )
2000 306 HDI GLX: http://oh.is.it/Pic/ViewAlbum.php?id=26
1994 306 XTdt: http://oh.is.it/Pic/ViewAlbum.php?id=25 (now sold )