What have you done to your car today?
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New set of Bosch Wiper blades from the bay. £18 delivered
Replaced front lower ball joints, the bad one was making quite a lot of noise so without that now I could hear the insecure FMIC rattling and pipework rubbing, and the ABS pump banging around. So, spent ages making up some actual brackets for the IC, solid now and no pipe rubbing. Managed to find a suitable bush for the pin under the ABS so cured that knocking too. Amazingly quiet to drive now without all those things making noise, now it's just the shoddy old Nissan interior trim that rattles.
Yeah, would have to patch up the screw holes. I'm after a Varis front bumper but they are £580 from RHD Japan with a 3 month lead time.Should go for one of those sticker plates, just above the intercooler
I had to cut the living crap out of the stock bumper for the front mount intercooler.Came to an arrangement to get rid of the black MX5. Should be out of my hair within a couple of weeks... Not done with the NA life though, I like the car, I just don't like how **** this particular one is. Another is in the pipeline, this one I actually went to look at, looked around it thoroughly and test drove it. The only issue with it is some sill rot which I'm arranging to have repaired before I collect it, by someone of my choosing.
It is another 1993 V-Spec. This one has some minor modifications but looks mostly stock. It has Koni suspension, an MX5Parts stainless exhaust and sports cat, and some freshly refurbished BBS RZ's off of a VW. It is plain jane, no stupid poke, no stupid tyre stretch, no wide arches, no rivets, no cable ties. It has 10 months on the MOT, 10,000 less miles, doesn't smoke, doesn't make funny noises, doesn't seem to leak as far as I could tell, and everything works aside from the drivers window (needs a new regulator, as is usual), even the AC (though not very well, probably has the wrong gas in it since it would originally have had gas you can't get anymore) - has good tyres too, all the way round... Always a nice sign.
Hopefully this time I get it right and can enjoy it for what it is without doing any stupid swaps or trades.
It is white, I'll be keeping my black hard top, and the wheels are a kind of metallicy anthracite sort of colour. It should look quite striking I think, while not being OTT.
I'm somehow coming out of this whole three MX5 event, essentially with the car mentioned above for about £2350, taking into account purchase prices and sale prices of all of them... Which means that overall by going through this rigmarole, looking at the actual value of the white one, I've lost about £500. I can live with that, funnily enough its about the same amount I lost with the whole Corolla/Celica screw up which preceeded this one.
As a side note I started the black one and moved it about 30 yards after it had been sitting for a week, it billowed out blue/grey smoke which was hilariously catastrophic to the point where I couldn't see where I was going when reversing, and it engulfed the whole house and went sailing off up the road in the breeze like an ominous fog. I chuckled at the spectacle, what else could I do.
It is another 1993 V-Spec. This one has some minor modifications but looks mostly stock. It has Koni suspension, an MX5Parts stainless exhaust and sports cat, and some freshly refurbished BBS RZ's off of a VW. It is plain jane, no stupid poke, no stupid tyre stretch, no wide arches, no rivets, no cable ties. It has 10 months on the MOT, 10,000 less miles, doesn't smoke, doesn't make funny noises, doesn't seem to leak as far as I could tell, and everything works aside from the drivers window (needs a new regulator, as is usual), even the AC (though not very well, probably has the wrong gas in it since it would originally have had gas you can't get anymore) - has good tyres too, all the way round... Always a nice sign.
Hopefully this time I get it right and can enjoy it for what it is without doing any stupid swaps or trades.
It is white, I'll be keeping my black hard top, and the wheels are a kind of metallicy anthracite sort of colour. It should look quite striking I think, while not being OTT.
I'm somehow coming out of this whole three MX5 event, essentially with the car mentioned above for about £2350, taking into account purchase prices and sale prices of all of them... Which means that overall by going through this rigmarole, looking at the actual value of the white one, I've lost about £500. I can live with that, funnily enough its about the same amount I lost with the whole Corolla/Celica screw up which preceeded this one.
As a side note I started the black one and moved it about 30 yards after it had been sitting for a week, it billowed out blue/grey smoke which was hilariously catastrophic to the point where I couldn't see where I was going when reversing, and it engulfed the whole house and went sailing off up the road in the breeze like an ominous fog. I chuckled at the spectacle, what else could I do.
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As a side note I started the black one and moved it about 30 yards after it had been sitting for a week, it billowed out blue/grey smoke which was hilariously catastrophic to the point where I couldn't see where I was going when reversing, and it engulfed the whole house and went sailing off up the road in the breeze like an ominous fog. I chuckled at the spectacle, what else could I do.
What a legend
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ACME WHY ARE YOU TRYING TO ADULT! BUY TERRIBLE CARS, NOT GOOD ONES BRO.Don't even. I feel I'm being pretty sensible for once.
It's the car I should have bought in the first place... Local too.
On a serious note, sounds like a much better buy
Doesn't every car sound good before you collect it ?Don't even. I feel I'm being pretty sensible for once.
It's the car I should have bought in the first place... Local too.
Doesn't every car sound good before you collect it ?
Yes. But this one didn't sound too great before I went to look at it, and thats why I went to look at it.
Turns out it was a good tactic...
I guess some people are just have **** judgement, and I'm one of those people...
Guess we'll seeYes. But this one didn't sound too great before I went to look at it, and thats why I went to look at it.
Turns out it was a good tactic...
I guess some people are just have **** judgement, and I'm one of those people...
;DOr just ask a sensible mate to go with you
and look over the car haha, you seem to go heart over head when you see the car.
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Quoted so that I can show you this in 3 months time.