The wheels have been sent to a reputable* garage in Sheffield for a refurb and a pair of Avons. Meanwhile, the brakes have been stripped and cleaned. The front brakes are standard single piston sliding calliper on a vented disc. Nothing seized beyond what you'd expect. Slight uneven wear on the inne...

Warren t claim wrote: ↑Tue Nov 22, 2022 7:33 pm Remind me never to hijack a thread again.

Any forum that complains about threads being hijacked can suck my fat one.

A mate who used to live opposite me bought into the terraclean with Ed China thing. I put a radiator in his office while he did a terraclean on my '55 fiat ducato with about 70k on the the clock. It made a decent difference, picked up and sounded better after it. The shit that came out of the exhau...

Ghia. They had more kit that Titanium.

The lady I bought it from is EXTREMELY wealthy.

Tell me more about this decarbonising kit. My Disco is up to 168,500 miles now and a bit smoky.

I went to collect the CLK and it wouldn't start. £127 battery latter, it still wouldn't. The starter was stuck. I eventually started but it wouldn't unlock on the central locking so it I had to prize the fuel flap open. I couldn't switch it off. Essex to Washington, never switching it off, even when...

The Merc cabriolet is the current ongoing saga. Its come off the back of the Merc A-klasse and Max DeFrost, formerly of this parish, (for it was his mother who owned the A-klasse). A widow in the same cul-de-sac had this CLK 200 Kompressor bought for her Christmas present on Christmas Day 2002. It w...

F-Type has a dreadful reliability record. Yet the XK predecessor didn't. The Ingenium is a complete piece of shit. Timing chain fucked at 40k or less. It is mind. Chain is the gearbox side of things as well. The balancer shafts fuck-up something chromic as well. You're doing well to get 60k miles o...

F-Type has a dreadful reliability record. Yet the XK predecessor didn't.