Another visiting 75 to my driveway tonight. Same owner and indeed the same Firefrost metallic as the saloon he brought to me last month.
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List of jobs was as follows:
New number plates including the correct smiley rear plate.
New wiper blades (binned the horrible aero items for traditional style ones). Rear wiper arm is fucked and loose though and isn't the original so the new blade wouldn't fit.
Rod the ECU plenum chamber drain hole (I had to lift the ECU to pull out a literal mouse nest)
Fix non working cigar lighter so he could charge his phone. Ended up removing the entire centre of the dash including the climate unit and replaced the whole cigar lighter, ash tray and cup holder assembly. The owner had a better spare unit with him. Now works and all the wood effect panels are the same colour.
Fix loose interior light trim panel.
Fix sticking sun roof blind. Just used it in anger about 25 times and it's better now.
Fix non working electric mirrors. Removed the switch pack, disassembled it completely, cleaned all contacts in circuit board and clean off all dust and crap. Both mirrors now adjust in all directions as they should.
Fit new bonnet badge. I forgot that the X part item was shite and needed filing down to fit properly as per my car 2 years ago. My grandpa's old files that I forgot I had until we had a clear out a few weeks ago came in handy tonight. I only had small warding files and a BFO one for heavy work so these medium fine ones were great.
Spent 3 hours on this but I got a ton for my trouble and because I wouldn't take any money for the 75 he brought to me last month.
I have a few jobs needing doing on my own fleet now:
Fix electric mirrors on my own 75.
Oil change on the red Saab next month.
Coolant change on the 75 and the black Saab at some point over the summer.
Front tyres on the red Saab (I'll have fun wearing out the old ones first for a bit though!)
Rear tyres on the Audi
Sort the senile electric mirrors on the red Saab.