Jizz update
LynehamHerc wrote: ↑Fri Oct 15, 2021 12:16 pm
So when's the Jizz going back for its NCT?
Well I couldn't get earlier, so re-booked for Thu 21st @16:15.
A day before the retest I got round to looking at the headlights. Both motors were making noises, but I wasn't seeing any movement. Fannied around and undid the top and sides of the front bumper and removed the OS headlamp. In my stash in the silver Jizz, I had a very good OS one with a crystal clear lens, so I just replaced it. The other side was a bit shit shit though, but I only had a spare motor for that side, so put that on having fitted the Night Breakers and left it at that.
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Both were motoring up and down now. At this point I gave up for the night as I'd started quite late in the day.
In the morning I went to the nearest garage to see if they had a alignment box, but they were busy and suggested coming back the next day. I went round to another that got his alignment box out, but was sucking his teeth about the NS lamp. I said I'd come back later after seeing what I could do with it. Now they've always been crap on this car, but I've never bothered polishing the fuck out of them because I suspect most of the crap was on the inside.
Sure enough, after dicking around with the headlamp polishing kit when I got back home, I had a slightly clearer lens, but to actually make a decent job of it, I'd have to pull it out again and separate the lens from the unit and clean the inside up. I couldn't be arsed with that and time was running short with Mrs H having to pick the kids up from school.
When she got back (later than usual), the traffic was crap and I rushed down the garage, a slight* misunderstanding arose resulting in garage not being arsed and me going away empty handed, but by then the appointment was out of reach anyway. Just had to take the €11.50 hit on the re-test for a no-show.
Time for
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The lights were way too high on a trip down the pez station to get fags on Saturday, so I fannied around with them on the drive to pull them down a bit. Took the car and some measuring things to work on Sunday. On another trip out on my break I could see that the offside was way to low and right and the Nearside was a bit low and right.
It was quiet as Monday was a bank holiday here. Got the chalk out and did me sums for about a 100mm drop @ 7.5m
Pulled the offside up before moving to the right
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I think that'll do
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Back online to look for a slot, but it's looking like Sunday 31st. Bah.
I go to work last night in the car as the tank is empty. The light came on the day before at 340 miles, but there's loads to spare so I just crack on, not bothering to stop on the way home at the Texaco, because the robbers are 3c per litre dearer than home. Pulled into the pez station to fill up at 397 miles.
Fuck me, I've gone back to 2012! (May 2020 when the oil price went negative, I was filling up at a mere 117.8c)
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Bastard got me extra as they had full-fat 1901 back in on the shelf again (299c per litre)
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Giffered it into work and briefly saw
69.9 mpg twice, but parked up at
69.6 mpg after 25 miles.
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Kept checking the NCT site, and just after midnight and saw a 7:40am appointment pop up. Fuck it, I'll just have it. Giffered it back home and was reading
68.3. Got all of four hours kip and I'm up at 6.45am. Fall out the door at 7.00am and trundle down to the test centre for 7.20am. Wait outside for a bit then get to checked-in, car is taken immediately and back onto the start of the lane when the alignment checks are done.
Job done for another year.
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Trundled back home via the garage for a breakfast roll and home before 8am, it must be all downhill.
(Mrs H will ruin all that effort now, it'll be well down when she gets back)
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