seanl82

How much posted for B pillars mate?

Its true about third party. Go on any comparison website and change them around. Third party fire and theft is usually slightly cheaper than fully comp, but third party only is ALWAYS more expensive than the rest! Its the young dumb kids that get caught with it, they automatically think it will be cheaper so wont even bother looking at fully comp assuming it will be massively expensive. Its probably true that those buying 3rd Party have more accidents too for the above reasons.

Would have been up for this, but going up to the Families in Bristol on Friday to drop the kids off for the weekend now!

Cheers Dave, yeah the lacquer peel is no fun! Full body respray will happen next winter I think. for the moment I'm just trying to hide it a bit so its not so noticable, as I don't wish to be embarrassed toooo much in front of all the no doubt minters at national day! Hopefully have most of the paint done by the end of the week so should have pics, then it just a case of flatting it back once its fully hardened. Still need to order a sump gasket and clean the pickup and oil and filter change, then a new tyre due to the nail and I'm good to go!

Cheers guys! Started rubbing down the lacquer peel on the bonnet today. Got interrupted half an hour in to go and handle a load of **** samples for the rest of the day! :mad2: Had Compulsory drug testing team at the base so had to document all that. Had the two patches on the bonnet down to bare metal, so had to spray a quick bit of etch primer to cover it up whilst I did that. Will need re-doing again tomorrow as I hadn't got it all out on one of them. Its a PITA, the pealing keeps spreading when trying to rub it down, even when you come from the other side of it. The whole reason for doing it was to make it catch the eye less. I now have two big grey patches on the bonnet! :bonk: Just took a mate out, then let him have a go too. He has an EP3 Type R Anniversary and he was pretty impressed! He bangs on about his V-Tec like its the best thing since sliced bread. When the VR comes on song and gives you a kick in the back at around 4.5K RPM, he couldn't believe it and was making similarities, although he has to wait until well past 6k to get his! Think he wants a C now! :lol: It did get a little naughty though................:ignore:

Very impressive! Didn't know anything about it, and mentioned at the end about the air compressor sounds really good too! Electric cars a ton of L/ion batteries my eye!

The best thing is I'm now definitely on for National Day! :cheers:

Cheers, yeah I was over the moon although I'm taking I'm doing a little paintwork the rest of the week so I won't be using it now! It actually failed this morning at 11. I did all pre-checks and all was good, although one of the sidelights was out at first, but came on after I switched to main beams then back again. All seemed good, and ABS light was behaving. Got to the MOT centre thinking all was well, then the ABS light refused to come on, and the sidelight didn't work! :mad2: Booked it back in straight away for half 3, then whizzed back into work. Took the sidelight out, put it back in, and all was well with that. Had a look at my ABS "fix", and had voltage to the unit, but not to the LED. Measured resistance of the .........Resistors, and all was well, so took a punt and soldered in a new 555 timer. Boom, working again! Left it unplugged until I got round the corner of the MOT station, fixed it in and that was that! :cheers: Got a couple of advisories too; "Nail in Nearside Front tyre" - Bloody car club yard! Will get a new one on asap. "N/S headlight beam a bit high" - :roll: "Slight Oil leak" - New sump gasket required as it looks to have been silicon sealed and poorly at that, and the gearbox needs to come off at some point as I'm pretty sure the timing chain cover has not been sealed correctly. Either that or the crank seals gone, but its gearbox off either way. Will get round to that................... Just glad I can now start doing things without that monkey on my back!

Great results! Thats a good list that stealth have done, bet your itching to keep going out in it now! :lol:

I had it when replacing the cable but it was stuck to the tubing that goes internally to the tunnel. I ended up cutting it as near to the hole as I could, then had to drill it out. Its an absolute bugger to do, but it worked! As long as you don't damage that bracket too much, it'll hold fine as the shroud will stop at the hole, and be held in by the retaining clip.

IT PASSED THE MOT!!!!!! :cheers: :dance::dance::dance::dance::dance: Updates to follow..........

So synthetic is better than mineral then................................ Thanks Tim, very informative!

Theres a guide to adjusting the cables in the wiki section mate. Have a gander in there. :thumbleft:

Been trying to find things to do that don't cost any money as I'm loath to spending money on it until its back on the road. MOT is booked again for Monday at 11, so fingers crossed it goes through this time with my ABS light fix.................. Anyway, had some Redline MT90 gear oil that I was gonna put into the Valver last year just before it was written off, so decided to do that today. No discernible difference, gear stick is pretty vague anyway so new linkage bushes will hopefully sort that, as well as one of Dave16's short shifter in the not too distant future. I've got some rattle cans from Paints4u to tidy up the areas of lacquer peel too, so hopefully start that next week. Its a temporary measure until I can afford a full respray, just to make it look a little more respectable and less haggard! Other than that, I've just been washing the dust off of it twice a week where its been sitting unused. :eek::( Can't put any of the photos up as I've reached my photobucket download limit for the month! :scratch:

When the Valver was written off, I got £1360 ish from the insurance as it was written off (should have bartered I know, but I only paid £500 for it!), and bought it back off the insurance company for £34.20! :dance: I then sold it on for scrap to DevonDubShack for £175. Could have got a hell of a lot more if I broke it myself as there was quite alot of good and expensive parts that the previous owner didn't realise, but I didn't have the means to do it at the time.

If you do servicing yourself though, it'll work out no more expensive over time than any other car you pay a garage to service for you. Obviously fuel prices and tax (dependant on year) are the expensive things though. I've always been an evo man myself too. Much prefer them to the common chav scoobys!

Looks absolutely amazing, but wouldn't expect anything less from KDS. For those that don't know, this is probably THE best known and respected detailing specialist in the UK. Looks phenomenal Mark! :thumbleft:

Go to a breakers yard and rape a beamer of its battery cables.

Its not all that bad tbh. It seats quite easily too. Valvers on the other hand are a PITA! All done from underneath removing the auxiliary belt, PAS pump, draining the whole water system and hoping you've got a good seal when its all back together! Inevitably, you never get a proper seal first time as the o-ring drops! :censored:

What did I do wrong? I got socks! :lol: Happy fathers day!!!!

Gert lush!:afro:

Fuel pumps are known across the model to fail as they are all getting on a bit now. You usually get a bit of prior warning though as they start to become quite noisy when hey are on their way out. Its not uncommon though that it goes unoticed. There are two of them too. One in tank, and an inline lift pump.

Been a few around the £900- £1000 mark from what I've seen, although I'm not sure any of them actually sold. Depends how badly you want it gone, and how much your prepared to let it go for tbh, but I suppose the equivilent of $1200 wouldnt be too far off mate.

I think thats the one that was for sale in Carlisle. I priced up flights and everything but as it was a Cat C I decided against it. Wish I would have taken the gamble now!

Some new tank straps and a couple of fluid reservoirs, and it'll be perfect!