How has your weekend been so far?
Finished fitting my head unit and running the USB power cables for everything bar the kitchen sink.
Washed, waxed and polished the 156, too.
Had a new tyre fitted to the front of the Ducati, so it now corners properly.
Unfortunately, I have a stinking cold, so don't actually feel like going out on the bike. Sod's law says this will be the only decent weekend left this year.
Must be. Loomies is packed to the eaves with leather clad persons.
I can here them whipping up and down the new bypass every now and then from here (only the ones with loud pipes that are going for it heh, but it is about 3 miles away), unfortunately the morons that planned it put a nasty junction in it so I'd imagine it's only a matter of time till some old duffer, or young duffer, doesn't look properly and pulls out on a bike, or a car there, and there's a pretty major accident.
I've just seen a close one on the A31. I was heading back from the 'local' supermarket and at the bit where it becomes a dual carriagewa pulled out to overtake a little old biddy in an Alfa (keep it on topic eh?) who was indicating left. Then I noticed she was drifting right so I stayed back anticipating she was about to swerve right. As I did that some moron on a bike accelerated, passed me to the left and tried to pass the Alfa to the right - at which point she did swerve right, while indicating left. Very nasty moment, he managed to avoid being hit, dropped behind her and then stayed just a few cm off her back bumper all the way to the next roundabout - where of course she did turn left.
OK, she was a muppet, but so was he.
Service D. Rear discs and pads (originals after 96k miles), water pump, aux drive belt tensioner and pulleys, shedloads of labour. And what's with the
10 quid/ltr for oil....That'll be £983 please.
Bugger.
awww crap. forgot. That makes it torrent time...
'kinell. What is it you drive ?
E's are good.
E's are good..
wooooahhhhahhooo
but they cost a lot to fix...
I have paid for one job on the Golf. Clutch replacement, not the easiest job to do yourself with no help. Everything else, exhaust, tyres, front and rear brakes discs and bearings and the LPG conversion I did myself. I really couldn't afford paying somebody else the wrong side of 50 quid an hour to such work.
An E might be a bit challenging right enough, although I don't rule out some spannering on the 750i.
That's at the right side of 50/hr for the work. Main dealer would have been that just for the labour.
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