What have you done to your car today......

[HarryW]

Took it for a couple of hours blatting, been away on business and holiday, so rude not to take it out, dusted off the windscreen though... Had a daft M5 driving at 10/10ths behind me at one point, not sure he realised I was at 5/10ths. Seemed pleased when I eased off though.

[Incognegro]

Ordered a buzzer that will let me know if I have left lights on when engine is on... Also managed to find a supplier of the steering wheel decals in domed vinyl so ordered a set of those too.

[gruffalo]

The sun was out earlier so I took her to get her summer tyres fitted.

Roll on summer!

[pmessling]

Fitted a new rear view mirror as the Tvr parts replacement one vibrated so much was unusable.

[Twinkam]

Investigated the scraping noise on full-lock... to find a groove 'machined' in the rear faces of the front discs where they have been rubbing on the bodies of the lower ball-joints. The joints look very new, only just bought the car and think they were changed at the last MoT. Hmmmm...
Calipers and discs off, judicious application of a disc-grinder to radius their outer edges to match that of the wishbones. Brake fluid change while I was at it.
Anyone else had this? (this is a separate issue to the grinding of a chamfered edge on the upper face of the lower ball-joint).

[Incognegro]

Took on a 75mile round trip today, slight hesertation noticed? Sure tyres pressures are down so will sort before the weekends run down to Topcats where I'll be looking at wedges.

[ukkid35]

Took gearbox off, found missing teeth.

Took six words to describe, took ten hours to do.

[Juddder]

Managed to wrestle the Starter Motor out of my AJP 4.2 - this really is the toughest job I think I've ever done on a car!

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

[GT6k]

Was lazy and just picked up the car from Str8six with a newly repaired keyway in the PAS pump drive and a shiny new MoT - yay.

[Byker28i]

New immobiliser

[chibbard]

Fired it into life today. First time out of the garage in 3 years with the dust to prove it:-

[Wolvesboy]

Hey Chibbard,
That is one gorgeous Cerbera! I know the consensus re Spiders is not good but they look so right. Also matched with the Harlequin type paint that changes as you move around the car or as it passes you in this instance.
Fabulous. I wish mine looked half as good as that.

[Incognegro]

The run to Wedge meet at topcats was great. Even had time to fit steering wheel button stickers and get tyre pressures up to correct. Was worried when left rear was only reading 9psi but didn't look that flat at all?

Even had time to collect light buzzer for if they are left on when engine off... That will spare my battery nicely oon my absent minded days.

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[chibbard]

Really want to drive it now it's been cleaned:-

[chibbard]

Wolvesboy said:

Hey Chibbard,
That is one gorgeous Cerbera! I know the consensus re Spiders is not good but they look so right. Also matched with the Harlequin type paint that changes as you move around the car or as it passes you in this instance.
Fabulous. I wish mine looked half as good as that.

Thanks for the kind comments, yep it's a lovely car. I'm the second owner (since 14 years ago and it looks as fresh as when I bought it now. Now only done 23000 miles and cannot ever see me getting rid of it!!

[Incognegro]

Absolute STUNNER Col! Suppose you'll be adding some spider centre caps to the summer shopping list. U down at the RIP James in August?

[chibbard]

Incognegro said:

Absolute STUNNER Col! Suppose you'll be adding some spider centre caps to the summer shopping list. U down at the RIP James in August?

Hi Alistair, yep will get the wheel badges sorted next week along with some other bits. Will try and get it back on the road towards the end of August as I'm on holiday in early August. What date is it?

[Incognegro]

13th August mate

[chibbard]

Incognegro said:

13th August mate

Bugger, still on holiday till 16h August.

[Montauge]

What's the name of that paint job?