Radiator blues!
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Cars coming on ok. Starting to get it back together. Are! must put the rad back on now. Picked it up and thousands of flakes of rad cooling fins fall off. This means a new rad! Apparently (and take note) if you lay the car up for some months with various spills of antifreeze and other fluids on the fins the radiator will rot!
So before I go on, have you thoroughly washed your layed up rad, if not do it now. The fins are copper and react to the small amount of acids that exist in most fuids today if its not being used. With regular use the rad will keep itself clean but as soon as it come to a grinding hault, trouble.
My next step, to check which one it is. Don't bother, its far cheaper to have it rebuilt by Serks or other rad specialists. New rad is over £200 + vat, £170 plus vat at staff rate! Christ! Rebuild= £146 inc vat, well that's what the bloke said, i've yet to be rung and told its ready so it might go up a tad.
Keep blasting!
gadgit.
So before I go on, have you thoroughly washed your layed up rad, if not do it now. The fins are copper and react to the small amount of acids that exist in most fuids today if its not being used. With regular use the rad will keep itself clean but as soon as it come to a grinding hault, trouble.
My next step, to check which one it is. Don't bother, its far cheaper to have it rebuilt by Serks or other rad specialists. New rad is over £200 + vat, £170 plus vat at staff rate! Christ! Rebuild= £146 inc vat, well that's what the bloke said, i've yet to be rung and told its ready so it might go up a tad.
Keep blasting!
gadgit.
Got the rad back from Serck Intertruck in Cambridge today. Can't believe what a brilliant job they did on it, its like new. Bloke in there made me wait a week to get it, and said he would make it worth it, and it was. Complete with uprated core, £108.30 inc vat.
Now I can get back on with the car.
all the best,
Gadgit.
Now I can get back on with the car.
all the best,
Gadgit.
Well I told the bloke that I was destitute and didn't mind waiting, but this of course was going to be of a great inconvenience to me. Dress rough when you go, try and look like a down and out, park your bmw round the corner and walk in telling the bloke you just walked from the other side of town as you could not afford the bus fare. If possible take all the kids from the local creche and tell him there all yours!
And as a final moment comes to pay, accidently get you pension book out, and of course pay in cash, nod,nod,wink wink, slide the money out of you back pocket slowly, sure to get another fiver off.
I thought you blokes down in London area new all this lot!
But, of course, if you live in posh old oxford, no chance!
good luck.
gadgit.
And as a final moment comes to pay, accidently get you pension book out, and of course pay in cash, nod,nod,wink wink, slide the money out of you back pocket slowly, sure to get another fiver off.
I thought you blokes down in London area new all this lot!
But, of course, if you live in posh old oxford, no chance!
good luck.
gadgit.
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