Bounty
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We failed the MOT
What have you done to your Freelander today
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Ebay can be a funny place indeed! And when something dodgy goes on they (Ebay) never actually do anything about it...
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I had a similar disappointment on Saturday Andy.
We were looking at getting a small car from our eldest daughter who has just passed her test. The wife found a 2011 Ford Ka for sale in Twickenham for about 1/2 the price of the same car being sold locally. So she tells the seller that we're coming now, don't sell it and we'll pay cash when we get there later in the afternoon. We'll on route, the wife tells the seller that we're on our way, and gives him an ETA. The seller responded 20 minutes later saying that is wife has decided not to sell it. Thankfully we were only 40 miles from home, so simply turned round. I had paid for an HPI check before we set off, and fed the 2 younger daughters a McDonald's breakfast, we wouldn't have bought had we not headed of London.We actually bought the original car (Fiat 500
It's bloody annoying. A deal is a deal, or it was in the past.
Wasn't there a gunpoint robbery of £10,000 cash or more not a week ago with a young couple arriving at an address and ringing to say we are here with cash for the car: only for vehicles to turn up, block them in, bash the guy about and point a gun at the girlfriend with the cash in her lap? Do people never learn?
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I remember using Redex on my 2000 XEi 1.8 auto petrol and also an older Cavalier 1.6 that were averagely good on the mpg beforehand and the mpg plummeted after using the stuff? Not so much of a plummet for the freelander but the Cavalier went from doing over 600 per tank to around 475 miles per tank post brexit (oooops sorry) Redex I mean. Someone said something about carbon deposits being burnt off might have had something to do with it? It was really annoying with the Cavalier... as it used to reach Switzerland or Skye on one tank...
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Bugger! Gits!
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Nice! The black ones really shine up well...
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The MOT for the 1.8 Tonga green FL1 is tomorrow.
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A big week on LZ then. I'll keep my fingers crossed for you.The MOT for the 1.8 Tonga green FL1 is tomorrow.
I must pop over to have a gander at this latest project of yours before you move it on.
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Handbrake efficiency below requirements, headlamp misty and deteriorated drive shaft joint constant velocity boot
The MOT for tomorrow is off.
The offside front caliper has seized solid.
Unfortunately some moron in the past has split the dust cover, which has allowed water to corrode the piston so much, I actually can't move it at all.
I've ordered a replacement, which will be here on Tuesday, so I'll book it for the MOT later in the week.
Please do, as once it's got 12 months MOT, I'll be putting it up for sale. I'll do some pictures of it before she goes though.
Strip, clean, lubricate, reassemble and adjust correctly, will cure that issue.
Inside or outside?
Not to bad to do, but if you're keeping the car, make sure you get the correct OE plastic type boot, not a cheap rubber one.
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Fitted the new suspension links at the back, reattached back hubs with 2x camber bolts per side, fitted new wheel cylinders (still to make brake pipes from hoses to wheel cylinders), stripped the calipers, greased the slides, painted the calipers, painted the new drums and the bells on the new drilled and grooved front discs.
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Passed its WOF (MOT) - no 'advisories' from the chap either.
She's a good old girl
She's a good old girl
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Used the Freelander to pull a couple of rotten old cars out of a field on a friend's land so that the scrappy can fetch them. The Geolanders work very well in mud. Had to abuse the clutch a bit more than I liked but pulled them out no bother. Feel like I have justified having a 4x4 now!
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Bit early for you int it?
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