Stripped the hand brake drum and re-assembled after problems with it seizing after off roading. All good now ... new headlight rims tomorrow
I need to do this, efficiency at MOT was 15%, and now after some off roading I have a sneaking suspicion that it's closer to zero
found out what the metallic scraping noise was when i braked... after a bit of a bang on the road home.
Turns out. the bottom brake calliper bolt had somehow come out... then everytime i braked the caliper twisted and scraped on the inside of the alloy. very glad stopped driving it immediatly and found the issue. all fixed now though at the great expence of £1.40 and a trip to the stealers. luckily the damage to the alloy was only a surface scratch and no severe scrapes.