Fitted

Wow gateway was a pig of a job!

Fitted the painted ones today... With LED 501 bulbs in them too...

Painted with black magic out of a rattle can, and unlacquered they match the interior plastics pretty well...

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Washed em both. The wife's Fabia took no time at all since it had barely any dirt on it. Show's which car we use the most as my Superb took over an hour. And that was with a quick wash.

Checked the fluid levels too - the Fabia has either gone through a bit of coolant or it was not far off the minimum when we picked it up. Superb still hasn't used any oil (unlike the Octavia which needed a top up every so often).

Gave her the first wash of the year (also the first for a couple of months) was only a quick one though, but most of the muck is off. I'm thinking I shall too up the oil before my drive back to Bristol tonight a well, the overdue oil change will have to happen at the weekend in Bristol (assuming I can get a damn oil filter!)

Washed it as the rear bumper had a white, crusty layer... Eurgh!!

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Fitted the painted ones today... With LED 501 bulbs in them too...

Easy to fit and wire?

Easy to fit and wire?

Pretty easy, after putting heart in mouth and cutting the headlining.

Wires go along roof to interior light, literally 2 wires each side...

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Got them both out of their garages. Washed them and put them away again.

Went to B&Q and filled the boot full of concrete blocks and put a few fence posts on the roof rack - still looked like it was on stilts.

The I used my trolley jack to jack up the garden shed in order to put the concrete blocks under it, really easy.

Gave it a wash to get the holiday dirt and bugs off, vacced it, cleaned food stains and vomit remnants from the back seat leather (the joys of travelling with a toddler!)

Wanted to polish it too but ran out of time. Shouldn't have wasted time washing and vaccing the Mazda

Today it hit 156,000 miles and still going strong.... BOOOOOM!

Fitted the new pressed aluminium number plates c/o J0hn.

Fitted nice discrete Skoda tax disc holder and binned the old, massive, white Perrys one which has blighted my windscreen for too long!

Still not washed it :(

Debadged the back, so no more TDI with two red letters or 4x4 badge. Just the Yeti badge so it looks like baby engine version.

Boot looks much cleaner too.

We drove up the M11 out to the forest; went for a walk; had tea and bun; drove to Tescos; took shopping to sick relatives; drove home. Listened to the Who on SD all the way. Over fifty miles of sheer delight for about a gallon of diesel. Happy Days.

Took a flat tyre to a nearby garage, on the way to the garage the front left spring decided to break causing the top mount bearing to fall off! Left with the garage overnight til they got a new spring, an expense I didn't need at the beginning of 2013!

Drove it to work. No issues to report. Woo!

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Sad man that I am I took all 4 wheels off today, cleaned the alloys, put some AG wheel sealer on them including the back of the spokes and inner rim edges, gave the hubs and the chamferred edges of the wheels a light smear of copperslip to help preent corrosion and the wheel bolts a squirt of GT85, put them back on and torqued them all back up again.

I fitted a pd160 intake :-)

Left it at home and got the train to work

Sold my space saver

Took the Fabia in for another wing mirror glass

Had oil level checked again

I litre used in 700 miles

Bulletin sent to Skoda...Breather pipe fix does not appear to have worked

I cleaned my car and decided to debadge the rear. Looks a lot better now, no more tractor badge :p

finally got around to fixing the interior light! couldnt find the fuse box which took me ages.

Drive it in anger for the first time in a long while... And it didn't break