There are soooo many decent tapes to hold plates. Plus, screws look ghastly.

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Yep, never had an issue in 15 odd years with adhesive strips. Just crucial that the surface and plate is clean, and bone dry.

 

Four strips per plate, job done.

Washed and dried Wednesday

Skoda Service Thursday

Indy did MOT today. Passed yay

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Fitted a new tandem pump, hopefully curing my rising oil problem.

 

Interestingly I had a funny flat spot if you applied light throttle at about 1500rpm.  Also the car sort of stuttered at idle in second, such that you couldn't let it roll along in traffic in second - that seems to have disappeared too.  Looks like the pump was cream crackered.

Yep, never had an issue in 15 odd years with adhesive strips. Just crucial that the surface and plate is clean, and bone dry.

 

Four strips per plate, job done.

 

I once stuck mine on, but they were stolen so wurth surround for me although that isnt that great should some scum want my plates for free petrol. 

 

I cleaned it, first time in 9 months I think and thankfully the snow foam did a great job. Also managed to clay it although didn't have time to wax :(

 

Put new tailgate struts on

Not today, but I took it into the body-shop on Sunday night and got a courtesy car. It's a Nissan Pixo. It isn't tempting me into the dealership that's for sure, but it is a hell of a lot better than walking. I'll be glad when I get the Monte back though which is hopefully going to be either Friday or Saturday. So, today I got a couple of E-mails from the insurers... the final agreed sum of money required to fix the car is...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

£2261.98

 

Of which I pay £125

So if you add on the £95-ish I payed for the cover that's a saving of just over £2040.

I'm just glad I got the cover now!

Edited 15 December, 201510 yr by Outofthi5world

Received an E-mail yesterday which I read last night saying the car is fixed and ready for hand-over. Went to the bank just now to see if the money is there. Nope. No money. Brilliant. So I'll have to go to the big bank and see if it's supposed to be going in today otherwise I'm screwed.

Went to visit it.

 

I could look, but not touch unfortunately. The car is done and ready to be driven out but unfortunately I'm still waiting to receive payment from the insurance company so I can pay the body-shop so I can have the Monte back on the road. It looks very good though, and the bonnet lines up with the other bits now.

So I drove away in the courtesy car on the right.

Changed the oil after changing the tandem pump last weekend.  Nearly 5 litres of oil came out!  Hopefully the problem is solved now.

Dropped the Fab off at the garage yesterday to get a new clutch - should have it back tomorrow after parting with £600  

Picked it up. YAY!!

Booked the Octy in for new brake pads and disks next Tuesday. Bit annoyed about this as 4 weeks ago the car was services at a small Indy near us and they said the brakes were fine...So the warning light popped on last night. [emoji35]

And I bought a dog guard for the Fabia.

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Parked in the MDs spot as he and the other director are on holiday 

 

Prime spot for running away at 17:30

Left it at the airport to fly to Belfast

Last night I ( and the neighbour's son and his girlfriend ) hauled the Octy out of the mud.

There is some woodland at the bottom of the drive we use as parking overflow and the Octy was parked there yesterday afternoon. At 8pm I went to get her and felt the wheels spin, okaaay I 'll pop some wood underneath. However, the clay is very close to the surface and the wood immediately became slippy and the car would not pick it up. So I got the door mats from outside the house. Still nothing. So I tried rocking it. Nope.

At this point I asked the son's girlfriend for help as she was passing (she works in a circus and use used to hooking vehicles from fields). She drove and I pushed and we went nowhere.

We then tried towing it using her A6 but the hook point on her car was jammed closed so we tried with the Fabia. Fail.

Then her boyfriend joined in...

Finally we we were making progress but the Octy was sliding towards a gate post so we ditched the towing plan, she drove and we shoved the car forward into the woodland and than shoved it straight back before it broke through the uncured grass.

Talk about soaked and my back is kittened this morning. The neighbours just shook my hand, drove the Octy up to the house and off they went. Think I owe them a bottle [emoji2]

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This evening : took Octy to garage to pump up tyres, refilled the screen wash and put it through the car wash as the front was minging. Now washing the driver's foot mat as that suffered last night too.

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Fitted a Zenec ZE2015 headunit.

Its brill. Everything the Columbus should be, but isnt!

Finally got round to cutting my hockey puck with my Dremmel to make a jack point, couldn't find a key for the up-stairs windows so had to just breath in the rubbery fog, also got a lot of melted rubber on my arms and face. What a mess. then went out to test it with the bottle jack and found that the Monte is too low for it to fit under. Damn it!

Got everything ready to put the front mud-flap back on then it started chucking it down. Sod that.

 

So now I think I'll be buying a trolley jack and a set of car mats sometime in the near future.

Just washed it

Fitted wind deflectors, cars still dirty! Why does it rain every time I have 5 minutes to wash it?

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Just cleaned the inside.

Looks Fab with the new Zenec headunit!

Time to do the outside in a mo!

Took it to Croft, then popped into Darlington to buy a nice little 2 tonne quick lift trolley jack then back off to Croft. Got annoyed that there was no rallying in the Christmas rally stages so left to put mudflap back on. Tried lifting the car and it wouldn't even try so went back to darling and swapped, went out to test it before I went home and that one was worse! So swapped it again for a standard jack without quick lift and got £14 back. Came back home, drove through giant puddle to clean arches out and put mudflap back on.

Put some air in the tyres too, as they were low.

Thatd be why it was weaving abit down the motorway then

Edited 27 December, 201510 yr by fabiamk2SE

Added some DRL's

Removed the plastic grills, stuck the rubber type LED's on and added two Tie-wraps for security.

Plugged them into a ignition on circuit and job done.