Fiddlesticks When sorted you can just confidently wait for Clutterbuck' s next pleasant surprise

Lmao ...

Without a doubt ... I'd say the blooming wheels will fall off next but they checked those too

It's quite disconcerting to see your car on ramps with no wheels :Yikes:.

Timing works well too, hoping to take Chloe (my oldest) to Longleat for her birthday, before things go pair-shaped with Nan, with any luck we can get the work done next weekend.

Question :- Mech mentioned the chain, noisy as ever. He said it might not need the whole chain but maybe just replacing the "tensioner" ? .... i may of got this really wrong but (from other posts) thought you could not alter the tension on a chain, just on a belt ??

Tina

Some timing chains have a tensioner of sorts, a spring-loaded slipper usually, but the Skoda doesn't so when it gets slack you just have to replace it. It doesn't seem to break often, though.

I think the horn is def an MOT fail if it doesnt work and the shocks too if they are failing.

I know what you mean about seeing the car on ramps.

I didnt like seeing mine on the ramps but its even worse when you see all the crap and brake dust thats accumulated.

Pleased to hear your getting Cb sorted - just thinking that maybe my rear shocks might be iffy after what your having done to yours! Ah well, I hope to change up to something better soon.

Ooooo ... i do like those chaps at F1.

Picked up CB this evening.

Rear shockes (both) .. Offside Bearing and horn all done and dusted.

Really is true that you don't notice something until it is gone. Pulling out of garage with a rather skeptical outlook for the coming ride ... over the dipped curb onto the road, not a bump/bobble or wobble in site !. Manhole covers,raised areas and general Bristolian roads ... a breeze. Feels like a totally new car to drive.

One slight niggle is the horn, admittedly it was in poor condition prior to failing completely but it had a lovely throaty "honk" ... now it has rather a quaint girly "peep" ... i have a gender confused Skoda

All my bouncy bits nicely firmed up thanks to F1 and not a muffin in sight

T.

Horns, honking, gender confused cars, girls, peeping and bouncy bits firming up. All sounds fun to me :rofl:

Horns, honking, gender confused cars, girls, peeping and bouncy bits firming up. All sounds fun to me :rofl:

:iagree: :rofl:

Please keep us posted on your Clutterbuck adventures, just what's needed on a grey February morning

It's good to know it's not shakin it's little a$$ anymore

LOL! Pleased to hear things are a bit firmer!

At 51k maybe I should do my bouncy bits:),

havent bothered about mine before;)

Ignorance is ...well, cheaper anyway:rolleyes:

Dampers really need replacing around 30,000 miles, but you can often get double that out of them if you're not fussed about driving comfort

-thank you Richard Black:)

and

"Really is true that you don't notice something until it is gone"

-thank you Ghostdn:)