The 'look at what I did today' thread

andypont · Post by **andypont** » Thu Aug 07, 2014 7:41 pm

My lude had its mot today. Needed front brake pads, and the rear calipers needed some unseizing and cleaning up as the handbrake wasn't working properly. All in £150. More than happy with that considering the age of the car.

andypont · Post by **andypont** » Thu Aug 07, 2014 7:46 pm

Good luck with it. I was nervous about mine so did the responsibile thing and delayed it until 2 days before it ran out.

YouTube · Post by **Sailor** » Thu Aug 07, 2014 11:46 pm

I've just got back from a jolly jaunt to France.
Enough breeze to fill the sails, blue skies, fruits de mer and 2 boxes of inexpensive wine to bring home.
What's not to like?

By the way, saw one of these for the first time:

Not that special as a VX220 replacement, especially on a USA platform, but interesting enough with 260bhp?

Post by **sproggy29** » Fri Aug 08, 2014 7:12 am

Sailor wrote:I've just got back from a jolly jaunt to France.
Enough breeze to fill the sails, blue skies, fruits de mer and 2 boxes of inexpensive wine to bring home.
What's not to like?

By the way, saw one of these for the first time:

Not that special as a VX220 replacement, especially on a USA platform, but interesting enough with 260bhp?

Did you drive the lude through cheese and wine country? That looks like the cross fire front end??

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Fri Aug 08, 2014 8:33 am

Not even heard of that opel roadster. Have Vauxhall launched it yet?

bb1boy · Post by **bb1boy** » Fri Aug 08, 2014 11:11 am

MOT 9am this morning...

...straight through

bb1boy · Post by **bb1boy** » Fri Aug 08, 2014 11:33 am

Cheers.
Didn't need to, I booked the test a week before my MOT ran out so I could do any work without taking my car off the road if it failed, but it passed

I might refurb those calipers anyway for next year, just in case! I may as well, I already bought the refurb seal kit haha

Oh and last years advisory of the rear wheel bearing play went through again.

My advisories this year were exhaust is too noisy and rear lights are tinted

bb1boy · Post by **bb1boy** » Fri Aug 08, 2014 11:37 am

I was more like ...it passed???

erm, thank you!

bb1boy · Post by **bb1boy** » Fri Aug 08, 2014 11:46 am

^^ exactly!

YouTube · Post by **Sailor** » Fri Aug 08, 2014 12:34 pm

sproggy29 wrote: Did you drive the lude through cheese and wine country? That looks like the cross fire front end??

No, we sailed there: from the Beaulieu River to the Cherbourg peninsula.

wurlycorner wrote:Not even heard of that opel roadster. Have Vauxhall launched it yet?

It's a sort of Saturn Sky. Opel made only a few thousand, mostly in 2007 and 2008. I don't think there was ever a rhd version.