BB4 bye,bye

Post by **indigolemon** » Mon Jul 06, 2015 12:02 pm

Is that where they ended up?

It all goes round in a big loop eh?

Post by **vanzep** » Mon Jul 06, 2015 12:14 pm

yep so it seems

all i need to do is be patient and miraculously the right parts appear

i thought they might be your old speakers and they are a good if not perfect match for the kenwood speakers i have in the front...so im really pleased with the set up and the blaupunkt head unit (which funnily enough you recomended i buy)

Post by **newkid** » Mon Jul 06, 2015 2:35 pm

Post by **vanzep** » Mon Jul 06, 2015 7:49 pm

Go the good news that the lude passed its Mot with no advisories

so i pick it up tomorrow and drop the jazz off at the same time
its great having two cars

Post by **vanzep** » Tue Jul 07, 2015 11:12 am

Thanks to @3rd gen steve for the MOT

Its my 15th MOT and the car is sitting at 185,000miles but as i have changed the speedo clocks twice i think the actual mileage is slightly lower.

now i can get some new parts on the lude!

Post by **Merlin** » Tue Jul 07, 2015 11:25 am

Congrats! Although it isn't a surprise that it whizzed through

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89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Fri Jul 10, 2015 10:45 am

It certainly is pretty well maintained, that's for sure!

Post by **vanzep** » Tue Jul 28, 2015 1:36 pm

Ive had a suspect offside rear bearing for some time now - with a steady drone at motorway speeds - its loud enough off camber to hear over the exhaust note

there was no play in it but now its been replaced i can feel how rough the bearing was - id say it puts enough drag on the back wheel equivalent to one notch on the handbrake being applied - probably up to 2 notches when heated up

3rd gen steve had reminded me about this recently so thanks to him for prompting me to get this fixed

fortunately i had a pair of fully built up knuckles/hubs so they made it an easy and cost effective job

old hubs

new hubs

still to test drive the car and not sure if it will need an alignment done

Other good news is the wing west stuff is ready to go on - ive built up the front and rear into full clips (as the americans call them) so should be a few bolts and clips and hey presto new lude

front bumper with painted ukdm plate holder

back bumper ready to have rear lip fitted

and ive still to fit the whitline rear arb and then there is other stuff to do

Post by **NafemanNathan** » Tue Jul 28, 2015 1:55 pm

Having seen that Milano red UKDM on ebay with the colour coded number plate mount I can't believe more people haven't don't it before! Looks so much better

Post by **Merlin** » Tue Jul 28, 2015 2:29 pm

vanzep wrote:still to test drive the car and not sure if it will need an alignment done

I wouldn't think you would need one. The shock would have been untouched. Looks a nice colour match on the plate holder.

Lude Generation

BB4 bye,bye

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