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Day 5 of 10 (11) – South West – Llanelli, Burry Port, Porthcawl…
We left our digs, in Swansea, to head over to our first call of the day, in Llanelli, for work on Neil and Yvonne’s MGF Steptronic Freestyle, in paint code MNX, that we’d last seen at the workshop when Neil brought it up to us last year.
Today we carried out the minor service, investigation of an oil leak, which was down to the the cam-oil seals being the wrong ones fitted for that side of the engine, so we replaced these and that will cure that issue. We’d taken door mechanisms with us, but Neil had managed to resolve that problem. Shame not to see Neil this time, but lovely to see his wife Yvonne and their cute woofer Oscar. Thanks to Yvonne for the welcome cuppas.
Our next stop was over to Burry Port. Richard had seen that we were in the area and asked if we could, by any chance, come over to carry out the minor service on his MGF 143, that he’d owned from new. He’d been meaning to get in touch, but being so busy running the ‘Harbour Light Tearooms’ with his wife, Laura, he hadn’t got around to it.
We always carry over stock with us on a trip like this, just in case. Happy to do this for them, we’d last seen Richard and the car a couple of years ago when we’d had it in to the workshop and then delivered it back to them. Great to see them both today and have a chat, and thanks to them for the offers of lunch and cakes, sadly we couldn’t partake as we had to be on our way to the next call.
This found us in Porthcawl, where it was good to see Andrew and Claire, again, we’d last seen them, when they came up to the workshop.
Claire’s TF 160, in paint code HFF, was having some issues with intermittent heat in the cabin, plus the orange emissions light was on. On code reading found the light was due to a possible fault with the Lambda sensor, so that’s cleared and will see if it reoccurs. The heater issue was cured by carrying out an oil-cooler bypass, as there was insufficient flow getting through to the heater matrix.
Good to have a quick catch-up with them between their busy work calls, and pleased to have the car sorted.
So a productive and enjoyable day, with fab weather thrown in too.
We are now in our next lot of digs in Monmouth. I took a walk up to ‘The Kymin’ this evening, fabulous views!
The digs we’re in are great, but it’s a very busy pub on a Friday night, which holds live ‘Live Music til Late’. Hmm, maybe I should have checked those reviews, nay mind I’m sure it will be entertaining to listen to, it’s certainly full of people having fun so far! 🥴
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