Week commencing 3rd July – tour to the West of England.
Day 2 – Tuesday – Wirral & Wilmslow…
Our first call took us from our digs in Chester over to Wirral, where it was really lovely to meet Samantha for work on her ‘96 MGF 1.8 mpi that her husband, Andy, bought for her, earlier in the year, but it came with no service history.
This morning we carried out a full cambelt service. What a good honest car, with all
original features, they had even got hold
of some cassettes to play in it, so fab! It had been dry stored and sat for many years prior to them taking ownership. So it now has a new lease of life and will be used for fun outings.
From there we headed over to Wilmslow for work on John’s, also fairly new acquisition, ‘04 TF 135 in paint code JFM. He’d bought the car knowing it had potential issues with the head gasket, so had it transported home, as didn’t want to risk running it.
Sure enough, all the signs were there, and on removing the cylinder head it had been fitted with an elastomer gasket and had gone into cylinders 3 & 4. All gaskets replaced and the car is now back up and running lovely. John was so pleased to hear it spark into life. He’ll take it for the MOT and then get out and about and have some fun over the summer on his retirement.
Really great to meet him and have a chat while we worked, accompanied by many cuppas, he’d read that bit about us!
We managed to dodge the forecasted bad weather, with only one small shower. So, all in all a busy one, but a really pleasant days work.
We bid our farewells and are now in Altrincham for the night, before heading over to Blackpool in the morning. – https://ift.tt/2RALEnb
