Crawley & Chichester…
Day 2 of 6 – Latest Tour South.
Our first call of the day first thing this morning was over in Crawley, with a good run over from our digs in Tonbridge Wells.
Great to meet Alex and his ‘99 MGF 1.8 in paint code MNX. Underfloor coolant pipes replaced with stainless for him today, it’s really sound car that he’s future proofing to enjoy for years to come. Next stop for it is for some body work to be carried out. We look forward to seeing him again next year for a service on it.
From there we headed over to Chichester, where it was lovely to see Rod again and his ‘04 TF 135 in paint code LEF that we’d last seen about 3 years ago for clutch & head gasket etc. Rod has since replaced the front subframe and has now commenced work on the back end. It looks like a new car underneath at the front end, fantastic job.
Today the key fobs were sorted, reverse light switch fitted, which needed new wiring putting in, so this was done for him, the crankshaft bottom pulley had a chunk missing out of it so we replaced this for him too. A K-maps remap was attempted, but, unfortunately, the signal round there was not good enough to carry this out.
Rod wants to bring the car up to the workshop next year, anyway, for fitting of a Mike Satur Daytona and 4-2-1 to coincide with a visit to his sister, so the remap will be done then. By this time Rod will have finished all his work on the car that he has planned. Great to see him today and have a chat.
One of those calls where I’m like a spare part, so I walked into the town to the post office to get some clothing orders posted out. Thanks to the people who have ordered things lately, they will be with you soon! 👕 🧢
We didn’t get as far south as planned this morning as our call in Eastbourne was cancelled, unfortunately we only found out a couple of days ago, it’s a shame as we’ve been going for a few years now, but had forgotten to let us know the car had been reluctantly sold. Never mind, these things happen.
So we’re now in our new digs just outside of Chichester town centre, which made for a nice evening walk in the sun to the cathedral, well for me anyway, Jon had a well deserved rest to watch Star Trek and eat chocolate. – https://ift.tt/aBUXlo7
