Day 3 of 4 – Tuesday – Girton & Bourne.
A short commute to our first call this morning, from our digs, along to Girton, just outside of Cambridge.
Great to meet John who had taken ownership of a ‘96 Mk 1 MGF VVC (in paint code NAL) in August of this year. He got in touch last month to see when we would be in the area as he was needing a couple of things sorting on the car, which for now included replacing the underfloor coolant pipes, repairing the boot light and assessing the dodgy fog light. Having owned MGBs in past this was his first MGF so had a few questions about it, a date to be arranged for some further work.
An interesting morning chatting to John and some very welcome hospitality, we bid our farewells and continued on our way along to Bourne.
The next call was on a ‘02 TF 135 ‘Sprint’ (in paint code JFV) that Peter had owned for a number of years, having previously been owned by his son. The car was originally meant to be just a showroom car and never registered, but the owner of the MG dealerships wife liked it so much it was registered as a demonstration model.
We replaced the exhaust manifold with a new one as the existing one had a bit of a hole in it! (Forgot to take pic). Peter also wanted us to code read the car as he had been experiencing intermittent misfire issues with it. We found the fault to be down to the Lambda sensor. It had been replaced about a year ago with a cheaper alternative, hence why he was still having a problem. So we replaced this with a MG Rover one. All error codes cleared and car now running nice and smooth and a lot quieter for him!
Great to meet Peter and have a chat, who also makes a cracking brew! Thanks to him for the bottle of Rose too from his and his wife’s travels to the south of France. Hope he gets his wish and takes the car down there next year.
We’re now in our last digs of this trip, in Stamford, which is a cracking little self-catering house. A little chilly on the digits today, but a relief to have a dry day and some sun. – https://ift.tt/c6JymW8
