What a week that was and a full-on one since my last blog last Thursday!
Friday morning found us at the workshop with an early start to get cracking on the two that were left with us…
Chris sent his ‘05 TF 135 in Nightfire Red up to us from Dunstable, as was in need of a new head gasket, as he had recently taken it to another garage and unfortunately it hadn’t taken. Whilst in with us he asked us to also carry out a full cambelt service, fit a B&G coolant alarm kit, alternator belt and carry out a health check. On inspection found that the CAT on the car would not have passed through emissions, so asked us to replace with a decent one, a homologated one duly ordered and fitted. The expansion tank cap failed the pressure test, so a new tested one of ours fitted. A few other things sorted for Chris and his fab looking TF is all ready for him to collect at the weekend and we look forward to meeting him.
We also got cracking with the tests on Andy’s MGF 1.8 mpi that he had trailered over to us from Knutsford. Will do a separate blog on this one as it’s a bit more involved, gladly the car is now all sorted and we look forward to seeing Andy in the morning for collection.
Great to see Ray again who popped over from Beverley for a replacement key fob programming to his TF 135.
Tuesday found us back up in Shildon, to get everything sorted, finally for Fred on his ‘03 TF 135 that had suffered a bit of a calamity, he’d bought the car knowing it had head gasket failure, but when we removed the head earlier in the year found that there were a few more serious problems afoot. We returned with a refurbed cylinder head and a replacement piston. These were all duly fitted, along with full cambelt service and some other essentials and she’s all good to go for him and his lovely wife, Grace, to enjoy. An enjoyable day in their company and we fortunately dodged the rain.
Work continued at the workshop on Wednesday with another long day.
Then Thursday found us, with a very early start, to collect the trailer from the workshop and head down to our first call of the day in Desborough, where it was good to see Marcus again for the annual minor service, plus boot wiring fettling on his TF 135 (paint code JFM).
From there we headed a few miles along the road to Market Harborough, where it was great to meet Chris and his ‘01 MGF 120 mpi (paint code CMU) that he’d owned for many years. The radiator was shot so we replaced this for him, hopefully it hasn’t caused any of the proverbial problems for him. We pressure tested the system etc. as far as is possible, but should there be any subsequent issues this will reveal itself when driving the car and under load, as we say, hopefully not the case.
From there, we continued on to Wellingborough to collect a lovely little TF that goes by the name of Nemo, who is now safely tucked up with some pals in the workshop waiting for a little bit of TLC.
Thankfully we dodged the wet stuff yesterday, and were pleased to be in the workshop all day today completing the work on Andy’s MGF, dodging storm Babet, which has wreaked some havoc all over the country we’ve been sad to hear on the news today.
Hopefully it will calm itself down soon and provide better driving conditions this weekend for all the pick-ups and drop-offs over the weekend, safe travels to everyone. – https://ift.tt/IOu59VH
