Ah, so it didn't actually fail the MOT on that as such, you pre-emptied it. Could it have been the case that the cars sensing may have been more strict than the MOT test, assuming it tests for particulates?
After you got off the floor. ;-(
How kind of them.
And that's the ting isn't it, it's not always about 'retail value' but the 'worth' of the car to you. When the Astra (1.4i GLS saloon) was written of by a lost / turning arctic is was worth little fanatically but it was worth loads to us. It was bought 'ex demonstrator by Dad, then went to my niece then came to us and it was quiet, comfortable, reliable, reasonably economical and did all we ever asked of it, including carrying things on the roof rack and towed on trailers.
I'm glad my mate didn't and sold me his Rover 218SD cheap because he was fedup spending money on it. I had it another 7 nearly cost / trouble free years thanks to what he had spent on it. ;-)
Cool.
I helped one of my Dad friends move office like that but with my Messerschmitt KR200! You can get quite a few boxes of files in the same space as an adult human. ;-)
Our Corsair 2000E did that on the way to Wales to tow a sailing cruiser home (would falter up hills). After 3 stops at garages, various new bits (plugs, points and condenser, HT leads, dizzy cap, fuel pump) and some AA attention we found one old garage (manual fuel pumps and welding bottles out the front) who asked some questions, thought about it, got us to siphon all the fuel out into an array on containers and removed the fuel filer that was on the end of the fuel pickup hose ... and threw it into the corner of his workshop! ;-)
He fitted an inline filer near the carb, we put all the fuel back in and he sent us on our way, the car working fine from then on. ;-)
Sounds like the Meriva PS. ;-(
Yup, that's a hindsight one.
I used a mate at the top of our road for probably 20 years (anything I couldn't do myself and starting with Company Cars) and rarely even had any comebacks. He subbed out the clutch job on the Meriva to a local Co and on it's return I found a spanner and cable-tie round the electric fan in the engine bay and he ended up having to tighten an engine steady. ;-(
I had a clutch cable snap in the Sierra. Luckily I carried a spare and fitted it at the side of the road with help from my Leatherman PST. ;-)
Luckily I was half way back when the Rover 218 immobilised itself, just as we were about to drive off the IOW ferry! ;-)
We were in exactly the same position as you when the cam belt went on the Sierra but on a single side road with two lanes just at the lights onto a dual carriageway and wasn't long before my mate came and towed me back to his (and as I carried a spare belt, was home inside an hour with the new belt fitted).
Yeah, concentric clutch cylinders sound like a good idea ....
And, with reasonable low rev torque, you don't need to slip the clutch so much to pull away?
Oooerr!
Good thinking (well, after having a torch or 12v lead lamp with you). ;-)
And I think many might be surprised what percentage of wrenching is done that way? Loads of nuts / bolts that you can only just see (or can't even see) but can deal with by feel. I've often found myself doing them by feel even when I can see them because it's easier than holding your head up (like when working under a car on your back).
Yeah, you hear of people being hit by lorries when doing that on the offside (and why all our vehicles are treated with Punctureseal, to minimise that risk).
Those were the days eh. ;-)
Cheers, T i m