Only 10 days to go, ladies and gentlemen. So the car's all prepped and ready for the off then? Err - actually, no.
The Beast is poorly. It's been putting a brave face on it and carrying on regardless, but once Mebar had it on the operating table, the extent of the required surgery became apparent. Apart from the rear axle control arm mounts (one rebuilt, the other reinforced), new tierods, sway bar bushes, rear upper/lower arms - all need replacing. It gets worse. To install the snorkel means moving the oil filter. The oil filter adaptor is broken and the pipes are now too short. Then they discover the reason for the power steering reservoir always being oily. We'd assumed it was just a poor seal in the cap, but no - the reservoir itself is cracked. Their solution is to supply and fit a new external reservoir.
So the spendometer is ticking inexorably upwards, and the timescale is moving out. And that's before it goes to Mr. DynoKing for a new ECU and a full re-map of the software.
Are we panicking? Well, yes, but in a typically British, low-key, stiff-upper-lip sort of way. If I had any hairs left which hadn't already turned grey, they would be turning grey right now. Welcome to lastminuterally.com
The Beast is poorly. It's been putting a brave face on it and carrying on regardless, but once Mebar had it on the operating table, the extent of the required surgery became apparent. Apart from the rear axle control arm mounts (one rebuilt, the other reinforced), new tierods, sway bar bushes, rear upper/lower arms - all need replacing. It gets worse. To install the snorkel means moving the oil filter. The oil filter adaptor is broken and the pipes are now too short. Then they discover the reason for the power steering reservoir always being oily. We'd assumed it was just a poor seal in the cap, but no - the reservoir itself is cracked. Their solution is to supply and fit a new external reservoir.
So the spendometer is ticking inexorably upwards, and the timescale is moving out. And that's before it goes to Mr. DynoKing for a new ECU and a full re-map of the software.
Are we panicking? Well, yes, but in a typically British, low-key, stiff-upper-lip sort of way. If I had any hairs left which hadn't already turned grey, they would be turning grey right now. Welcome to lastminuterally.com
1 comment:
Don't panic, Mr Mainwaring!
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