Well after a whole palarva with picking it up (due to me not being paid when I was meant to) me and a mate finally made the trek down to the furthest most remote bit of cornwall to pick up 'the benz'. Nearly peed myself with exitement upon seeing the beastie outside the owners' house. Owner was a thoroughly nice bloke with a couple of decent retros between himself and his housemate(s?), anyhoo I directed him to retro rides so hope he'll join.
Anyhoo I drove my saab back to bournemouth and matey boy drove the benz back - matey boy knows pretty much nowt about cars - which will come in later on.
Got to about 40 miles from bournemouth and I get a couple of flashes from behind me and an indicator going on to pull over.
"there's a funny noise and strong pulling to the left fron the front" says he.
"bloody hell it stinks of brake pad" says I.
So I get in and drive it a couple o hundred yards to the next lay by and decide to call the aa, as there is a sus sound fron the nearside front, a strong smell of friction material and it's dark and curse word down with rain.
Get the car back home by about midnight. I decide to go and have a look at it in the moro and take it round the block for a listen drive - I don't get a hundred metres without the wheels falling off the bus. Quite literally!
The rear nearside wheel was being held on with two fugging studs, which thankfully only snapped on my slow pootling down the road! Neither of them were the locking studs - so it's not like someone was trying to nick the wheels
intoxicated at myself for not checking it earlier (not something you really think of checking really). After getting the wheel back on on three studs (two snapped off in their threads) I tightened up the other three wheels - every single stud was on with the minimum of tighteness, and I could undo the offside rear wheel whilst it was up in the air with just a fugging socket and three inch extension piece! FINGER TIGHT! Not sure what the fugg happened there but I am royally intoxicated off at someone - just not sure who.
Keep thinking 'what if this had happened at 70/80 on the dual carriageway on the way back
Anyhoo the important bit - some pics
The rear install - there should be a bigass nitro bottle right at the back of the boot (closest to the camera) - but PO had to take it out due to BOC charges.
The car is pretty neat, but I wanna make it perfek. There are a load of niggly little bits to do on it - the offside front wing I am suspecting is made up of p38 (the line of it against the wheel isn't consistent), the front bumper was just rattle cann'ed to make it bodycoloured - which looks sh1te. There are three or four rust bubbles in a couple of places over the bodywork, and a couple of bits o rust in the rear boot channels. So I will get the local friendly bodyshop place onto it to make it look minty before the shows.
Whilst I get on with sorting out the blue puffs coming out of the exhausts - hoping that's just some worn stem seals. Either way i'll whip the heads off after the retro rides awards and see whats what.
So yeah - thassit. I'll keep the thread updated with any progress.
Will get some better pics, and acshun shots when it's a) mobile b) I get hold of a decent camera and c) I get a nitro bottle for it.
Anyhoo I drove my saab back to bournemouth and matey boy drove the benz back - matey boy knows pretty much nowt about cars - which will come in later on.
Got to about 40 miles from bournemouth and I get a couple of flashes from behind me and an indicator going on to pull over.
"there's a funny noise and strong pulling to the left fron the front" says he.
"bloody hell it stinks of brake pad" says I.
So I get in and drive it a couple o hundred yards to the next lay by and decide to call the aa, as there is a sus sound fron the nearside front, a strong smell of friction material and it's dark and curse word down with rain.
Get the car back home by about midnight. I decide to go and have a look at it in the moro and take it round the block for a listen drive - I don't get a hundred metres without the wheels falling off the bus. Quite literally!
The rear nearside wheel was being held on with two fugging studs, which thankfully only snapped on my slow pootling down the road! Neither of them were the locking studs - so it's not like someone was trying to nick the wheels
intoxicated at myself for not checking it earlier (not something you really think of checking really). After getting the wheel back on on three studs (two snapped off in their threads) I tightened up the other three wheels - every single stud was on with the minimum of tighteness, and I could undo the offside rear wheel whilst it was up in the air with just a fugging socket and three inch extension piece! FINGER TIGHT! Not sure what the fugg happened there but I am royally intoxicated off at someone - just not sure who. Keep thinking 'what if this had happened at 70/80 on the dual carriageway on the way back
Anyhoo the important bit - some pics
The rear install - there should be a bigass nitro bottle right at the back of the boot (closest to the camera) - but PO had to take it out due to BOC charges.
The car is pretty neat, but I wanna make it perfek. There are a load of niggly little bits to do on it - the offside front wing I am suspecting is made up of p38 (the line of it against the wheel isn't consistent), the front bumper was just rattle cann'ed to make it bodycoloured - which looks sh1te. There are three or four rust bubbles in a couple of places over the bodywork, and a couple of bits o rust in the rear boot channels. So I will get the local friendly bodyshop place onto it to make it look minty before the shows.
Whilst I get on with sorting out the blue puffs coming out of the exhausts - hoping that's just some worn stem seals. Either way i'll whip the heads off after the retro rides awards and see whats what.
So yeah - thassit. I'll keep the thread updated with any progress.
Will get some better pics, and acshun shots when it's a) mobile b) I get hold of a decent camera and c) I get a nitro bottle for it.
