What did you and your MK2 do today?
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Last few days my blower has been working on and off, not ideal with the weather getting colder now so i took the fan out and found one of the brushes stuck in its housing.
Quick squirt of WD40 there and on both bearings, been OK so far, touch wood
Next job, fix interior light switch drivers side and fit new LED sidelights. Once it stops raining!!
Quick squirt of WD40 there and on both bearings, been OK so far, touch wood
Next job, fix interior light switch drivers side and fit new LED sidelights. Once it stops raining!!
Removed and blanked off the rear wiper. Surprisingly easy mod. Next job, fix a leak in one of the front headlights.
This is just me wanting to know and not being picky but why remove the rear wiper, don't you find it a must?
My Leon is covered in spray within seconds and I rely on it.
My Leon is covered in spray within seconds and I rely on it.
I'd considered that so tried for a few days without using it. Can still see through it and I use RainX on the rear window so keeps it clear for the most part.
I never bothered changing the wiper on the rear so....never did a great job anyway.
Removed the budget tyres today and fitted a set of Pilot Sport 4's. Now I need time to go and test them 
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Was it easy/cheap to do? My signal is poor, looking to change the Arial first but looks ok.Fitted a new antenna base and now for the first time in 12 months I can pick up radio stations
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The antenna base cost £25 from a dealers and yes fairly easy to change. Open the boot, the head lining is held up by two plastic clips, use a small flat head screwdriver to prise the clips from the roof.
This then allows the headlining to hang down a few inches and gives just enough room to access and undo a 22mm nut that secures the antenna to the roof, unplug the wire from the connector and pull the antenna from the roof.
If you can when reinstalling get someone to hold the antenna to the roof whilst you attach and tighten up the nut.
Apparently water over time gets inside the antenna base and corrodes the circuit board.
I could only ever pick one station which was my most local station which was hit or miss, it would scan through the whole frequency range and not pickup anything but static.
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Changed the Oil and Filter
This time I used Fuchs Titan Gt1 5w40, and noticed a massive reduction in engine noise on idle compared to what it sounded like with Shell Hx8 5w-40 that I last used.
The shell oil was only 9 months old and done just under 3k miles.
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This time I used Fuchs Titan Gt1 5w40, and noticed a massive reduction in engine noise on idle compared to what it sounded like with Shell Hx8 5w-40 that I last used.
The shell oil was only 9 months old and done just under 3k miles.
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Finally cleaned her! its been a while... should stay that way until about 1700 today!
Cleaned mine today too, somewhat satisfying getting the salt off.
Carried out some pre-winter essentials, namely touching up Betty's body work, like you do. Removed lots of tar from the bodywork and wheels, waxed the bodywork and wheels.
Can see the rust on the wheel arches getting worse, I think summer next year is going to be spent carrying out further rust repairs, lowering her, further work to the interior, new brake pads.
Can see the rust on the wheel arches getting worse, I think summer next year is going to be spent carrying out further rust repairs, lowering her, further work to the interior, new brake pads.
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