my St is at 190ish k

 

crikey

 

This weather better sort itself out I need to get the mondeo finished off half of it looks great lol

 

heatwave is coming justin, just in time for my first caravan holiday tomorrow wahay.


got the car back, drives nice except a little judder on pick up but were putting that down to the new clutch for now, if it doesnt go it will be going back. pulls lovely though, turbo doesnt come in as easy which i really like, put ya loud foot on though and it picks up great, seems more progressive now rather than OH SH1TTTTTTTTTT sort of acceleration

 

god im bloody shattered, waiting for everyone to wake up so i can then go to bed

 

got to coventry yesterday to pick the caravan up in just over 90 minutes, only took me 2 an a half hours to get back, good run, the wifes car tows lovely, the air suspension really helps as well, the caravan was a bit twitchy at first but after a few miles it seemed to settle down and was great then, just kept a steady 65 ish as i found this best as you could actually overtake the trucks instead of being a usual numpty and sticking behind them

 

Well decided to upgrade my old core 2 duo pc into a new i7 3770k

spec as follows

keeping my current collermaster elite 330 case with 500w coolermaster extreme PSU

chip
mother board http://www.scan.co.uk/products/msi-z...dvi-d-hdmi-atx

SSD 240gb harddrive http://www.ebuyer.com/268694-corsair...ssd-f240gb3-bk

memory 8gb ddr3 corsair http://www.scan.co.uk/products/8gb-(...9-9-24-xmp-15v

blu ray writer http://www.scan.co.uk/products/pione...p-to-128gb-oem

dvd writer http://www.scan.co.uk/products/pione...ail-labelflash

 

why are you getting a blu ray writer and DVD writer? surely the blu ray does both?

 

It does but i dont want to knacker my blu ray writer up plus disk to disk is faster for dvd-r


have you seen the price of 100gb media - sodding £35

 

dodgy git

had a brake caliper fail on me the other day on my st! started making a grinding noise but funnily no uneven braking. Checked it last night and the caliper has collasped and is rubbing on the disc!

Ordered a replacement caliper will be with me monday. Rad fan doesnt work either looks like the resistor pack has gone as if I bypass the fan works. Problem is you cant get the pack on its own you need a new cowling and fan (can get 2nd hand) Think I am just going to bypass the resistor pack but no forums seem to know why its there!
biggest pile of sh!te ever

 

id botch it up and get rid mate, sounds like a pile of poo if you ask me

 

ive just bought the wife a new car, got her another lexus rx, shes getting the hybrid model this time though, very very strange to drive as if you dont boot it its electric up till 30 odd mph. lovely car though

 

yep it is a pile of poo, ford crap.

On a positive note is your scoob doing ok?

 

scoob is spot on, power delivery is super smooth now, little judder though at 1500rpm only in 3rd which is strange, may be map related but will take it back whem i get chance. made up with it though so far

 

good, better though when you get the judder sorted.

Tried to change my brake caliper today, found out that my wheel bearing had gone in a bad way which caused the caliped to hit / grind on the brake disc! Funnily, no vibrations whilst driving . Looks like the hub is probably knackered as well so time for a replacement! This car will be the death of me

 

lol more problems jay

went to blackpool yesterday did 54mpg so impressed doubt I could get any more

managed to get the other rear quarter polished cant beleve the amount of people looking at the car in blackpool its like a mirror its only a sodding mondeo her mum wants me to do her new corsa

just need to do the roof/ front and back bumpers and side skirts and the boot and its done.

 

you not cleaned it yet!

I am currently on about 54mpg since I had an injector replaced recently under warranty

 

Its taking forever - I just have no time

thats good mine sounds about right then

 

i expect economy to improve again when i change the bearing / knuckle

 

jay your economy should be excellent, the fooking thing is never on the road haha

 

 

quite the opposite if its never on the road it wouldn't have any economy

 

sneak peek

50/50 shot



scratch up close

scratch and swirls

scratch and swirls gone

like glass



this was only corrected still needs a fine polish to remove any micro maring

the rear bumper will take some doing its shocking

 

do you know what justin i aint 100% happy with mine, would you do it for a fee or would you give me a list of things to buy so i can do it myself? not arsed if it takes you a while, i could leave it with you when i go away in october if you like

 

thought you bought a load of gear Ste?

 

no never bought anything as i couldnt work out what was best to get, ive noticed a few swirls on my car though and to be honest i aint happy, i know if i contact him he'll just fob me of now, ive been really careful cleaning it since as well

 

there is a heck of a lot of choice for cleaning.

Although you see swirls now, you was happy as Larry when you had it done so must have been real bad then, so at least there is a good base to work from

 

got my replacement hub today put it on in double quick time, thought this is going well then tried to tighten the track road end and was struggling to get the nut on, closer inspection it had been cross threaded previously! ordered a new one so will finish the job tomorrow.

 

took the rad fan and cowling off whilst I was working also removed the anpr that was in there.

 

it was bad Jay, what i think it is though is when its really sunny, yes rare lately, ive started noticing them, only a few but its enough to pee me off, suppose its one of those things as well with it being black, the wifes new car is also black but its gleaming. hope to pick that up next week