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- Guildford
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- E250 Avantgarde Estate, Alfa GTV V6, Vespa, Ducati, many bicycles...
I feel lockdown hobby No4 is emerging! I have started buying bits for my Alfa without really making a conscious decision to!
It's booked in for cambelt and MOT and i noticed it needed two new tyres even though they are almost unworn. Bit of a heads up - from the side they looked almost new but when i had the wheels off to do a brake fluid change i noticed there were quite deep cracks around the circumference, in the tyre groove - i guess just from age and sitting for most of it's life these days. They were Eagle F1 Assymetric 2 so shows how old they were as we're now up to Assymetric 5 which is what went on. I'll get the other two done shortly, though they were fine with no cracks.
Other purchases have included oil and filter, plugs, brake fluid, exhaust mount, foam headlight/bonnet seal things - and in apprehension of taking the sill covers off a bunch of Dinitrol products. I'm hoping a welder wouldn't have been a better option! GTV's seem to fall into 2 camps these days - rusty or not rusty! The rest of mine is in good shape so i'm hoping....
It's booked in for cambelt and MOT and i noticed it needed two new tyres even though they are almost unworn. Bit of a heads up - from the side they looked almost new but when i had the wheels off to do a brake fluid change i noticed there were quite deep cracks around the circumference, in the tyre groove - i guess just from age and sitting for most of it's life these days. They were Eagle F1 Assymetric 2 so shows how old they were as we're now up to Assymetric 5 which is what went on. I'll get the other two done shortly, though they were fine with no cracks.
Other purchases have included oil and filter, plugs, brake fluid, exhaust mount, foam headlight/bonnet seal things - and in apprehension of taking the sill covers off a bunch of Dinitrol products. I'm hoping a welder wouldn't have been a better option! GTV's seem to fall into 2 camps these days - rusty or not rusty! The rest of mine is in good shape so i'm hoping....