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6 Sep 2021 6 minute read 0 comments Lawnmower
Having driven the Daewoo to the hospital recently, the front drivers side brake is binding a bit. The wheel is VERY warm to the touch after a 70mph run down the motorway (like too hot to touch for more than a second or two) but oddly it'll pull along...
31 Aug 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Lawnmower
Fresh from the MOT I decided that I had cash to burn and wanted to make some final cosmetic improvements. As with so many Mercedes' some joker has snapped the star off the bonnet, leaving the circular chrome plinth with a grotty hole in the middle. I...
23 Aug 2021 4 minute read 0 comments Lawnmower
The sun shone today and I set to with myriad jobs including the Daewoo brakes. The MOT man suggested that there was a slight binding in the front brakes, more than likely due to the brake sliders needing a re-greasing. I bought a tin of silicone grea...
18 Aug 2021 2 minute read 0 comments Lenny the blogger
Hello everyone, in this blog I'm going to talk about some kind of technology which is available in some cars but sadly not in all of them, and it's really essential for a variety of reasons which I will cover in this post so without further ado let'...
16 Aug 2021 6 minute read 1 comment Lawnmower
New update on £19 car. Having given it a service, my eye was drawn to a couple of the cosmetic challenges that the car was suffering with. Being a 2001 Mercedes, unsurprisingly its afflicted by the replacement of oil-based paint in the production pro...
9 Aug 2021 4 minute read 2 comments Lawnmower
Today is the start of a new chapter in my vehicle ownership - a raffle Win Mercedes. I won this fully working vehicle in a raffle on a car forum, the back story is the previous owner bought it on ebay for £500 to drive to his 2nd home in the sount of...
2 Aug 2021 4 minute read 1 comment Lawnmower
To close the Saab chapter, it ended on a sour note. My brother and I took it to Germany, to a music festival near Hannover. It made it to within a mile of the campsite before blowing out a spark plug, snapping the coil pack that sits atop it in half,...
26 Jul 2021 3 minute read 3 comments Chris Seymour
Billions of dollars are spent collectively each year by car dealerships across the United States on inventory photography. And in an increasingly digital world, car dealership general managers will likely all agree that photographs are of utmost impo...
26 Jul 2021 4 minute read 0 comments Lawnmower
Having got up at 6.30 this morning to take my youngest to swimming classes then dispatched the shopping and home by 11am, the sun came out and I thought it'd be a good time to tackle the ATF change. A 5 litre bottle of JWS3309 compliant ATF arrived w...
19 Jul 2021 3 minute read 0 comments Lawnmower
One outstanding item from the last test was and advisory notice that the the nearside track rod end balljoint dust cover was damaged but not (yet) allowing ingress of dirt. The MOT chap reckoned it was easier to replace the entire TRE but this would...
