New tyres are fitted. Brad took us for a test drive(round our private track :-)) and she seemed to handle less like an ocean liner with 4 tyres of matching sizes and the luxury of tread.
He also took the opportunity to test out the bus style seating configuration he devised when moving the seats around. Pics to follow soon!
Saturday 28 February 2009
Tuesday 24 February 2009
New tyres on order
More great work from Ross (a.k.a Batman) means the eSpace is getting 4 new 195x65xR14 tyres on Saturday for the modest sum of £161 (inc an £8 referral discount) via blackcircles.com
When I looked early last year they were nearly £70 each RRP, twice that of the 185s that the eSpace is currently sporting 3 of! Now they're only £1.90 more and we get the 'recommended' size.
I'm liking the tyre credit crunch - we're soon to be one step nearer MOT glory!
Wheel off at last
Ever since we've had the eSpace we've never been able to get the nearside rear wheel** off (the only one with tread!) due to two of the four bolts refusing to budge. Despite bouncing on a scaffold bar adapted wrench all we'd managed to do was snap two sockets! We'd tried repeatedly drenching the bolts in WD40 and still no joy. Enter Batman....
The team's newest recruit tried unsuccessfully with his tools and in the end suggested 'why don't we just drive it off the jack and see if that loosens it?'. So we did... and hey presto the bolts moved and off comes the wheel!
Funny, the Haines manual didn't have that procedure listed...
Tuesday 3 February 2009
MOT for £33 with a £20 e-voucher
AutoTrader, in association with Nationwide AutoCentre are offering £20 off the VOSA £53.10 fee using a 'download & print' e-voucher. Click the thumbnail above, which was taken from here to claim your discount.
According to the terms and conditions the voucher runs out April 30th 2009.
Better get some tyres now then!!
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