We’re now only five days away from Boomerang 2010!! First i need to apologise for not having made a single post since we left the tunnel almost a year ago… Many things have changed, we’ve suffered MOT failure which resulted in the espace being SORN for a few months (she was back on the road in time for Cornbury Festival at the beginning of July), we’ve lost a team member (Timmy) but gained another (Robbie) and gained a whole new team (they need a name!) consisting of a friend (Mossy) and his Dad who’ll be support vehicle #2 (a brand new Mini). The espace has also been involved in a ice related ‘incident’ with a wall causing slight cosmetic damage to the front and has moved home to live at Ross’s dad’s in Witney.
So with less than a week to go Ross, Tom and I performed the following routine task (all without the use of haynes manual this year!):
- Coolant/Anti-freeze change
- Oil change
- Oil filter change
- Air filter (cleaned & hoovered)
- Washer Fluid top-up
- Brake fluid top-up
- Power Steering fluid check
- Wheel Bolt check
Whilst carrying out the above we noticed that the turbo pipe fault we first spotted in Germany last year had worsened to the point where it had all but broken in half, causing oil to spray over the engine and valuable air pressure in the turbo to escape. Luckily the pipe had a fair bit of slack in it so using a knife i cut off the damaged end and re-attached it. The results in the test drive were impressive, quieter turbo (no-longer sounds like a distance police siren), less turbo lag and a faster accelerating espace :)
So with the prep work done we filled up with diesel (at a cost of £86.33, thanks Mr Tax Man!), reset the odometer and parked her up ready for Boomerang 2010 to begin…
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