pedrobedro
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ESP or ESC, electronic stability program or control. It can be switched off.
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Exuptoy
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Got my drivers sill done last week. Purchased a couple of sills and decided to chop one up and do a proper repair back to solid metal.
First time I’ve tried this way of removing spot welds, vertically grind with a finger file and peel off before dressing it back and spraying with weld through etch primer.
I’ve since painted both ends of the sill so it looks presentable but not perfect. The weather wasn’t with me so it was being painted in the rain with a slight covering of plastic.
Car finally got its mot on Saturday and my Cooper sold on Weds so this one is now all legal. £20/yr tax too!
First time I’ve tried this way of removing spot welds, vertically grind with a finger file and peel off before dressing it back and spraying with weld through etch primer.
I’ve since painted both ends of the sill so it looks presentable but not perfect. The weather wasn’t with me so it was being painted in the rain with a slight covering of plastic.
Car finally got its mot on Saturday and my Cooper sold on Weds so this one is now all legal. £20/yr tax too!
Exuptoy
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This crossed my mind last week, a guy I know who is a little bit ‘up himself’ stopped me when I was finishing up cleaning the Boxster and commented on it “oh, another project?”
I said “yeah, got it for a good price with a few minor things to sort” and he commented (quite derogatorily I thought) “worth about £1200?”, so he’s already in my sh*tlist, and then starts
telling me that he’d spoken to a mate of mine how we were gonna do a camper conversion for him once he sorted out a cheap VW T5! “around£9-£10k”
So I said, “you can f**k right off, got enough projects of my own to sort” and he said “yeah, but they don’t pay” to which I reminded him, “they don’t need to pay, that’s why I spend two weeks per month offshore so don’t need money and enjoy spending my own time on my own toys!” I also informed him my last T5 camper owed me £21k by the time it was done bc I’d paid someone else to do my conversion!
By this point he realised he’d got my back up and would be doing him NO favours so he is now trying to smooth things over and telling me he’d come to see me once he’d found a suitable van. Told him not to bother!
You know, I’ll do anything for anyone that needs help if I can easy their troubles even if it costs me my own time, but some people just can’t help themselves!
