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evilrob said:
[post]348712[/post] Just under 102,000. Doesn't make any financial sense to get the bodywork back to showroom condition, but after all these years she still makes me smile every time I go for a drive!

...there's something very heart-warming about that statement, especially in this day and age, good on ya! :grin:
 
evilrob said:
[post]348712[/post] Just under 102,000. Doesn't make any financial sense to get the bodywork back to showroom condition, but after all these years she still makes me smile every time I go for a drive!
If you go for financial sense only, all of us would be driving some small diesels. I'd restore her (in fact I did :grin: ) to showroom condition. I am certain it will pay off in the long run
 
For a few months Pippa's fuel pump had been blowing fuses and in the last couple of days it was blowing a fuse every time I got in it so I booked it in to get the fuel pump replaced.

As many of you know, I take my car to Tremona Garage in Southampton (probably the best independent Ford specialist in the South) and I live in Reading so I had a good hour of driving to get it down to have the work done.

Car went through three 10A fuses trying to start her up in the morning, so I put a slightly higher amp fuse in and she roared into life. Drove perfectly all the way there, pulled up outside the garage, left her idling in case it didn't start up again - was sat there maybe two minutes before the car spluttered and died. Figured it had blown another fuse - checked fuse, but fuse was fine.

Long story short: fuel pump held on just long enough to get me to the garage to be replaced before crapping out completely.

A Puma Christmas miracle!

Hopefully I'll get to see the family this year, unlike last year when the thermostat housing cracked shortly after setting off on Christmas Day!

Here she is being tended to by Richard and Malcolm at Tremona:

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evilrob said:
[post]359148[/post] , unlike last year when the thermostat housing cracked shortly after setting off on Christmas Day!
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shit , no way... :eek:
 
ElDude at Allison Automotive said:
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evilrob said:
[post]359148[/post] , unlike last year when the thermostat housing cracked shortly after setting off on Christmas Day!

shit , no way... :eek:
Yes way!

This was my Christmas dinner 2015 :lol:

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Chris - in other news, my Genesis amp blew up about an hour into a five hour drive to the Lake District earlier in the year... so that was good. :roll:

Pulled off the motorway, found a Currys and got a Bose SoundLink bluetooth speaker to tide me over for the remaining four hours of the drive - it's so good I haven't bothered getting a new amp. :thumbs:
 
At least another year of happy motoring ahead - Pippa's passed her MOT with no advisories for yet another year! :thumbs:

I also got my sound system back up and running again, which is great - hadn't realised how much I'd missed it!
 
evilrob said:
[post]361680[/post] At least another year of happy motoring ahead - Pippa's passed her MOT with no advisories for yet another year! :thumbs:

I also got my sound system back up and running again, which is great - hadn't realised how much I'd missed it!

Ah, Genesis :wub:
Which one is it?
 

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