Funny story.........NOT

So, been having some issues with my sportline, so far in the past few weeks I have had to thoroughly flush the coolant system after finding brown gunk in the expansion tank....did that about 20 times, solved that problem.............Then I hadnt realised but when I had fitted a battery conditioner to my battery and later removed it,the positive cable had actually completely snapped off......so broke down...twice.......THEN took the car out for another drive few days afte fitting all new terminals to the battery, broke down down 3 times.....turned out the alternator was buggered, so bought a new one, fitted it myself, car runs beautifully, however noticed a rattle coming from my exhaust...turned out my heat guard had come unclipped in the worst possible place and was vibrating against the exhaust...either that or the garage that fitted my new tank never secured it properly in the first place, more likely.....so spent all of Sunday unbolting the tank and trying to manipulate it just enough to slot the clip back in the correct place.......6 hours later, job done no more rattle. FINALLY managed to make a trip to the paintshop in Buckingham who re-sprayed my car ( been trying to arrange it since last year but EVERY time I booked her in she broke down!!!!)to sort out some niggles I am having, all great and booked in....drove home........changed gear at the traffic lights.......clutch pedal never came back up again, had to crawl about 20 miles with pretty much no clutch..........SHOOT ME PLEASE, SOMEONE.............so now the car is off road again while I get quotes to fix her :-( I hope you enjoyed my tale of woe, whomever may read this...,,,,,,

Just look forward to many weeks/months/years of happy driving you'll have when you get the cluch sorted though! And it's peace of mind that something else has been renewed

Ha Ha.....yep will get that fixed and then have another 10 miles of happy motoring until the engine or something blows up.......still, these things are sent to try us.........

Money pit being collected by recovery lorry tomorrow and taken to the garage... :-(

It can be good fun to drive without a clutch.the joys of the mk1 been there done that whilst a long way from home.

Get the body shop to put anti stone chip foils on for you too, whilst your there.

Stick some pics mate

I was going to chortle, thats why it was perfect timing when you sort of reminded me today :-)

The joys of mk1 motoring…  :wink: but as said it will be all the better for it… new parts etc

I want pics of that sportline on a tow truck tomo…  :mrgreen:  :mrgreen:

Hey chortle I spoke to a couple of people at the staffs meet and they said your the man I need for the kit to re do my badges on my car ???  :-)

they joys of bloomin mk1 ownership hey, sometimes i wonder why we do it. Then you drop the roof, go for a drive and it all makes sense :-)

best of luck with sortin clutch mate

Rich

Cheers Rich......its times like this I was I was.....rich, that is :-)