Ah, finally got the car Taxed again 1 August, probably for a couple of months, so thought would update this thread, although nothing much ado at the moment.
Went through MOT in March without any problem despite being stood for six months, and although not been out in it yet this year, it appears all is well.
Fetched a few parts, rear hatch lifter, the original ones are getting weak and have walked into the hatch a couple of time already!
Nearly fifty quid each at Ren, so only got one for now, will order the other when got some more dosh to spend, yes, I know there are some cheaper aftermarket ones, but hey ho.
AND a new front bonnet seal, fitting that was more like the difficulty level of job I like to tackle.
Whilst I was under the bonnet, give it a wipe over....
As you can see, I still haven't had the inlet or injector covers painted, it does spoil the under bonnet appearance, must get that done.
Another expense was a new set of injectors, the car was running fine but as there was an opportunity to get some genuine Marelli IWP042 at a decent price, decided it was better sooner than later when the prices go up, and sure enough the price did go up quite a bit shortly after I bought them.
I fitted these myself using my own 'guide' on here, lol. Everything went well except I couldn't release the fuel feed connector for some reason, but actually managed to fit all injectors without detaching it anyway.
Last job, which I had been dreading, was to check out the nearside wheel arch for rust, I knew there was a problem in there, but wanted to see the extent of the damage.
This meant taking out the rear seats, and rear cards, to see into the inner arch where it joins the outer.
Looks like at some point in the past water had got laid up in there, no gaping holes but some serious rust.
I scrapped away as much loose stuff as possible, and pulled out the seam sealer and treated all over with Hammerite Rust Remover gel, about three doses over a couple of days, it is supposed to clean back to bare metal - I've used this in the past but never seen it do that!
To make sure it go right down into the seam, afterwards I gave the area a very liberal dose of Jenolite acid, this definitely does what it does, and being thin liquid soaks into the seams
After the first look into the inner arch, I could see this was only going to be a temporary measure, it looks like the outer arch is going to need replacing when this gets a bit worse so decided not to attempt to paint this area, but just to smother in Waxoyl for now.
That's after finally soaking in Jenolite, before the waxoyling.
Now the Offside, fortunately it didn't require any attention.
This was definitely less ugly, and still looks in good order, I gave the whole area a thick coat of Wayoyl whilst at it.
The downside of the Waxoyl is that it stinks, and stinks, It'll go away eventually when the solvent evaporates (I hope)
Rusting on nearside rear arch is something that most cars seem (seam!) to suffer, so anybody with a car over 15 years old is likely to have an attack of the tin worm, so if you are keeping yours long term then suggest you get to it before it's too late, so far I haven't been able to source a new replacement panel or repair panel, and even so, this will be an expensive repair.
While the seats were out, cleaned the entire boot floor area of all the old crud.
There you go, that's all folks, and now to get some miles in.