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Day 15. It’s being an Alfa again. Warning lights on for both my side lights, which were fine for the last 2 days... I’m also getting a weird noise when first making boost, but only at around 1bar, at 1.6bar it’s not there.. Will check all the inlet pipe work I had off first. Worst case is a...

Local place in Hull. £180 for loose wheels no tyres £200 for loose wheels with tyres on £250 if you take the car in with them on

They hate me round here. They don’t get on with me angle grinding at 9pm...

Guess who back. Back again!!

f**k you fitting

So tonight..... fitted the side light bulbs shouted at the aux belt that won’t go on called the air con fitting that’s seized on a c**t loud enough to be told off by a passer by. This evening wasn’t a success.

Tbh I wish I'd filmed it all. Me having a melt down with it last night would have been a great watch.

If I can't get the aircon line off the condenser tonight, I might just fire it tbh.

£600 of that is cosmetic stuff because I'm a tart..

What it still needs: Alignment - £120 Air con re gas - £40 Front and rear Badges - £50 Paint - £300 Total - £530

What I've spent so far: PAS Fluid - £10 Tyres - £200 Wheel Refurb - £200 Key Refurb - £18 Air con line - £50 Parking sensors - £16 PAS Pump - £75 Idler pulley - £9 Side lights - £8 Centre caps - £20 Spacers - £47 Total - £653

Parts are actually turning up! Used air con line (lol at the packing..) New aux belt New (genuine!!) centre caps which are still in the boxes!

I'll be honest, I really enjoy it.

Not sure what day we are on with it now. Still on axle stands and no one seems fussed about posting stuff quickly. The guy with my wheels said they’d be ready 2 days late too! The pas pump came today, so I slung that on in the dark, what a t**t to get back in to its casing, seemed just raving...

Dropped the wheels off for a refurb in standard silver along with getting the Super Sports fitted. Also won a set of new genuine centre caps on eBay for £18 so thats good!

Plan

Anyone got a good way of getting an air con line off an condenser? They are both made of Ali and are basically welded together now...

Most of the ones for the bumper weren’t even there... haha

Day 8 All is well

Pump is out. What a t**t that was!

So.... plan for next week as it won't be used: Saturday: Onto axle stands Wheels off ready for re furb Clean brake disk bells up and paint Aux belt off Aux idler off Power steering pump off Stupid huge broken aircon pump line off Cut those stupid crimp clips off everything Sunday: Get annoyed...

Did the math, every 12k miles in the Alfa means its paid for itself...

Super Sports have arrived!

Just bought some spacers for the front, since it'll be nice to do something to it, which isn't just fixing it...

I've done 62k in the range and spent £2800 on stuff, so, 4p a mile. I've done 480 miles in the Alfa and spent £375 so far... lol

Day 7, Good job I've ordered a new PAS pump, as PAS fluid is pouring out of this thing.... Being lazy last night and tightening up the banjo bolt with the ugga dugga gun has killed it lol

There’s a sweepstake at work for the day I won’t make it in 😂

Day 6, Fitted a new cabin pollen filter, the old one was dated 2013 and was minging. Took the egr valve off to clean it and the fucker was spotless.... weird. Power steering leak is back, looks to be the shaft out of the pump, which isn’t a biggie as pumps are only £80.

This is true, found one for £50 though so may as well!

Aircon update, on the leak test it just pissed out of it haha. Sadly its the largest aircon line thats leaking. Time to lube up...