It's been a while since the breakdown and I still don't know what's wrong. That may be because I've avoided pulling parts off to see what doesn't work. In a moment of madness the other week I did decide to pull the rear cards off and have a peer into the abyss hoping to not see any rust. What I found was quite surprising!
Both rear quarters were stuffed with padding. The passenger side card inner cover was securely glued in place where the driver side was loose in places so I presume this had been there since the car was new. Anyone else found any of this stuff in their car?
As you can see there was quite a lot of it, that's from one side only!
Anyway, rust?
Yep some. It didn't look as bad after I'd hoovered the loose stuff out and I expected much worse considering my jacking points are absolutely mashed and rusty. I've got some bilt hamber treatment on the way so will clean it up and dab some of that on to hopefully save the inners and I'll see about sorting the jacking points at some point.
After a small fire at work last week caused by my machine I'm now on furlough again. So to out the time to good use I'm going to pull the car to bits and try to suss out what's broke. First thing needed was a decent jack. The little trolley jack I had wouldn't go under the car without driving onto some wood first and then didn't go very high so SGS to the rescue.
I still hate jacking the car up but at least there's less faffing about now. I managed to safely get the car jacked up and decatted before the rain started. Typically as I have the week off there's rain forecast every bloody day 🙄. Packed up my s**t and went home after taking a little decat vid😂.
More swearing and realising I need tools I don't have in between tomorrow's showers.