Completely out of my comfort zone for the job, so for the next 8 months it could be a good experience 
Which winter tyres did you buy eventually? Did you put them all round or just on one end?rang my mate to see if he had gone to work, he reckons his road was impossible for cars to drive down so he had day off, its single track road in next village.
as i had already prepared my car for cancelled school run i drove round to see him, had no problem on winter tyres
I had 2 cars to mot this month before I can get started on the Classic Panda.
Car 1, wife's Astra - thought I would have to replace rear calipers to sort out the handbrake, but £20 to a good guy and the handbrake is returned to perfect health, and the MOT is passed!
Second car, my completely gorgeous E38 (o=pics attached), which has the potential to cost a lot sailed through with just advisories for tyre wear! Yahoooooooo!!
Panda here we come! So happy
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We were about to replace the washing machine we inherited when we bought our house, a couple of years ago: as the front buttons and dial -- which had never worked properly... -- finally stopped working altogether, today....
Working on the principle that logic can fix most(?) things, I stripped the front of the washing machine down, cleaned it up, rebuilt it (with the control board actually in the position it's supposed to be in... -- which it wasn't... -- and seated all the connectors properly...) -- the result being that we now have a fully-functioning machine for the first time since we moved in...! :woot:
I am currently utterly chuffed with myself. Half an hour's labour has saved us a few hundred quid.
. Still at the depot in Bristol at the moment but hopefully not long now
even bigger insult time now 23:50
