Next to do is get an alignment check and find another front bumper.

each thing you do tends to show short falls some were else , im going to uprate the springs dampers , have noticed a lot lately how my doblo is not as proned to problems as the multi and its nearly 2009 model with on 70000 miles {multi]. Remap after hols that should show up a few knocks here and there .

It's been running really well recently. As long as pot holes are avoided team ride is good.
The wife uses it for her business and there can be two other people driving it through the week, it only does local runs (apart from I use it to pick car bits up from here there and everywhere)
She informs me she doesn't want me to "play with it" any further.
So no modifications other than the wheels in afraid.

I've got two other projects on going with my coupes, one standard broom yellow 20 valve turbo and my rear wheel drive v8 powered rosso coupe.
So I'll still be busy

Been a long time since this thread got an update. It went for its MOT today, sailed through no bother.
However, the week leading up to the MOT was a different story.

Due to poor drivers I had to fit the standard steel wheels as they kept destroying tyres and damaging the stilo 17 inch blades.
I'd had enough of that.
Even with 195 60 15s they managed to bend a lower arm from curbing.

So, for its MOT this year (bearing In mind the last MOT it needed nothing and all was rosy,

Both front lower arms
Both steering track rods / rod ends
New front shock absorbers
Top mounts
Both roll bar drop links
Both roll bar main bushes
Both rear hand brake cables
Both rear springs
Both rear shock absorbers
Rear shoes / wheel / cylinders / drums

Not all of this was for MOT but just needed doing.
Next was a small water leak from the just over two year old thermostat. So that was replaced and while I'd had the battery out it made sense to change the gearbox oil too.

Then the fun started. I'd changed the alternator some months ago and noticed an odd clicking sound recently on cold start up that turned out to be the belt tensioner jumping.

New tensioner and belt was ordered and when I took the old belt off I found a sliver missing, it was this that was causing the tensioner to jump.
As I pulled the front crank pulley off, it decided to come apart. Not like they do when they break up but literally the front and the back separated.
Okay a new crank pulley ordered and fitted next day. Lovely I thought.

Then after idling for ten mins or so the new belt begins to shred itself.
How odd I thought.
I re fitted the old belt temporarily to see what had gone wrong. It fitted fine, turned over by hand several times fine.
Started it up and low and behold I found it was running on the edge of the alternator pulley and within minutes it was shredding itself.

Now what's odd is that I fitted the new alternator (not charging) about three months before and it had been fine.

And now one day before I MOT it and go on holiday it decides to shred belts.
All the miles (and hard driving I'd given it) in the weeks before had not seen so much as a squeak and now it cant keep a belt on for ten minutes!!!

The short story is I ended up taking the alternator off and "shimmed" it two mil over so that the belt would sit on the pulley correctly.

But now at least its MOTd and drives like a new (ish) car again.

The next mission will be replacing the subframe bushes.....

Weird one that..

Bearing going in the line?

Definitely not the replacement pulley??

Charlie