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fecking ebay read your private messages and if you give some one your contact info twice they suspend your account. how the hell can you give people details to come and view something if you cant give out contact details?
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I sold this...

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...my GSXR250R in 2002 and regretted it ever since.

I found my old bike six years ago and after almost constant pestering the chap has finally agreed to sell her back to me.

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But this...

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...is how she looks now. :cry: :bang: :devil: :cry: :bang: (n)

Still she makes my Fantasia restoration look like a walk in the park. ;)
 
Due to do a service and sort the back brake squeal on brother's Focus Mk1 today. Best to have the full day, in case of difficulties. So the lazy **** turned up at 12:07.
Looked at the brakes first. RH wheel cylinder weeping, bolts rounded off, so need to remove whole backplate. Those bolts tight as they've been in there 16 years and cheap flanged heads mean even a decent 6-point socket is trying to round them off. Ran out of time, will now need another day to drill them out.
LH wheel cylinder seized, replaced OK.
Car bought about a year ago, after previous owner got fed up with constant rear brake squeal. Her garage had 'looked' at it at least 4 times. So they apparently rounded off the RH wheel cylinder bolts, so left it, and failed to spot that a seized cylinder on the left would cause a squeal due to only one shoe against the drum. Your life in their incompetent hands.

Dread to think how I'll get on when I can no longer do it all myself.
 
Due to do a service and sort the back brake squeal on brother's Focus Mk1 today. Best to have the full day, in case of difficulties. So the lazy **** turned up at 12:07.
Looked at the brakes first. RH wheel cylinder weeping, bolts rounded off, so need to remove whole backplate. Those bolts tight as they've been in there 16 years and cheap flanged heads mean even a decent 6-point socket is trying to round them off. Ran out of time, will now need another day to drill them out.
LH wheel cylinder seized, replaced OK.
Car bought about a year ago, after previous owner got fed up with constant rear brake squeal. Her garage had 'looked' at it at least 4 times. So they apparently rounded off the RH wheel cylinder bolts, so left it, and failed to spot that a seized cylinder on the left would cause a squeal due to only one shoe against the drum. Your life in their incompetent hands.

Dread to think how I'll get on when I can no longer do it all myself.
Lack of maintaince and people think ots okay...
what happens if her hydraulic system failed and she needed a mechanical brake....

Its kinda scary....

Ziggy
 
Lack of maintaince and people think ots okay...
what happens if her hydraulic system failed and she needed a mechanical brake....

Its kinda scary....

Ziggy
Not just scary or borders on criminal negligence! Imagine the scenario in a street - someone runs out in front of your car - emergency stop - but that bit doesn't happen thanks to brake failure... So it's not just the life of the driver and passengers that they're putting at risk.
 
I don't know however it's like every hipster stereotype was made flesh...you know he owns a fixie, has 15 types of beard wax and she drinks cocktails out of jars..
 
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