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[Nik da Greek]

Hurrah! Progress is made! We now have an MOT. I thought long and hard about driving a car without an MOT on it, and then thought "well, it\'s never going to get fixed sat on my driveway, and it\'ll never pass an MOT unless it gets fixed, so **** it" and drove it up to Super 7 for a bit of tough love. Maybe I should have hired a trailer or something, but maybe the Government can **** off with their bloody totalitarian laws. What\'s a guy to do?
 
So, one Apexi Power Fc later and a bit of tweaking with the fueling, and the emissions are magically reduced a hundred-fold. It helped that the airpump burst into life as soon as the new ECU went in, which at least confirmed Jasons\' diagnosis that the driver for it was fubar in the original ECU.
 
I\'d already changed back to the original pop-ups, so the lights were no longer a problem. The suspension: well, the testers opinion was basically that if you have fully adjustable suspension, then there has to be a bit of movement in the spring in order to be able to adjust it. He didn\'t seem to think the springs were about to leap out of their mounts at the first dip in the road like the arse who failed it originally, so gave her a pass! Hurrah!
 
Only problem is, despite changing all the likely solenoids, the second turbo still doesn\'t seem to want to work, which is really annoying. And a little baffling! I\'m sure Jason\'ll get it sorted, he tends to be pretty good with diagnosing erratic faults like that, or at least he always has done in the past. Fingers crossed, then.
 
I also managed to get a second set of wheels with useable tyres to keep my brake discs off the floor while I get the Volks re-re-furbished! (Thanks to Atomic Rex, cheers, guys) Took them up to the company who did them the first time for a second go, but at least they\'ve agreed to do them out of goodwill (so they should, mind!). After much discussion, it was decided that the problem was the edge of the rim part is too sharp a line for the laqcuer to adhere to, especiallly when the laqcuer is as thick as it is. Thus, the problem will just re-occur if they\'re re-finished as they are.
 
So, I\'m going to have the rim done in the anthracite colour, too, so they\'re all the one colour. Should look mean and moody, I think dark wheels really suit red cars, anyway, so I\'m not too despondant about losing the shiny rims. I think I\'ll add a red pinstripe round the very edge, just to key them into the car. The other plus point is that I now have a spare set of wheels, so that I can use them in the depths of winter, cos they\'re pretty scabby anyway, and keep the Volks for the nice weather, so the problem should never happen again.
 
Really, REALLY want the car back now. Didn\'t think I\'d miss her, especially considering how p!ssed off I was when I started this thread, but I really have, weird. Doesn\'t help that it\'s like a monsoon outside, and I\'ve got to ride the bike to work in it and then work a ten hour shift with wet feet! I want transport with a roof and a heater!
 
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I noticed that since the server move, none of my photos seem to come out, oddly. I\'ve tried adding one of the state of the wheels now so people know what I\'m wittering on about without going right back to the start of the thread, but that doesn\'t seem to have worked either. Mods! Help?