Cheeky cut and paste off another forum.....
Here she is, the second car in my fleet to have cost me £0 to buy.
Thats not to say its not needed a thing or two, but nothing out of the ordinary.
This is when I picked it up:
Guy who was looking after it says that it pulls to the left. Got it home to find that it had developed a taste for the inside edges of the tyres.
Down to my local tyre place, and 4 new tyres later at a cost of £253 for the lot, and 4 wheel tracking £80.50 and its straight and true.
Looking at the print out they gave me, Im surprised it moved in the first place.
Needed to change some bulbs, de-tobacco the interior and clean the interior cabin filters which turned 3 buckets of clean water "Guinness Black" The headlights were so yellow, you couldnt see through them. A couple of passes with Meguires Scratch-X and then some Peek metal polish has made them almost new. Going to strip them completely and then use some Lamin-X to give them their UV protection back.
Then Monday came. MOT time. I took it to a place in Sheffield called Dot Mot, and thats all they do. Nice silver Viva parked outside, so definitely a win in my book.
Twiddling my thumbs for 30 minutes, results in a green slip. No advisories.
So, off to my mates house who fancies himself as a bit of a detailer.
Two washes later, two claybars, a run down with Autoglymm Super Resin Polish (Still bringing crapola off the paintwork) and a covering in Meguires NXT. we gets to this standard :
Which, to those who frequent detailing world, will know this sort of shot.
Hopefully, the DVLA will get their fingers out and send me a tax disc renewal form, as it runs out at the end of this month. Got the new V5 last week so hopefully....
