Touring Holiday

My new mechanic did a fantastic job putting the oil cooler on, this enabled me to use her for the holiday in East Anglia.

In total we travelled 2,130 miles with no hassle at all. Running with the air conditioning running most days she was a pleasure to drive, performance wise for a 2.3 I think we did very well.

This last week has seen her complete a further 500 miles around the Highland region with two trips over to Lossiemouth and one to Inverness.

Oil Cooler Repair

Well the new garage I'm now using have performed an outstanding job in repairing my car through the weekend. Impressed by their commitment to doing the job asked and saddened by the fact my previous garage had given me so much bull shit.

Not only had they bodged the repair and informing me everything would be okay, the issue with the tyre that they said was a leaky valve turned out to be a huge nail embedded in the tyre and the tyre was perished too..!

So now I can use her for our holiday, must give her a wash and brush up prior to leaving though.

Oil Cooler Part Arrival

Well http://www.fordpartsuk.com/ have surpassed themselves with this delivery. Originally quoted three to four weeks, they arrived within three so well done lads.

Just need to get them fitted and hopefully the new garage will be fitting me in this coming week, so fingers crossed.

Colour Restorer Polish

Well I took some time out to apply another coat of colour restorer to her this morning, coming up nicely, just the doors to do which I hope I'll be able to finish this week.

Leather Care

After cleaning the leather after the last mechanic got in it, today I've started treating the leather with Auto Glym leather balm.

What a difference, will need to go over the leather twice I feel, but the product is superb and works quickly, let's see what the recommended 48 hours brings as stated on the bottle.

Air Conditioning

Had a chap come round to check the air conditioning, did his stuff and it's all okay, so that's cheered me up.

Call out and re-charge £60.00

Oil Cooler

Well the oil leak is the main transmission oil cooler and pipe work, the garage bypassed the cooler and said it would be fine to run. Further investigation via a friend turns this on it's head and I need the cooler as I thought, so have obtained quotes.

Main Ford agent have quoted £401 complete, the down side is the lead time for the cooler is 21 - 30 days which is no good for my scheduled holiday, so hoping for two other quotes to come back quicker for the oil cooler.