Time to get back to blogging about cars, never been a mention of another addition to the fleet, Felicia a 1999 Skoda Felicia 1.3 LXi.
Super little car picked up relatively cheaply (for Norway).
Obviously had things to fix, thermostat, alternator, front brakes....back brakes and on my way home from work the most major trouble yet....
Gah.
Trundled home from work, parked in the garage, went inside to get a work T-shirt on on may way out to start fixing the leak from the gearbox only to see a pool of oily liquid under the rear wheel. Barke fluid?? on closer inspection, damper oil, since it had self destructed in pretty major style.
Car wasn't going to be driven any further like that so no time to waste may as well whip them off :-)
This is why i love this car, reasonably modern..ish but i can get the suspension off with 2 sockets a spanner and my hands in 15 minutes. Gotta love that.
No point doing one without the other.
An internet search gave me all the answers I needed about new parts, I could get just the struts and reuse the rest, so next step dismantle the struts and find out what was reusable. Didn't even need a spring compressor.
a naked, damaged, strut. Two of these on order from Skoda next day delivery, could have got them slightly cheaper elsewhere but 3 -6 days delivery, just no good.
Constituent parts, the parts in the middle are junk the rest reusable. Everything I need is ordered, reassembly to follow. Then I can start work on the oil leak.
