well I couldn’t resist any longer, I no longer needed my van for work so I was on the hunt...This turned up in Durham and I caught a train from Sheffield after many conversations with the owner asking him all sorts and him sending me a video of the cars bodywork and innards, Seats are pretty good, you can feel the foam thinning on the drivers outer bolster but I will tend to that when I get chance I think and replace a slug of foam then shape to suit
On getting to Durham I found the car to be in nice nick, aircon didn’t work (alledgedly the guy had no clue despite three weeks of the warmest weather I can recall for a bit, and the handbrake was skywards...
Luckily after driving the car back the handbrake wasn’t the caliper sticking which I’ve come across many times on pugs (used to work at a Peugeot/French car specialist!) but the inner cable had a little corrosion under the nylon covering which was wedged in the outer, pulled it out, cut the offending sheath away, liberally greased it and to my shock the handbrake arm was free as a bird! Awesome!
Air con I’ve gassed up as it only had 1.5bar in it, suspect it has a weep somewhere but it now has dye in it and I shall then find said leak and fix it if it crops up and it wasn’t through lack of use over winter (top tip... always turn your aircon on each week for twenty mins, it circulates the oil and keeps the seals lubricated, otherwise they dry up and dont seal = gas lost!)
It has cheap tyres on it currently which seems a crying shame, they will be getting swapped for something eventually, unsure what as yet, on my van (210bhp V6 Peugeot partner) I ran uniroyal rainsport 2 which were awesome and stuck v.well and more importantly the wet grip was excellent! And let’s face it in the British weather wet grip is more important than dry!
Plans are also a foot for a removable stereo system with a neo sub (way lighter than a conventional magnet!), probably a FI job from blade ice which will have a kw or so up it’s voice coils! It has an alpine cheapy stereo fitted but that will be going, the standard aerial seems a bit crap so probably gonna add a jvc dab aerial and have a dab setup with a pioneer dab headunit for good measure, front speakers will be upgraded to something nice with minimal sound deadening, I can cope with minimal weight for the sake of nice sound
Suspension can stay as it is, track days will be done at donnington or wherever there is one
