Eventful day. Normal stuff for modding cars I guess....
Car went into garage this am as planned. So far so good !
Unwrapped seat lowering frame and a couple of the parts looked like a teething Shark had used them to soothe it’s gums
So off to the powder-coaters they immediately went for re-doing. And to be fair Josh Wheeler who makes these frames refunded my costs for that instantly when I told him of the issue and sent pics.
Then the issue about the ‘cammed bar’ underneath that operates the seat slide / tilt mechanism then reared it’s head [I was pre-warned and pre-armed ready for this] as the 197 ‘shaped’ seat bar supposedly might have touched the lowering frame somewhere - the 200 bar which is straight - supposedly doesn’t]. And mine were originally 197 seats......
So a bit of modification was needed there. Luckily I’m in the game and no huge drama.
Went for the lowest setting [-50mm] of the -30mm, -40mm and -50mm options. Fitted the new Recaro plastic cover I’d bought to cover the now exposed bolts on the tilt mech of the offside of the seat - and the job was a good one. One quick perching of my voluptuous rear end into the ‘new pew’ was enough to tell me I like; and it’s dramatically more a case of now sitting in the car. Not on the car
New thermostat and Re-Gassing of the Air-con proved painless; and on collecting the car eventually - I then remembered the MOT.....and was infact reminded by the pass sheet on the passenger seat.
The garage said nothing - so I presume it went through with no faults or advisories as i’d have expected; having covered an embarrassing 105 miles since last MOT.
***Temp gauge looks spot on too with the new thermostat in: sitting bang-on the second mark all the way home, moving or stopped: air-con on or not.
Roll on some sunshine
