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I figure I'd best start a new thread to keep track of everything I do to the 156 over the next few weeks, moths and hopefully years!
What I know of it so far is it is a peach!
It is registered on a 51 plate but is Jan 02 and is the 02 upgrade/facelift so I can only assume that as that was not available until April 02 this must have been a demonstrator! It is well specified with Nero on Nero on Nero & CF centre of dash/clocks/ashtray etc. Wheels are immaculate, paint has suffered for being stood, in particular a whitening on the rear corner of the roof from a persistent puddle; I'll have a go at that sometime...
It has been repaired by Duncan in Bristol following a big cambelt failure seemingly at elevated revs! This at 50,000 miles. Duncan's repair is spot on and it pulls like a train. I find the suspension and deep profile tyres are wallowy but I'm comparing that to the Maserati 4200 that has 35 profiles an a sports button to tighten everything up!
I need it for my work and today I loaded it well and it coped ok. I dropped the seats down and was pleasantly surprised to find a ski hatch and split folding seats! I'd been lead to believe it was a single bench back there.
This evening I have dismantled and fixed both the dog net and load cover roller recoils so they are now 100%, took a bit of head scratching and two 3mm drills donated to the cause (cut down to make dowels) as the silly plastic lugs were missing as I'm sure you all know happens. Pippin the dog will be happy now!
More as it happens
What I know of it so far is it is a peach!
It is registered on a 51 plate but is Jan 02 and is the 02 upgrade/facelift so I can only assume that as that was not available until April 02 this must have been a demonstrator! It is well specified with Nero on Nero on Nero & CF centre of dash/clocks/ashtray etc. Wheels are immaculate, paint has suffered for being stood, in particular a whitening on the rear corner of the roof from a persistent puddle; I'll have a go at that sometime...
It has been repaired by Duncan in Bristol following a big cambelt failure seemingly at elevated revs! This at 50,000 miles. Duncan's repair is spot on and it pulls like a train. I find the suspension and deep profile tyres are wallowy but I'm comparing that to the Maserati 4200 that has 35 profiles an a sports button to tighten everything up!
I need it for my work and today I loaded it well and it coped ok. I dropped the seats down and was pleasantly surprised to find a ski hatch and split folding seats! I'd been lead to believe it was a single bench back there.
This evening I have dismantled and fixed both the dog net and load cover roller recoils so they are now 100%, took a bit of head scratching and two 3mm drills donated to the cause (cut down to make dowels) as the silly plastic lugs were missing as I'm sure you all know happens. Pippin the dog will be happy now!
More as it happens