Well 149,000 miles and despite a close shave on the emissions she's got another years ticket. Really chuffed as the tester told Keely (the boss / wife) that he thought my Cat was in amazing condition for a 13 year old car and really showed how well looked after she was.
Emissions I put down to the plugs being due a good clean, engine need ing a bit of a burn and the cone air filter due a change / clean, so not too worried that it took a couple of goes.
4 Advisories and only 1 that I hadnt predicted:
OSR ARB bush shows play
NSR ARB bush shows play
OSR Tyre nearing limit
OSF Track rod end shows play (not predicted, I thought it was the drop links that had gone)
I got 2 advisories last year, slow acting handbrake and front to back brake pipe corrosion. Well i'd reconned the handbrake mechanisms in situe and gave the brake pipes a bit of a clean up (thanks Tony for pointing out where it would be). I will do the same this year and sort all the advisories - is it worth changing both track rod ends?
One thing i do every other year is wire brush, krust and hammerite (with waxoyle in) the subframes - front 1 year and rear the next, as well as giving the roll bars, trailing arms the same treatment. This seems to give a lot of benefit for very little work.
Feeling bloody chuffed with the cat i just wish the Mazda was as simple (but thats another story)
Emissions I put down to the plugs being due a good clean, engine need ing a bit of a burn and the cone air filter due a change / clean, so not too worried that it took a couple of goes.
4 Advisories and only 1 that I hadnt predicted:
OSR ARB bush shows play
NSR ARB bush shows play
OSR Tyre nearing limit
OSF Track rod end shows play (not predicted, I thought it was the drop links that had gone)
I got 2 advisories last year, slow acting handbrake and front to back brake pipe corrosion. Well i'd reconned the handbrake mechanisms in situe and gave the brake pipes a bit of a clean up (thanks Tony for pointing out where it would be). I will do the same this year and sort all the advisories - is it worth changing both track rod ends?
One thing i do every other year is wire brush, krust and hammerite (with waxoyle in) the subframes - front 1 year and rear the next, as well as giving the roll bars, trailing arms the same treatment. This seems to give a lot of benefit for very little work.
Feeling bloody chuffed with the cat i just wish the Mazda was as simple (but thats another story)
