What Have You Done to Your Cougar Today?
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Touch wood had the annoying immobiliser issue fixed, and will shortly be up for sale on everyone's favourite auction site. Just not practical enough for me atm.
At least its a healthy cat again now. What did the immobiliser problem turn out to be ? Good luck...
Car in for mot today, Passed with no advisories!!
We'd expect nothing less, its in showroom condition
Car in for mot today, Passed with no advisories!!
Nice Mick, never in any doubt was it?
Well I've not one anything on the cougar per se, but I have made the most of a day of and popped along to the North East Restoration Club and applied for membership. Once approved it should open up a wealth of help, knowledge and access to kit which can only be a good thing for keeping things going.
Well I've not one anything on the cougar per se, but I have made the most of a day of and popped along to the North East Restoration Club and applied for membership. Once approved it should open up a wealth of help, knowledge and access to kit which can only be a good thing for keeping things going.
Sounds great mate, I'll look it up.
How does it work - I assume its some kind of co-operative?
Yup, pretty much that. They've been around since the 70s, and it's basically a load of blokes with beards escaping their wives during their retirement (and I'm only half joking). It's a fascinating place. It has about 20 bays availble in two parts, offering long term and short term rentals, work shops with lathes, pillar drills, an English wheel, various presses and nibblers etc. A spray booth of sorts is there and a grit blasting area too. They even have a full size trailer you can hire, assuming you have a suitable tow vehicle.
The only slight hitch is the 20 yr rule for cars to utilise the bays, so I have a little while yet before I could get the cat in to do anything serious, but for anything I can do 'off the chasis' it seems ideal. And for thirty quid a year?
There's some serious tin in their being restored too. I saw a TR2 (with a TR3 front end), a Singer coupe (with it's wooden frame exposed and new aluminium panels being built), a Triumph Stag, a 70s fire engine (Dennis I think), a Sierra (possibly a Sapphire), all sorts of things really. Oh, and an S plate Rav4 which appears to be a source of contention with the purists, but it made it in under the 20 yr rule.
I'll take some snaps once I'm known, otherwise it might look like I'm casing the joint.
I had to respray the passenger side sideskirt. I managed to scrape a high pavement as i was turning into an old car park that was built for Pony and trap
Oh no, bloody kerbs. What a pain in the bum, hope you manage to sort it. Was it just paint or has it damaged the actual skirt?I had to respray the passenger side sideskirt. I managed to scrape a high pavement as i was turning into an old car park that was built for Pony and trap
Sorted Tim. Yes just cosmetic ie: paint scrape and mostly at the very bottom edge but the skirt bent inwards and cracked the paint horizontally leaving about ten paralell lines along the mid section towards the top edge. Luckily these roush kits are made of good stuff so no actual damage. Dread to think what it would have done to a Fibreglass kit .
A quick rub down, mask the car off just to spray that skirt. Good as new again
.A quick rub down, mask the car off just to spray that skirt
. Good as new again
Thanks Andy. Yes at my dads street theyre ripping up the roads and pavements to remove 40 year old communial heating and replace with gas combi central heating so parking on road is really at a premium. When that estate was built about mid 70's iirc they used the old open plan parking system which is great in some parts as there is no actual "entrance" but this one i had to use has 6" kerbs around it and the entrance is about 6" wider than my car. Of course i tried to take a wide angle into it but it was just too close and you know, by the time you hear the horrible groaning crunching sound it's already too late to do anything about it.
Replaced drivers side window relay, for the second time. This time, it worked! ����
Thanks to dandamano for sourcing and shipping the part. ��������
Thanks to dandamano for sourcing and shipping the part. ��������
I finally fitted my Rear Wiper Delay Unit, full info here :-
https://forums.ukcougar.club/thread...ild-For-My-Cat?p=568495&viewfull=1#post568495