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Basic 7 Maintenance Day


MJ

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On behalf of all the mechanically challenged 7 owners out there, does anyone know when / if there will be another of these days.

 

I recall from LF that the last one was down in Surrey somewhere. Alternatively, if no dates known, anybody know who organises them?

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Shame I can't come. Not that I need a basic maintenance refresher but it would be socially good. I used to have a great arrangement with a mate - one day we'd play with cars, another we'd restore his house. Everyone won - I got more done on the car because he's very knowledgeable and at the time I wasn't, he got to play with cars, and even his wife was happy because the 2 of us achieved more on the house in 1 day than he did alone in 2. Unfortunately I moved away and found that solo car maintenance is much less fun than doing it with someone else (bit like something else I could mention 😳). Significantly he has still to finish his house restoration 10 years on!

 

I know of a few people who have hooked up with someone nearby and set aside an evening or afternoon a week to fix cars. You get loads done and can always repair to the pub for an hour at the end. What a great evening, and even the most unreasonable SWMBO ought to be happy with it.

 

Sadly out here I've yet to find any likeminded souls. Ah well.

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So far everyone who has replied (with the possible exception of Tareq) is in the North east as far as I'm concerned. *biggrin*

That being said I am interested, please count me in.

 

 

 

as long as I don't have to go further north than Bristol! 😬

 

Rob

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I believe that most tech colleges offer night clsses, some of them let you bring your own car. Now if I were the instructor on that and someone offered to bring in a 7 in order to learn about it, and do some maintenance, I'd be delighted. They have very good facilities too - proper lifts, you name it. The only problem is that once you've done it this way scratching around in a dark lockup loses its appeal.
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If there is a genuine interest I can (possibly) gain access to a workshop with lifts, tools and everything. The only trouble is is its in the midlands (Coventry area) not in the SW as most people are asking for.

 

I know my way round a 7 and mines a Xflow but it would ideally need somene else to offer their mechanical services and a K series

 

Graham

 

Competition Secretary

*cool* How many events for 2004?????? (It looks like 9) *cool*

 

Edited by - Bacon Butty on 16 Jan 2004 20:31:58

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There will be several of these introductory weekends during the year up here in Edinburgh.

 

We also are having a build a kit session too, next month IIRC....if it's really sucessful we'll strip the car and build it again for anyone that misses it the first time *smile*

 

Lawrence

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If it does happen in the SW I'll happily offer my car (1.6 K-Series). It's done over 70,000 miles and has lived outside for the last 4 years, so probably has more maintainance requirements than most 😬 *tongue*

But I have no garage to tinker in, so would have to be elsewhere.

 

71560 miles and counting... but knackered alternator ☹️

 

 

Edited by - ewenm on 19 Jan 2004 13:45:11

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