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Getting ready to go on holiday, get up early to try and get stuff done, quick swap over of winter to summer wheels (car doesn’t get much use and it dropped to -1 when we did the last big drive over Easter, don’t judge me).
Discover one of the practically new summer tyres has a nail in it. Fuck sake. Local tyre place can’t fit me in, start ringing round, national tyres want £40 just to swap the wheels over ffs, ring another place who quote £5-10 to fix a tyre (alarm bells ringing), end up going kwik fit and they get it sorted. Was genuinely surprised/impressed to see the lad check all the bolts with a torque wrench (saved me a job). And managed to get a decent look under the e46 while they had it up (wouldn’t recommend opening such a can of worms). Did manage to add extra cable ties to my exhaust hanger bodge at least. Looking at the shocks, I reckon a suspension refresh really wouldn’t go amiss. Anyone got finger in the air prices for a garage to do front and rear shocks and springs on an e46 estate?
Better get the car washed and needs a valet. It seems I grossly underestimated how long this takes too!
Always the way when you need to be on the road asap.
CSB etc I know.