Rattle investigations today. There's been some clattering from the front end since getting the car back. I thought that it was the exhaust rattling on the h brace, but yesterday i noticed that it had got much worse from the front passenger wheel.
Whipped the wheel off and had a bit poke around. Seems that my low profile jack is only just low enough to clear the new skirts...
Also, seems that the car hasn't lost its ability to lift the front and back when jacking the front. Could hear the back lifting before the front
Found that there was a bit of play on the top wishbone, so torqued both sides up properly - think that they may have been torqued to 3 door settings.
Also found that the retaining clips for the front pads aren't there, and they can move in and out along the radius of the disk (probably in other directions as well) - going for a test drive afterwards, the rattling goes away when trailing the brakes.
So got some clips from euro car parts for about £1.50... Crazy that such a small thing can make it sound like the car is falling apart!
When I was down there, there was a lush Sierra parked outside.