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In other news, DD went for her mot today...................and failed! TBF, I took a chance knowing her handbrake was crap! That was all she failed on though so I'm happy. The chap at the garage is and older guy, been a mechanic most of his life. When I went to pick her up, he had me there for an hour blethering about DD! Said that he was really impressed with her, and that he used to work for a Honda dealership many moons ago and loved old Honda's! Currently drives a mk2 CRV himself and swears by Honda. He said he was surprised when he had her up on the ramp, saying that she was immaculate, even underneath! Said he could see she has been well cared for, and really likes her! after talking for a while, agreed the work on the rear brakes to get them spot on. They're also going to fit the brand new rear discs I got for DD, then she's getting a full "big" service as she's not had one for years (not done enough miles) but has now hit 10K since last one so deffo due. Said the big service will see everything done, new filters, new oil, new spark plugs, all brakes stripped down and cleaned greased etc. He said to make sure I keep looking after her the way we have as she's a stunner and not many around now. So seems DD has got a new fan, and we have finally found our decent garage down here!

yeah, really happy with the garage and the mechanic (Kenny), they did the mot on Mindy and again, were impressed by her condition. I'm gonna get them to fix the wee leak they spotted on the steering rack (said it was miniscule so nothing to worry about for now) and also the oil leak she has (from when I fitted the brand new rocker cover bolts from Honda and one sheared off!). See if they fancy the job of drilling out the old snapped bolt as I'm not sure I fell confident enough. Oil is seeping out the corner of the rocker cover so would like it fixed. RE the console catastrophy, luckily it's just the paint thats reacted and went all yucky. The plastic itself is sound. I've got most of that crap paint sanded back off now so it's back to being smooth again. Will get it into (decent) paint this weekend then see about choosing DD's new double din head unit.

It makes you feel good to know that someone working on your car cares about it - all good news on DD there

Jesus! Is that the plastic itself that's reacted? That's a right cnut. I bet you were gutted mate. I'm sure that you'll get it sorted though chief, but it's a right pain that you thought you were done.

Since I'd got the car back, I'd been a bit worried about the engine as it seemed to have lost to end power - I was having to change gear about 1k to early as the power was dropping off. I've been needing to get my im ported to match the dc2 throttle body, as I'd noticed a bit of a drop off at high revs when I fitted it, but not as bad as recently. I noticed today though, that the intake to the air box wasn't where I'd fitted it - I had installed it so that the trumpet was in the void where the resonator used to be, but when it'd been reassembled, the trumpet was still in the engine bay, half pointing into that void, but also half covered up by the body. Adjusted that, and I now have high rev fun again... Phew. And here's a pic because purple. My camera doesn't show the purple flip very well though.