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So got all my servicing bits done last weekend, basically refreshed the entire front end now! Upper control arms, bottom ball joints, inner and outer rack rods, outer CV joints both sides! Cars feeling 10x better in the corners, also really impressed with the new brakes ! Here’s a few pics, didn’t take many though as I only had a few hours of ramp time !

Morning all, Been a bit of a while since I last updated this - as it's been yet another bonkers year - but as I've now finished for Christmas, I can sit here and actually finish typing out the update I've tried doing about six times this year at various points! First off, huge belated cheers for the comments chaps - still in love with the thing, and still gawp back at it like I'm an 18 year old ogling my first car. Dave - the small circle thing; not entirely sure, I think it's related to the immobiliser! Managed to finally get the car in to the body shop for a small list of bits; had them look at the c-pillar - thank f**k it's nothing to be concerned about and they have addressed it so it's not as obvious to me and my OCD. They also sorted the 'floor corrosion' the previous owner/ MOT tester kindly flagged for me the first time I got him to test the car... they also cut the rust out the boot lid and repainted the whole panel, and then a full machine polish all over. Not a particularly flattering background, being surround by ex-company car CR-V's, but I think that might be my favourite pic of the car... Came out really well; Then set about addressing the biggest pain in my arse with the thing, replacing the driver's regulator as the plank of wood propping the window up was starting to rattle. Also finally lost my bottle with the steering wheel, and replaced it with an Integra item - as well as replace the gearknob with an Integra item too; ...Origin of them both is a ridiculous story. Condensed version is that the press car Integra was bounced off a tree by a Youtuber/ blogger, lots of internal discussions later it transpired the car was only insured third party(!), which led to more discussions, and then the final decision of 'just scrap it' being passed down. Couldn't let that happen, offered to buy it off them... and somehow they agreed. Which is fecking awesome luck, for once - but potentially have a very, very big bill to sort it out in the New Year. May end up breaking it yet, if the estimates are as much as Honda were quoted. Hoping that in not being a corporation, there might not be as many zeros attached when I enquire... Then I switched roles at Honda, and lost access to the techies and the ramps (which sucks!) so took the Aerodeck to a 'reputable' Honda specialist down here; and I've never been more p**sed off in my life. Whilst they serviced it, did the alignment and replaced the rear trailing arm bushes with the PSB items I got ages ago - they also added more than 70 miles to the clock, left the thing on fumes in the middle of the 'fuel crisis', the passenger side rear inner arch was hanging off and sitting on the tyre, the front driver's side corner has been knocking its tits off since getting it back... and the handling is absolutely horrific at the minute. So if anyone can recommend a decent Honda specialist in Surrey/ Hampshire that'd be a great help. Same goes for bodyshop; if anyone knows a trustworthy, good shop anywhere (happy to travel for the right person to work on it) - I'm in desperate need of a jig to pull the 'Teg straight - few that I've enquired with locally don't have jigs or aren't willing to work with chassis damage and are more interested in panel/ dent repairs. That nonsense aside, next up with this thing is the interior. Need to drop the rooflining and either recover or repair as it's sagged a lot over the rear bench and the sunroof internal panel is sagging now as well. Oddly.

Yeah it’s decent tbh! And I feel you mate haha I don’t think I would have attempted all that on the drive tbh, would’ve taken me twice as long as well haha

Yeah needed to be done mate! Looked like all the original bushes tbh! Unfortunately not mate no! I work for Vauxhall as a technician, I’m allowed to use my ramp on the weekend providing I’m not working, but only have access to it 8.30-12.30 so I had to be speedy haha

Haven't had chance to update this as much as I would have liked of late - largely as the missus lost her job the week after I was wanging on about cleaning this thing... Still, managed to get some bits sorted - chief of which was new discs and pads all round, as the rears were past the wear bars after a weekend's heavy driving with my mate in his FK8...The thing actually stops now, and doesn't wail like two foxes going at it when in reverse - which is always a bonus. I say I sorted it, the chaps in the workshop sorted it and I stood there taking photos... Also had to get the rear box repaired as I reversed in to a kerb that was way higher than first anticipated and I ended up ripping it clean off the mounts... replacing/ repairing it was way more effort than a new back box ever has the right to be. Several phone calls to 'custom' places to be repeatedly told that unless I was after a full system they weren't interested, to other suppliers that had nothing in stock with a week the shortest wait... ended up finding a small engineering firm a stone's throw from our place that plated the holes, welded new hangers on and rehung it so it is now flush with the bumper for less than £80. Two last niggles that need sorting - Window regulator disintegrated the other evening so the window's now wedged on top of three offcuts of wood... So is there anyone local to Surrey that has a drivers side front window regulator kicking around? Or know where to buy one from? Have looked at multiple sites now and have been left none the wiser as they all claim to be correct for the model year, but are wildly different in shape?! Have found one for a Rover 400 from Rimmer Bros, but they have two in stock that look identical, but are around £300 different in price?! Last niggle is the rear trailing arm bushes are knackered...again, anyone recommend a good online shop for bits? Struggling to find anything that remotely lines up...