sorted all the work for the mot now, forgot to add the most important one to the list of failure..................emissions

i now know that on the efi model there is a screw that you can adjust which i have located, its back in at work for its re-test on thursday so i can have a play about with it and see if can get it under 3% fingers crossed!

got it back from its mot and attacked it on the saturday, stripped down the passenger side to replace the strut and tca and found that this was why the car was pulling wildly to the left







replaced the strut and tca on passenger side:





did the folowing on the drivers side too ( i didnt have to replace the drivers side strut for mot but didnt see the point in only replacing one )

the arch looked great for condition, again no rust:



i sprayed it satin black (it wasw going dark by this time so no pics of it lol, but painted the caliper red and took a quick pic the day after:



took the front bumper off aswell to see what condition the front panel was in:





again only small areas of surface rust, so ive flatted the front panel and its going to get a fresh coat of paint

New plans now ( providing the car gets through emissions test on thursday ) are new BLACK roof, and a full respray in pearl white, although the paint could be buffed back to a shine, there are areas where the previous owner has burnt through the paint from previous attempts at restoring the paint, and touching in stonechips with a very off-white paint.

thats all for now, cheers for reading