after pissing about with this pissy air con pump malarky since february, i've finally got the fucker off

yay me

now i've just got to put the car back together again

the cheapest quote i got to fix the problem was £350 with the car being away for at least a week so i thought fuck that shit i'll do it myself

word to the wise, let soemone else fix it, after seeing the state that just a tensionor can cause peole to get to on a mk3 mondeo, it's one of those thigns that i can't be arsed with any more

solid day on it yesterday taking everything apart, 4 hours today just to get a poxy circlip out of the engine bay, and now fuck knows how long to put it back together again as all the bits are in bits and all the bits that need to go back together again are scattered all over the car, under the car, in the seats, in the hallway and in the living room