Chrisbasildon

Happy easter everybody, hope you're all well. After 3 years in climate controlled storage the Z is back in her new home at my new house. Currently replacing all the timing belt components and doing a full service, MOT being done in the week. So I will be out and about when the sun finally makes its appearance. Hope to start attending shows and meets again and catch up with the Z scene.

Hi Guys! Hope everyone is well! What's been happening? Chris

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Have you ever looked at Mercedes wheel arches and door bottoms? And pretty much anywhere on a sprinter! Sent from my SM-G965F using Tapatalk

Sorry. Forgetting mine is a series 4 so does use a seperate bulb.

To get through the mot just remove the warning lamp. This becomes a pass and advise then. Then repair properly in your own time.

Presume these are not oem pieces? What is the colour/finish like in comparison to the oem when new?

Fyi for a clutch that wont disenage you simply put in first gear start her up and drive home using rev matching to select the next gear, after a bit of practice you will drive it fine. I have driven 44 tonne artics this way on many occasions. Its all about being smooth and timing at junctions etc.

So the supplies have arrived for wedding party No2 in Dublin tomorrow night. I shall be sampling the Rockshore as per Gaz's advice [emoji41]

The craic

The family are over from dublin at present for my sisters wedding. Its fair to say we are are all a bit pissed by now [emoji16]

On my first Z i found the leak to be coming from the gate valve next to the matrix and not the matrix itself. I removed the valve and replaced the O rings.

I will. I am rather fond of the Smithwicks Ale tbh.

You can be enjoying the crap british beer while i shall be indulging in some craic. [emoji23]

Pleasure, all my family are around Dublin. My sister is in Swords.

Enjoy, i am off to Dublin on the 10th so you wont be seeing me [emoji23]

Such a shame after the weeks of nothing but sun!

Same here. Storm just passed over

Nice work there. Nice colour choice [emoji41]

Im on this, love a bit of space related stuff!

I must confess to googleing that ?

Thanks to everyone who took the time to reply to this. I have given it much thought over the past few months and i have come to the conclusion that i do stand to lose nothing but my time as mentioned above. I know it will be hard going with a day job and fitting my own plans around that but nothing worth doing is easy. I only have about 5 years left to clear my mortgage and that will come in handy if my plans work out by that time. With regards to my current employment i dont even have a contract of employment and the owner is pretty much not seeing anything that is going on within the business (its one of the problems which is making me feel like i need to get out). I need to invest little money to start working for myself as i already have the necessary equipment and tools. Will need to sort insurance to cover business use and sort out some business cards and marketing etc but thats about it really. Im gonna give it my best shot and whatever happens i wont regret having tried it. I will take onboard the comments regarding a good accountant and keeping good records. Thanks guys [emoji41]

Not at all Gary, nobody wants a lady that dribbles. [emoji38]

No drains there, after washing i open the tailgate to drain as much water out of the channels as possible then with the boot shut absorb the water at the bottom of the glass or better still use a blower to dry it.

I’m currently considering becoming a sole trader alongside my paye day job I’m slowly getting fed up with where I am as things are not being done to my satisfaction and it’s been bothering me for a while now. Trouble is I’m getting to that age where I don’t think I can tolerate working for someone again so I feel like this is my time to try something new. I have to maintain my current job to pay bills etc and to see if the work I intend to do for myself comes along at a decent rate. There is demand for what I plan to do and in my area there is a lack of places to fulfil that demand so I believe there is good business opportunity there to be had. I would appreciate any suggestions/opinions good or bad from anyone who has tried this themselves. :thumbup1: