Eunos Chump

My neighbours have kindly allowed me to store the Berlingo on their drive, but it disgraced itself yesterday by dumping the contents of it's radiator.  It's rotted out again - this has happened at least once before in past 12 years, damp leaves and other detritus gets trapped in the corners of the fan housing. A new one was only £48 though and it was easy enough to swap out. I'm in the process of putting the fancy audio from the Jag into the Mini.  That's way more fun than fixing the CV boot and rattly exhaust.  Other Mini jobs tackled have been touching in paint chips and re-aligning the rear hatch (it suddenly went skew-whiff, which apparently is completely unrelated to Mrs Maimboy angrily trying to slam the hatch with an oversized vacuum cleaner in the boot).

Item 1: buy a large portion of Jag for just £1000.

I collected the Mini last weekend, and I love it so far - it's a proper little dodgem car. Interior reminds me very much of the Rover 75 - same bold shapes/materials, so it's odd that these became trendy while the highly competent 75 never caught on. First task was a service - the previous owner said it had had no attention for at least 20,000 miles, maybe double that.  After removing the air filter I'm guessing the latter - no wonder it didn't seem very quick.  Plugs didn't look too bad though.  Oil filter was next... ...5 days later, I eventually removed said filter, after much swearing, internet research and grazed knuckles.  It's an element type that lives in a housing on the back of the engine, and they're prone to seizing if not changed regularly.  Needless to say, this one wasn't going anywhere.  I broke the end off my breaker bar :( In the end I had to remove the whole housing from the car (not easy due to access), then repeatedly ...

When are you coming to collect the Jag you've promised to buy off me?