On our way to visit Dad’s parents, we stopped to lunch on the A43 at the “Sign of the Purple Chicken“. The gents contained a most curious home-made sink which has apparently caused confusion for previous visitors and necessitated the creation of an entertaining piece of verse (see photo).
Month: January 2019
Binding brakes on the Golf
When, a couple of weeks ago the Golf failed its MoT, there was an advisory about binding rear brakes. Well, they weren’t joking! A few days later, there was an obvious loss of power and some mightily hot brakes. I hoped, when I bunged the car up on the axle stands, that just fitting new pads and clearing out the grooves in the calipers would be enough, but sadly the caliper pistons were seized solid and couldn’t be re-wound. A