Gad, I hate working on car interiors

What I pain I have had trying to change my wing mirror.  My trusty Haynes manual says that first you must remove the passenger door panel.  Sadly, it doesn’t contain photos related to the passenger door, only the driver’s and rear doors.  However, the instruction and almost the same for both front doors.  So, it started by basically following the photos for the driver door and didn’t get anywhere.  I levered so hard I nearly snapped some of the plastic

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Rapid delivery

Good God, the wing mirror is here already and it’s come all the way from Edinburgh to Salisbury with free delivery.  So far I am impressed by SCB Vehicle Dismantlers.  The mirror seems to be in reasonable condition and was well packed.  There is even a sticker on it with the registration number of the vehicle it was removed from.

Finding a wing mirror

Following the Golf’s MoT failure I have been hunting for an inexpensive replacement wing mirror.  It looks like new ones are jolly expensive, but I have found a used one on eBay for £25 with free & fast delivery.  It is plain black whereas the current one matched the blue of the car, but I don’t intend to worry about that!

MoT troubles

Today I took the Golf in for its annual MoT and sadly it failed.  Firstly, the indicator repeater light on the near side wing mirror isn’t working.  This isn’t totally surprising as that wing mirror has been hit several times and has a big hole in the casing.  The other problem is apparently a leak in the exhaust.  I thought that it might have been sounding a bit different recently, but certainly not as loud as the failure note makes

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