I took the Rover for its first actual drive since I got the car, today. I have had it two months and driven it less than 100km (but used almost half a tank of gas) 😞
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After yesterday’s revelation that I had made a real balls up of the thermostat install, it was time to fix it once and for all.
Not everything I do when working on cars is a success. Sometimes I completely cock things up, and since this website is more or less a candid view of me working on cars, I post everything, warts and all.
The Subaru Twin Turbo system is a bit of a black art and few people really understand what’s going on, but there are a few little tweaks and mods that can be done to make it all a bit better.
I like hiring rental cars. Modern low mileage cars that I wouldn’t tend to own myself. Over the Christmas period I hired a Toyota Yaris, of the manual transmission variety. These are my thoughts on the car.
I’m slowly getting there, I finally finished installing the rear speakers into the Rover.
Following on from the first days work, I jumped back in and started putting it all back together again.
Its time to fix the reason I havent driven the SD1 since the day I purchased it. The leaking fuel return hose.
Its taken three weeks, but I thought it was about time I reassembled the door….
My knee is healing reasonably quickly, thankfully, so I decided now would be a good time to ease myself back into working on the Rover.