346 replies to this topic

[Pauly]

Well its passed its VIC, got the log book with the correct colour, just need to MOT TAX and insure it now .

But there will be updates when its on the road , quite a few .
Paul.

Edited by Pauly, 29 November 2008 - 09:51 PM.

[Pauly]

MOT for tomorrow , not bad since we only booked it in today .

Also getting it insured tomorrow aswell, £370 sumet third party, gunna bite their arm off at that, with footman james.

Paul.

[minipete]

Fingers crossed then.Good luck mate.

[AndrewJ530]

Should sail through it mate!

[Pauly]

Well...... ITS PASSED!!!!!!!!!! sorted out the insurance when I got back aswell, so now just got to wait for the policy to come through (said tuesday/wednesday) and then I can tax it, mom will take it and get it tracked for me wednesday, then I can take it for a run out the weekend .

But this is only the start, going to start buying goodies now .

Paul .

[minipete]

Why not tax it online,you should be able to do it today,and get the tax mid-week.

[Pauly]

Haven't got any policy numbers so got to wait for policy to come through anyway.

Paul.

[CharlieBrown]

Just read this build, brilliant! Really nice to see loads of pictures as you went along.

Great work and a lovely looking mini!

Charlie

[luke6040]

Why not tax it online,you should be able to do it today,and get the tax mid-week.

For some weird reason you cant tax online until 15th of each month.

[beaubrad]

what a mini ,iv been rebuilding my mini for the past 8 years now and iv not got any-where near where you are lol but then it dont help that its in france so i can only do stuff to it when i visit me mum n dad

so what goodies you guna buy first?? brad

[Pauly]

Thanks for the replies guys, on the goodies front, I dont know to be honest probably wheels 1st .

Paul.

[Pauly]

Well got it taxed yesterday! . But the weather was pretty poor so took it out today, drove sweet as a nut, faultless .

......

Well... nearly .

The only thing i can think what happened was I left the handbrake on a notch.

Was driving down the bridgenorth road with my dad in passenger seat and asked him if he wanted a go, so we pulled over by the boycott arms (the slip road bit with like a layby in between, locals will know where i mean) to swap, got out and there was a load of smoke coming from the wheel. The drum was boiling hot!! and burnt my lovley painted drum, bummer . So got home whipped the drum off, found nothing wrong, hence why I think the handbrake. Put it all back together, gave the drum a coat of paint, give it another one tomorrow night, then put wheels back on ready for the meet wednesday .

Piccies

Me Paintttttttt .


Back to how it was .



But I cant complain, everything else is working great and the car drives fantastic .

Paul .

[buddylove]

Congrats on getting it taxed. Hopefully it was only the handle up a notch and not something more serious.

[mini_mad69]

I painted my drums in engine laquer and it all bubbled up after about 1 month of driving. I probably did excactly the same thing as you and didn't realise. Well done on your car it looks ace. Looking forward to seeing what mods youve got planned for it.

[Pauly]

Changed the thread title, thanks Purple Tom

Dont class it as a project car as such now as its now on the road, but its still like an on going project .

Ordered my new wheels today . Not going to say what they are until ive fitted them, but lets just say I had a change of heart at the final hour. So they should be coming tuesday, then next weekend is going to be hecktic, going to min-its to get my stage 1 kit, then back home to fit my wheels and start fitting the stage 1. Proberly wont get it all done in 2 days but will be done for mini fair .

Oh yes, and the brakes are 100% fine now, still had problems with them getting warm but it was because the shoes where uneven, bedded in now and are fine.

Paul. (Next update will see a radical change )

Edited by Pauly, 03 January 2009 - 09:39 PM.