OuchYeah I know now, £400 worth of work and labour costs
Its mostly electrical though, Hen's wires are...well...quite frankly...a mess! Lights are playing up so much! Grr!
Worst bit was this - she's got 3 patches of rott on the driver's sill, and because each patch is so close together, I've gotta have the sill replaced, otherwise if the guy weld's it, it'll be even worse next year come MOT time. So cheaper to just replace it now rather than paying for welding and replacement next year.
The little rubber part - it's a steering gaitor! I remembered! hehe need that fitting for it to pass*sighs*
Love that number plate, pity it's not on a mini! Any particular reason why your not getting a mini for a run around? or do you just want to stay faithful to your Baby?!
Head cold is ok, but I'm getting blinding headaches
pockets feel a bit lighter? thats not good but its all worth it in the end. and your deffintely doing teh right thing getting the whole sill welded. if a jobs worth doing, its worth doing properly. and NO OVERSILLS! 
ah never had to do a steering gaitor. several driveshaft gaitors yes, but steering no. im sure thatll be fun to do.
tis a cool number plate, the whole car was lovely. looked like a little british version of a muscle car
just realised, this other one being a deluxe and not a GLS, has the standard square headlights and no tacho 
doesnt look so mean and muscle car like. though as it doesnt have teh sporty dials with a tacho its got an amzingly retro cool rectangular speedo 
going to go on the viva forum to find out if the lights and grille are an easy swap or if the back plate is different (which i think it is ) i dont want to go chopping the car up!im looking at minis too, just nothings come up thats suitable or good enough, apart from one ages ago i let slip through my fingers on ebay. im looking for eother a mini, a polo GT, any other insurable and interesting classic that catches my eye (yes david, including lada riva's
) or a cheap as possible runaround. the latter would be very useful as then i could go up and down the country looking for the others and find the right one.aw, doesnt sound too fun. hope you get better soon. poor heather and henrietta, both poorly!
yeah thanks mike and andrew, i forgot about dremels. my dads got one he only bought to do some stuff on baby. ill have to nick thatTwiglett the dremal is good, what did the salt do to the ally Oli? I use old tooth brushes and a dremal for the finish and to clean I use a bath of gunk and then i blast it with stream sorts it out.
as for the salt...hmmmm...would have helped if i thought about that before really. forgot all about the salt. dont know how much it will have affected it. its got coating of something that makes it look all dull, needs a polish to bring back teh original look. so dont know, maybe thats the product. thanks for the gunk tip though, ill do that on my working carb. maybe ill just hang the other up in the garage as an artpiece or something 
