Well, today I had good and bad tidings.
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first off I had the day off to take the car to Nathan at MRTwo's to get a new Exedy clutch fitted after the one in there was slipping, and with the track day at Silverstone coming up a week on Sunday I couldn't go on track and not be on full chat now could I?
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Anyway, after getting up early and getting over to Nath by 9.00am, by 1.30pm I had a new clutch fitted and was heading home.
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on the ramps:
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New clutch kit:
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Old clutch:
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Now it's been fitted, i can't believe the difference, the car feels so much better and the speed picks up so well through all the gears without any slip.
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and the clutch pedal also feels so much better, it's no longer hard to press the pedal down and so much lighter on the foot.
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.although with good tidings, comes bad news.
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on the way home I crashed into the back of a Peugeot 206.
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I was going through some traffic lights, 3rd in the row of cars, when a young lad ran out in front of the lead car, that car slammed on the brakes and stopped, the second car braked late and stopped just in time, I didn't.
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I did brake and tried to swerve to miss the car but was to no avail, the impact was at around 10mph so no large unrepairable damage, but there is some damage.
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- the wing mounting points were broken
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- the bumper was pushed back into the bonnet
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- the drivers side headlight has dropped
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- there is a big hole in the front bumper
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- there is some cracking to the paint on the front bumper
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I worked on the car for 20 minutes when i got home and managed to straighten and reattach everything except straightening the gap between the bumper and the bonnet, the hole in the bumper and the cracking.
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everything else was reattached and straightened up as per before, although some things will need refixing properly when I repair the fibreglass in the bumper.
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Anyway, some photos after my 20 minute repair job.
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No bumper/bonnet gap:
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Close up of bumper hole:
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.so today has been both a good day
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, and a bad day, so I think I've earned a JD
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& coke on a school night:
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