Planning to replace the rear pads, discs and handbrake shoes tomorrow. Discovered that not only have I lost my workshop manual, the spare tube of copper grease seems to have gone AWOL as well
. So I have just been to the local motor factors to get some more grease, and on the way there noticed that the engine management light had come on. After buying said grease, I then rather foolishly reversed too quickly and failed to notice the motor factor's rather large advertising pillar and managed to smack the driver's side rear bumper rather hard on the corner.
Doesn't seem to be any metalwork damage luckily. The bumper where it wraps round the side was rather displaced and is more or less back into place, but I'll have to take a proper look tomorrow. The only saving grace was that there was no-one around to notice it. After my exploit of three weeks ago, in which I managed to terminally slice the nearside front tyre right through, I'm hoping that things will get better. This is no way to treat a faithful friend that is only 400 miles short of 200,000!!
No idea why the engine light came on, I've pulled the fuse & reset it, so we shall see. I'll get the codes read when I have time.
