PASSED!
It wasn't due for another 3 weeks, but nothing like being organised.
Anyway:
- Remove/refurb/replace steering rack
- new track rod ends (customer's own)
- new steering UJ (customer's own)
- re-align
- replace ball joints (customer's own), clean up LCAs, press in retainer, etc.
- brake fluid
- new brake pads (customer's own)
- change spark plugs
- change oil and filter
- test coolant
- replace window washer pump
- adjust alt belt
- Torque wheel nuts to 110Nm
- £147 of welding to get it through an MOT
- wire brush/reseal large amounts of "coast conditioned" chassis (this one line doesn't do the work justice)
- do an MOT and thorough check-over
- pack all the old parts into little boxes, hoover up
- deliver back to me
How much do you reckon?
£450+VAT for all that, that's how much. Amazing service I thought, and I haven't got my hand dirty!
Anyway - took it for a drive - certainly feels much better. Most, if not all, of the knocking seems to have gone, and the car stops when I press the brake pedal - can't be bad!
And no badgers in sight. Carl seems to scared them all into hiding!