Day: 1 May 2026

Workshop, Mansfield, Spilsby, Gosberton, Wilberfoss…

Our first visitor at the workshop, bright and early, on Monday was Steve who had driven down from Sunderland in his 2003 TF 135. Cambelt service carried out for him while he waited. Good to have a catch-up with him while we worked. He’s not done a massive amount of mileage since we did the head gasket, so at least it had good run down and back home again.

Our next visitor of the day was Stewart, who had driven down from Glasgow over the weekend to stay with his pal Gareth in Kilburn, this was booked in while we were working on Gareth’s MG back in October so it was great to finally meet him and his 1998 MGF 120 in Nightfire Red. Full cambelt service carried out along with replacing the HT leads, rotar arm and distributor cap, pleased to have everything sorted for him to enjoy a sunny drive back up to Glasgow.

A couple of cars were dropped off with us over the weekend at the workshop. One of which was Ian’s 2002 TF 135 that we’d looked after for a number of years with the previous owner. Minor service carried out along with a pre-MOT check. All done and ready for Ian to collect to take back home to Leeds in a day or so.

We headed over to Mansfield on Tuesday morning where it was good as always to see Phil. His 2004 TF 135 was due for the cambelt service. Big thanks to Phil’s wife for making us a lemon drizzle cake, which had some grateful recipients back home.

Back over to the workshop on Wednesday morning to get cracking on Rich’s 2003 TF 135, he’s got another adventure over to France planned in a few weeks so wanted all the discs and pads replacing and a check over on a couple of niggles. We hope he has a great trip.

John had also come over from Leeds and left his 2005 TF 135 in Firefrost Red with us for the cambelt service. He’d also bought one of the Mike Satur anodised 4-way coolant connectors, so this was fitted for him. Unfortunately, we didn’t get to meet John when he came to collect the car, maybe next time.

Thursday morning found us over in Spilsby for the first call of the day. Denis’s TF Stepspeed was due its annual minor service. Lovely to see Denis again, he’s got a great sounding trip planned in the car over to Jersey with his wife to celebrate his 80th birthday, we wish them a wonderful time.

From there we headed on down to Gosberton where it was lovely to see Emma again. Her 1999 MGF 120 in Solar Red was due for its annual minor service, plus we replaced the underfloor coolant pipes with stainless as we’d noticed last time they weren’t looking their best, hydragas pump up carried out too and she’s all set to start using it as her daily car throughout the summer months.

A call in to Rimmer Bros to have a restock and pick up some more bits needed for next week’s trip away.

Here we are it’s Friday again and our last call of the week was over in Wilberfoss, where it was lovely as always to see Derek and Margaret. Their 2004 TF 135 was also due its annual minor service. Plus Derek had managed to source a new front wing as the existing drivers side one was showing a fair bit of rust, this was duly fitted for him.

After a chat with them we headed back over to the workshop to unload all the new stock and do some further prep for our next Scotland trip commencing in the latter half of next week.

Have a fantastic weekend everyone near and far, let’s hope this amazing weather lasts for the bank holiday, now wouldn’t that be welcome for some top down fun! – https://ift.tt/9VdEmyl