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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland trip – May 2025
Days 14 – 15 of 15…

After a departure from our digs, in Prestwick, yesterday morning, we headed along the road to Maybole for work on Karens 2004 TF 135 in Royal Blue – JFM, and Kens 2003 TF 135 in Nightfire Red – CBT, that were both due a cambelt service.

Full cambelt services carried out on both cars. Ken had reported only a few days previously that on his first run out of the year he heard a bang from the rear of the car and a resulting load of steam. We found that expansion tank had expanded somewhat. We replaced it with one from our stock. It remains to be seen however if it is in fact the proverbial that has caused it to go, Ken will monitor it and report back. One of the engine mount bolts was also questionable, so we had to resort to our Plan B.

Shame not to see Karen and Ken, as they were away on holiday, but their lovely son Sam made us most welcome, with cuppas and a bacon buttie for Jon. Thanks to Karen for leaving us a very generous tray-bake! Fab weather again too.

From there, we went on to Annan for our last lot of digs on this run. Not the quietest of evenings, staying above a club and a pub on a busy sunny Saturday night maybe wasn’t the best idea, haha, both kicking-out times were interesting!

So we set off nice and early to head down to Brampton, for what should have been the last job of the trip, where it was lovely to see David again for work on his 2006 TF 135 in Firefrost Red – CEV.

Short cambelt service carried out for him. We’d gone supplied with a new CAT and Lambda as he’d recently had problems struggling at the MOT with emissions. The CAT was found to be fine and it is an original one, on code reading we found it to be due to the Lambda sensor, which was one of the cheapo AMP sensors that don’t work. So we swapped this out, which has now cleared the fault.

After a chat with David and a stroke of his gorgeous puss we were on our way again, where we had a steady drive back over to Morpeth.

Had a bit of an issue with the vans clutch a few days ago, and unfortunately it gave up on us this morning on the way to David’s, so a roadside fix and replacement of the master-cylinder we were on our way again, still arriving half an hour early too.

We made it over to Dave’s back in Morpeth again to fit one of the rear control arms that have been quite elusive of late (please see first blog of trip). We managed to track one down with the lovely Jason Swinyward at MGTastic, big thanks to him for shipping it out to Dave’s for us. Arm duly fitted. The other problem Dave had been experiencing was a wobbly speedometer. We swapped out the cables and the sensor, long story short it was eventually fettled. It was good to see Dave again, it’s where this trip started and where it ended.

Thankfully we made it back home, in good time too, with only a few grumbles from the engine. So great to see our puss Binx aka Puddin who gave us a very vocal greeting.

What a long trip, it was always going to be a tough one, after everything and a lot to get done, but we did it!

Always made better by the warm welcomes and amazing hospitality that we have received, big thanks to everyone. We’re pleased to have your cars all sorted and ready for the summer months ahead. Here’s to more of this fabulous sunny weather.

A total of 1,201 miles, 21 cars and 10 lots of accommodation. A little fatigued now, but we have our own bed and a couple of days off to get turned around.

Thank you Scotland, we will be back! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 – https://ift.tt/FdaroIp