So, I haven't been here for a while due to many, many other things that have been going on here. Still working on the house after the flood last year but mostly there. Have been travelling a bit for work and on holidays (motherlaaaand) but now have nothing big planned for a while.
Have also been busy with my other hobby, which is still on-going - lots of fine tuning etc.
Car wise - still driving the 407 I got in 2013. Well, I say 'driving', it's mostly sat on the driveway and only drive short-ish distances to badminton, shops, cinemas as well as some longer runs to the airport and back. I've done around 27k miles in my ownership - hardly a lot - so it's sat on 78k at the moment. Haven't really had many issues. The heater flap broke again, which I repaired .. again. But it's doing some clicking when going around, so need to break into the heater box to see what's going on there now. Had a spate of 'lights faulty' messages on the display, which was fixed(?) by running some earth wires from light clusters at the back to a proper earth point. Oh and the rear ABS sensors have been replaced. Not a huge job but required lowering of the fuel tank to run the cables to the connection point - next time I am going to simply cut and join them.
My intermittent issues with engine jerkings have mostly gone away in that I haven't really had it happen since winter time, so no idea what was causing this. My suspicions were with EGR or DPF regens soooo.... I got rid of them yesterday, along with a remap. Only time will tell whether things improve but I am happy with my 213bhp on tap now
My next big thing to do on it is to give a damn good valet and get rid of a couple of parking dings that tw@ts in car parks create. Yesterday, I was sat in car in Gordano services on the phone and this fat beach ball opened her door far and wide right into my driver's door, before rolling out of her car. A toy terrier dog followed. I made a comment of being careful and not to bang my doors to which she said "well there's no damage, is there?". Yes, there fking is, you dumb bint... and there's my blue paint on YOUR door.
....anyway. So, I want to give it a good polish (probably by a Polish) with hopefully small dents removed and 't-cut' (or whatever method they use these days). I am also thinking of putting a 'glass' coating, which apparently protects the paintwork (or what's left of it) for a few years. It's a tad pricey but might be worth it.
How's everyone here then?
I just wasn't using it so it just sat and deteriorated whilst costing me monies to register it every year, it just didn't make any sense to keep it, so when someone came along with a bunch of cash....
Yes, I did notice that you seem to have become partial to JapCrap that has been accumulating on your drive 
Why would I have one of them in a car? 
Although I guess one would make it easier to keep the thing fed.
