How far south do you have to travel to find a satisfactory garage who will do the job in its entirety for £350?
Obviously the further south, the less cost effective is the thought of driving to have the job done & return the same day.
I guess that there will be a number of contributors who would prefer to leave the oiliest of jobs to those who job it is to repair cars & would travel to those whose reputation goes before them.
I have been talking about rebuilding my suspension for a couple of years but as yet I’ve not plucked up the courage to start. The skills haven’t escaped me & if anything I’m better equipped that ten years ago, it’s simply I’m ten years older, ten years less supple & ten years more lazy.
I will entrust the job to a friend of mine who has moved a distance from his original establishment & I won’t hesitate to travel.
It has to be said that the longer a garage has been established & the older the mechanic, the greater is the likelihood of them being familiar with the K series, after all they were ubiquitous twenty five years ago & any mechanic of that era worth his salt should be capable of reacquainting himself with an old adversary.
Just a thought but do keep us posted, the more knowledge we collectively accrue the easier (less difficult) it will be, as these cars age.
M

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