So ... I contacted a scrapyard. I even offered to pay for an entire fuel tank in order to get this seal (I suspect that this would be considerably cheaper than buying one for Peugeot. In fact if you added together the cost of all the parts from the maker, the total would be a vehicle I wouldn't be anywhere near affording). I explained exactly what the seal should look like, where it's located, all that stuff. Then the fuel tank arrived - without a seal on it!!!!
Well, I've been onto them, and they said they'd send one on. Let's see.
In the meantime, Bill Stott has sent me this:
And it helped, it really did!
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Ooh, I know the feeling Cathy.
A little while ago, my little(?) Honda Shuttle Kid/Wife/Taxi/Skip Carrier displayed a little yellow fault light on the dash - "ABS" it said.
I looked it up on the web - probably just a sensor - so I takes it in to my local mechanic (good old Mick). He can't find the fault, and because it's to do with the ABS, it needs a special diagnostic tool. He takes to the local car electrics specialist, and returns with the following diagnosis...
"Your ABS pump is knackered! Don't know where I can get one from..."
"OK" says I, and proceed to phone Honda Spares in my home town. A little while later my wife is suprised to find the remains of my last swallow of tea heading towards her at warp speed, as I spluttered...
"£1200 for a new pump??!"
I couldn't pay that - if I could afford it, I'd have bought a Cintiq by now. So, spurned on this last fact, I decided to search... and search... and search... and I eventually found one in a scrapyard in Tottenham for £120! Imagine my mechanics surprise when I brought it round for him to fit - oh how we laughed!
It still cost me nearly £500 in total, including the fitting, MOT etc, but it would have been 3 times that if I had taken the part from Honda on faith. Car dealers must have solid gold, jewel encrusted lavvy seats, that's all I can say...
Wow, I like the Bill Stott cartoon. Looks like he's dabbled in a bit of Photoshop. Surely not!
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