sunday came and it was bright crisp sunny…
love;y sunday for doing things and getting things done…
ed decided to get loaded up and return londonwards early to get into his shed and work on his fastback….

so we loaded up the wheels i’d collected for him from dubfreeze (or to be more accurate hubbs had collected, i just paid for them and left them in my garden for a week)

they’re 5 x 112 pcd (wedge and late bay stud pattern) for eds parents new bay window bus… they’ve got an oval beetle too… and apparently ed sbrother jimby has got his oval all prepped for the aircooled cup circuit race series…

after ed got on his way i trucked across town and gave the high top wedge a thorough jetwashing, it was encrusted with salt and general motorway gunk after driving back from cardiff in the snow last week. (i even managed to get it fully sideways round a roundabout, but thats another story) one cheap jetwash for the underside to get into all lovely undersealed steel crenelations and the the full works hot wash shampoo and was for the rest. off to halfords for bits. some spare bulbs and welding gas…

then homeagain,
the prospect of lying in the frozen dirt under the panel van measuring up the turbo header suddenly seemed less attractive than sitting in the hightop listeing to radio 4 interspersed with the new wagon christ album while i sorted out why the interior heater controls don’t illuminate at night.
not particularly essential but one of those little things that constantly niggle.

so, change the bulb. no luck. check it with a multimeter. no voltage.

doh!

off with the westie dash tray and out with the stereo and i’m up to my elbow in spaghetti protruding from the dashboard.

finally all got sorted and put back together. I even got the cigarette lighter to illuminate! how cool is that ?