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What do people want to do on the El weekend?

Postby aminorjourney » Sun Dec 16, 2007 11:31 am

This is a question for those coming to the City El /Mini El weekend on January 19th/20th.

What do you want to do at the weekend? I've got a nice long list of things that I'd like to do to my el but we should try to work out what jobs need doing and how they can be done.

The last thing we want is a bunch of dismantled and incomplete cars!

I'm hoping to:

Fit a third brake-light. (If enough people want maybe we could all get a discount for a group purchase of them?)

Fix the play which has developed in the Banana's front steering.
Check my rear light clusters (they've been on the blink again)
Fit draught excluders to the roof/tub.

What else do people want to do, or learn to do?

Obviously Andreas is going to show everyone how to do a service but we could also:

Do a quick whistle-stop tour of each car and look for common faults, replacing things like throttle pots etc and check thermistors (so the car doesn't boil the battery pack!)

Do a radio installation.

Have a go at replacing/upgrading suspension parts.

Do minor bodywork repairs (crack filling and body strengthening)

Tackle the import/DVLA paperwork ! :shock:

Anything else?

It's going to be useful to have people let me know what they want from the weekend so I can make sure they have the right parts from Andreas or we have the right kit!

Nikki.
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Postby booboo » Sun Dec 16, 2007 10:19 pm

I think you pretty much covered it , the only thing on my personal wish list would be a (better) bodge on my brake light switch. The original snuffed it, and replacements are no longer supplied. Switches from later models just dont quite fit :wink:

I'm all for having my mini-el checked over ,just for the piece of mind that I guessed correct when re-assembling the beastie.
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Postby aminorjourney » Tue Dec 18, 2007 5:12 pm

Excellent! :)

For those of us with road-worthy City Els I thought a little trip may be in order too. Can you all do five miles?
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Postby aminorjourney » Tue Dec 18, 2007 5:13 pm

BTW, if people can bring any tools they have, clearly identified as their own, that'd be grand too.

I've also got two 16A sockets on the side of the house for charging! :)
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Postby booboo » Wed Dec 19, 2007 10:39 am

aminorjourney wrote:Excellent! :)

For those of us with road-worthy City Els I thought a little trip may be in order too. Can you all do five miles?


I'm happy to give it a go... 8) ,depends on hills and temperature. The batteries are really not performing too well .To be honest you may need to lend me your little generator :wink:

Good news is I've just purchased a custom made trailer :D , but in order to afford it I used the money that was reserved for new batteries :oops:

The trailer is based on this-> http://www.phoenixtrailer.co.uk/bike%20trailers.htm

...with a few modifications it will be ready for collection later this month.
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