A Flash and A Bang !

Working on the Caterham first thing to fix the indicators. Still windy but sunny and quite warm all of a sudden - 10 degrees ish.

As the hazards worked it was either the indicator switch, or the flasher relay I thought. so having tinkered with the switch it seemed OK so I looked for the relay ...

That bit took me 20 minutes. It was tucked up under the dash high up on the left hand side. Old grubby Halfords branded one so a replacement at some time. Easy to test as I shorted across the two terminals and the indicators came on.

Talking of Halfords I then went to said shop - none in stock. So I tried Wilco in Nacton - none in stock. I then went all the way to Wilco on the old Norwich Road - yes they had it. Then home - so about 20 miles and probably a gallon of petrol for a £5.50 part.

So back working again and 10 mins later we had everything fixed and tidied away.

I took the car out for a test drive after lunch in the sunshine only to hit this.

A large block of firewood - and yes that groove is my sump. Anyway having stopped and checked under the car it all seemed fine so we went around the block to look for hawks.

I parked up when I thought I'd spotted one but no. This could become my new favorite spot though.

Finally two runs as passenger in the MK7 - Harkstead and then Ipswich for a birthday meal.