Work done since its been off the road

CV Joint
CV Gaiter
2 front ball joints
Full set of shocks and springs
Both rear droplinks
Changed back to 15's
2 x bulbs
New rear shoes
New rear pistons
New front pads
New brake pipes
Refurbed caliper
Lambda Sensor

Still more to do!!!!!!!! Its gonna be like a new car soon.

are you fitting the refurbed caliper yourself, or someone else doing the work?

just wondering as i need to do this very soon, or get it done

Getting someone to do it as i am unable to do very much being in between surgerys. If you have ever had a caliper in bits it is quite easy to do. Last year my front o/s caliper slider seized up so i had to remove it with plenty of wd40. It was rusty and the rubber was pretty goosed. I basically oiled it up and removed all traces of rust and replaced the rubber and it went from a mot fail to a mot pass.

You can buy caliper repair/refurb kits but i cant find one on the net that can be used for the BA

Other option is to remove it, send it off by courier and pay to have it refurbed at a company like this:
http://www.brakecaliperrefurbs.co.uk/
I have a funny feeling that it would work out more expensive than buying new calipers though!!!!

She is now slammed and has another years ticket and some restoration work done.

you sir are amazing, with the pain etc and still get that done

seriously though hope your well and you get another 11r soon

Ok dokey

Chucked a major hissy fit as there was a bit of foam coming out of the radiator cap SOOOOOOOOOO

Donor car ripped to shreds
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Head removed
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Skimmed (8 microcons or whatever he said) New gaskets fitted.
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Happy days, got pissed off with the Zafra engine management light being on all of the time so removed the exhaust gas recirculator and used the wives toothbrush to clean it. Jobs a good un!
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Just bought myself an Audi A3 for a bargain price so she will be going in the breakers section soon. Unfortunately she has started smoking on startup, otherwise i would have sold her whole as she has only 80k and over 9 months MOT.

Steven, I bought a blanking plate for my Zafira and just blanked mine off, trick is to swivel the egr round on 1 bolt and still leave it plugged in

Best think ive done, smoother, better starting, no kangarooing and best of all better mpg, all with a 4 quid plate
And because the ecu still thinks its there no eml

Petrol egr's don't respond very well to cleaning and there was no way I was paying 80 quid just for it to fail in a years time

yeah i did that, i went to the scrappys and there was a blanking plate inside one of the egr's. Its running sweet now. No engine management light for a few months now.

i was meaning the mazda is going to the breakers section!!!