I'm up for this, wanna get out and meet some fellow zs'ers!

I thought you worked for a garage, any OBD2 scanner will read the code and clear the light.

Great call - but like I said - I'm skint. If they work OK, Ill def take them. My new wheels are fitted with 205 40s so they're gonna look small in there until it's lowered.

:ohmy: Wouldnt let my our mechanics anywhere near my car........... They cant even fix Fords, and thats what they trained for. I will stick with mates, who are all ex MGR boyz..........

ps. Anything through our workshop, has to be put through the books, so I would have to pay the going rate for diagnostics £85!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

How times change - when I was a driver for our local VAG dealer the mechanics would lend me their tools and I could use the workshop at weekends when the sales dept was open.

Too true. In my old garage, I worked with a gr8 set of lads. On my saturday in, I could ask them to leave their toolboxes open, then ask the owner if I could use the ramps. Would get my car in the workshop, lift it up on 4poster, adn do any work I needed to do, in pefect conditions, with all the tools required.
Then once everything was done, toolboxes shut, workshop all locked up, I would then ask the owner if I could use the valletting bay,a dn I wash and clean my car.

As long as I asked him, the answer was always "yes"....No one does anyone favours now. It all has to be done "through the books" for Health and Safety.........................Just to screw staff for money I say. I mean, to get MOT done at my garage, I pay the full public rate of £58! I have to pay now to get tyres fitted! Think I will wait now until I go and see Stamford and the "fix it meet".......

Those days are long gone, I used to be able to do things similar, use facilities etc, not now. £58 for an MOT! WTF! I have never paid more than £35, I must be lucky then!

Plus I hate garages, I can count on one hand the number I would trust with any of my cars. Been on the wrong end of too many bad jobs and that includes main dealers. It only takes one bad job and all hell breaks loose.

Paid £35 for my last couple and all booked on line with F1. Decent enough guys. Would get them to do any work, but an MOT is just checking stuff. even still, the last one i had done elsewhere was £25 booked in advance, but when I went to pay - they went - "yeah mate your headlamp needed adjustment - so we just did it for you for an extra tenner ! " ..... Really ....

And ... who needs garages anyway when we've got a "stamford" to direct and check, and sets of willing hands to get things sorted - for some similar effort for others in return....

I can bring the sandwiches and my learning cap.

Yes, direct and learn sessions for those that wish to have a go but want a little helping hand when out of the comfort zone, best way to learn.