Not much to do except change the front discs and pads – bit annoying because although the discs were lipped with some grooving (due I suspect; to the sand and fine stones that get washed onto the roads around here) the pads each had about 6mm left. I changed discs and pads a few days ago in a now rare dry spell; in daylight and it was then I got a good look at the hood.
The Zed is my daily drive and stands out on the drive all the time but as yet we’ve had no hard frosts (can only think of one light frosting between Christmas and New Year) just mild damp weather and boy does the algae grow – the top looked quite green in the cold light of day. Everything goes green down here but this year is particularly bad. I invested twenty minutes yesterday to scrub the hood with Miltons fluid before I washed the car – normally I can get away with not doing it until spring. This time of year it’s too damp to vacuum the dirt out first but the scrubbing did the job and also removed the cat fur
We have acquired a colony of seven feral cats and one of the big buggers kips on the Zed and in exchange for the hammock like accomodation leaves an extra insulation layer of discarded fur. On the upside we haven’t see a live rat or mouse for about two years so on balance I’d rather cat fur on the car then rodents in the loft running around at night or invading the chicken house.
So down for test this morning with a clean hood and it’s a straight pass and no advisories
.... and then in a few weeks time it’s the hood again as the algae comes back
unless of course we get a good cold snap
We've had them destroy a cover on a MR2 in a couple of nights.