Well, if a day could have been any less suited to working on a car outdoors, I'd struggle to imagine it. I eventually got the lower intake hose refitted yesterday, in 20min sunny periods between thunder and torrential rain, and the car is running again!
I don't know what the perished hose was feeding on top of the throttle body (DISA?), but my placebo-o-meter says the car feels a lot more sprightly at lower revs, where it felt sluggish before. Free power, basically...
And because no good deed goes unpunished, when I started the car back up there was an airbag light on the dash. I'm going to assume it got unhappy at sitting without a battery connected for a while, and either get it reset when it goes in for a service in June or buy one of those C110 scanners to do it myself.
To celebrate a partial victory, I took it to a decent local valeting place. Based in the shopping centre car park in Wimbledon town centre, these guys are a significant step up from the modern slavery places on old petrol station forecourts. They clean one car at a time, and in 40min can clean, decontaminate, polish and wax a car. All for £30. For a lazy git without the facilities to wash my car at home, this is a dream.
Smashing stuff.
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