It was a sunny Sunday morning so Dad and I went out to do a few jobs on Bob. The side door runners were greased up and it now runs far more smoothly, and then it was onto the passenger door mechanism which opened and shut well but was difficult to unlock. The door panel was removed, everything taken out and the slightly worn and stiff lock was greased and checked over. The job of getting it all back in place saw the potential for much colourful language but eventually the job was done and it works better than before, if still not with the key.

Later on we went out for a drive and checked the tyre pressures again as Bob had started wobbling again. Whilst the front ones were fine the back o/s tyre had dropped to the 20s. It was pumped back up and inspected at my brother’s house. The white-wall ‘spats’ had come off and so were half in the wheel-seal and half out. Clearly there was an air leak at the edges. Trying to remove it it ripped, so it’s been cut back and tomorrow I’ll take her to Stratford Tyres to have it taken off completely. I’ve just got to decide now whether to have them all taken off – I probably will as it’ll look odd, but it depends how much they charge!