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Old Feb 2, 2009 | 07:14 AM
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Took the S into WIM in Chesham on Saturday morning.

I've been promising myself I would get this done for the past couple of years and got round to it at last. My biggest fear with my MY99 was siezed bushes.

I emailed a general enquiry and got a nice email back by return from Tony. Mentioned the siezed bushes issue and he thought they would be OK with the history and mileage on the car.

So in preparation I got the car up on some ramps a week ago and gave them a good shot of WD40 and then repeated it on Friday evening. To be honest the underside of the car looked pretty good, but it does live in the garage and is a weekend car with only 30K on the clock.

So here are some pictures











Long and short - no siezed bushes - result!

There was one issue with the nearside rear, which was at the maximum adjustment and still slightly out of spec for toe in. Tony recommended sacrificing a bit of camber to get this in spec which worked, (both sides the same of coarse).

The car is now set up standard Honda spec and drives very nicely and at a very good price of
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Old Feb 3, 2009 | 12:15 PM
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if Watford is now classed as north.... its my car!

I'll be doing a thread tomorrow with all the details in of what I have had done
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