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5 GT Turbo Tungy grey o.e gtt

Long time no update ! After last post the car has not moved a wheel due to the new house purchase, basically end of september i put it in the garage and disconnected the battery. I had fully intended to fire it up every now and then but 7 months later all i had really done was open the garage door occasionally o_O
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Fast forward to a couple of sundays ago and im in the house - jobs to do but cant be arsed to do them as the weather is nice - think its time to wake the old girl up so tax it online for £80 of your finest pounds for 6 month.

Went round the garage and reconnected the battery, still charged. After a fair bit of cranking as the carb etc must have been pretty dry it fired up. Rolled it out of the garage everything working fine just as if it had been started up last week. The oil is still a nice golden colour and coolant bright green :D not a single bit of rust on the discs !

Went straight to tesco and checked the tyre pressures and fresh fuel in (always leave it empty) no issues at all flying along as per. Cleaned all the dust off and took it for a 100mile round trip to Scarborough and back flying along as per. Forgot how loud the exhaust is - the pops and bangs are awesome. Hopefully get it used a bit on dry days :D20160515_153325.webp 20160515_173510.webp 20160515_172435.webp 20160515_172519.webp 20160515_185907.webp 20160515_190058.webp 20160515_190107.webp
 
Long time no update. Not had much chance to use the gtt this year sadly due to house renovations etc. Took it for mot last week and flew through as usual no issues - 510 mile since last mot!

Insurance has just been renewed at £82 fully comp:D got it out of the garage for pics for agreed valuation today - Gave it a once over with Autoglym SRP then sealed with collinite 476s, came up lovely. I have set the value at £10,000 as per last year as it is a nice straight original car. However i have been advised to up it to 12-15k by a few people - probably not find too many unmolested examples for sale now in this condition. I might try for more next year.. 20160930_151954.webp 20160930_151859.webp 20160930_152150.webp 20160930_152136.webp 20160930_152200.webp 20160930_152113.webp 20160930_152345.webp 20160930_155732.webp 20160930_155933.webp
 
Took the gtt down to Cadwell Park last Thursday as it was the only car working out of all 4! We were supposed to be waiting for the garage doors to be delivered but got a phonecall in the morning saying they couldn't make it until the Friday so went last min. Stuck the battery back on and stuck 34ltrs of tesco 99 in and done the 310 miles journey in 24deg heat no problem. I was a little bit worried as prior to this the car had only done one journey for 30 miles or so this year but never missed a beat. Got the exhaust noise tested for the crack 102db @ 4500rpm which would have passed for a 105db day, not bad for unsilenced ! Needs a good clean now as the front is covered in bugs.20170525_150725.webp 20170525_175654.webp
 
I never carry any tools in this car apart from a flat head screwdriver and oem tool kit. I should replace the 26 year old michelin mxv spare tyre - been to europe with that as backup 3 times :D
 
Long time no update. Basically the gtt went for mot end of September 2017 and on the way back from mot reversed it into the garage to test fit and did not move it until last week, no reason for not moving it just the weeks have flown by and now its 2018.

I had the ctek charger connected up to the battery so it was just a case of reconnect the negative terminal and fire it up, which it did with no dramas. Left it idling for a good hour with heaters on and give it a clean to get the dust off. Roll on decent weather will tax and get it used.20180114_131742.webp20180114_132328.webp20180114_142034.webp20180114_142630.webp20180114_142701.webp20180114_170247.webp
Sandwiched in the garage between the megane and van until next time !20180115_170122.webp
 
Cheeky cup mod ?
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