what have you done on your mgf today?

[Chris Tideswell]

Spent some of the day building up the subframe

[Reckless Rat]

Good subframe that one - the towing eyes are usually battered to death, especially on an 'F' when the hydragas has depleted.

[Notanumber]

Ive removed the drivers side seat base cover to be repaired. To get a spare piece of alcantara for the repair I bought a spare headrest for £ 5 and unpicked the front facing. Looking forward to getting this back, reassembling the seat and driving the TF again.

[Reckless Rat]

First outing for 2024. Nice and sunny down here today, 18°C so just right for a spot of "roof-down" motoring. The car fired up first flick, as usual. (I keep it on a battery conditioner over the winter).

The roads were dry and they don't salt round here, so I had a nice little round robin of about 25 miles to get the car thoroughly warmed through and to burn off any condensation. Makes you realise what a lovely thing they are THE MGF. I paid £2K for mine in 2008 and it has been a little belter. More than paid for itself. Cushty. Mange tout Rodders.

[Notanumber]

Just got the cover for the drivers seat base back from the repairer. He kindly passed on a handful of hog rings and lent me his spare hog ring pliers which made refitting the cover a doddle.
The backrest is bolted on and now that the weather is better i'l refit the seat tonight and looking forward to a drive in the TF again.

[Reckless Rat]

I need counselling! I went out with the Mem'Sahib today in the 'F' to have lunch with some friends. During the meal it rained and I had to drive home in the wet... that's the first time I've got it wet in over 5 years!

I hope it hasn't caught a cold.

[Notanumber]

Ive ordered a cambelt, tensioner and water pump ready for changing sometime in the summer. I picked up some locking tools a while ago.

[Reckless Rat]

I'm just gearing up for a trip to Italy in the 'F', at the end of next month. Going via the French alps and then the tunnel of Frejus, then to Turin and north to lake Maggiore. It's about time it had a decent run out. Hasn't really been anywhere since before covid.

[Reckless Rat]

Update on my last post - trip to Italy has been postponed, but because of the weather. We were planning to go a week tomorrow but the local forecast is for heavy rain all the time we're there, which would have made the trip a bit pointless. We've put it off until a bit later. In the meantime I'm getting the F ready for its bi-annual contrôle technique. It has only done 1500 miles in the past two years so there's not much wrong with it, but the rear tyres are down to the depth indicators so I've ordered a new pair. It appears that the Toyo Proxes T1R has now been replaced with the TR1. The tread pattern is slightly different, so we'll see how they fare.