[FrattonEnder]

Or to put it more correctly springs and rear upper and lower arms are coming.
Having spent Sunday crawling around under the back of the Zed to work out what the grinding noise when reversing was, I'm going to have to get the above little lot replaced. It was the off-side spring that had broken and was rubbing against the rim. Not only that, the upper arm on that side looked like it was made from smokey bacon crisps! How that passed the MOT back in October is anyone's guess. Near-side arm looks OK though the spring did look like it might have failed before, but I don't fancy risking it with going from occassional use to daily.

So, as she's going to be the daily following the demise of the Mondeo last weekend and the chancellor not releasing the purse strings to replace it, I'm going to have to stump up to get the bits and get it done pronto. A wish list with DMGRS has been created, so that's the physical stuff in hand.

Question to the worldly wise out there - how long would it take someone with the right kit (ie, not me) to get this done? If it was warmer weather, I may have given it a punt, but I'm not freezing my bits off now. Either way, this wasn't planned expenditure, so the flexible friend will have to pick it up.