With the arrival of the unbelievably good long summer we’ve had this year came a deluge of work – don’t get me wrong, I am happy to be busy but it can be really difficult trying to keep up with deadlines when almost every job ‘grows’ a bit as is common with old cars and the next gap in the diary is 3 weeks or more away.
Apart from the usual service based jobs, we seem to have had quite a few engine repairs and rebuilds, yet more transmission work and a rash of new ‘put it back on the road jobs’. We have also gained quite a few new customers who have bought Triumphs for the first time or perhaps for the first time in a few decades and who want them to be checked over thoroughly before being pressed into service. These can turn up all sorts of things which we don’t usually see. One had the old OE static seat belts extended by simply tying some new seat belts to them while another had a hole in an inner sill ‘repaired’ with Gaffer Tape and then undersealed over! It can be quite scary to find some of the ‘Destroy-it-Yourself’ repairs which a few people carry out.
With the Club Triumph Round Britain Reliability Run fast approaching we have had a fair few customers booking their RBRR cars in for check overs and routine maintenance prior to the event, I only hope I still have time to get the one I’m going in done in time – oh well, back to it.
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