{"id":290,"date":"2006-08-28T05:27:56","date_gmt":"2006-08-28T05:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesots.com\/wordpress\/?p=0"},"modified":"2013-01-20T17:09:54","modified_gmt":"2013-01-20T17:09:54","slug":"car-fixing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/archives\/290","title":{"rendered":"Car Fixing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"\" src=\"\/site\/images\/blog\/2006\/picknpull.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Naomi and I spent the weekend fixing up our car. Yesterday we went to Pick&#8217;n&#8217;Pull, but didn&#8217;t know where it was and ended up at Buck&#8217;s Auto Parts instead, which was good because they had a Golf and a Jetta with nearly all the parts we needed, including new headlights and a whole stack of other parts, which came to only fifty dollars. And while we were there, another guy came along looking for Golf headlights. He&#8217;d already been to Pick&#8217;n&#8217;Pull and not found any, so we were glad we&#8217;d gone to Buck&#8217;s instead.<\/p>\n<p>Then we got home, and I closed the sunroof and the handle snapped off. So today we went back to Buck&#8217;s where we got a few more bits, but no handle, and then we went to Pick&#8217;n&#8217;Pull and got a handle and a couple of rear speakers which fit our car. And then came home and fitted everything to the car. Here&#8217;s a list of what we&#8217;ve done to it:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Changed both headlights (the old ones were cracked), which had a side effect&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>&#8230;the front grille now clips on properly<\/li>\n<li>Fitted sunroof handle<\/li>\n<li>Put in a new ashtray (the old one was the wrong colour)<\/li>\n<li>Fitted a strut to hold the bonnet up (we didn&#8217;t have one before)<\/li>\n<li>Changed one set of taillights so they match now (we used to have one red indicator and one orange, now both are orange)<\/li>\n<li>Fitted the radio aerial<\/li>\n<li>Installed a rain tray (now we shouldn&#8217;t get puddles in the car when it rains)<\/li>\n<li>Installed rear speakers (which still need to be wired up)<\/li>\n<li>Replaced the boot light switch<\/li>\n<li>Replaced the windscreen wipers<\/li>\n<li>Covered the holes in the doors where the wing mirror adjusters would have been<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We still have a whole load of things to do before we sell the car, but it&#8217;s starting to look a lot more saleable than it was.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Naomi and I spent the weekend fixing up our car. Yesterday we went to Pick&#8217;n&#8217;Pull, but didn&#8217;t know where it was and ended up at Buck&#8217;s Auto Parts instead, which was good because they had a Golf and a Jetta with nearly all the parts we needed, including new headlights and a whole stack of &#8230;<a class=\"post-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/archives\/290\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":981,"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions\/981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}