OH NO!

The Stylus went for its MoT today at the brilliant Silvesters in Guildford.

It does look pretty tired to be fair

BUT - it failed! one of the rear callipers was weeping hydraulic oil. Obviously I checked the fluid level before bringing it home, & it has two separate brake systems & it's traffic all the way, so there was no risk as the front brakes were perfectly OK. I knew the disc conversion kit was a Rally Design one, so I looked online - the calliper looked the same, but on the car they're handed & there was only one part number. I sent a message with a tick in the "URGENT" box & got a reply within 5 minutes saying if I ordered two (which I was) I'd get one left & one right.

I put the order in & got a confirmation, then DISASTER - an e-mail saying they were out of stock & it would be 4-5 weeks! That meant I was out of Wheels Day & the Devon road trip.

I e-mailed back explaining that I needed the car for a road trip & was there any alternative - could they supply a seal kit, or as I knew the calliper was a VAG part, could they tell me the vehicle so I could try somewhere else. About 15 mins later I got another e-mail saying there is another kit with the same calliper but different brackets, if I didn't mind swapping the brackets they could send that through. so as I write, the offending calliper is on the garage floor & the new ones are in the post, due tomorrow.

I think that's pretty good service, my only fear is that at some point since the car was built (24 years ago) Rally Design have changed the calliper type & the new ones won't fit.