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Fats25

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Saturday 25th July 2015

So yesterday I decided to take the Truck into the desert for the first time. Brilliant fun by the way, and will definitely do again. However my lack of experience/ability meant that I cocked up. I thought I was on a motorbike and as I was coming to the bottom of the dunes I decided to give it some gas (like you do to get the front wheel up on a bike). I got away with it for most of the morning, before I went down a steeper one, and on accelarating I hit the bash plate pretty hard.

Nothing broken the bash plate did it's job. However it has bent the bottom bumper slightly out of line. I took a look at 07:00 this morning, and was going to remove, align and refit. But even looking with a cup of tea and a fag on the go, the sweats had started! Is too hot for me to do it.

The truck goes into delaer for a service on Monday, but I am sure they will charge a fortune in labour, and also they don't have the best reputation from what I have heard before. Anyone know anywhere that will do the alignment work well, and not cost an arm and a leg?

Photos below show what I mean - as you can see the "smile" has changed!

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