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Thank heavens for Trevor!

here was a task which was skipped from my previous dairies as I ran out of space, but my Y Reg MINI was due an MoT recently and a couple of jobs needed sorting out. One was a safety issue, MoT or not – the about-to-drop-off petrol tank needed dealing with in a hurry. The other irritation was the passenger side exterior door handle – not long after buying the car I’d done a photoshoot inside MINI’s Swindon pressing plant where all of the car’s panels would have

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