Airco working and register stats

The garage had forgotten to fill up the airco and it's done now. Yes, it's blowing cold air again. So happy with it. And again a small drive up and down in the street. It drives so well and sounds so nice. 

But the coupe is so nice as well. And only 83.000 km on the odometer. The SW has a 210.000 km on the odometer. I rarely see Kappa SW in the wild on the road. I wonder how many there still are in the Netherlands?

I just checked via www.kenteken.tv and its 40 in total. But only 3 x 2.4 SW
And quite a few coupe's: 124 

Out of curiosity I checked and found the other 2x 2.4 SW's in the Netherlands. 

The first one is offered for sale at: https://www.jacco.nl

https://svl.autodealers.nl/Lancia/Kappa-SW/2.4-20V-LS-5241403/16148/1/16/details.aspx

It's an imported one with 153.000 km and costs € 9.450,-  Number plate T-865-KD

And the other one is offered for sale at https://www.martinwillems.nl via

https://voorraad.autodatawheelerdelta.nl/lancia/kappa/sw-24-20v-ls-project/occ3475355-f529c

It's an original Dutch car with unknown mileage and no MOT since 2017. It has a black leather interior. Offered as a project car for € 1.950,- 

So by the looks of it I'm the only Dutch private person driving an original 2.4 SW version :-)

MOT repairs

 As mentioned previously, I was off a few days and spent 1 day to work on the Kappa SW. 

Now the stabilization bars were done I could look into the brakes. All brakes had to be freed up.

I started at the backside but effectively these were spinning freely. Which is not a surprised as these were renewed when it bought the car 5 years ago:

https://erwinkappa.blogspot.com/2020/10/mot-maintenance-bill.html

Still I took it off and cleaned the whole lot with a steel brush on the drill machine and lubricated the slider bars of  the calipers

So the backside was pretty easy. The front however was indeed more problematic. The brake cylinder was slightly corroded and dirty thus playing up a little.So this got cleaned up and lubricated.

Luckily I had once bought this brake kit, so I easily could push them back. And repeated this a few times. Also the front brakes got cleaned up with a steel brush and lubricated the caliper pins. 

The car had on all wheels new brake pads. So now the car brakes are working properly again.

Afterwards I have been driving up and down the street and tested the brakes to ensure there were no surprises.

Another reported issue was potential rust / bubbles on one of the braking pipes (rear left). I could not easily spot this though, but could see one pipe having a little bubble on the coating

So with sandpaper I removed the coating till it was blank. The bubble was definately not a result of rust, so all was good though. I sprayed the whole lot with rust protection primer:

I also replaced both light bulbs of the licensplate holder as a remark was made that one was very dim. And indeed it was. Easy fix.

So I returned the car to the garage for a new MOT. I told them about the stabilization bar replacement, the easiest job turned out to be a hassle and required a grinder in the end. Then I was informed, these bars were not even a MOT fail. Sigh! Although they had a bit of friction, hence it was mentioned. Oh well, it should drive a little better now. 

And the good news is, by now the MOT is a PASS !!

So I can start driving it again. Which is my plan indeed. I will make it my new daily driver and park my Kappa Coupe for a while. The intention is to tackle all other remaining bits and pieces slowly one by one.