We all have our limitations when it comes to spanner-wielding, some of us bouncing our bonces off the glass ceiling sooner than others.
With mechanical problems, I’m enthusiastic enough but my diagnostic skills are pretty weak; fortunately, I have the likes of Port and Elliott to call on for advice. Likewise, James Page has earned himself a fine reputation for his skills with a multimeter so is usually the first port of call when suffering electrical maladies.
If I do have a forte, it's probably bodywork. It's an area that most of us are pretty fearful of taking on, and I certainly don't consider myself any kind of expert, but it's something I've always tackled with gusto – for the simple reason that I can't really afford to pay someone else to do it. I don't mean welding – although teaching myself is next on the list – rather patching up, tidying up, making pretty... Yup, bodging.
So I wasn't fazed by the idea of attacking the bubbling areas across the back of my Suzuki with a wire brush. Unfortunately, however, the discovery that the Whizzkid made a colander seem watertight soon proved too much for me, and the more I sanded back, the more holes I found. This was not a job for the plod-and-primer approach.
