Hi Guys, so I have been off the forum for a few weeks as it's been a bit manic with dashing over to Peter's in Germany and back. Lucky for my a good long term friend lives just 50mins from Bonn and I was able to stop over and get to Peter.. He was kind enough to hold on to the Cityel for me till that Friday.. which was a blessing as it's a big commitment for me,
I had to completely empty my works van !! and that was a huge task in it's self
Book a Eurotunnel
Book a place to stay which ended up sleeping in CIty Europe car park 1st night, not as bad as you think in the back of the van LOL
Then on to Bert's house in Belgium.
some 800 mile round trip and we are home.. with the city el..
In the first 2 days I had it in for the MOT ( TUV ) here in the UK.
It failed!!!
:-( turned out the brake lights didn't work! sorted that with a temp bodge of a limit switch and that now works
Washer bottle leaking ( temp fix )
in looking for the fault for the brakes, a mechanic blew up the fuse and diode on the main circuit board!!!! completely shutting down all 12v systems to the cityel!!!
So happy to find from Alan in Denmark that it was a safety diode that needed to be cut from the board and it all works again.. New diode has arrived and I will be fitting that at some point this week.. £5 fix!! phew!
I now have MOT
Then I sent off all the paper work into the DVLA to register it as a vehicle for the UK roads..
I am still waiting for them..
i have investigated the batteries I need and ouch that's a lot of money.. but I got a E100's off and that has contributed towards their cost and I have lots of old batteries that I need to scrap so again I hope to gain some ££ back on them towards the new battery..
I think the lipo option is just too expensive for me at this stage.
So I had an odd mix of Yellow top, Green bottom and red wheel covers!! Almost Rasta look.. so that had to change.. so for now I have vinyl wrapped it.. ALL Yellow... I took the wheel covers into the body shop, sanded them and repainted them car silver !!
I have cleaned it a lot and it's really come up nice now... Also I had some cracks in the floor of the city el.. so I heated up the floor and pushed the floor back down that had buckled and that is now flat... I also repaired the floor with epoxy to put some strength back in and stop it getting any worse.
Then I got some carpet I use for camper vans that is water proof and fitted that .. wow what a difference that made..
So while I wait for the UK DVLA to send me paper work or reject the paper work I was looking into UK registration number plates to buy..... and well!!! this number plate was available.... C17 YEL C17Y EL ... so I bought it!!!
what a number plate to have on your Cityel.. only the name of it!!! that's going to turn heads on it's own!!!
So big thanks to Peter !! from here...
I hope you can see the pictures.. let me know if not?
https://www.reezocar.com/en/voiture-occasion/cityel-cityel-RZCATSDE3FEA7355CA07.html is Peters one I have bought..
I had to completely empty my works van !! and that was a huge task in it's self
Book a Eurotunnel
Book a place to stay which ended up sleeping in CIty Europe car park 1st night, not as bad as you think in the back of the van LOL
Then on to Bert's house in Belgium.
some 800 mile round trip and we are home.. with the city el..
In the first 2 days I had it in for the MOT ( TUV ) here in the UK.
It failed!!!
:-( turned out the brake lights didn't work! sorted that with a temp bodge of a limit switch and that now works
Washer bottle leaking ( temp fix )
in looking for the fault for the brakes, a mechanic blew up the fuse and diode on the main circuit board!!!! completely shutting down all 12v systems to the cityel!!!
So happy to find from Alan in Denmark that it was a safety diode that needed to be cut from the board and it all works again.. New diode has arrived and I will be fitting that at some point this week.. £5 fix!! phew!
I now have MOT
Then I sent off all the paper work into the DVLA to register it as a vehicle for the UK roads..
I am still waiting for them..
i have investigated the batteries I need and ouch that's a lot of money.. but I got a E100's off and that has contributed towards their cost and I have lots of old batteries that I need to scrap so again I hope to gain some ££ back on them towards the new battery..
I think the lipo option is just too expensive for me at this stage.
So I had an odd mix of Yellow top, Green bottom and red wheel covers!! Almost Rasta look.. so that had to change.. so for now I have vinyl wrapped it.. ALL Yellow... I took the wheel covers into the body shop, sanded them and repainted them car silver !!
I have cleaned it a lot and it's really come up nice now... Also I had some cracks in the floor of the city el.. so I heated up the floor and pushed the floor back down that had buckled and that is now flat... I also repaired the floor with epoxy to put some strength back in and stop it getting any worse.
Then I got some carpet I use for camper vans that is water proof and fitted that .. wow what a difference that made..
So while I wait for the UK DVLA to send me paper work or reject the paper work I was looking into UK registration number plates to buy..... and well!!! this number plate was available.... C17 YEL C17Y EL ... so I bought it!!!
what a number plate to have on your Cityel.. only the name of it!!! that's going to turn heads on it's own!!!
So big thanks to Peter !! from here...
I hope you can see the pictures.. let me know if not?
https://www.reezocar.com/en/voiture-occasion/cityel-cityel-RZCATSDE3FEA7355CA07.html is Peters one I have bought..