Meanwhile I was watching the bay of dreams to see if I could find a decent used bumper cover I could get repainted - the split in the current one could be repaired but as the bumper was going to be painted anyway it made sense to explore the possibility. I also picked up a nice grill and blanking plates on here.
A couple of weeks ago I spotted an ice blue bumper being sold by a vendor in London. It looked to have a fair few scratches, but I bid £120- and arranged to collect it.
Pretty much all of London is now a low emission zone, so it would be £12.50 just to drive the A2 in. Sod that for a game of soldiers: the tape measure suggested an A2 bumper would just about fit in my Yaris, so one Saturday morning I headed early up to East London.
I used to live in the great wen, but nowadays it's a truly miserable place to drive, even at 8.30am on a sunny Saturday; endless 20mph zones, cameras, bus lanes and 'speed' bumps every 100metres.
The upside was that I could pop over to Islington afterwards and meet my eldest son for breakfast. Somewhat paranoid about leaving the new car with an obvious load in the street, I managed to find a secure multi-story in the new Kings Cross development:
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