Thanks option 2 it is!

Replaced broken speakers today overall much better and cleaner as expected

Last boost in quality will come from new head unit

With the speakers sorted this car only has 2 issues left


1. Ac leak - braze weld repair awaits

2. Map lights on ride side have a ground issue and do not illuminate when pressed both front and rear so they must share a common point I will likely ignore this hope to rectify it by accident somehow doing somthing else at some point


Girly touch is settled i could not find pink valve necks

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The dreaded ac pipe repair

This car has 4 way ac so this pipe splits up in the bulkhead

One junction was completely inaccessible despite scratching my head for an hour with a borescope. The only access would be from below after removing downpipes.....

Nah eff that, inspired from another fullfat member i decided to cut a section away and pull the offending peice from the cut to condenser.

Having stared at the pipe the holes were too big to reliably try a brazing rod

I then spent the best part of the morning bending 10mm copper pipe with a old brake pipe bender that accepts 10mm

End results as follows oem bends and fitting bar the copper and compression joints

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That will do the job nicely 👌 it's how I fix all of mine. It took 2 attemps to fill with gas only because the valve in the ac pump was stuck due to it being out of service for so long. Vacced out the 1st attempt via the machine yhen on yhe end attempt refilled in minutes.
Still ice cold