What did you do on your car today?

[tinitran]

Wet vacuumed the seats. Looks brand new.

[pana161]

Installed lowered springs

Not too happy with the drop. Hope it settles a little lower

[Zaphod]

Wet vacuumed the seats. Looks brand new.

Did you use a domestic one or hire one?

[OldEmmGee]

Hoges - thanks for asking the question; I am including the info abut the older Junction Box (fuse box behind the glovebox) to every dealer and in future fitting instructions incuded in the kits (the kit to suit the Ralliart face is due to hit the dealers by the end of the month). Cheers!

[turbogirl]

[Zaphod]

More 'what I did on my car yesterday and today'!

As you may be aware, I've had a couple of goes at doing the chrome trim around the grille, but both times the corners have eventually peeled away - so I thought 'what the h#ll, third time lucky'!



I did things a bit differently this time - I figured it might help to pre-shape the chrome trim before fitting it, the same way I did with the foglight trims I fitted a while back.

I found with a bit of experimentation that if you bend the trim on a flat surface and then quickly hit it with a heat gun, it'll keep the flattened curve more readily (which in turn will sit closer to the car's bodywork).


The first step was to figure out where the trim needed to be curved, so I marked-up the trim with masking tape (unfortunately I forgot to take a pic with it on the car, but this is the index marker once I'd cut the trim out from the masking tape):



and the whole thing with the masking tape guides still in place:




Once I'd marked up where to bend, it was back into the kitchen where I flat-curved the trim; it's best to do this gradually and 'push out' from the inside of the curve in order to stretch the outer radius and prevent inner radius wrinkles!

Once I was happy with each bend, I taped it into place and gave it a quick warm-up with the heat gun.

Here you can see the bend taped down to keep the shape and let the trim cool right down:




One word of warning though, if you take the trim anything past 'warm', it will wrinkle (you can also see the small piece of blue tape I used to mark the apex of each curve):




Once you're happy with the bends, it's a simple matter of realigning the centre index mark (blue masking tape above the Mitzi logo) and carefully fitting the trim (start from the middle and work outwards, one side at a time).


When it's all in place and looking sexy, tape the corners down to the body firmly and leave it for 24hrs (or at least overnight) to settle into it's new home. I ran the car for a few minutes to slightly warm the bodywork to help set the glue on the trim:




This morning when I came down and removed the masking tape, I was quite pleased with how closely the trim sits against the bodywork - much better than the previous couple of attempts:







I hope this time the corners will stay put!!!

[CakeMixJ23]

Finally cleaned her up for a few photos

[Youthless]

Only a small thing but I changed the windscreen wipers, the ones it had on were leaving big un-wiped streaks across my nice new windscreen, I think they'd never been changed before.

[Zaphod]

^^^ wouldn't it be easier to just replace the wipers rather than doing the windscreen when it got dirty! ^^^

[Youthless]

The windscreen had a couple of big chips in it at the dealers so I got them to put a new one on before I picked it up!

But yeah it was getting all streaky from having 3 year old wiper blades

[Youthless]

Did a minor interior mod today lol

[Damir]

Got a new exhaust put on >:D
2.5inch stainless steel from the dump pipe and apex cannon with a high flow magna flow cat

[lantourismo]

Got a new exhaust put on >:D 2.5inch stainless steel from the dump pipe and apex cannon with a high flow magna flow cat

Nice, tune next?

[Damir]

yeah it needs it
running so rich

[Damir]

broken