Search results

One of my headlight covers snapped while I was putting it on. Damn. I see why everyone's always got broken tabs. I guess they're meant to stay on (when they are clear of course) instead of constantly be clipped on and off. Since this one has broken quite a lot off, I'll probably have a go at...

Today, I WetVac'd the boot, as I had somehow forgotten. That looks much better. I developed a better technique, and since I had to return in in under 2 hours, I used all of my remaining detergent. I quickly put the right seat in after doing some more interior WetVac-ing. Without doing the...

So, a little while back, I took out the left seat to start the swapping process. Here it's quite easy to see how terrible the standard seats are in comparison to the Super S seats. I had to reuse my old seatbelt buckles. For two reasons, firstly, the preface ones are different and as such...

Been a while since I did anything car related. Still really annoyed about the oil leak. I noticed that my boothandle was looking ****ty. The paint is peeling up at the corner, and it looks like this weaker paint has not enjoyed my occasional reversing up against a hedge at certain places. Damn...

I realised that I had bought a magnetic sump plug that was M12x1.5mm, when it should have really been M12x1.25mm! That can't have helped with the whole leak situation. The thread did look a little mangled when I took it out. So for now, I've got a standard one in there. There's a properly sized...

I seem to have obtained a little collection of tail lights now too. One of which was this prefacelift right one. It's broken, as the car had been crashed into. I wanted to see how the lens came off, and this broken one was perfect for practicing. So, prefacelift lenses have two parts. The...

I wasn't quite happy with the headlight covers. So I added more lacquer. I in fact emptied an entire can on them both. That's much more like it. I was prepared to see this wetness go more dull when they dried though. But the next day, they actually still looked like that! I polished them to...

I sanded the covers with 2000, 5000 and 7000 grit paper. Then polished a bit, and added a little wax. Those bumps from the primer layer are not helping at all, but I can't repaint it now. Some more lacquer just arrived though, so I could add some more to then sand and polish down quite...

I forgot, on the way to the garage, my battery ran out of charge again. It's probably because it's not been driven in like a month. But, a new battery would be good soon. I can use the existing one as a jump starter (as my current jump starter is about dead). Back on the road, though. Work is...

So, the Miliput was dry on the headlight protectors. So I sanded one down, luckily it acted just how I hoped it would. Got that side quite smooth. Then I did the other side, which needed much more sanding. I got it as smooth as I could be bothered to. I then painted some VHT black on the...

Later in the day, from the previous post, I did some more stuff. The LHD tail light for the track car got some more cleaning. Still full of Finnish dirt, I sprayed water into the light and flushed out almost all of it. I also noticed that the reflector was missing some chrome on the bottom one...

I tried out some blue headlight bulbs that I found in the cabrio. As I expected, they made the light more white, but at a cost of brightness. So I took it out again immediately. While my friend was over, I borrowed one of his wheels. It looks pretty good. I couldn't lower my car as the jack was...

I tried to put the two wires from the arm rest in with the two existing wires that send power to the locks. Again, the relay in the arm rest switches just buzzed. Out of curiosity, I tried to manually lock/unlock the door while it was plugged in. The door locks quickly jumped back and forth...

Continuation of last post... Test fitting and looking good. It looks really shiny in the photos. Time to do the left door, and this time I did it much better. One of those little plastic clips was broken but I found a couple in my stores. The Nissan anti slip mat worked well here. Looks...

Well, I again didn't upload for ages... So, here are the relays for the seat heaters. I only need 2, but I got one for free. Again, the welded bosses holding the coilpacks on broke. Really annoying, this time I'm going to swap the heads over, which will be a big job... At least that's an...

With the fabric traced, they were ready to cut. Stupid me wrote L and R on them and realised that, because the fabric is very thin, the ink is visible on the other side. So I did them much smaller on the right two. Not that I even needed to specify which side as I'm sure they're the same, and...

Oops, I've got to do another double post! So, the heating pads arrived. Faster than expected. They're nice and soft, and very long. They've got one end of a plug on each of them. Which is very useless. They came with some sticky foil strips. After a little research, I found that these are...

Finally, some rain. Today, my resistors arrived for the steering wheel buttons. Some other stuff arrived too. Including a free dashboard mat. Which I would not have gotten if it wasn't free. It actually works really well, it's quite amazing how well things stick onto it .It would look better...

Hogrings and the fabric samples arrived. I'll see what I can do without hogring pliars. As for the fabric, I like the charcoal grey more, as I expected. I'll need to see them against the seat and in the car. Like I said, I might get more fabric for the door cards just to match it up better...

Continuing one final time from the previous post! I had a look at the fabric of the seat once it was separate. It's sewn together quite simply. So I ran a blade down the seam and split the fabric down. I also drew around myself on the foam as I'm going to be adding a little extra foam to hold...