PollyMobiles Rebuild

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2025-10-30 Weld Rear Corner Rust

To repair the rust hole above the fuel filler pipe I first need to drain the tank

Syphoned out 7.5L (just as the low fuel light appeared)

Tank has tiny little specks of dirt (not as much as last February)

Filling up at local morrisons for the past few months still contains some black debris but not as much as when I used to fill with tesco fuel

With fuel drained I can remove the filler pipe for better access to the rust area

Wirebrushed the surface rust off this area

Gave the stainless pipe a quick polish too

Chopped this triangle section out

Next day I'll be welding a new section in and repaint it with polyurethane coat before tackling the other rust hole in the wheel well

 

[Donnelly]

The old one that bolts on the rocker cover? Yeah

Would you be willing to sell the 3d file ? Of course only for my own personal use

 

[pollyp]

Would you be willing to sell the 3d file ? Of course only for my own personal use

Pm'd

 

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Welded & painted the new corner piece

Chopped the rot out of the wheel well, welded & painted

Had a lot of leftover primer paint, so I may as well paint the rest of the boot floor

 

[pollyp]

Panels painted and filler pipe reinstalled & refuelled

 

[pollyp]

2025-11-05 Lidl Powerbank / Compressor

My old tyre pump was worn out with cracked rubber hoses and saw Lidl selling this 4in1 powerbank/jump starter/light/digital tyre pump for £45 which seems really handy for kassandra

Works gr8 at conveniently & quickly pumping the tyres upto the target pressure before turning off automatically, plus it doesn't need plugging into the car (no hassle with wires) and no need to run the engine

ofc I was curious to inspect the insides

Battery label says
model: F8043126
voltage: 12.8v
capacity: 3500mAh 44.8Wh
date: 2025.02.20 2501
serial: 41PpP9/44/129
material: LiFePO4

I finally added some rubber cushions on the garage walls to protect the door edges

These old bosch super plus wuper blades I brought from halfords has lasted 2yrs and now starting to smear, which lasted twice as long as all previous cheap ones, so I replaced them with a new set

 

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2025-11-06 Prep Peugeot 307 for MOT

With the peugeots MOT coming up, I checked over the car.

The plastic headlight covers were a little faded over so I sanded with 1200 & 2500 before buffing with G3 & polish

Wirebrushed the decades of caked brake dust off the wheels

The only tiny thing to fix is a rust hole in the inner rear sill

 

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2025-11-07 Weld Peugeot Sills & Boot Floor

Wirebrushing the rear left sills reveal more holes as a result from years of parking outside the house with the car leaning to the left & rear

Easy enough to patch over

Painted with epoxy primer

The drain hole in the wheel well also rotted

Chopped the rot

Patched

Painted

Book the MOT in the coming days