scobie140

Looks good, well jelous

The clunk will be your brakes sticking, try parking it but leave the handbreak off and just leave it in gear. If it sticks really bad try rocking the car back and forth using 1st and reverse. Used to happen on my mrs old corsa after every wash.

Picked the car up today with the trim fitted and new exhaust They also had this tidy little number in The exhaust tips are made from old artillery shells!

Pics are pretty poor to be honest but so were the results Before pics; 2nd hand diffuser in "good" condition after a good clean with just soap and water. Magic sponge dot rid of most of the lighter scuffs @ilogikal1 After some trial and error on a bit that won't be seen it was clear that wet & dry was far too abrasive, scotch brite was ok but would have needed the full bumper done then a full polish which without a machine polisher would have taken ages. So gave it all a good hand polish. Gave it a good clean up then a coating of trim restorer. The only bit that's made good improvements is the painted trim, that was removed and treated to a refurb with rattle cans. As you can see I couldn't recover my test patch, Its under the car well out of sight anyway A few other marks still noticeable but slightly better. How it will sit on the car No one will prob ever notice these marks but it will still annoy me every time I wash the car. If I had more time i'd probably sand it right back and get it perfect then paint it the same colour as the car, then moan about how bad a paint job I've done to it

Not a fan of that to be honest, looks good from afar but when close up looks cheap. I've maybe never seen a good example mind you. My thoughts was if I kept it OEM as possible then it wouldn't really be noticeable other than to me because I know its there

Cheers guys I'll give this a bash over the weekend as it needs to be fitted for Monday morning to get the new exhaust made up to suit. I'd have never thought about trying a magic sponge on it. I think I might have some trim restorer in the garage if not it will have to be what ever decent option halfords can offer. I'll take some better pics to show how it started vs how I got on and what bits I made worse

For another car not my zed. Looking to remove a lot of scuffs and scratches from this plastic trim, its unpainted but a matte-ish finish. It was sold as in good condition but when it arrived it looks like its been kicked through a car park No new ones in stock in the uk or europe so will have to bite the bullet and refurb it best I can. I've not really had time to try much on it but I can experiment on the bits that won't be seen. I tried a little polish which worked a treat on the very light scuffs but not sure the best way to go about the deeper ones without making it obvious which bits I've tampered with. I'm not going down the road of painting it as i'd like to keep it OEM as possible. Cheers for any suggestions

I'm working dayshift all weekend I've still not looked at the car since november so need to get my finger out and do the few jobs required for when winter is over

I can confirm the solar charger failed and only deylayed the flat battery. However the car has never been started since November so that wouldn't have helped. Will need to stick charge battery on the to do list aswel now

Be carful switching bolts to a different material as it can result in galvanic corrosion which could put you in a worse place than you started.

Just found this, sounds like its going to be a good build

Looking good

Looking forward to see how it turns out, and for £13 might be on my to do list before putting the car back on the road

I thought it was a trick thismorning

Looking good, mods are fairly racking up! Quite like the idea of the black roof

I have a long skinny bit of wood which I use to jam mine up to save any trapped bodyparts when using the boot

Finally got a chance to put the pics back in. not 100% ive got the order right but still better than nothing. Just need to find the rest and re do it from the start as best I can

I've been meaning to go back through it and re load all the pics. Just not had much time, Its on the to do list though! It was mega helpful for me checking out other members builds. Gutted photo bucket ruined most of them, and a lot of them were old ones so most likely will never be updated.

So i've done hee haw since it was parked uplast month, hopefully will get some time this month or next to catch up on the niggles. I seen these on sale and though meh why not? Plugs into the OBD port so no fafing about running cables to the battery. I'm not expecting much as its winter in scotland so sunshine is pretty rare but it might help stop it going stone dead like every other year when I forget to run it/ stick the trickle charger on it every month. Prob a waste of money but

If its a little plastic link I think that's for the headlights to level themselves.

The end results look cracking

Watched a few episodes but never really got into it. Only watched it as they were filming near here a few month back and was curious to see what it was. I think its quite big in America

If I put a car in my garage when its empty I can barely get out the door, It's more a brick shed so all work is done out on the sloping mono block drive way

After trailing through the minefield that is now photo bucket and fighting off 500 adverts and pop ups it looks like I've just used two worm jubilee clips.

Good to finally see it in action! Brave man handing it over to someone else to throw about