The last few weeks have been quite busy for me car wise, quite good fun though, I love to tinker :evil:
First off, my roof motor died from trying to drop it in stupidly cold conditions :roll: I've managed to get use of a pretty seriously sized industrial unit through work for the next 6 months or so.. So i took the car there over two days, stripped it all down, washed and dried out all the sound proofing, got the motor fixed up and got it all back together with a friend of mine..
A quick video of this success
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Then I decided that with the miles I've been doing for work (approx 150 miles per day), I needed cup holders. Got hold of a pair from a breaker I found Scotland:
Used these so much, invaluable mod!
After putting hand prints all over the car with the roof etc, I decided it needed a winter wash :thumbsdown: too cold for such things:
Before:
After:
I then thought, with all the miles, and not knowing the coming weather, getting some winter wheels would be a good idea, so I sent my old manky, track abused, style 32's off to the powder coaters:
Got some Vred Wintrac's off Mr Wilks (thanks again) and got these on:
Then me and two friends popped up to the unit again, gave the car a full service this time.. for the first time in my ownership I changed the pollen filter
Lazy I know..
This made two big differences:
1) it was no longer full of hair, bird feathers and leaves :|
2) I also noticed the air intake duct had been knocked slightly off course, so I straightened that up, the blowers now seem to have about 2x the power (so I have to keep putting it on half my "usual" power) and it seems about 20% hotter on hot. The car now has the ability to burn my feet badly through my shoes if I forget to turn it down.
Couple of big unit pics (Liberated from my friends account):
Then, yesterday I popped to Croydon to drop a part off to a forum member that I forgot to post (air vent) as I'd replaced mine with the cupholders.
He was returning his car to standard, and whilst there I noticed he had a pretty nice re-trimmed padded steering wheel, I contacted him when I got home and just asked if he fancied swapping for my standard one and a little cash, got a yes, result! So again this morning I popped to Croydon (That's two top down adventures in one winter weekend) Top down motoring on a cold sunny morning is immense, I thoroughly enjoyed myself and except for one squiffy moment where I thought the tyres were even more epic than they were, I had great fun!
Standard (I'd already replaced this for a new wheel once, it'd only covered like 10k miles):
Re-trimmed (chunkier and padded with perforated leather):
Far nicer to drive with, similar to the //M wheel but FAR cheaper, and looks nice too.
Bit of a massive read, but if you made it to the end, I'm flattered
One happy owner here, love is properly re-kindled.
First off, my roof motor died from trying to drop it in stupidly cold conditions :roll: I've managed to get use of a pretty seriously sized industrial unit through work for the next 6 months or so.. So i took the car there over two days, stripped it all down, washed and dried out all the sound proofing, got the motor fixed up and got it all back together with a friend of mine..
A quick video of this success
:Then I decided that with the miles I've been doing for work (approx 150 miles per day), I needed cup holders. Got hold of a pair from a breaker I found Scotland:
Used these so much, invaluable mod!
After putting hand prints all over the car with the roof etc, I decided it needed a winter wash :thumbsdown: too cold for such things:
Before:
After:
I then thought, with all the miles, and not knowing the coming weather, getting some winter wheels would be a good idea, so I sent my old manky, track abused, style 32's off to the powder coaters:
Got some Vred Wintrac's off Mr Wilks (thanks again) and got these on:
Then me and two friends popped up to the unit again, gave the car a full service this time.. for the first time in my ownership I changed the pollen filter
Lazy I know..This made two big differences:
1) it was no longer full of hair, bird feathers and leaves :|
2) I also noticed the air intake duct had been knocked slightly off course, so I straightened that up, the blowers now seem to have about 2x the power (so I have to keep putting it on half my "usual" power) and it seems about 20% hotter on hot. The car now has the ability to burn my feet badly through my shoes if I forget to turn it down.
Couple of big unit pics (Liberated from my friends account):
Then, yesterday I popped to Croydon to drop a part off to a forum member that I forgot to post (air vent) as I'd replaced mine with the cupholders.
He was returning his car to standard, and whilst there I noticed he had a pretty nice re-trimmed padded steering wheel, I contacted him when I got home and just asked if he fancied swapping for my standard one and a little cash, got a yes, result! So again this morning I popped to Croydon (That's two top down adventures in one winter weekend) Top down motoring on a cold sunny morning is immense, I thoroughly enjoyed myself and except for one squiffy moment where I thought the tyres were even more epic than they were, I had great fun!
Standard (I'd already replaced this for a new wheel once, it'd only covered like 10k miles):
Re-trimmed (chunkier and padded with perforated leather):
Far nicer to drive with, similar to the //M wheel but FAR cheaper, and looks nice too.
Bit of a massive read, but if you made it to the end, I'm flattered
One happy owner here, love is properly re-kindled.
North Yorkshire
two main parts really!!!!!