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amigafan2003
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Progress of the Y reg
« on: Apr 17th, 2009, 8:22pm » |
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Well, a week of ownership and I'm broken! But in a good way.
On Monday I gave the car a good going over and found a few probs:-
1: No rear wheel arch liners. I now have fitted replacements.
2: Oil leak from the sump plug. New sump plug and washer fitted.
3: PS fluid leak. New jubilee clip on the bottom of the PS res outlet.
4: Interior lights not working. Traced to a dead power saver relay, now replaced.
5: Couple of dash/clock bulbs out. Now replaced.
6: ABS/TCS light would come on intermittently. Traced to a corroded rear abs sensor connector. Now cleaned and working ok now.
7: Tyres were barely legal. new Pirelli P6000's fitted all round.
Now all the little niggles were sorted I turned my attention to getting the car spruced up.
1st stop was to have Motorsport Developments remap it with one of thier plug in chips. They reckon it's good for 15bhp and 15ft/lb extra but overall the drivability improves. Being an automatic it's hard to prove it on a rolling road but I can confirm it feels smoother all the way through the rev range. Throttle response is noticably crisper too.
Then fitted a metal Cosworth badge and dark side repeaters.
Fitted 6x8 JBL speakers in the rear and a Kenwood KCH200 media extender in the glove box (lets you play MPS of a USB stick, control iPods etc).
Next the engine bay - cleaned with Autoglym Vinyl and plastic restorer/protection. Still alot to do yet - just breaking it down into small chunks atm:-
Then the interior - cleaned with ArmourAll leather cleaner then treated with Autoglym leather feed:-
Then the hard work. Washed the car with Meguirs Gold Class shamppo on Wednesday then clayed it with PoorBoys medium clay bar. I cleaned it again after this then went over the whole car with Autoglym Super Resain polish by hand (really need to buy and orbital buffer). then cleaned it again and sealed the paint with Autoglym Super Gloss protection. then today I cleaned it again and finally applied Meguirs Tech Wax NXT 2.0. Very pleased with the quality of the paint and no real swirl marks to note. I'll let the pictures do the talking:-
I have the car booked into a body shop in a few weeks to get these defects sorted out and then I reckon it'll be pretty much spot on and show worthy 
Well, thanks for looking and I'll keep you posted on any updates
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Re: Progress of the Y reg
« Reply #1 on: Apr 17th, 2009, 8:50pm » |
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Stunning looking car - effort is well worth it though.
Just need to polish that chrome tailpipe 
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Re: Progress of the Y reg
« Reply #2 on: Apr 17th, 2009, 9:01pm » |
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Quote:| Just need to polish that chrome tailpipe Wink |
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Well spotted - I'll get the Autosol out tomorrow!
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Re: Progress of the Y reg
« Reply #3 on: Apr 17th, 2009, 9:06pm » |
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nice but i hate those postlift lights both head and rear :/ other then that very nice car
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Re: Progress of the Y reg
« Reply #4 on: Apr 17th, 2009, 9:10pm » |
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Stunning, simply stunning.
When are you coming round to clean mine? 
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Re: Progress of the Y reg
« Reply #5 on: Apr 17th, 2009, 9:31pm » |
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It's a shame the forums are limited to 640x480 pic sizes - the quality of the paintowrk really shows in higher res pics.
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Re: Progress of the Y reg
« Reply #6 on: Apr 17th, 2009, 9:40pm » |
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let me know how much will fixing those bits in the bodyshop cost. I need to fix exactly the same bits, although i've got a crack in the rear bumper thought i'll sort it out with a full respray but following a specialist's advice i'll respray what needs respraying and do a professional deep polish on the rest of the paintwork...
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Re: Progress of the Y reg
« Reply #7 on: Apr 17th, 2009, 9:41pm » |
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£300 but that's mates rates (a friend who is Free and may be into building things with stone .
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« Reply #8 on: Apr 17th, 2009, 10:00pm » |
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bit much considering that my mates rates for a full respray was 1500£... :/
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wait! i suck at maths and just now recalculated it again and now it sounds pretty fair need to calculate it for the third time to be sure 
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Re: Progress of the Y reg
« Reply #9 on: Apr 18th, 2009, 6:20am » |
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Is that Neil from Carlisle's old car?
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Re: Progress of the Y reg
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Re: Progress of the Y reg
« Reply #11 on: Apr 18th, 2009, 6:31am » |
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on Apr 18th, 2009, 6:20am, twinturbo wrote:Is that Neil from Carlisle's old car?
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Yes it is Big Neils old car. I'm sure he'll be delighted to see it in its present form. Well done. It looks really smart as indeed it always did. I'd better send Neil a box of tissues!.
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Re: Progress of the Y reg
« Reply #12 on: Apr 18th, 2009, 7:06am » |
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That Mate of yours, are you sure that its all square and upright !
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Re: Progress of the Y reg
« Reply #13 on: Apr 18th, 2009, 7:53am » |
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I'm pretty sure all things are straight and perpendicular
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« Reply #14 on: Apr 18th, 2009, 11:45am » |
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A few more now the sun has come out:-
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« Reply #15 on: Apr 18th, 2009, 1:30pm » |
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Simply beautiful . Still cant get used to seeing a "Y" reg though...Definatly unique
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Re: Progress of the Y reg
« Reply #16 on: Apr 18th, 2009, 4:33pm » |
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I have just noticed that in the pic I posted from the keswick meet the car is flanked by two wheelie bins.
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Re: Progress of the Y reg
« Reply #17 on: Apr 18th, 2009, 5:03pm » |
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What would we put into the bin on the right then ?
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Re: Progress of the Y reg
« Reply #18 on: Apr 18th, 2009, 5:15pm » |
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I normally find old grey things past their use by date in them.
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Re: Progress of the Y reg
« Reply #19 on: Apr 18th, 2009, 5:16pm » |
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on Apr 18th, 2009, 5:15pm, amigafan2003 wrote:| I normally find old grey things past their use by date in them. |
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OH!!!!!! not even I would stoop that low!!! 
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