(considering a month of between now and then was out of action due to a stag do, birthday, wedding and honeymoon!). Bodywork was tatty, but most importantly, the engine was sound and it had a hardtop too (which is the main reason I sold my last one after getting the roof slashed last year).Here she was the day I got it.
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Lowering springs to at least drop her a little bit
(I cant afford coilies at the moment).
These have helped
(the springs) for the time being
Considering i thought the paint work was xxxxx, it came up pretty damn good after some TLC and a clay bar!!
After this, the wheels were really letting it down, so I painted them and painted the calipers.
The bonnet was screwed after being keyed whilst in the previous owner's possession.
.. I threw a can of paint over it to mitigate this a bit for the time being, but after the clay work on the rest of the body, it did need addressing properly. Some of 3M's finest and an hour and a half of our time and this was achieved....
And after!
Make NO mistake, there will be more of this being introduced to the car in the not too distant future.
.. watch this space!!!Next, I bought, fitted and prepped the bodykit, firstly by sanding down the screw holes that I had made by fitting the kit.
Next was a good two coats of primer.
this was then followed up by a guide coat to enable me to sand back the primer enough for a smooth finish and get rid of any discrepancies.
A quick clean to get the dust off, then paint time!
Was going to wait a while to do this, but Im impatient and the paint had cured fine.
SO, i dug out my cutting compound and with lots of water and a LOT of elbow grease, tried to bring back some shine to the paint. I could get more out of it, but im knackered (!), so this is good enough for now. Next weekend, I will give it another going over to finish it even better. But for now, this is how she looks.
I do now need to move the exhaust over by about an inch to the left unfortunately.
. This will be another task
Found a smidge of tint spray in my garage so thought I would modify the rear lights.
I'm quite a Euro fan and like the look of black/red rear lights like the Escort GTi, mk2 golf etc and thought it could look okay on my car.
Here's what half hour later looks like! Just needs a polish up in a couple of days! No doubt it's been done before, but I hadn't seen it and thought it
'meaned' it up a bit! Not many people are too keen on these, but i like them and ultimately, thats what its all about, isnt it!?
Andy
have you considered getting the optical headlights at all? Thats my first on my list i have them already luckily cant wait to get them on! Did you do the Hard top conversion kit yourself is it fairly straight forward?? 