Re: Dutch bloke bought his dream car.
Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2018 6:57 pm
I had the day off Wednesday, and the weather was great, so I've done a ton of little things.
Started with some paint repairs, few spots on the front hood, some little rust spots on the rear left sill, nothing too bad but I want it fixed before winter. Also removed both the rear side vents to check for rust inside the sills.
I recommend you all to do that regularly, clean up debris inside first and get to potential harmful rust in time. Sprayed some WD40 in there, it's dripping from the sills, so all moist will be driven out and I can spray in some Waxoil this weekend.
After that I improved the little rear spoiler fixing, it's sitting nicely now, looks good IMHO.
After that I wasn't done, so I realigned the doors and the front and rear lid, they didn't do too good of a job in the factory, and I'm sort of peculiar that way, i put the gaps in 3-4mm, I'm guessing that would be standard if they had bothered with quality control. Front and rear bumper have been fitted on a shite monday as well, but will get to that another day.
I checked the engine bay and tidied up a few wires with tie wraps, all looks good in there, so I took her for a drive, got some 5 in 1 injector cleaner and filled her up.
This car is such a mixed bag of clever solutions and stupidity, I still can't get over the non-fitting door cards, lack of rust prevention and all that, and the guys that screwed it together deserve a kick in the youknowwhat, but there's also much clever engineering.
Anyway, today the new pedal rubbers came in, and the back wheel arch cover for the right hand side that was missing, long live FleaBay!
Started with some paint repairs, few spots on the front hood, some little rust spots on the rear left sill, nothing too bad but I want it fixed before winter. Also removed both the rear side vents to check for rust inside the sills.
I recommend you all to do that regularly, clean up debris inside first and get to potential harmful rust in time. Sprayed some WD40 in there, it's dripping from the sills, so all moist will be driven out and I can spray in some Waxoil this weekend.
After that I improved the little rear spoiler fixing, it's sitting nicely now, looks good IMHO.
After that I wasn't done, so I realigned the doors and the front and rear lid, they didn't do too good of a job in the factory, and I'm sort of peculiar that way, i put the gaps in 3-4mm, I'm guessing that would be standard if they had bothered with quality control. Front and rear bumper have been fitted on a shite monday as well, but will get to that another day.
I checked the engine bay and tidied up a few wires with tie wraps, all looks good in there, so I took her for a drive, got some 5 in 1 injector cleaner and filled her up.
This car is such a mixed bag of clever solutions and stupidity, I still can't get over the non-fitting door cards, lack of rust prevention and all that, and the guys that screwed it together deserve a kick in the youknowwhat, but there's also much clever engineering.
Anyway, today the new pedal rubbers came in, and the back wheel arch cover for the right hand side that was missing, long live FleaBay!
