Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

dont get it

It's not about if anyone takes notice. It's so that if someone is breaking in and in sleeping I get woken up, get the h&h and chase the scumbag down the road

what will really happen:

you will be out, while the car is parked at home. a bird will shit on it, setting the alarm off, which will shit everyone in the neighbour off until someone puts a brick through the window.

Get a snap-off steering wheel boss. That should put most people off.

Because race car, getting one now

I have one, makes it much easier to get in and out of the car. Even more so now I have a Sparco bucket in there.

NH - I am doing to see your man on the 16th

I drove my car last night so had a good look at it, really impressed- I had thought that my only option was a respray, but it looks awesome now.

And the costs were ~5% of a decent respray.

Like I said on FB, Dodo Juice's Orange Crush wax is what you need to keep it looking red.

Wash with the two bucket method, preferably with grit guards if you want to splash out on some products. Never use the same wash mitt on the body as you use on the wheels. Wash from top to bottom so there's the least chance of the grit and salts from the bottom of the car scratching the paint, and then towel dry with a microfibre rather than a chamois cloth.

That should be enough for the first couple of months, then after about 3 months you want to wax it after drying - Not every time. Just once every 3 months.

http://www.cleanyourcar.co.uk/wax/dodo-juice/dodo-juice-orange-crush/prod_397.html

You could probably get it cheaper somewhere but that's the product.

£25 is a pretty good deal for 2 big buckets and grit guards

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Scratch-Shield-buckets-filters-seats-guard-against-grit-on-your-paintwork-/271219000992?pt=UK_Car_Accessories_Car_Care_Cleaning&hash=item3f25e986a0

Lambswool wash mitts are about £10-12 online

Meguiars Gold class shampoo is about £15 online for a big bottle

If you have a pressure washer, I would also consider a snow foam attachment.

It's easy to spend loads of money on washing products but you don't have to.

I'd say if you were just going to wash it once a fortnight or something, then those two buckets, a washmitt and some shampoo would probably set you back £50.

Yay, I have made my central locking work from the driver's door. There's an old Scorpion alarm under the bonnet, which has been bypassed and disconnected. But while whoever did it connected the starter motor wires back up, they didn't reconnect the central locking ones, so I've had to use the passenger door or tailgate to lock the car up until now. Much internet searching for a really old alarm installation manual later and I know which ones to reconnect.

Woo for free fixes!

Good work Sir!

Nice one BQ and nice one FT for that sexy gif.

And I still love the fact that it's pneumatic and silent.
And that holding the key in the closing position will shut any open windows and the sunroof.

And the fact that it all works. The Rover used to make lots of whirring noises and then never actually lock or unlock half the doors. And it had only done 45,000 miles.

That Rover had been through a set of stringent tests to make certain that it would never work.

Oddly, once I had been through it and cleaned up all the connectors, the central locking was the only electrical system that wouldn't play nice, and that was the only German system on the car (Keikert).

I think it was a conspiracy.

Here you go Sad Rad here something else for you:

Iad

Any recommendations for someone who does cheap bodywork? Got a couple bits or rust under my rear window that needs sorting and also a new bootlid that needs respraying

Boom:

nice parking spot

Good work fella.

Not you CB.