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It's alright.....I can give up anytime.....If I want to!

But the exhaust pipe thoughts had entered my mind!

Yesterday I fitted my new dynamic smoked side repeaters I love China!

I also attempted to fit my new smoked high level brake light.....It didn't work. I hate China!

My lense was smashed though, so I pulled the Chinese one apart (It was obviously used and returned, as it had installation scratches on, but I couldn't be bothered to return it) And made the lense fit the original. It took a bit of fettling/bodging, but it works, albeit very dark. I might have to mod the inner clear magnifying lense too, as I reckon more light gets through that....or the led's in the Chinese one are brighter. We'll see.

I also took the rear shackles apart again to try to sort out the rear nearside wheel.....it seemed to be sitting crooked, with a little bit of 'toe-in'.
I have the other type of leaf springs with the 15mm stud that can't be removed. The stance+ kit comes with a bush for locating on the bottom plate. I removed this, which allowed me to move the axle back a fraction, so it made the wheels a bit more central and seemed to straighten the nearside wheel up a bit.
When it stops raining, I'll take it apart again and drill a 15mm hole in the bottom plate, 20mm from the original centre and this should relocate the axle where it needs to be.....There also seems to be a bit of a 'clonk' since fettling yesterday, so that needs sorting.







Needs a side rail cover desperately!!

I had a bit of a ‘sizing issue’ today!

My alloys came with some centre caps that were way too small (I’m not complaining though, as they were a bargain!), so I ordered some 65mm in a cider fury without measuring them..... then ordered some 70mm, in case I was wrong!
Neither time did I go out to the van, in the rain, and measure!!



Anyway, turns out I need 76mm!

I’m going to trim the backs of these flat, and see if I can make them look good enough to stretch to the blank ones the wheels came with.

I’ve also bought some plasti dip for the rear windows.... how badly can it go??

I’m not a painter, but thought I’d have a go at my side rail cover! Got all my paint from Leonard brooks in harlow... top guys and know their stuff.
It was given two coats of primer, four coats of blackberry then three coats of lacquer. I should have stopped at two lacquer coats, as it was perfect, but I thought ‘one more little tickle’ and I think it was too cool by then and went a bit peely....





I will wait a couple of days before cutting/polishing, but I think it will come up lovely
Trying to figure out a nice way of fitting it to the bit by the door, and having fat fingered shovels for hands, I used a shard of neodymium magnet (available in all good microwaves and hard drives!) on an Allen key, to line the nut up behind, before fixing the threaded bolt. Worked a treat!

Oh, and I shaved the backs of the wheel centres and bonded them to the plain ones..... they look good I think?



And this way my spray booth!!

I really wasn’t happy with the finish, so I’ve flatted it back and have given it another couple of coats of blackberry.... I’m just about to do the clear, so hopefully it goes on better!

That’s come out much better!

Got lucky down the scrappy’s



I’ll give it a good clean later

Take the rubber back off. Throw it in a hot washing up liquid bath for 10 mins. Give a little scrub. If your IF YOUR..... not painting it bit of back to black. Be good as new.


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Like it I’ll have to get the missus to scoot up to the tap end later

That’s it. I did it with mine. Plus my R32 breaks. Theses A picture on my feed. Gotta be done. My wife understands as long as she dont need to clean it.


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I pull enough of her, my daughter’s and my son’s hair out of the plughole.... it’s the least I deserve!!

It’s come up a treat! My wife wasn’t happy though, and to be fair, I’d forgotten how bad jizer smells!
I used one of those metallic paint pens on the logo and tdi script... smoothed out with a small paint brush. My wife owns a small pre school, so there is always stuff like that knocking around

Just got to the rest of the bay now!