dandam
Part of things
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Feb 16, 2021 22:41:24 GMT
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misteralz
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I may drive a Volkswagen, but I'm scene tax exempt!
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Feb 17, 2021 14:23:37 GMT
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Very, very cool. Makes me miss mine!
I've got that Blaupunkt and I'd totally recommend it. Mine was 370€ after they'd been at 450 for ages, so I could justify it a bit more easily. Has all the modern stuff you want, and also has RCA outputs so you could run a decent amp if you wanted.
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Feb 17, 2021 20:38:21 GMT
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Not a wheely good update but I thought you might be tyred of going round and round with the rust pictures  :   Haven’t had a chance to pick them up yet but when I do will be taking advantage of them being off the car to apply a few coats of wheel wax. Should keep them looking nice for a bit longer. It's worth investing in some ceramic coating instead of wax; it'll last considerably longer. Gtechniq C5 is great and not expensive. You can wax on top if you feel the need.
Thanks for the advice. I went straight off and ordered some. Will put then wax on afterwards as you advise.
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Feb 17, 2021 20:46:40 GMT
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Great minds! I have been eyeing those up for a while. Love what Blaukpunkt have done there. Plan is to get one of those, new speakers all round and possibly a small hidden sub in the boot. Very, very cool. Makes me miss mine! I've got that Blaupunkt and I'd totally recommend it. Mine was 370€ after they'd been at 450 for ages, so I could justify it a bit more easily. Has all the modern stuff you want, and also has RCA outputs so you could run a decent amp if you wanted. Thanks for the recommendation. Good to hear first hand that it works well. The only thing I'm worried about with it is if it will stream Spotify from an iPhone. From reading around I think it will. Love the look of them. |
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misteralz
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I may drive a Volkswagen, but I'm scene tax exempt!
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Feb 17, 2021 21:33:58 GMT
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I don't know about that as I hate Macintosh telephones. I do know that I can pair my Samsung and make calls and play music off it. I'll have a look at the manual when I get a chance!
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75swb
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My Range Rover Vogue SE75swb
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Feb 17, 2021 22:42:23 GMT
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Only just caught this, not sure how I missed it before. Looks great, and will be fantastic once back on the road. Muchos jealous!
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Mar 18, 2021 20:07:31 GMT
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Out with the old and in with the new.
Here we have an arch that I had previously had 'repaired' a few years ago. Bloke had welded onto rust. Useless.
And some more rot. This was a bit of the floor.
Here is the new and old filler neck next to each other.
Moving back to the front of the car and the windscreen surround next. We got one given to us but sadly it was worse than ours so it all had to be fabricated.
At this point the doors and wings had made their way to the paint shop. They paint shop guy had said that they were not as good as he'd hoped they were so I went about sourcing some more doors and wings. Found a nice guy locally who popped over one morning and dropped off this lot. 
Am now running out of space in the house. Got wheels in the hallway. Two sets of seats taking up the spare bed room and doors/wings taking up the garage. The sensible thing to do appeared to be to start a new project with the door cards on the dining table.
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Last Edit: Mar 19, 2021 23:09:10 GMT by mrmoonyman
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The sensible thing to do appeared to be to start a new project with the door cards on the dining table. Of course. Nature abhorrers a vacuum! |
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Last Edit: Mar 19, 2021 0:58:37 GMT by georgeb
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Mar 19, 2021 22:41:27 GMT
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The sensible thing to do appeared to be to start a new project with the door cards on the dining table. Of course. Nature abhors a vacuum! Ha! Too true. It is like I am working my way around the house with this project. Great progress. 1 more project never hurt Many thanks  I am afraid my problem is I can never stick to just one, I always have a few on the go. This one is taking the majority of my efforts at the moment. |
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Mar 19, 2021 22:47:30 GMT
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Just completed quite a satisfying little bit tonight, this time on the kiddos play mats.
The rear quarter vent covers had been looking quite untidy for a while and I was unsure what to do about them. There is a company that sell new leather to wrap round them but I had a look and didn't think they looked quite right.
After lots of ebay scouring I found a pair that had been taken off decades ago and stored. They looked okay, if a little dirty from storage.
They arrived today so I cleaned them, hoovered out the spiders nests and the fed with Gliptone. Am pretty pleased with how they came out.
Old and ripped vs new(ish)
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Great progress, the windscreen frame looks a right mess, makes me wonder what's lurking under my screen rubber (no visible rust of leaks so I didn't touch it).
I need to re-cover my rear pillar trims because the vinyl is ripped but I'm not so worried about orignality ( mine is more of a workhorse than show vehicle) so I will just use whatever falls to hand and is reasonably close when I can get to shows and autojumbles again.
On the doors before they are painted take close look, over the years the hinges and interior door handle areas changed, the rear ones I fitted were from a later car (mine is late 86) and needed some modifications to fit. I think I had to source the later hinges and cut some of the inner away.
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Great progress, the windscreen frame looks a right mess, makes me wonder what's lurking under my screen rubber (no visible rust of leaks so I didn't touch it). I need to re-cover my rear pillar trims because the vinyl is ripped but I'm not so worried about originality ( mine is more of a workhorse than show vehicle) so I will just use whatever falls to hand and is reasonably close when I can get to shows and autojumbles again. On the doors before they are painted take close look, over the years the hinges and interior door handle areas changed, the rear ones I fitted were from a later car (mine is late 86) and needed some modifications to fit. I think I had to source the later hinges and cut some of the inner away.
Thanks, sadly progress has really slowed down since the last post so I have been focusing on some of the smaller bits and pieces.
The doors I found were as you've pointed out here - wrongly hinged. As I am mainly wanting this look standard and original I am trying to either source new doors or repair the old ones.
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Progress on this has slowed down over the last few months. An issue with the replacement doors slowed things down and the trip to Scotland I had wanted to take it on when I started all this came and went.
I have been focusing on some of the smaller bits I can do at home while waiting for the welding to continue.
The wheels have now been ceramic coated, waxed and had new badges fitted. I think they're as good as I can get them now. With the car back able to be rolled it will be rolled across to the shot-blaster who will do the rear of the chassis whilst access is good. This is the only bit of the chassis that needs any attention. I also have built up the speakers in the door cards. Really pleased with these and looking forward to putting them in although I need to find someone to re do the wood veneer on a few bits.
Started by stripping the door cards completely. Cleaning the door cards thoroughly whilst apart. Then enlarged the lower speaker hole to fit the new speakers.
Will be going with some nice mids lower down and some tweeters up top, controlled by a hidden crossover.
As the tweeters were way too small for the holes and would not fit right I got some old 4 inch 2 way speakers I had laying around (from the 9000) and pulled them apart. Threw the old tweeter in the bin and the magnet. Then hot glued the new tweeter onto the old cone. This worked really well and has given me a great way to mount them.
Next fitted it all up with the crossover neatly hidden and set up as recommended by Focal.
After that I put them back together and stored them away with the rest of the parts. Idea was to go for something that looked as close to OE as possible but with more a lot more clarity and range.
There are still some Focal speakers for the rear and a beautifully made sub woofer to be hidden somewhere when we put the car back together.
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Fantastic work going on here,
This is going to be a beautiful car when it's finished,
It's so refreshing to see the work being done properly instead of bodged,
Looking forward to seeing future updates on this thread,
Nigel
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BMW E39 525i Sport
BMW E46 320d Sport Touring (now sold on.)
BMW E30 325 Touring (now sold on.)
BMW E30 320 Cabriolet (Project car - currently for sale.)
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Feb 23, 2022 21:31:37 GMT
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Crikey, over eight months since the last update! Not a huge amount to show here but there have certainly been things happening, including a huge spanner in the works that stopped play for a while. Apart from not being able to find suitable replacement doors everything had been moving on pretty well. In September Luke-the-welder called me up to say that he had been given short notice on his barn and would not be working for himself any longer. This meant I had two weeks to get the Range Rover moved and somewhere safe. It still needed quite a bit of welding and for the chassis to be shot blasted and coated. It was a disaster.
To make matters worse I was out of the country during quite a bit of this time so could not do much to sort it, even if I could it would need to be transported back to the farm for the shot-blasting to happen. Luckily, at the eleventh hour, the shot-blaster announced he would have space in his part of the barn for it to be stored away inside whilst it awaited his attentions. This was a huge relief all round.
Roll on to the start of January and the shot-blaster gave me a call to check that I still wanted to go ahead and how much I wanted doing. He then got started and had shot blasted the entire chassis and covered it in a protective layer of black 3M underbody Shutz in no time at all. Should hopefully keep it safe for many years to come.
By this point I had cleared out my garage (again, crazy how quickly they fill up) and was ready for the delivery.
The delivery driver managed a 100 point turn to get it lined up and we rolled it in to my garage with only centimeters to spare at either end.
A few weekends later Luke-the-welder turned up to carry on where he had left off all those months ago. Was great to see stuff happening on it again. Whilst all this was happening I had been in contact with a classic car restoration and paint stripping company to discuss the new paint. They popped over to mine to have a look at all the body parts in my shed, a figure was discussed and a time agreed. I then got hold of a man-with-a-van who lives a few doors down who transported the whole lot to them.
As well as classic car restorations and paint this company also specialises in vapour blasting and water stripping of old paint. This hopefully means that when all the new paint goes on it will look as good as new. It will cost a lot more (nearly double) the original quote for paint but as we are this far into it and I am aiming for a perfect finish it feels the right thing to do. Hopefully.
Here are some of the doors ready for paint: The rear wings had all sorts of different paint on them and despite over a week in the tank it had not come off so they had to be blasted. The front wings have been stripped and are awaiting an aluminium welder to tidy up a few bits along the top of both sides.
They have done a lovely job on the lower tailgate which was quite tatty around the edges and needed lots of new metal. |
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Feb 23, 2022 22:42:59 GMT
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Awesome progress on this. It should look pretty sweet once painted and reassembled. Looking forward to seeing that!
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1982 Granada 2.8 Ghia X - SOLD ☹️
1976 Mini Clubman Estate - Getting there slowly.
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Feb 27, 2022 20:49:39 GMT
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Fantastic work going on here, This is going to be a beautiful car when it's finished, It's so refreshing to see the work being done properly instead of bodged, Looking forward to seeing future updates on this thread, Nigel Thank you for the kind words. I'm not sure this is what I'd intended when I started this! Really I just wanted it solid and useable again but the whole thing has kept on escalating, you get to a point where you just want everything to be 'right'. I am excited and daunted by the next few weeks. Awesome progress on this. It should look pretty sweet once painted and reassembled. Looking forward to seeing that! Thanks! I am also getting excited about that part. Shouldn't be too long now. There are so many little bits and pieces I need to order/fix/clean/remember now. |
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Feb 27, 2022 21:05:43 GMT
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Been a very busy weekend on the Range Rover, two long days flat out from Luke-the-welder. Lots done and it is starting to look ready for paint.
Here is where it is at now. I've just been looking back at pictures from the start of all this when we stripped it, crazy how much rust there was.
Lots more sealant and protection than from the factory. Should last a long long time now.
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Feb 28, 2022 12:49:59 GMT
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thats looking top notch. you will be glad once its done that you went to such extremes with the work.
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I am afraid my problem is I can never stick to just one, I always have a few on the go. This one is taking the majority of my efforts at the moment.
