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Hi Darren, how you doing fella? i am in dyer need mate of a DA ive taken the bump strips off the car but the marks still show and its peeing me off

any chance i cud come down to your place one day and borrow it and use your skills for a few hours please? I will pay greatly in beer and food

Lerch

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not a fan of version A or B, but there is a certain red Ba that has a good whole bonnet wrap going on

or B but down and with the grill also wrapped

damn im getting ideas now for my new bumper

What is the white smear? Can it not be fixed instead of hidden?

i like just the bonnet and i like the idea of all the way down to grille too

Marc, I don't know whats caused the origional mark (fnarrr) but I'm guessing its made the laquer porous which has picked up the products I've used

Carbon wrap it all over? (The bonnet that is.)

Hmmm, bit weird that, if it's eaten into the lacquer...must be something nasty. Does it feel rough at all? Removing any contamination might be possible with paint cleaner, or even panel wipe...cleaned and finished with a sealant, could be the answer

I'd like to have a go at paint correction

photo of the bugger lol if its that bad would the 3m show a ripple or mark once covered?

I will take a pic........ whe it stops raining!!!!!

The finish feels ok, just, sort of matte effect if you catch my drift.

Took Meanie back to Westgate Classics today to get the offside rear arch looked at, found a 5p sized bubble and water seapage from the arch lip when I was doing the 'clean' last Friday, Mike says he'll fix it, so thats ok Whilst he was looking at that I aasked him to take a look at the bonnet too, he reckons its heat damage!?!?!?! But,it should polish out

So I shall greatfully accept Daz's offer of having a go at it with the DB, cheers fella

This year at JAE I need to come and see this other 11R legend properly

Other colours are not worthy

11r for the win

11r isn't fit to lick the balls of the pt cars! lol

Not a problem Andrew, we'll sort a date out with yourself and Lerch and get things rolling

Whats a DB by the way

Cool, what say we combine it with a spot of CAT swapping?

I need to give Lerch his CAT back and fit an as yet unsourced replacement one to Meanie

Wonder if there's anything in 'For Sale' or 'Breakers'?.......

any idea on a date, time and destination then chaps?

Whos closest to me in Northants? I assume its Andy? Maybe we could meet there?

i dont mind a nice drive to yours daz..... when?

Who's got a decet drive to use gents, Lerch is sort of in the middle, I would suggest Mum and Dads drive, but they're a bit 'car maintenanced' out right now and I still havn't done a thing to get rid of the black Gt

we can use my place ive sent you a pm with the postcode daz

Excellent, so now its just a case of getting ourselves, the cars and the parts there

I wouldn't do any

Blimey, another age since I've done anythingwith Meanies topic

I think maybe a full on mods list might be an idea, especially since we still don't have the garage back... CAN YOU HEAR ME ADMIN..... that means YOU Hughie Hands out of your pants please

Ok, so, after MANY years of procrastinating about it, I've finally decided to refresh my dash with LEDs

I've plumped for white SMDs for the job, so I've ordered 6 canbus free 5 SMD 501s for the clock illumination, fuel level light and indicators and 2 lots of 10 single SMD 286s for all the warning lights and the cigarette lighter surround All in £12:17 inc post, ebay is my friend

For the switches, hazard, rear screen, fogs etc, I'm trying to order two lots of 5 single SMD T3 LEDs from JDM Powered (some of you may remember them from one of the shows a couple of years back, Japfests I think) they're being a bit dense about payment though so I might not get these for the scheduled revamp next week, gotta do something with my paternity leave

In other news, the Great Front End revival is still on the cards, especially since we're moving house soon and I'll have a nice big garage to play in

Basically i'll be taking of the front bumper for the first time, can you believe it, and rewiring all the lamps and horns, fitting the Post ford OE fogs I got off Andy at last years JAE, moving the Hellas to the middle (Eleanor stylee) and fitting new DRLs, type TBC confirmed and fitting fresh stainless mesh Hopefully the lamps will all have protective grills or poly covers as well I'll be sorting the wiring by fitting a proper fuse board as well, my hope is to get all this done by JAE

There is also the latest repaint of the arches to get fitted in as well, I'll keep you posted

Yesterday, I decided to fit my new dash LEDs, ordered on Friday, delivered Monday, sweet

This is what I ordered...

6 of these...


and 20 of these...


So, the 5 smd T10/501's are for clock lights, turn signals and fuel warning and the single smd

Here's the results, pretty nice I think you'll agree




Much nicer than the old illumination.....



So I went for a spin, to admire my handiwork, looking good

Right up until ten minutes into the obligatory test drive, when the clocks lights suddenly went out!!!!!!!!!

Looking good mate.
Whats the washer warning light for?? Ive never seen this before even on my first M reg BA

it's a low washer fluid warning

Do we know why? blown fuse? failed dimmer switch?

We had a slight problem with the LED's from Chi's clocks as they low fuel warning lamp circuit is based on resistance and the LED didn't provide enough resistance so the light was on all the time...

Well, I have got an idea, which I will post tonight, with pics

I also had resistance issues, you can't use leds for the airbag or the hand brake light either, they both stay on constantly :-s

Matts dead right low washer level it is

All BA's have the warning light but as far as I know, its only wired up as part of the headlamp washer jet kit!

All I did was nab a level sensor from a BG, they all had the level warning lamp wired up

Anyways, back to the LEDs, I'd taken Meanie for a test drive and ten minutes in the clock illumintation had failed....

So, next morning, I took the dash off again and had a little look to see if I could find the problem which I honestly thought would be a loose connection somewhere.....

Unfortunatly it couldn't be that easy as you can see from the photos below...

Basically, the 5 SMD 501's have fried the bulb holders and burnt out the power supply circuit on the flexible PCB