Kelvin

Looking good Stuart - can't beat a bit of boat paint. Currently, I'm seriously impressed with the Rustoleum Rust Primer, which is waterproof despite looking like red oxide. It contains fish oil, can be put on wet metal and over treated metal, it seems to be the ticket so far. I threw some over rusty bare metal on a horizontal surface over a year ago and there's not a sign of rust staining yet. This was a seriously rusty piece of the gunwales and I expected the rust to be through within weeks but no. Non yet. Keep up the good work.

Ahhh. I'm guessing a black look - am I right?

I had my wheels done properly, finished in a slightly darker silver and they cost me £300. Well worth the money. Press the arrow in the top right of the link I posted to see the wheels after.

Well, Spex decided to play up for the first time yesterday. She's been parked up for over a month and not been started, which wasn't a problem in itself as this is fairly normal when I head off climbing sometimes. Fired up straight away but revved a little high, eventually settling into a hunting tickover. From 1250 to 1750rpm. I popped the air intake off and sprayed some wd40 down there like Stu showed me but nothing doing. The tickover settled at 1000 to 2000rpm, again hunting from those extremes. It was rather rythmic and I think a few ravers would have happily danced to it. I decided that this stupid bio crap fuel we have now must have evaporated in the heat of the last month and gummed something up. Putting the car into gear revealed a steady tickover of 1250rpm but still hunting in P and N. Stuff it. I drove a mile to the nearest BP station and added £15 of super to the existing quarter of a tank and then ragged it down the A45 in D3 at 5500rpm for 5 miles or so. Tickover dropped to a steady 1000rpm, so I headed as planned to my lockup to pick up all my hayfever drugs and then thrashed the V6 down some backroads for 12 miles to pick up my mail from my official address. Sorted. Tickover back to normal (for now) and the car was running lovely as I headed back to home. Passed a Halfords, so grabbed some reddex one shot to pop in the tank and hopefully that's the car sorted as long as I make sure to use her when I have to leave home. I know it's lockdown and I should be grateful for any excitement but I'd have rather given it all a miss. Watch that fuel lads, that's all i think it can be. Grrr.

I purchased the same fob - buttons had broken on the original and I thought I'd just use the whole thing but I couldn't get it to work for love not money. I ended up using the buttons in the old fob. I think possibly the battery doesn't sit tight, dunno, I lost interest after ten minutes of trying to make it work. It could be the rubber has something to do with it mind! Nice to have new buttons in the original fob tho 😀

Bah humbug - went to swap the orange bulbs in the indicators for silver ones today, I'd bought them a while back and it appears they gave me the wrong ones. I can't even remember where I bought them from. Ah well. Try again!

Almost certainly correct 😀

Mad as a box of frogs on amphetamines 😂 Definitely not a car to do long distances in. How many tyres per mile?!

So it would seem that 22 inch wheels fit on the coupe! Found this on a Facebook page, everyone was posting pics of their V6 and this one cropped up - I can't imagine the ride is much like standard 😂 and I hope there are less potholes where it's used!

Ha - so it's actually called a front chin spoiler 😀

The V6 went in today to have the cat guard put back in after it was ripped off a while back. Had the bolt holes plated and gave it to Tom to refit whilst he was changing the oil. Some fresh 10-40 semisynthetic and a S2000 filter fitted, a bit overdue if I'm honest. Tom, who's the previous owner, checked over the exhaust properly whilst it was up on the ramps - "it looks like it did when you bought it from me". Which was 2½ years ago and he reckons at that rate, it'll be fine for a while longer. It's still the original 😜 So a clean bill of health today - next stop is up to see Stu, get the gearbox oil part changed with some Amsoil I purchased last week and get the Focal amp and speakers fitted 😀

Having friends with Type 1 VW campers that are worth over 50k and which are nothing but rusty panels, I'm not so nervous about letting her go that way. I have thought about using proper rusty paint and a few rattle cans of base fleck to give her a proper rat look 😀 She's never going to be a beauty but kept well, she'll be a good donor car for the club one day.

Tried the jet washing - it's nowhere near ready to let go yet.

Yeah - along the roof sides too, below the rubber gutter trim. I've done some fancy booth spraying for work in my time and I guess I could rent a booth for a weekend but ideally it needs a couple of weeks off the road and being done properly. I think my mind's made up to let the top surface peel away like the Yankee show cars, those nice 50s cars with original paint.

I washed the car 😀 Makes a nice change to see the colour of the wheels! The top coat on the paint is leaving the party tho...

Near £500 for mine. 54yr old and full no claims...

Mine's a V6. Kicks in at 4500 and runs out of go at just over 6000rpm. Nicely brutal, like a two stroke motorbike from the late 70s 😂

My vtec kicks in at 4500rpm... press the pedal to the metal 😉 Welcome to the forum 🙂

There's a few of us with different rear lights, and for different reasons, but I don't think anyone has these. Stu went for US spec red lenses for the OCD reason you give and they look great.

That's a rather more plausible guess than I came up with 🙂

Okay - it seems I have V rated Cross Climates on my Honda. Supplied and species by ATS. Took a stroll around the car park and there's a fair few cars with them on, all V rated, including a BMW that must have had them on when new, it's a 69 plate 330d. So who knows what that means? Also a 500hp AMG Merc C60something that has V rated Vredstein All Season. I'm happy.

I'll check this morning - it may be, thinking about, that the conversation was about the previous set of tyres. That's probably possible because I remember chatting to the guy in Scott's Tyres and I bought the CCs from ATS. *If a V rated tyre was supplied by a garage, I'd not be worried about the insurers, as long as I'd kept my gob shut. They'd be the ones saying they're fit for purpose.

I have W rating on the cross climates on mine - I mentioned the V rating as an option and the man in the shop said "downhill, wind being you..." and I assumed the answer was that the speed rating is in line with the maximum possible speed.

I'd naturally call it a front front spoiler but what do I know?! Hope all's well Stu 🙂

If I had ten minutes spare, then I would but lately I'm all out of spare time sadly. First priority will be fitting the focals!