Blink and you'd miss it

Not much happening lately - I was supposed to be going to a track day at Sandown, but given the condition of the car (see below), that wasn't happening. It's off to the shop tomorrow morning, hopefully to be fixed before the next club event.

So to alleviate the boredom of a lack of car tinkering (or maybe just to satisfy my anally retentive attention to detail) I pulled off the corner reflectors and sanded back all the raised lettering. Start with 400 grit wet and dry to buff off the lettering, then again with 1200 (the finest in the shop, 2000 would be better), and finally a buff with plastic polish.

Hopefully the panel shop guys will be able to figure out which one goes where when they reassemble it, now that they aren't labelled. I didn't get round to doing the side indicators, but they could really do with the same work done. There's a couple of letters on the rear lights too, but I probably won't bother with those ones.

But the job isn't complete yet. They're still orange. The next task is to find and apply some lens tint and blacken them up - I saw some painted on another car recently and it looks superb.

handbrake - fixed

Took the (dented) car back to Tony's on Saturday to get the handbrake sorted out properly. We unbolted the lever and disconnected the rear cables and loosened everything off (finally managed to unscrew the handle adjuster barrel. Then reconnected, adjusted the calipers correctly, and it was perfect!

The front cable section is still frayed though, we will install a new piece next week.

Bugger!

photos say it all (well, no public comments anyway til the insurance is sorted)