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Old 1st November 2015, 12:47 PM
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Default Sunday is car cleaning day...

...well that's nicely washed off October from the old girl



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Old 1st November 2015, 12:54 PM
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Looks fantastic!
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Old 1st November 2015, 07:51 PM
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Mighty fine. Didn't manage to do mine this weekend. Looking grubby now.
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looking very nice
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Love the colour, lovely
.....lpg refill cap.....not on the bumper....hide it pls
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Very nice.

Though I think you may have missed a bit (inside the wheels).
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Old 13th December 2015, 03:11 PM
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Yeah, may need another clean now.

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Old 13th December 2015, 03:23 PM
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Mighty fine. Didn't manage to do mine this weekend. Looking grubby now.
Still grubby today too (like mine). But not as bad as your face fungus!
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not trying to scratch an OCD itch here but your passenger side windscreen wiper (fitted with a non-standard straight blade) does sit a little high on the screen
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Old 13th December 2015, 04:10 PM
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Its interesting you mention that as its another project I have on.

The plastic trim piece at the bottom of the windscreen has been knocked by something in the past and its not quite smooth and flush in places against the windscreen. It has a couple of jagged and rough marks on it causing it to rub against the wiper blades.

Due to that its taken a very little piece out of the wiper causing the occasional line across the screen when they are being used!

Its caused me lack of sleep and counselling so far and will be fixed!

Blades are just some Bosch ones I grabbed from Halfords.

In other news over the last month or so the car has had:

New Front Discs
New Front Pads
New Rear Discs
New Rear Pads
New Rear Callipers
New Front Tyres (Dunlop Sport Max)
New rear side bulbs
Service
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Centre Diff leak fixed and new seals and oil
Front Diff leak fixed and new seals and oil
Sump Gasket replaced and new bolts
New Fog light Grill
Spare Emergency Key made

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