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15th March 2014, 19:32
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#121
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West Midlands
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Nuneaton (West Mids)
Posts: 13,835
Car(s): '64 Volvo V40 R’Design, '89 Ph1 309 GTi, ‘97 Mk1 S
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Evening all. Right well more progress today, I have literally spent from 9 til 5 on the car and I am knackered. Progress based on the pictures looks pretty slim but again bare in mind the bits I have done have involved stripping down to every last individual piece, to clean up, free up (wiper spindles were seized solid they've taken some work to rectify). It took me 2 hours alone to clean up one of the rear window seals to give an idea.
I started off with the scuttle area, see previous post for 'before' pictures. Here's with parts removed and the trough cleaned. Unfortunately there is some unsightly surface rust that needs attention, but rest assured I've thoroughly checked that that is all that it is so when I get chance to pop and get a wire attachment for the drill I'll clean it back, and treat it. I won't actually be spraying it until warmer weather arrives.
Temporarily refitted wiper assembly and vacuum tank for the sunroof
Then moved onto the passenger rear window. Removed it to find this
And after
The seal was so caked in muck that I left it to soak in hot water with a high concentration of fairy liquid and degreaser, it works wonders and makes the rubber nice & supple again especially with the hardened dry muck removed. Once dry I coated it in a selection of autoglym rubber care products.
I ended with a quickie job of removing the old fog/driving lamps. It's just as well that I have 2 new pairs as the backing pieces were entirely unuseable
I did strip them down though to salvage spares, in particular the glass as none of them are smashed or have cracks so they might be ideal spares for someone with these lights getting harder to come by and increasingly more expensive.
And that's as far as 8 hours pretty much none stop got me
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16th March 2014, 09:19
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#122
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Westgate on Sea/Bexley
Posts: 17,223
Car(s): Series 1 Rallye
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Loving the progress on this, you have some serious patience.
Have you set a deadline for getting it finished or just as long as it takes?
What's the plan for when its finished? Concourse shows or just enjoy driving it around.
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16th March 2014, 14:12
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#123
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Frequent Poster
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Cheshire
Posts: 872
Car(s): Nothing fun anymore....
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I wish you'd stop with all these immense updates it's making me embarrassed about my lack of effort lol!
Only joking, keep it up its so good to see!
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16th March 2014, 14:34
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#124
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North West
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Warrington, Cheshire
Posts: 5,733
Car(s): PH2 Peugeot 106 "race" car - Currently in pieces
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Lea might have them for his??
Awesome work so far dude. Keep it going.
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16th March 2014, 19:12
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#125
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West Midlands
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Nuneaton (West Mids)
Posts: 13,835
Car(s): '64 Volvo V40 R’Design, '89 Ph1 309 GTi, ‘97 Mk1 S
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Cheers guys, slow and steady but definitely in the right direction so far :-)
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Originally Posted by Dan-Subtle
Have you set a deadline for getting it finished or just as long as it takes?
What's the plan for when its finished? Concourse shows or just enjoy driving it around.
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No deadline as such Dan, this year I won't have such funds available to put into the paintwork as ideally it'll need a respray, with cars this old and with my eagle eye I could never settle with just doing the odd panels and never getting a decent colour match. So that's a job I'll save for to do properly. So perhaps next summer for that.
This year though I'd like to get it running and make sure everything works as it should. Parts such as trim are becoming quite hard to come by with some new genuine ones commanding a premium already. So this year will be spent getting all the trim and bits on the car mint, and sourcing mint ones for bits which I'm not 100% happy with.
Above all with this one I do aim to use it at least once a week and more in the summer to enjoy it. Something which I havnt done with the last projects, AX was too low mileage to put regular miles on at 25,000. At 89,000 currently on the 309 extra mileage won't really effect the value but I will aim for a standard that I'd at least be happy to call mint. I can happily put in Concours hours into the car but not the Concours money to match it
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21st March 2014, 11:24
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#126
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West Midlands
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Nuneaton (West Mids)
Posts: 13,835
Car(s): '64 Volvo V40 R’Design, '89 Ph1 309 GTi, ‘97 Mk1 S
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Slight modification here to improve on the rear window piece being riveted to the B pillar. I have instead installed rivet nuts
For easy fitting and dismantling for regular cleaning with M4 button head bolts
And voila
Last edited by willsy; 21st March 2014 at 11:27.
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23rd March 2014, 17:22
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#127
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Newbie
Join Date: Jun 2012
Posts: 6
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Great attention to detail, love the rear window mechs on these.
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27th March 2014, 12:49
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#128
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West Midlands
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Nuneaton (West Mids)
Posts: 13,835
Car(s): '64 Volvo V40 R’Design, '89 Ph1 309 GTi, ‘97 Mk1 S
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Just a quick update as I havnt spent any time on the car over the last week due to 12 hour shifts.
However I have increased my stock of A4 marine grade stainless bits and bobs with the nuts and bolts being the A4-80 high tensile ones. This'll make things much easier to work on on the car :-)
And I've managed to find someone selling an original Clarion radio/cassette from the same year. It works, has all the wiring in tact and it's got the original key code and user manual. Very happy with that
I will have a more meaningful update soon.
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27th March 2014, 15:08
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#129
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Regular Poster
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: Cambridgeshire
Posts: 344
Car(s): Evo 2 GSR,
Saxo VTR,
Mini Cooper S
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Loving that tape player!!
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31st March 2014, 13:19
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#130
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West Midlands
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Nuneaton (West Mids)
Posts: 13,835
Car(s): '64 Volvo V40 R’Design, '89 Ph1 309 GTi, ‘97 Mk1 S
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A little more progress today. Thought I'd carry on with the front end a bit and get a few bits refitted to tidy up the garage a bit.
I've made a start on restoring the front bumper to how it should be. This is how it started as faded, a little moss stained in places and plenty of muck to remove.
A few hours later, I won't bore you all with the process I've used unless anyone's particularly interested, and this is the passenger side done
Also the headlamps, front indicators, driving lamps and the fog lights are all brand new genuine ones.
Whilst the fogs & driving lamps were out I've fitted new chimney nuts
And sorted out the knackered old connections which are mostly corroded
With new genuine ones. Never one for settling for cheap alternative spade connections which had been used previously on the outer lamp
All in all quite pleased with the results so far
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31st March 2014, 15:04
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#131
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Frequent Poster
Join Date: May 2012
Location: Reading
Posts: 804
Car(s): Icelandic Furio
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I'm amazed how clean you get things! What are the main products you use?
Your attention to detail is top class, great work
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1st April 2014, 09:09
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#132
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West Midlands
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Nuneaton (West Mids)
Posts: 13,835
Car(s): '64 Volvo V40 R’Design, '89 Ph1 309 GTi, ‘97 Mk1 S
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My collection of products is almost all Auto Glym based, I keep hearing of better products but I've always been satisfied with the results from AG & they're very reasonably priced.
To get the bumper back how it should be I did start by using a toothbrush and AutoSmart Tardis to clean all the muck, tar, green moss stains off so it was perfectly clean.
I've then used a heat gun to go over it which brings the pigment back up to its original colour, it's the first time I've tried it and it was very quick & easy. This should only need to be done once as I'll keep it regularly treated with AG products & it won't be left neglected in the sun now.
Whilst still hot AG vinyl & rubber care was then liberally applied and worked in, apparently the moisture & product is absorbed better into the plastic. Once cooled I've applied another coat.
Finally I've gone over it with AG bumper gel and worked that in quite well.
It took me all morning just to do that one half of the bumper, definitely well worth it though :-)
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1st April 2014, 10:14
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#133
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Saxperience Post Whore
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Nuneaton
Posts: 6,476
Car(s): RB RS 200
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Looks absolute epic tbh mate. Such a transformation
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1st April 2014, 13:14
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#134
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West Midlands
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Nuneaton (West Mids)
Posts: 13,835
Car(s): '64 Volvo V40 R’Design, '89 Ph1 309 GTi, ‘97 Mk1 S
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Cheers lee, bet you can't wait for us to get your interior spankingly clean this week too :-)
Love this for a comparison pic following some tlc
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1st April 2014, 13:36
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#135
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Saxperience Forum Bum
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Nottingham
Posts: 3,954
Car(s): Stage 1 Mitsubishi Evo 6
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That car really could not be in better hands, credit to you for the effort and time you're investing in it!
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1st April 2014, 13:47
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#136
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Saxperience Post Whore
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Little Mill, South Wales
Posts: 7,547
Car(s): Mondeo ST TDCI
Saxo VTS
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Love seeing threads like this. No cutting corners and improvements being made for ease of use rather than styling.
Great job.
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1st April 2014, 17:08
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#137
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North West
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Warrington, Cheshire
Posts: 5,733
Car(s): PH2 Peugeot 106 "race" car - Currently in pieces
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Really good work on that plastic!
I might have to try applying some heat to the missus rear bumper as that has a few pale areas and see if that works better than daubing it in back to black lol.
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6th April 2014, 14:30
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#138
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Saxperience Addict
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: west london
Posts: 13,810
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did you remove the old tired number plate when doing the bumper?
a fresh pair of plates does so much
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6th April 2014, 22:56
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#139
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West Midlands
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Nuneaton (West Mids)
Posts: 13,835
Car(s): '64 Volvo V40 R’Design, '89 Ph1 309 GTi, ‘97 Mk1 S
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Cheers for the kind comments :-)
Number plate will of course be replaced at some point, one of the last things before it's eventual return to an MOT centre
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7th April 2014, 22:58
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#140
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West Midlands
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Nuneaton (West Mids)
Posts: 13,835
Car(s): '64 Volvo V40 R’Design, '89 Ph1 309 GTi, ‘97 Mk1 S
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Brief pause in 309 progress- my new garage flooring has arrived so I'll assemble that tomorrow morning. Taster pic as follows
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