E30 convertible hood maintenance video

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Post Sat Apr 24, 2010 4:47 pm

I've uploaded this video from my hard drive. Its a very rare training video. Very useful. Maybe it can be stickied?

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Post Sat Apr 24, 2010 5:41 pm

very good find there Blitz.

I will sticky it in the care and detailing section for you.

Cheers!

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Post Sat Apr 24, 2010 11:29 pm

Excellent Videos! Sure they'll be of help on here.







(Downloaded & saved from Youtube winkeye )
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Post Sat Apr 24, 2010 11:33 pm

Good find!
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Post Sat Apr 24, 2010 11:41 pm

if she came round my place, and slammed my horseshoe down like that, I'd give her what for !!

Great stuff, thanks.
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Post Sun Apr 25, 2010 12:24 am

Topblag wrote:if she came round my place, and slammed my horseshoe down like that, I'd give her what for !!

Great stuff, thanks.
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Post Sun Apr 25, 2010 11:52 am

Fantastic vid's there Mo. 8) Was a really good watch.

I really want an E30 that clean. :cry:
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Post Tue Apr 27, 2010 1:17 am

very helpfull, thanks blitz

Makes much more sence than trying to read guides and figure out what they are on about :mad:
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Post Thu Aug 26, 2010 1:22 pm

thank you very much, great
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Post Thu Aug 26, 2010 1:27 pm

Great stuff.
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Post Wed Dec 01, 2010 8:49 pm

nice vid! very handy to have up :D and tru topblag.. i nerly cried when i saw her slam the horse shoe like that!!! should have been instantly hung lol
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Post Tue Jun 14, 2011 11:28 pm

Great video makes it looks so easily winkeye
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Post Sun Feb 02, 2014 1:09 pm

Echoing what everyone has already said Brilliant videos!

Very helpful to me as im now embarking on changing my hood myself and the height adjustment etc is very useful!

I thought i was the only one who thought she was a bit excessive with the horseshoe! haha :mad:
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Post Sun Mar 29, 2015 11:25 pm

Very useful
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Post Fri May 17, 2019 9:08 pm

Great Videos!

I actually finally got around to doing a thorough hood clean and protect which I've been meaning to do for quite sometime now...

After some research, I ended up using this:

AutoGlym Hood Kit

Quite frankly I couldn't recommend it enough, provides a great clean and the protection element seems absolutely bang on, I even took a video showing how well the hood now makes the water bead up:

Video :wan:

Sounds like I bloody work for AutoGlym but it seems very rare nowadays that you buy something and it actually works properly and does what it says on the tin. :clap:
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