It doesn't happen often....

Post Mon Jul 11, 2005 5:36 pm

Finally got round to washing and polishing the car.

Best part of 2 hours to do the bonnet alone! The other half polished the rest of the car while I worked on the bonnet (so the rest of the car really needs doing properly now

)

Unbelievable how pink it gets. The car really needs a respray (you can actually see how thin the paint is in places on the bonnet) but it'll do for now.

Before:

After:

Overview of her worst side:

I'm using that coloured turtle wax stuff but I think it might be time to invest in the Maguiers (sic?) range.

In that last shot you can see:
My new interior! (Ãƒ”šÃ‚£30 for the seats and cards 99p for the parcel shelf) But carpetless at the moment.

The fact that the door trim is hanging off! Must fix that!

The nasty scrape I managed to do to the bumper on my mum's garden gate when I first got the car.

The cool ass number plate.

It's not a private plate it was a fluke. I've been using this online nick for years.

Oh and BBS wheels will soon be replacing those nasty ones

Post Mon Jul 11, 2005 6:17 pm

meguires is the dogs and is not expensive either!

Post Tue Jul 12, 2005 12:37 am

get in there my son!

sparkly! i used that turtle wax stuff for years, no complaints really but fecked if it went in any little cracks or whatnot

wanna try that meguires too, if i can find it over here

cheers again for the sigi

Post Tue Jul 12, 2005 12:54 am

Meguires 3 stage is very good! I used some on my ride the other day and it brought it up a treat!

Post Tue Jul 12, 2005 5:54 am

Nice and shiny

What colour is that, officially (nearside suspension turret)?

Post Tue Jul 12, 2005 7:07 am

Wein Rot (from memory). Bloody hard to find touch up paint for

Post Tue Jul 12, 2005 5:07 pm

wine red is quite a rare colour for e30's i do believe, i know that i haven't seen many, they all tend to be zinnobar red or brilliant red.

Post Tue Jul 12, 2005 5:46 pm

Apparently the best stuff to use on a pink car to get it back to red is some stuff called Farecla. Its quite expensive, but it really works.
Total BMW used it on a pink 5 series a couple years ago and it was quite amazing how it turned out.

http://www.farecla.com/

Post Tue Jul 12, 2005 6:16 pm

billgatese30 wrote:wine red is quite a rare colour for e30's i do believe, i know that i haven't seen many, they all tend to be zinnobar red or brilliant red.

Funny that. There's at least 2 other's in Basingstoke the same colour as well as a gorgeous H-plated convertible.

Post Wed Jul 13, 2005 1:45 pm

nice one BillyG!!!!!

weinrot looking good

car needs to keep the black bumpers, and the steelies without wheeltrims, slammed 60 and a supercharger!!!

that'll be a good looking car-nice one keep up the good work

Post Fri Jul 15, 2005 9:06 pm

Cheers m8.

My plans, eventually, are:
To get the bumpers back to black rather than the grey they are now.
Add a standard rear spoiler (*DONE!*)
I've got an IS lip that I'm in the process of spraying black (not sure if it'll look any good but it's worth a try. If not, I'll just sell it

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Get some 15" BBS wheels on there, coz I like 'em

Dechrome the side windows.
Replace the indicators with smoked ones (or maybe try spraying the existing ones so they are as black as my rear lights).
Lowered a bit (dunno if I'd like to lower it as much as -60 as I need to keep the car as practical as possible).

Don't need a supercharger as that spoiler's gotta add at least 10hp :lol:

I generally want to tidy it up, make it darker (lights and dechrome) but keep it fairly subtle.

A shot of my power-increasing rear spoiler. I like it, subtle and an evo spoiler's gonna look silly on a car with no bodykit