A Little Loving
 

Thought it was about time I gave some attention to the P1.

The car is going to be treated to a full respray as soon as funds allow , so I thought I should start getting to grips with various bits and bobs.
Decided to start by cleaning and painting the inner arches, then clean shocks, calipars and wheels .

Pleased with the results, *1 down, 3 to go :-)

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Looks good mate

mmmmmmmm alcon's. looking lush. couldnt believe how much crap came out of my arches with just some of your cleaner and a pressure wash .

looks real tidy mate, once you've got the paintwork sorted the car will be stunning :nod:

Nice martyn.....your birthday time well spent then!:-D

Very nice mate :-)

Thanks Andy

How did the rest of them come up? :-)

Andy it took me 5 hours to make the one corner perfect, sad , but true
So still have the other 3 to do .

Going to take a couple of days off to do the rest .

Looking good Martyn,
Paint the arches out with White Smoothrite, it will look great (done it on my Series 1 years ago) and it's very good protection too.

Thanks Scott
Mmmm that's a thought , brush or can ?

I'm really thinking about taking strut off, stripping hub off , that way I can paint right up inside the strut turret .

Brush, plenty of cheap ones from the pound shop. Use then chuck don't waste money on cleaning them.

Takes about 2 or 3 coats to get it good enough that it just sponges down. Then just freshen up with another coat every 12-18 month.

This was silver smoothrite on my classic :

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Thanks Scott, really like that alot.
Have you any pics of the RS turbo arches ?

Sorry mate, no, not that I am aware of.
Was before the day of digi-cams.

Soooo beauuuuutifullllllll!!

That looks soo good mate, looking forward to getting my next one and stripping the bits underneath and getting them painted up, yes i am that sad lol :mrgreen:

Keep at it mate, itll definatly be worth it in the end :-)

Looking good mate. :doubleup:

A little more time spent on the scoob ,
Another corner sorted out , plus changed drivers glass for a much better condition one .
The original was severely scratched in the usual classic places .

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Found this , connected to speaker and tweater!

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Coming along well mate :)

How old are the shocks on the car, either you've got some magic formula or they're quite new as theres no way i could get my 2 year old KYB shocks to look anything like that good!

They are just over 2 yrs old mate.
Steve was as anal as me , so they have been well looked after.

Looking very good - giving Jay's shocks a run for the money on shineyness :-)