My long term tidy up!

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Thanks bloke, might need to lock myself in the garage and 'self isolate'...

[skidxr6t]

make sure ya vent the paint fumes out HAHA

 

car looks good mate. Good on you for having a crack at everything.

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Got myself some good 3m face masks and respirator. Painting outdoors isn't too bad but I suspect the people in my flat might not be the biggest fans.. Cheers mate

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Finally got some colour down on the trim bits and dash surround. Pretty happy with the outcome for a spray can although I'm not 100% happy with them though as I've burned through some of the paint while wet sanding so I will scuf them back up and give them a few more coats.

This was more of a test run to see what products I will use on the cars body paint once done and I'm very very impressed.

[OZYWALKER]

The menzerna polishes are very good, I did find they cut pretty quickly even with the fine grades.
Works really well if your polishing by hand aswell.

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Really impressed hey... For a cutting compound it finished like a polish. So good!

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Productive morning! So one of the goals with this car is to get the interior tidy and up to scratch.

It was a smokers car and even after weeks of leaving the windows open, it still just didn't smell nice. Manky, dirty and just musky. Almost like 200,000km of peoples body juice has just soaked into every part of the interior. Sit in it and it just feel gross.

Started with getting the seats, parcel shelf and most of the interior plastic trims bits.

The plastic trim bits I plan to clean up and paint in black. Nothing special just want everything to blend in nice and look factory but clean.

I gave the carpet a mini vacuum and them pulled it out and vacuumed the floor. I think I'll hit it with a rag and some wax and grease to really lift some of the crud.

Seat belts off for a mega clean up too.

There's a guy on marketplace flogging fpv interior and a f6 interior. Im tempted, very tempted..

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Gave the belts a really good clean and then wiped them down with a rag to almost damp. Rag was still manky... So in the tub they go for a good soak.

Right one is 'clean' and left one is untouched. They should be even better after the soak.

Also gave the scuff plates and kick panels a proper clean. These bits I will hit with some adhesion promoter and black paint.

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Gave the carpet a soak with water and sprayed on some generic carpet cleaner. Scrubbed it all over and rinsed it off...

Left it for a few hours and came back and hit it again with the bissell spot clean. The machine is awesome by the way, works really well at extracting crud and dirt deep in the carpet.

I started cleaning up the stock xr seats in prep for selling. They were dirty also and hit with the same treatment.

Nothing like 200k worth of body juice... Yum

Last but not least.. The fpv seats! Picked them up this morning! Overall good condition, happy with them. Because buying flash seats is just what you do when everyone is facing job losses and financial doom right?

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Got some sound deadening down on the floor and parcel tray. Interior is ready but thinking I might leave the back seat off and drop in a walbro 255 while I'm in that area and the tank is low.

I have the week off plus the Easter long weekend and I have all the paint and supplies I need to paint the car. After touching up a few edges and giving the car a good once over and wash I should have something decent to post in the coming days!

I also have ordered the zf seal kit and earls oil line... Once the paint is done, its back to the mechanical side of things. Brakes - full rebuild, shocks and springs, major service, genuine ford coils etc.