MIRROR MIRROR

There was only a mirror on the drivers door and that was flapping around as was the central rear view mirror. Two new door mirrors were ordered and a small mounting block for the main mirror, plus replacement sun visors as the foam in the originals had completely disintergrated, the passenger one has a courtesy mirror, whilst the drivers visor carries instructions for raising and lowering the hood. Now not only can I see what is going on behind, Jacquie can watch her hair being blown about.

The underside of the bonnet was an absolute disgrace, the insulation pad was falling apart and the paint was oily and discoloured. I removed the pad and cleaned up the surrounding paintwork and fitted a new pad, that's better.

The Wolfrace wheels are not the original wheels and although I would like some spoked ones in the future, these are a good looking wheel. However the aluminium is badly marked and the red painted bits are hardly appropriate, I have scrapped of the red paint and polished up two of the wheels and repainted in black smooth Hammerite, not bad but some of marks are etched into the ali and will need a little light rubbing with emery paper and repolishing, but they will do for now.

 

I have also removed a defunt cobra alarm and wiring along with wiring which was obviously from a previously installed alarm, the cables were still live, just cut off under the bonnet and taped up, much of it was also festooned into both footwells. I hate untidy wiring, plenty of scope still for tidying up the rest of remaining cables.