Sean's 197T - RIP Albi :(
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Couldn't resist nipping out and fitting the cover.
A renaultsport 'specialist' in Edinburgh. I use inverted commas as they spent half the time emailing and phoning me to ask how to do it. It's running well though and I'll get Paul at rs tuning to look over it when I visit in the new year.
I've been busy with the diy again.
First of all, I bought a rear badge from @Gordini. I promptly took it apart and sanded, primed and painted the rs part red. I then wrapped the renault sport part in carbon vinyl and added a sticker. It's now back together drying in my garage having had a coat of lacquer
I also had a hunt around the car park at work, and after deciding what looked like would be the closest fit I bought some second hand mud guards from eBay. The fit at the front is pretty decent, the rears will either need work or I'll have a look at others.
Primed and painted
I'll take more pics tomorrow when I'll trial fit them.
First of all, I bought a rear badge from @Gordini. I promptly took it apart and sanded, primed and painted the rs part red. I then wrapped the renault sport part in carbon vinyl and added a sticker. It's now back together drying in my garage having had a coat of lacquer
I also had a hunt around the car park at work, and after deciding what looked like would be the closest fit I bought some second hand mud guards from eBay. The fit at the front is pretty decent, the rears will either need work or I'll have a look at others.
Primed and painted
I'll take more pics tomorrow when I'll trial fit them.
To me it seems that carbon vinyl is a bit too thick to wrap around those small sharp edges, or you didn't stretch it quite enough - but it could be better IMO... but if you're happy with it, hey
The vinyl fits fine as in the second pic, in the last pic the wrapped part isn't sitting flush with the rs part so it doesn't look right but it is. It's academic anyway as i've decided to remove the vinyl and smooth and paint the badge black with the same sticker.
So, I bought a DA polisher as a little xmas gift to myself. Being a complete novice to any kind of serious 'detailing', I went for a kit and ended up with this from Cleanyourcar.com:
I proceeded to wash and clay the car, however running out of time (and daylight) I was only able to give the bonnet, top part of the front bumper, boot lid, and rear bumper a going over.
I polished with the medium cut compound on a medium pad, and finished with the Super Finish Plus on a soft pad.
Took it easy at first as I'd never machined polished before, but it's actually very easy, although very very time consuming. It took over an hour just to do these panels, so I'd envisage it taking 2-3 times that to do the whole car? I'll attempt the rest of the car this weekend, but for now I'm very pleased and impressed with the finish. Light scratches are more or less gone, and it looks like it only needs another going over at a slightly higher machine speed (perhaps with a more aggressive compound?) to rid the paint completely of swirls etc.
Once the machine polishing was done I covered with Auto Finesse Glisten, just to have some kind of protection until the whole car gets done. The plan is to order some Collinite 845 wax, and some Gtechniq C2 to seal once waxed.
Pics aren't great due to the aforementioned lack of daylight as I finished, but you get the idea.
I proceeded to wash and clay the car, however running out of time (and daylight) I was only able to give the bonnet, top part of the front bumper, boot lid, and rear bumper a going over.
I polished with the medium cut compound on a medium pad, and finished with the Super Finish Plus on a soft pad.
Took it easy at first as I'd never machined polished before, but it's actually very easy, although very very time consuming. It took over an hour just to do these panels, so I'd envisage it taking 2-3 times that to do the whole car? I'll attempt the rest of the car this weekend, but for now I'm very pleased and impressed with the finish. Light scratches are more or less gone, and it looks like it only needs another going over at a slightly higher machine speed (perhaps with a more aggressive compound?) to rid the paint completely of swirls etc.
Once the machine polishing was done I covered with Auto Finesse Glisten, just to have some kind of protection until the whole car gets done. The plan is to order some Collinite 845 wax, and some Gtechniq C2 to seal once waxed.
Pics aren't great due to the aforementioned lack of daylight as I finished, but you get the idea.
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