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Mar

Two new mods at The Fast Show 2011

So some of you saw these being done and have already seen it, but for those of you who left early, or didn’t go to TFS…

First up, a new sticker on the boot lid

There’s a reason for choosing that one too My car is a standard 1.9 CDTi 150… and on the rollers, it produced 155BHP… So that extra 5 has to come from somewhere

The next one, and the bigger one… I blame Kev for this one. Had I not seen his in under that tent, I probably wouldn’t have bothered looking or thinking about it

But here’s a before shot:

Some magic being worked:

And the finished result

Big thanks to the guys from Coastline Graphics with their “Wrap What Ya Brung” tent

Mar

The Fast Show 2011

Well today was The Fast Show 2011, and I attended with Astra Owners Network. Very early start, on the road at 3am, but it was a brilliant day, albeit a bit cold! Getting out was a bit of a nightmare though. Apparently there was an accident on the main gate, and it took 2 hours to clear… 5,000 cars trying to get out that same gate at once, the whole of Santa Pod was gridlocked for about 3 hours!!

Here are my pics though

Mar

Clean for The Fast Show 2011

Well, with TFS on Sunday, I thought it was about time I gave the car a clean… so I popped over to Halfords to get some supplies…

So this was the state of the car at 11am this morning:

Hoovered the interior and cleaned all the dash and plastics with some Autoglym Vinyl & Rubber Care:

I then stopped taking photos and got to work. I also did my Mum’s car at the same time…

First up, rinsed it all down with a pressure washer.
Then cleaned the wheels with some Wonder Wheels (It’s all I had, and couldn’t justify buying some new wheel cleaner when I already had some )
Washed the car with some Autoglym Bodywork Shampoo Conditioner, two bucket method.
Dried using a waffle weave towel and some Demon Shine as a drying agent.
Cleaned the glass using some generic supermarket glass cleaner.
Polished the glass with some Autoglym Car Glass Polish.
Sealed the wheels using some Autoglym Alloy Wheel Seal.
Dressed the tyres with some Meguiars Gold Class Endurance Tyre Gel.
Dressed the plastics and vinyl B-pillars with Autoglym Vinyl & Rubber Care.
Polished using a machine buffer and Autoglym Ultra Deep Shine.

That got me to this stage, where I got the wax out

Once I waxed everything, I re-dressed the plastics and vinyl B-pillars as I got some polish/wax on them which wouldn’t come off… But here’s the file results

So 7 and a half hours work, and the results speak for themselves My first time using that Autoglym HD wax… and first time using a non-liquid based wax as well… and I’ve got to say I was impressed. Smelt quite nice, spread really nicely once I got used to it. And the pot looks barely touched after I’d done the whole car, and I think I used it too thickly… so it’ll definitely last a long time I was getting put off by the £45 price tag, but I would say that’s well worth it now I’ve actually used it

Mar

Some new Eonon pics

Well here are some daylight pictures and a little video I took… and yes, in the video, I did try to demonstrate the AUX-IN feature, forgetting that I don’t have anything plugged into the AUX-IN

Mar

Fitted by Eonon D5108E headunit

Thanks very much Eonon

I bought myself a D5108E in the group buy from Eonon on Friday and it got delivered today I was so excited that I tried to fit it on my lunch break, so rushed to Halfords and bought some radio removal keys, then went about slicing my finger open on the packaging for the removal keys, getting blood everywhere, breaking what used to be the antenna socket on my CD30 (plug is still OK which is the main thing) and forgetting to take a screwdriver with me to take off the delivery plates… So that lunch break was very productive… took the CD30 out, broke it, and put it back in

At the end of the day, I remembered to pick up the screwdriver off my desk and went straight out to the car to fit it. A colleague timed me as taking onto 28 minutes to fit it completely I just need to drill in my new aux-in port

Had a play with it on the way home, and the sat nav isn’t bad, but it could do with a lot of improvement… so I’ve been spending the evening trying to change the sat nav software… TomTom was in Brazilian, so I didn’t know what I was pressing and it closed itself… and iGo gives me a memory error So I’m about to put Sygic back on it for now and I’ll have another play tomorrow…

So, here are some pics I’d heard the colour match on the piano black wasn’t perfect… and I’ll be honest, you can really tell in these pictures… but I only noticed it when I took these pictures, I couldn’t really tell when I fitted it or when I was playing with it. It looks fine to my eyes, and I’ve got pretty good eyes