Nollington Hards progress blog

[lozz]

veggie oil still going well. i just use a mixture of veg and diesel.

ie i just get oil wen i visit costco, still save £6odd every 20 litres of veg oil a save ..

Anygood bargains in costcos mate ive not been in for a while,
last time iwas in i spyed some nice Aero blade wipers are they still on offer in there did you notice ?

[Gary406]

not looked in the car isle . i didnt even know there was one

[lozz]

not looked in the car isle . i didnt even know there was one

yup,
they sell car oil in big blue drums -the make is Chevron £30 a drum,
antifreeze,
posh aero wiper blades make of em is Goodyear £6 each last time ilooked,
Microfibre cloths wash mitts n all that,

oh and Rear view mirrors with built in bluetooth and caller display,
the tools there are good too,

Avoid looking at Costcos tyres a mortgage is needed to buyem

[Gary406]

ye i seen tyres i couldnt fkin beleive it

all michelins like £100 a tyre

[lozz]

ye i seen tyres i couldnt fkin beleive it

all michelins like £100 a tyre

yup and you carnt just buy one tyre you have to get 4
ionly wanted one and Got a lecture on how important it is to change all 4 at once ,

ijust said ok mate iwill go and buy 4 but not from you

[plod]

oh and Rear view mirrors with built in bluetooth and caller display,

Sounds interesting

[NollingtonHards]

Long time no updates

Its my birthday today (20 years old ) i thought i'd cheer myself up and use the autoglym set my parents got me for christmas. Borrowed my sisters jet wash and i couldn't believe how much dirt was left even after a jet wash.

Also i would happily recommend the two bucket method for washing a car, the dirt in the 2nd bucket was disgusting

Before

Imagine that layer all over the car

After (2 hours and some elbow grease)





Still quite a bit of grime left in crevasses but thats for a later day ha

Now looking for alloys as my front tyres are getting low and id much rather spend £100 more and get alloys than just 2 tyres on steels

[NollingtonHards]

Well i found this guide done by ddoherty406 the other day and decided to do it

viewtopic.php?f=10&t=7519

Made a start today. I've never used fibreglass before so i did make some minor mistakes (too much fibreglass means a lot more sanding down later), still needs sanding down on the underneath and smoothing down on top.


Very rough still, needs to be evened out. Pleased with the start though


I plan to do the bumper and various other jobs when i get off in a week or so

[Gary406]

you need to buy my V6 alloys when i get my new nimrods sorted

[Gary406]

personally i wouldnt have done the front badge thing. i like my big shiny lion

[NollingtonHards]

Another trip to Wigan? i don't know whether i could it again ha

I think it does look pretty good. If it doesn't look good in real life then i got a spare bumper and spare grille anyway
(nicked the photo from ddoherty406 hope you dont mind ha)

[lozz]

It looks better that.
ihate puggy badges on the grilles,

iwant mine off but its d9 not worked out how to do it yet ..iwill be buying a spare grille 1st tho,

[NollingtonHards]

A little bit more sanding today. Reasonably happy with the results bit bulbous as you can see in the pictures but its only really visible if you're lying on the floor.





I plan to take this slowly. I usually rush into things and muck it up and i don't want to do that this time.

I reckon a little more sanding, then a bit more hardening paste will finish of the fibre glassing stage.

After that comes the filler to smooooth it off

[NollingtonHards]

iwant mine off but its d9 not worked out how to do it yet ..iwill be buying a spare grille 1st tho,

The only way i could think off (i haven't seen a D9 grille close up so am not to sure on the technicalities) is get a spare one and cut out the combs and glue them together to form a complete grille. No idea whether that would work or not

[NollingtonHards]

Had a go at using the P38 Easy Sand filler



I reckon a bit of sanding down tonight then another layer tommorow will set me in good stead. Im in Southampton for a long weekend at a friends so there wont be much progress 'til mid next week.