nibnob21
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Sounds good mate! Keep up the good work!
Cheers mate. Got a few little bits and bobs to get done this week for PVS. Mainly just maintenance stuff and cleaning.
Just a random pic I took at the weekend:
The standard lights have really grown on me.
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nibnob21
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Got the pollen filter changed today:
My windscreen washer pump had stopped working so popped to the scrappy and got a replacement and swapped it over.
Gave the engine bay a quick wipe down as it was filthy still from winter salt. Yes, this is an 'after' picture lol.
Then gave the scuttle panel a clean and a blast with the heatgun.
Few things ticked off the list 
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nibnob21
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Gave the car a wash, then clayed it, then rinsed it.
I've only clayed the car once before and that was about 2 years ago.
This was just from one wing:
And this wasn't even a third of a door lol:
The roof was the worst for roughness, felt like wet and dry paper! All better now though.
Couple of shit pics:
Going to polish and wax it tomorrow and dress the tyres and trim. Then if I can be arsed I'll give the interior a clean and hoover, that may have to wait until Saturday morning though.
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Chris F
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Looking forward to nose around this sat/sunday.
Shame you never kept my wheels
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nibnob21
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Looking forward to nose around this sat/sunday.
Shame you never kept my wheels
Cheers
Really looking forward to the weekend actually. Combining AC and CS on one stand will be good.
Today was the first time I washed it since Trax so the winter salt has caused some horrible rust blisters. Plus the paint generally has loads of blemishes. And I think it's been in a crash before as the bonnet has never sat right lol.
A polish and wax tomorrow should get it looking ok though...and lots of tyre shine 
Those pics above don't do it justice though. You wouldn't think the front is down 60mm there. 14" wheels don't help, will eventually look at getting some other bigger ones again.
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Well I've polished it once. Only took about 2 and half hours :S
It could probably do with a second going over but I just really can't find the motivation to do it.
So the paintwork's still not great but you can see how bad it was in these half and halfs:
Just having some lunch then I'll contemplate going back out to wax it.
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nibnob21
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Got two layers of wax on yesterday evening. Much quicker and less effort than polishing.
Today I gave the interior a quick hoover, popped some boiled linseed oil on the exterior plastics and gave the tyres a spray with some AG tyre shine.
Car is still very flawed in terms of bodywork, but I don't think I've ever had it looking this clean lol.
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nibnob21
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Some pics from PVS:
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shadyche
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Car looked awesome mate super clean! You were parked next to us in the camping area for abit? The rio verde with black wheels and Arden blue with cab expressions?
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nibnob21
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Cheers Appreciate the comment.
Ahh right yeah, me and my mate moved due to the guys behind constantly revving their engines lol.
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[Edited on 11-10-2013 by nibnob21]
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taylorboosh
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Fuck those dials are bright, car looks cool
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Christopher
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Think I followed you most of the way in on Saturday Nibnob but didn't think you'd recognise my c so didn't say hello haha! Car looked very clean!
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nibnob21
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Fuck those dials are bright, car looks cool
Yeah that's the Plasma dials on max...and I have them backlit with white SMDs too   Very bright.
Cheers
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nibnob21
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Think I followed you most of the way in on Saturday Nibnob but didn't think you'd recognise my c so didn't say hello haha! Car looked very clean!
Ahh that was you behind me wiggling through the lanes? My car didn't like those roads, I was bouncing all over the place I forget you've got a C now.
Cheers, took a while getting it like that. Never had it so clean I don't think lol. You can see in the pics further up how bad the paint was to start with!
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Christopher
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Yesss well the certainly paint looked great buddy
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nibnob21
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Top weekend at Billing. A few pictures (thanks to vx-scottw and djgritt for some of them):
[Edited on 17-07-2013 by nibnob21]
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SXIBrad
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Car looks sweet mate!
Who's is the purple B in those pics? Its rather unusual but I like it
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Car looks sweet mate!
Who's is the purple B in those pics? Its rather unusual but I like it
Girl on here called Karina, Brad. We have joint meets with her region sometimes.
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Cheers Brad.
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Originally posted by SXIBrad
Car looks sweet mate!
Who's is the purple B in those pics? Its rather unusual but I like it
Girl on here called Karina, Brad. We have joint meets with her region sometimes.
Sounds a bit dodgy that lol.
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Couple of pics I took at the weekend for you mate
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nibnob21
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Cheers mate
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gidged500
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Car looked great at weekend was great to have a chat with you wish I'd washed my car and come on the Sunday
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nibnob21
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Cheers, as did yours. Yeah you definitely should have come back! Shouldn't have even left, should have camped 
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gidged500
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I know that's what I get for having a girlfriend
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