SeaSurfer
Zorg Guru (I)
Hi Everyone
Been making some slight changes to old zeddy over the last week.
Firstly, The dreaded mirror bases were in an awful state, so he was booked in last week to the bodyshop for them sorting out. When i went to pick him up, even from across the garage forecourt i could see a vast improvement. Its amazing the difference it has made to his whole appearance and extremely pleased with the cost of having them done too.
Also, while he was there, some of you will know i bought some ‘black chrome’ nose grills last year. For after market grills, they are a very good fit, but the colour was slightly off being black. So after the 3rd replacements I still only had a very slightly brownish fairly black set. So, i had them sprayed the same colour whilst they had the correct colour mix for the mirror bases, now they are both BLACK. I am very pleased with the results of both jobs done.
Next job, i bought some smoked rear lights from a forum member in excellent condition – Thank You Z3cade - , and fit those yesterday, only took 10 mins to swap them over. It took me longer to find the socket set which i didn’t need in the end. All i needed was the small spanner from the tool kit in the boot. Some of the tools were missing when i bought the car, but I managed to find the missing ones from a breaker last year. Thanks a lot to the wiki ‘’How To’’ on the main page of this forum, made the job dead easy. Just need to do something with the colour of the third brake light somehow.
Next job, from a recommendation from another forum member r37 on which was best to use, i bought some pre-cut 6% Lamin-x front headlight and fog light tint from the states, which only took a week for delivery too. I didn’t want anything too dark as i have halo’s and clear corners fitted and obviously needed to be still road legal, but just wanted to tone down that stark white at the front end. I was going to buy some projector headlights but thought i would give this a try first at a fraction of the cost. Again, i am very pleased with the result, hope they last well, time will tell.
I made sure the lights were very clean, and placed the tint on top of the lense, shaping it across and trying to get a feel of what would happen, watched the video twice
), sprayed a mild soap solultion on the lense, sprayed a little on the tint film and very carefully using the tab holders, peeled off the backing and offered the tint to the lense. It was reasonably easy to do, i was a bit slow as i didn’t want to crease the film or get finger prints on it with me not having done anything like this before. There is a good guide and scraper to remove excess moister after fitting which came with the tints. Again very pleased with the result.
Just need to cut off the tabs tomorrow if some of you eagle eyed peeps see that they are still on
Tonight, a happy bunny indeed :ymhug: and again, many thanks to members who have helped me with this little project. (it has taken longer to write this and sort photos than it did to do the work )
Been making some slight changes to old zeddy over the last week.
Firstly, The dreaded mirror bases were in an awful state, so he was booked in last week to the bodyshop for them sorting out. When i went to pick him up, even from across the garage forecourt i could see a vast improvement. Its amazing the difference it has made to his whole appearance and extremely pleased with the cost of having them done too.
Also, while he was there, some of you will know i bought some ‘black chrome’ nose grills last year. For after market grills, they are a very good fit, but the colour was slightly off being black. So after the 3rd replacements I still only had a very slightly brownish fairly black set. So, i had them sprayed the same colour whilst they had the correct colour mix for the mirror bases, now they are both BLACK. I am very pleased with the results of both jobs done.
Next job, i bought some smoked rear lights from a forum member in excellent condition – Thank You Z3cade - , and fit those yesterday, only took 10 mins to swap them over. It took me longer to find the socket set which i didn’t need in the end. All i needed was the small spanner from the tool kit in the boot. Some of the tools were missing when i bought the car, but I managed to find the missing ones from a breaker last year. Thanks a lot to the wiki ‘’How To’’ on the main page of this forum, made the job dead easy. Just need to do something with the colour of the third brake light somehow.
Next job, from a recommendation from another forum member r37 on which was best to use, i bought some pre-cut 6% Lamin-x front headlight and fog light tint from the states, which only took a week for delivery too. I didn’t want anything too dark as i have halo’s and clear corners fitted and obviously needed to be still road legal, but just wanted to tone down that stark white at the front end. I was going to buy some projector headlights but thought i would give this a try first at a fraction of the cost. Again, i am very pleased with the result, hope they last well, time will tell.
I made sure the lights were very clean, and placed the tint on top of the lense, shaping it across and trying to get a feel of what would happen, watched the video twice
), sprayed a mild soap solultion on the lense, sprayed a little on the tint film and very carefully using the tab holders, peeled off the backing and offered the tint to the lense. It was reasonably easy to do, i was a bit slow as i didn’t want to crease the film or get finger prints on it with me not having done anything like this before. There is a good guide and scraper to remove excess moister after fitting which came with the tints. Again very pleased with the result. Just need to cut off the tabs tomorrow if some of you eagle eyed peeps see that they are still on
Tonight, a happy bunny indeed :ymhug: and again, many thanks to members who have helped me with this little project. (it has taken longer to write this and sort photos than it did to do the work
)
some tasteful mods and really makes him look mean and moody with the black grills and tinted lights, well done.