_{Yesterday after work, i cleaned the engine bay up a bit. Sprayed all the grimy bits, engine cowling, inner wings and front panel with Gunk and aggitated with old I inch paintbrush. Left it alone for 15 minutes and then sprayed with water and turtlewax shampoo diluted to help remove gunk.}

_{Wiped clean with a old microfibre cloth. Then black parts sprayed with Autoglym "rubber and vinyl care" Wiped off. Paintwork buffed with old polishing cloth.}

_{Came up a treat! And work admired by the neighbours!}

_Grahame

Replaced the silver vision bulbs as they were losing there brightness

replaced the rear indicator orange bulbs with silver ones and put on new wipers.........fun fun

Fitted black sill trims to the wife's Fabia. 26 quid from the local dealer.

Service time.... Trying some Quantum Platinum this time round instead of my usual Mobil 1.

Air filter absolutely caked after only 7,000 odd miles.

waved the lowering stick!!

Still raining so polished car in garage again !

This thread inspired my crap barn thread. Today I was welding up the passengers front inner wing of my newest car, a J reg Rapid 136.

I managed to get a double din stereo cheap from work so managed to fit that today.

So much better than my old Alpine single din. Especially for the money.

Installed my iPod link, but broke the ashtray in the process. Fudge!

Gaz

Started stripping my engine down.

starting to strip car ready for the last piece of the slxi convesion to go in the dash as they are diffrent from the others as it has the air con ready for summer

after about a year of ownership,i repaired the instrument cluster, its know were near as bad as it looks to do & it saved me about £150.00 doing it myself, lee

Drove it on some amazing Welsh roads. Penderryn to Brecon, Llandovery, Neath then back to Penderryn. (70 odd miles)

For no reason, just an absolute awesome country drive.

Oh, with my co driver son who loved it also.

Dyno - good result, 168KW (225bhp) at the wheels.

That's up 18whp since fitting the exhaust, intake manifold and FMIC.

Took off my wheels and cleaned all under the car and sealed, hopefully there will be know more salt put down and last weeks was the last. Putting new logo `ed badges on the car tomorrow

Posted this in new badges too.

New wheelcap badges were a right pain to put on, took me nearly an hour! the plastic is less pliable, the originals are soft then have a metal ring to keep in place, I put them in boiling water( to soften, then sprayed the recess in wheel with gt85 to lube, then placed the caps over the hole, then I folded a microfibre cloth four times to protect, then lightly hit them with a rubber hammer.Then I removed the plastic protector film, and sprayed with APC, look good on .They cost £6.29 plus vat each

Old and new reverse side to show no ring and hard brittle plastic on rear

Old and new from front

The badge close up

On the wheel

Looking good Alan.

Any idea when the front badges are coming in?

I do like those wheel badges. Very nice.

Mid may

changed my coolant for g12 plus plus.

put £63.00 of diesel in aswell

Left mine in the garage whilst I used an Alfa Romeo Giulietta TCT. Noticed it has a drink problem but that's for another thread.

Ooo, yes I like those a lot.

I treated my mk1 Fabia vRS to it's first 40k service, timing belt and water pump were changed too. I've only had it for a month, but it goes a lot better now, was a bit hesitant before at low speeds.