Roof Rack
I was getting tired of my roof rack, it was bare polished aluminium and no matter how much I polished it and waxed it it would always oxidise.
I thought about clear coating if after I polished it but decided to paint it instead! Old English White was my choice. found a close match to owe in biltema,.
Any way I spent ages removing the slats and cleaning, degreasing the roof rack. Sprayed on some fancy aluminium primer, and waited.........
Checked it the next day and I could literally scrape the primer of with my finger nail! Some good advice from tmf later and I paint stripped the whole thing, was awkward due to all the nooks and cranies. I have never used paint stripper before and I was super impressed. I cleaned the whole thing, and then keyed the aluminium with some 240.
Etch primer as recommended went on really nicely, as did the colour!
ECU Issues:
I had 2 return fault codes on the car. spent hours (maybe days) tracing all the wiring. with the help of the above drawing.
found out that the ECU had a circuit fault. So sent it off to England. 1 week and 200 quid later it was fixed.
Heated Windscreen
My windscreen was cracked - so New special order monte Carlo style tinted windscreen ordered from Ricky Evans Motorsport, I have never seen anything so well packed before.
Plus great service. They don't normally stock see in tinted glass, but they were super helpful. And got one made up.
Fitting was easy, and i decided to use a plain black seal instead of the chrome strip. I wired it up last weekend, it draws a lot of current. it is made up of 2 17a circuits (one for the passenger, one for the driver). I will see if my alternator is up too it……..
