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https://www.cleanyourcar.co.uk/das-6-v2-dual-action-polisher-menzerna-intro-kit-1
something like this... will be plenty to do your car twice over or more !!
Colour coded pads to compounds.. easy peasy.
Get some masking tape (that blue stuff) and some IPA to wipe down after.. though TBH a...
Lol @ this.
It's had a little bump. Not been rolled thru' a forest.
You know the car, you know what's happened and you know how it was repaired, and you have had half your new plans financed by the pay out...?
Why would you buy another one...
Mental.
Five grand ?! Where are you looking ?
There's 15 2.0s on autotrader under £4k at the moment.
Engine swaps were borderline pointless 10 years ago when 2.0s were still £5k+ as you'd still need to change most of the cars electrics and underbody to get it to work properly.
Now you can get them...
If someone really wants it, they'll take it.
If that means coming thru your bedroom door at 3am demanding the keys, they'll do it.
It's a car, it's insured.. on the microscopic chance someone wants your car, let them have it. I'd rather my car disappeared in the night than someone fcuked it...
£1000 less the £600 bill ?!
Is it tidy or a shed ? Would you care / be left walking 3 hours to work if it snapped ?
Are you handy / Got any handy mates..? New (second hand) engines are about £2-300 if it went bang and you wanted to keep it.
Otherwise assuming ok condition, you'd get at...
It's a Fabia one.. they're about £15 or so from a dealer.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/251153661821
Will be about 50mm too long so you need to lop the ends off once it's fitted, but it's very soft plastic.
Self tappers in along the bumper lower and Bob's your Monkhouse.
Search 'fabia splitter'...