1st wax and polish in 10 years

[richydee]

This is the first time the old girl has been given a thorough clean, wax & Polish in at least 10years 👍
Paint work is still really good apart from some minor cosmetic dinks chips and surface scratches (going for full respray/refresh in August).
Full service on Monday (belts dephaser pump) and she should be as good as new.

 

[R3k1355]

You're gunna respray that? Looks perfectly fine.

 

[imprezaworks]

Yeah as above.

 

[DomP182]

I'd have saved myself the effort if it's going in for a full respray in less than a month.

 

[Martin_172]

seems a bit of a waste to respray that? looks pretty decent?

 

[richydee]

seems a bit of a waste to respray that? looks pretty decent?

bumper has stone chips, bonnet has light paint bubble, rear bumper has scrapes on it from my missus revering onto a traffic cone ant there are a few car park dink on both side..not bad but its annoying me.
Spent a fortune replacing suspension with koni's and eibach, fitted godspeed disk front and back with yellow stuff pads, K-tek air intake, K-tek sports cat with miltek exhaust, k-tek braided lines, wheel refurbed and colour change so the respray is the final touch....for now

 

[Martin_172]

bumper has stone chips, bonnet has light paint bubble, rear bumper has scrapes on it from my missus revering onto a traffic cone ant there are a few car park dink on both side..not bad but its annoying me.
Spent a fortune replacing suspension with koni's and eibach, fitted godspeed disk front and back with yellow stuff pads, K-tek air intake, K-tek sports cat with miltek exhaust, k-tek braided lines, wheel refurbed and colour change so the respray is the final touch....for now

ive just never seen a resprayed car thats as good as a factory car where its painted before its assembled, these things become more and more important for the cars value as they start to climb

 

[richydee]

ive just never seen a resprayed car thats as good as a factory car where its painted before its assembled, these things become more and more important for the cars value as they start to climb

Car staying same exact colour just getting refreshed, all scuff and dinks will be fixed and painted..then full body reworked back to as new

 

[RustyMojo]

So they are not repainting the whole car, but sorting the issues out around the car. Which makes sense. Make sure you share pics of the before and after with us. I love seeing people spend money on these cars properly. Hope she turns out mint for you

 

[richydee]

So they are not repainting the whole car, but sorting the issues out around the car. Which makes sense. Make sure you share pics of the before and after with us. I love seeing people spend money on these cars properly. Hope she turns out mint for you

Yeh..bumpers and bonnet and other areas that require painting will resprayed, then all the dinks will be fixed, the rest will be rubbed down buffed up and re-lacquered..
I'll post the pics of before and after when its complete 👍

 

[richydee]

Well the makeover continues painter very pernickety (good thing). Final rub down tomorrow then she'll get painted..get her back on saturday ...BUZZIN

 

[gez 172]

Full respray then 😂

 

[richydee]

Full respray then 😂

looking like it

 

[richydee]

Back from the bodyshop and looking sweeeeeeet👍👍👍. Just a little repair to the stitching on the drivers seat bolster and a re-map...project complete.
Until I start looking at polished inlets, turbo/supercharger fully forged bla bla bla...next year

 

[Pep]

All that money spent and you keep the Arnold Clarke sticker and drill the front bumper…words fail me!

 

[Clio_fool]

Looks good but please please remove the Arnold sticker and get a short front plate stuck on!

 

[davo172]

All that money spent and you keep the Arnold Clarke sticker and drill the front bumper…words fail me!

My thoughts EXACTLY!! 🤣🤣
Worst dealer sticker ever that one

 

[imprezaworks]

Best one for standing out though lol

 

[richydee]

All that money spent and you keep the Arnold Clarke sticker and drill the front bumper…words fail me!

new plates ordered...these are the original plates from purchase like i said it was an ongoing project

 

[richydee]

Looks good but please please remove the Arnold sticker and get a short front plate stuck on!

plates are ordered

 

[Martin_172]

+1 for the arnie clark sticker, it needs to GTF lol, id go back to the stock colour on the wheels and get the headlights polished. looks good

 

[richydee]

You're gunna respray that? Looks perfectly fine.

Not a scratch to be seen

 

[DomP182]

Looks a good paint job, replace the front bumper stickers though as they look odd without them

 

[richydee]

Looks a good paint job, replace the front bumper stickers though as they look odd without them

Are you talking about the blue white and red stickers in the grill? I've got them and they'll be done when the newly port matched and gas flowed throttle body (widened to 60mm) and inlet manifolds are painted and fitted...ongoing project

 

[DomP182]

Are you talking about the blue white and red stickers in the grill? I've got them and they'll be done when the newly port matched and gas flowed throttle body (widened to 60mm) and inlet manifolds are painted and fitted...ongoing project

No the black inserts in the small depression bu the grille

 

[richydee]

The project continues Inlet manifolds port matched and gas flowed, Throttle body bored out to 64mm and fitted with new batterfly valve, all shot blasted and then sprayed dark grey.
These will be going on soon then its of for a re-map. 👍👍👍