Dr Jekyll's BG182 Project Thread

[Kieran..]

How much you pay for them mark if you don't mind me asking? The blanks I mean, look smart

 

[Jekyll]

£20 plus fees mate. Found a member on here that was selling a cup bumper and I asked if he would sell just the blanks, which he agreed to. You thinking of doing the same to yours?

 

[Kieran..]

Yeaa, I had the blanks on my berg and looks loads better. Who sprayed them bg?

 

[Jekyll]

I did. Went down my local spray shop and got a rattle can of bg. They do a really good colour match. Gave it a few good coats of paint and lacquer to make it look oem. Looks really good I think.

 

[jesus]

Washer blanks look great

I took my headlights off to do it yes. I didn't fancy taking the hairdryer outside as the cold air wouldn't help things... I fitted them straight away though and think I should have left them overnight to stick properly - that's probably why they ended up shrivelling a bit.#

Oh and I fitted them last night no photos though as it was going dark and the car's filthy! I'll get some tomorrow.

 

[Jekyll]

Ah ok, ill do the same then. Mine need a going over with some wet n dry again as there starting to look murky again on the edges. Is it a simple case of bumper off, 2/3 bolts holding the actual headlight in place and un-clipping the bulbs? I've never taken off the headlights before.

 

[jesus]

Yep dead easy. You just unclip two plugs and they're off.

 

[rollerdan]

Good updates buddy ! Think ima get washer blanks too .

 

[Matt-FRS]

Really like this, especially the carbon :lolup:

​Matt

 

[Jekyll]

Thanks Jamie, i'll probably attack them Sunday if the weather holds out.

They do come up for sale dan so keep an eye out as they go super quick. Try and make sure the clips/threads are intact as it pulls the blanks in towards the bumper for a better fit than just tiger sealing them on.

Thanks matt. (Not sure if serious though?)

 

[brad1]

Really good read mate, just been glued to reading it for an hour now haha, nice touches mate,

 

[Jekyll]

Thanks brad

Looked at my blanks today as they had set and the lower corner is not completely flush, so I'm going to going to try and smear a little silicone in the gap and g-clamp them. Hopefully that will hold it flush. Seeing them on the car, im pleased with the finish of them though. I also took a blade to my old badges and cut all the old silcone off and put new divine on so they are all flush. Only downfall is I put a towel rack on the strip to add weight while it dried and I left indents on the writing What a wally Lol

 

[Jekyll]

Fitted the spacers today. Took loads of pics as clarkey-ph1 wanted to see the studs before and after.

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Rear hub no spacer

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Rear hub with 5mm spacer

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Front hub with 5mm spacer

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Remaining thread left after wheel being slid on

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[Jekyll]

Also had a go at fitting the headlight film. Took the headlights off and indoors, got all prepped up, then spent about 30mins trying to do one headlight and then gave up. I guess you don't know unless you try! Lol

 

[wag_7]

Wow, that is a nice car. Bit too much Carbon wrapping for me. Also thought it looked much better with the polished black wheels. Love the Treadlines too! What did you use for polishing your lights? Mine could do with a bit of a touching up.

 

[Martin.]

Love your car.

Do you have a locking nut on one of your studs??

 

[rs 1an]

Mark any car pics with the spacers fitted yet?

 

[Jekyll]

Wow, that is a nice car. Bit too much Carbon wrapping for me. Also thought it looked much better with the polished black wheels. Love the Treadlines too! What did you use for polishing your lights? Mine could do with a bit of a touching up.

Each to there own mate. I think if I was to do it again then I wouldn't have so much carbon, but I got carried away! All I did today was go over the headlights with 2000 then 2500 grit. Needs a full going over. There's a 3m kit that's rather popular on here and cost around £20. Certainly something to look into.

Love your car.

Do you have a locking nut on one of your studs??

Thank you Martin? I don't use lockers. It's full of old people round my way so its pretty safe where I live. Should be something I should look into though, just for safe sake.

 

[Jekyll]

Mark any car pics with the spacers fitted yet?

Only the ones above Ian. I'm on a shift change tomorrow as we're out to a suit and dress do tomorrow eve. Providing I don't have to much to drink ill be doing some tinkering on the bg on Sunday so ill take more pics then. Its not a major change, just a subtle widening.

 

[dmallett]

I don't use lockers. It's full of old people round my way so its pretty safe where I live. Should be something I should look into though, just for safe sake.

I didnt think people stole wheels anymore? just the whole car these days!

 

[Jekyll]

To true dan! Lol

 

[Dru G]

HI - where did you get all your carbon fibre bits inside like speaker grilles etc - they look magic....

 

[Rob]

Mark's actually got stocks and shares in carbon goodies by now. Car looked lovely yesterday though mate, lost you on the way home though

 

[Jekyll]

Haha, I do like the weave Rob! Yeah I was taking to Dave and Scott for a bit afterwards mate. Was nice weather yesterday to have the roof down on yours

 

[Jekyll]

HI - where did you get all your carbon fibre bits inside like speaker grilles etc - they look magic....

Theres a chap on the forum called extremeinferno and he did it all. I'm thinking of getting rid of it all though and going anthracite with red stickers instead...

 

[brad1]

Let me know how much you want for dash strips, gear knob insert and steering wheel bit if your selling mate, I'd be interested cheers

 

[Kieran..]

Mark have you got a photo of your washer blanks from a further distance?

 

[Jekyll]

I haven't yet Kieran, ill take one tomorrow morning for you if you like?

 

[Kieran..]

Yeaa if you could that would be great! My washers don't work so thought might just blank them instead for mot lol

 

[Jekyll]

There you go mate

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[Kieran..]

Lovely cheers mark! That's made my mind up lol

 

[Jekyll]

Did you have the nuts on your old ones on your iceberg? I'd definitely recommend getting some with the nuts on the back as it just pulls in better and sits more flush. Where I've bonded mine on there not 100% flush, although its hardly noticeable. I used some G-clamps to press it clamp them harder onto the bumper. There was a set up for grabs in the for sale section recently for around £45 iirc.

 

[harrypax]

What a nice car, love the carbon touches.

 

[Jekyll]

What a nice car, love the carbon touches.

​Thanks

 

[Jekyll]

My writing on my wheels had starting to rub away. Thought I'd leave it but it got worse the more times i cleaned them so I used 2500 wet & dry and removed them. But they looked a little bare so I bought some hub caps from Renault Wolverhampton.

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I sprayed them nissan techno grey as I had some lying around but as you can see it wasnt a colour match. I just didn't want them black tbh.

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Then the bumper was off because I wanted to try and clean up the carbon fogs. The had been bonded on but were really forgiving when being removed. Thought they was going to snap at one point!

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After various grades of wet & dry and a few coats of lacquer. Not perfect but a lot better and cleaner.

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I then ordered some stickers off ady@n2grafix as I thought the caps looked a little bare. I also got some spray that I thought would be a better colour for the caps against the wheels. I took about 4 cans out and laid them next to the wheels and thought this was the closest. Still not a colour match but meh!

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Stickers on and a good few coats of lacquer

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And fitted

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[Jekyll]

I have also ordered some "mist" style washer jets as mine only spray out of 3 holes.

​Also yesterday I bought carbon rear bump strip, another set of carbon dash strips, carbon hazard surround panel and carbon splitter off budgie on here. I was going to buy a new splitter this month and a new rear bump strip at a later date (mine is cracked and the skin is breaking away ) but I saw these came up for sale and dropped him a PM. The splitter is chipped but only needs a flatten down a relaquer. I don't mind doing this as I got the lot for a good deal Will get pics up when I pick them up. Once fitted, my existing carbon dash strips and carbon hazard panel will be up for grabs if anyone is interested.

 

[Kyle 86]

She badly needs her front splitter back on

 

[Jekyll]

Tell me about it mate. Hopefully by the weekend

 

[Jack-D]

I like the idea of putting RS on the centre caps, very nice mate

 

[Lee P]

Stunning car and amazing attention to detail! Huge inspiration for my own BG182.