Just one of those days…
I managed to squeeze a few car jobs around other stuff today, but I had mixed results.
So in no particular order...
I pulled one of my front wheels out from under the tarpaulin.
Obviously, storing these outside was going to require some cleaning before refitting.
At least that is easy to do and I even washed the insides of the wheel too.
So far I've applied two coats of tyre black…
But think I still need a few more.
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I pulled the grille and its fixing brackets out of the summer house.
And just rounded off the ends of the brackets.
I also made a start on tidying up the Summer House and found my grille badges.
But have now decided that I am not going to fit them after all.
I then had a lot of problems re-fitting the brackets holding the grille in place.
So whilst it looks securely fastened, some areas are a bit loose.
So I will need to come back to this at some point before the MOT.
In fact, I am considering following
Swifty's approach of simply bonding the grille in place once and for all.
Whilst having some screws loose in the bonnet nose was bad, worse was to follow…
Still not 100% sure how this happened, but I've managed to knock a chuck of paint off along one edge.
Then, to rub salt into the wounds, I spotted where the tarpaulin had messed up the fresh paint at the bottom edge.
Thankfully, at this point I had to switch back to family stuff, so I pulled the covers back on and walked away.
End of Part 1…