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From: Williamsburg, Virginia by way of Garden City, New York
HOWEVER!.....yesterday, I did get the car up on my lift bars to dive into the wheelwells and bring them and the undercarriage back to where they should be. This car has but 10,800 miles on it over 2 previous owners in the south Florida area, and though carefully maintained, I'm a stickler for equally cared-for wheel wells and undercarriage. So, a rather full day was spent removing the accumulated 'stuff' that found it's way into these areas. I also stripped the paint from the brake rotor hats and refinished them. Now, if there's a way to get the cosmoline coating off the engine bits....
PCM 3.0 doesn't support Bluetooth streaming, only BT phone (different BT profiles). To stream music you need an aux BT dingle. You pair that to the phone and plug it into the multi audio interface jack and then select aux as the input.
Or, if you have a Bovee 1000, select "iPod". My Bovee has worked great. It has connectivity issues every once in a while but no more than any other BT audio system I've used.
Have Fister mufflers put on by a shop today! Going to live with it for a bit see how I feel but 1st reaction is maybe I should have add the center muffler bypass as well...
Decided to go with the Radiator Grill Store for the center and side grills. There were concerns about “zip ties” for the side grills but much to do about nothing. For the price, there’s no comparison
Decided to go with the Radiator Grill Store for the center and side grills. There were concerns about “zip ties” for the side grills but much to do about nothing. For the price, there’s no comparison
what zip ties?
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Looks amazing!
Can you share a bit more on how you achieved this? Looks like a great weeknight thing to work on gradually.
Also was this the car that was on ebay a while back?
Originally Posted by gcthree
HOWEVER!.....yesterday, I did get the car up on my lift bars to dive into the wheelwells and bring them and the undercarriage back to where they should be. This car has but 10,800 miles on it over 2 previous owners in the south Florida area, and though carefully maintained, I'm a stickler for equally cared-for wheel wells and undercarriage. So, a rather full day was spent removing the accumulated 'stuff' that found it's way into these areas. I also stripped the paint from the brake rotor hats and refinished them. Now, if there's a way to get the cosmoline coating off the engine bits....
From: Williamsburg, Virginia by way of Garden City, New York
Thanks! Yes, this was the car on eBay. 2 previous owners with a clean CarFax, a 12,053 engine number/ and April 2005 build date indicating that it has the larger IMS update. It was bought and continually serviced at The Collection in Miami, who installed the factory aero kit in 2009.
I use Simple Green on the undercarriage of the car. I'm a stickler for presentable wheel wells. I soak all surfaces/components with Simple Green and repeat after a minute or so. I use a soft bristle wheel brush to get the large areas and then a much smaller detail brush to get to the individual parts. Being that I was doing this in the garage, I have a large oil drip pan underneath the car and I use another sprayer to hit everything with water and then assess whether I need to repeat the process...which I usually will do. I'll also use compressed air to get in places that are too tight to get after with a brush by first soaking the area and then using the compressed air to void the area. Griot's garage offers an engine compartment spray that provides a bit of gloss to springs/shocks/coolant hoses, and I use their Vinyl and Rubber dressing on the plastic wheel well liners. I'll put a few coats of car wax on the calipers while I'm in there.
The brake rotor hats have a light paint coating on them which deteriorates with time/age. I used a wire wheel to remove the old paint, clean all surfaces with acetone, mask the hat and spray it with a self-etching light grey primer sourced from Eastwood.com.
Here's the LH rear before/after:
Originally Posted by Gene_GaTech
Looks amazing!
Can you share a bit more on how you achieved this? Looks like a great weeknight thing to work on gradually.
Also was this the car that was on ebay a while back?
^ Wow. That's some great detailing - and very inspiring. I think I'll try it myself.
I'll be happy if I can get to 75% of what you've accomplished.
Thanks for the tips.
11-26-2019 | 09:32 PM
Looks amazing!
