Cheeky cut and paste off another forum.....

Here she is, the second car in my fleet to have cost me £0 to buy.
Thats not to say its not needed a thing or two, but nothing out of the ordinary.

This is when I picked it up:


Guy who was looking after it says that it pulls to the left.  Got it home to find that it had developed a taste for the inside edges of the tyres.
Down to my local tyre place, and 4 new tyres later at a cost of £253 for the lot, and 4 wheel tracking £80.50 and its straight and true.
Looking at the print out they gave me, Im surprised it moved in the first place.

Needed to change some bulbs, de-tobacco the interior and clean the interior cabin filters which turned 3 buckets of clean water "Guinness Black"   The headlights were so yellow, you couldnt see through them.  A couple of passes with Meguires Scratch-X and then some Peek metal polish has made them almost new.  Going to strip them completely and then use some Lamin-X to give them their UV protection back.


Then Monday came.  MOT time.  I took it to a place in Sheffield called Dot Mot, and thats all they do.  Nice silver Viva parked outside, so definitely a win in my book.
Twiddling my thumbs for 30 minutes, results in a green slip.  No advisories.

So, off to my mates house who fancies himself as a bit of a detailer.
Two washes later, two claybars, a run down with Autoglymm Super Resin Polish (Still bringing crapola off the paintwork) and a covering in Meguires NXT. we gets to this standard :


Which, to those who frequent detailing world, will know this sort of shot.


Hopefully, the DVLA will get their fingers out and send me a tax disc renewal form, as it runs out at the end of this month.  Got the new V5 last week so hopefully....

Have a dash shot.

:wub: digidash

Jaimz

thats a hell of a nice job you did with the paintwork

I saw a soarer just like this today and thought of you

Fantastic job, and what a steal for what youve had done to it!

looks awesome!

Good job sir, looks great.

Its by no means perfect, and would benefit from some ££ being spent on it.

I know its due a Cambelt, but its a non interference engine.  Needs a service, passenger central locking looking at, and some tidying up.