the ongoing saga…….
After the excitement of the new exhausts, and subsequent change in tailpipes (2 simple slashcut round tips this time, instead of the 2 ‘halfords special’ twin tips) it was down to enjoying the car and doing the routine stuff….
90000 oil change (yawn!)
91000 HID head lights and sidelights! As part of a DTA special offer (and as Christmas present) I received a Hid kit, 6000k (blue/white colour) with matching side light leds. Fitted without too much issue, and the evenings were now bright and clear! No separate thread as it was quite boring!
5/1/09 sorted petrol flap spring… the petrol flap stopped springing out like it should, almost getting to the stage where a 2 person manoeuvre would be needed to open it, so the spring was refreshed! Well, replaced with a bit of spring steel, fashioned to be a little bit more robust!
15/2/09 ABS fluid change… the abs pump decided it wanted to run a bit more often than usual, so a quick fluid change was done, to give it a bit of a refresh, hoping it would sort it out….
… it didn’t!!!!
20/2/09 ABS pump service… the pump and abs system was given a flush, and the solenoids exercised, cycled a few times to clear any debris in the solenoids
(very short thread on the matter http://www.nsxcb.co.uk/showthread.ph...nge&highlight= )
april 2009, 930800, refurbish wheels and new tyres… the problem with chromed aluminium wheels, and that’s ALL chromed aluminium wheels, is that chrome doesn’t really like aluminium! And that’s what had happened to mine! The rims were first copper plated, then the chroming process added on the top of that, unfortunately the corrosion had set in between the aluminium and copper layers, so it all had to come off!
After a lot of searching, a firm was found that could chemically strip the copper, and once the rims were clean, they were polished, and anodised. A far more durable finish. Curiously, by then Evox had dropped the chrome plating from their range, adding instead the anodised finish on their new wheels. shame they hadn’t done it sooner!
While the wheels were all stripped to their component parts, the centres were also repainted, in a dark grey metallic, paint code ‘dark grey metallic that looks nice’ … and all done just in time for Japfest
then i decided 'It’s the summer', so I had a rest!
(that post looks quite dull, i'll add some pics to the next one, jazz it up a bit )
... see even that smiley helps!
really, there is some fun stuff coming up.....