Does anyone do anything interesting with there '5 ?
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Hello all,
Posting this because over the last couple of weeks it seems this forum has become a bit quiet, particularly of what people are doing with their 5's - it's turning into a 'where's the best place to get' - which is valid but it would be nice to have some other interesting things too! (the gentleman with the 'snit rocket' often posts interesting things)
Anyway - probably shouldn't have a moan and say nothing - so today I'm off to get some paint mixed up to have a go at spraying my tired Eunos' blue paintwork. Only picked up the spraygun the other day and red-oxided the sills in the door shuts (I had crumbly stuff at both ends of my kick plates, so cleaned off, friend welded small hole, now doing the remedial). Boot lid will be next to suffer the paint!
Good news is I have a 20 mile drive to get there, it's sunny and it's mostly along country lanes! Hoorah!
Posting this because over the last couple of weeks it seems this forum has become a bit quiet, particularly of what people are doing with their 5's - it's turning into a 'where's the best place to get' - which is valid but it would be nice to have some other interesting things too! (the gentleman with the 'snit rocket' often posts interesting things)
Anyway - probably shouldn't have a moan and say nothing - so today I'm off to get some paint mixed up to have a go at spraying my tired Eunos' blue paintwork. Only picked up the spraygun the other day and red-oxided the sills in the door shuts (I had crumbly stuff at both ends of my kick plates, so cleaned off, friend welded small hole, now doing the remedial). Boot lid will be next to suffer the paint!
Good news is I have a 20 mile drive to get there, it's sunny and it's mostly along country lanes! Hoorah!
NiceCupOfTea said:
Ragged mine round Kent for 4 hours today - does that count as something interesting? 
(although the HLA noise keeps coming back at times
)
Yes, that is in!(although the HLA noise keeps coming back at times
)Mine had HLA noise in Tescos car park Sat lunchtime, not done it for a while, but it's stopped doing it now! It was after the little thing had lost a be-stickered Mk 2 MR2, so I guess it was feelign a bit tired!
Thanks to all for posting including pics! I'll try and get some pics of mine so far, after a spending spree in Kett Autopaints (Peterborough and unbeilievably helpful) I have all the paint and materials to do the whole car (will do it a section at a time since I am a total beginner...)
Anyway, back is looking a little naked with boot lid removed, and the lights and rear numberplate panel, all wet n dried up ready to apply some paint! Filled the holes for the rear Eunos badge and also the front one (which has been missing for some months since some toe-rag removed it) - I'll be going de-badged methinks!
chockymonster said:
The next job I have to do on our Eunos is repair a rusty bit in the sill front of the rear passenger wheel.
I've got no idea on how to go about it though
I had this - on the Eunos witht eh chrome (prob stainless steel kickplates) - over time the edge wore through the paint inder the plate and then I believe it was an electrolytic action at either end of both kickplates. The driver side rotted to a small quarter inch hole (took a few years to get to this mind). Haven't got a welding set at the moment so a friend just filled the hole with a mig, ground it back and now I'm repainting that bit. Is your rust in the same position? It's a pretty easy repair in truth. Only thing is I've bent the sill plates getting them off...I've got no idea on how to go about it though
If you can't see any rust round the kickplates then don't worry - it was purely around the ends on mine, I was worried about what I'd find underneath but it was like it left the factory.
Hole in the sill, best answer is get the rust cut out and weld in new alas. I doubt it'll be a large area on a 5. Capri I once had had a hole about the size of a golf ball in the outer sill, I ended up doing the bottom 6 inches of the car along that side by the time I'd finished...
Sprayed primer so far onto bootlid and backpanel, have debadged rear panel too (2 holes to fill) - sorry about being a touch excited, have always been frightened of bodywork so these are new steps for me!
Seems a lot of people have blown cars here - I'm guessing stock power got boring a bit quickly then!
Hole in the sill, best answer is get the rust cut out and weld in new alas. I doubt it'll be a large area on a 5. Capri I once had had a hole about the size of a golf ball in the outer sill, I ended up doing the bottom 6 inches of the car along that side by the time I'd finished...
Sprayed primer so far onto bootlid and backpanel, have debadged rear panel too (2 holes to fill) - sorry about being a touch excited, have always been frightened of bodywork so these are new steps for me!
Seems a lot of people have blown cars here - I'm guessing stock power got boring a bit quickly then!
It's a shame when a few people spoil a website/community for the others. I think for forums to survive this the original community (at least the positive side) just has to carry on ignoring the posts of those who antagonise - they then have no choice to get bored and go somewhere else.
Painting update - made a lot of learnings, like I need to take more measures against garage dust, and the bootlid is a mini disaster (small area of paint reaction and spraying clearcoat is harder - I can safely say it is more prone to runs than the colour and primer coats!) - but back panel is good for a first go. Will bolt it back together with 'redo the bootlid sometime' on the joblist!
Painting update - made a lot of learnings, like I need to take more measures against garage dust, and the bootlid is a mini disaster (small area of paint reaction and spraying clearcoat is harder - I can safely say it is more prone to runs than the colour and primer coats!) - but back panel is good for a first go. Will bolt it back together with 'redo the bootlid sometime' on the joblist!
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