The Headlight conversion # 3

[satman]

The final stage of paintwork is completed by the rubbing down, or 'flatting back' of the lacquer with a very fine wet and dry sand paper, which is then polished with a hand held electric polisher, to give the 'showroom shine' to the paintwork.


Final work on the car, is the fitting of the headlamps and set up, 'blacking' under the wheel arches and refitting of the accessories such as side indicator repeaters, number plate and wheels.



A final coat of wax polish finishes off an excellent job.


As a final note I would like to once again thank the guys, Paul and Jon at Ewelmes Coachworks, for a fantastic job, and their help in taking these pictures and assistance in the write up, so that I was able to share this with everyone.

[Ballistic Banana]

Excellent insite Satman, should have sent it to Ted though to do an article on.probably still could would be well worth it.

BB

[satman]

Thanks for the comment BB...Ted are you looking???


i could be famous if he sees this!

[FourWheelDrift]

He will do, I've just asked him if he can fix the order of stickies problem

[kojak69]

and theres more.

[GCerbera]

Excellent work Paddy.

Don't forget who asked for the write up first.

[arcbeer]

Quality

[Mr Fix It]

Very nice, what colour of blue is your car?

[mickk]

The car looks great, shame its not silver(only joking)
any chance of spilling the beans on the cost.

[habib]

mickk said:

The car looks great, shame its not silver(only joking) any chance of spilling the beans on the cost.

Blue makes the best colour !! ... ditto the cost ???

[satman]

Expect the cost to be around £1400 + Vat for a decent job...

[captain honesty]

£1400+vat sounds very expensive to me

[GCerbera]

captain honesty said:

£1400+vat sounds very expensive to me

Not to me it doesn't.

I've just had some small front end work done and two other well known bodyshops
quoted £1k just for that without any conversion work!

[stas]

MMMmmmmmm very nice Satman! , getting all excited now!

[Tatlow]

OK, can anyone help me - I've signed up with Fotango and would like to get a pic of my Cerb on my PH profile and on the occasional post but don't know how to do it. Anyone?

By the way, lovely conversion job and great colour!

[GCerbera]

Tatlow

YHM

[Tatlow]

Thanks to Graham/GCerbera I have now cracked the photo thing. Bought my car in Jan 2002 with the headlights (and rear lights) already converted and with a bonnet vent to "improve stability at high speed". It lacks the small extra lights at the front which later models have and the indicators are still orange, so I ought to get those done I suppose!




>> Edited by Tatlow on Saturday 3rd April 18:05

[tonyhetherington]

EXCELLENT photo's ! Well done!!

[Rich25]

Great pics. Looking to buy a cerby in the next two weeks and want to get the headlight conversion done straight away. Where have people had this done and how much was it? I know a couple of you have posted prices etc, but wondering if you have specific garage websites/numbers?

Where is Ewelmes Coachworks based. I can't seem to find as site for them on the net?

Also looking to get the spider 18" alloys. Are these best haggled from the main dealer?

Cheers guys, any help appreciated.

[GCerbera]

Rich25 said:

Where is Ewelmes Coachworks based. I can't seem to find as site for them on the net? Cheers guys, any help appreciated.

Here you go:

Ewelme Coachworks