what is an 'early' 3.4 996?
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Did my first wash of the year this weekend. Car was pretty filthy in my defence.
Adjusted the headlight trays to get the lights nice as aligned with the wings, one was definitely a bit low. A lovely easy job, I'm convinced my car must have been out of the country or extensively garaged as there's so little corrosion on the fixings. Looking much less boss-eyed now.
Paintwork is shocking though, covered in scratches which makes me think about doing some paintwork correction. Any threadists willing to suggest a cheap dual action polisher for me to have a go at sorting things out? Will obviously go very low and slow!
Adjusted the headlight trays to get the lights nice as aligned with the wings, one was definitely a bit low. A lovely easy job, I'm convinced my car must have been out of the country or extensively garaged as there's so little corrosion on the fixings. Looking much less boss-eyed now.
Paintwork is shocking though, covered in scratches which makes me think about doing some paintwork correction. Any threadists willing to suggest a cheap dual action polisher for me to have a go at sorting things out? Will obviously go very low and slow!
Without wishing to divert this down a detailing rabbit-hole...... I've been using a DAS-6 Pro for the past five or six years to very good effect with a huge variety of different pads and compounds. No need to spend crazy money and as long as you are methodical and patient pretty much any reasonable quality products will do a good job. As ever it's all in the prep work.
For lots of helpful reviews and info take a look at the Forensics Detailing Channel on Youtube - funnily enough he did a review of some entry level DA machines very recently. Sometimes a bit too much waffle and excessive nerdyness, but generally informative and useful.
For lots of helpful reviews and info take a look at the Forensics Detailing Channel on Youtube - funnily enough he did a review of some entry level DA machines very recently. Sometimes a bit too much waffle and excessive nerdyness, but generally informative and useful.
I bought a dodo juice machine polishing starter kit which had pretty much everything you need. Bilt Hambler do a really good clay bar that uses water as lube, my tip is to make yourself a cup of tea and pop the box with the clay on top of the cup. It warms the clay up and makes it much easier to use. You'll need a decent wax as well. The first time I did my car it took about a day to do it as it was covered in light scratches and fall out. It now doesn't take a huge amount of time to do. If you use a quick detailer after washing the car looks bob on for most of the year 
Fast Bug said:
I bought a dodo juice machine polishing starter kit which had pretty much everything you need. Bilt Hambler do a really good clay bar that uses water as lube, my tip is to make yourself a cup of tea and pop the box with the clay on top of the cup. It warms the clay up and makes it much easier to use. You'll need a decent wax as well. The first time I did my car it took about a day to do it as it was covered in light scratches and fall out. It now doesn't take a huge amount of time to do. If you use a quick detailer after washing the car looks bob on for most of the year
This stuff is spot on for at least six months. https://www.collinite.com/product/no-915-marque-de...
Interesting upgrade of an otherwise standard 2001 3.4 £50K though
https://www.pistonheads.com/buy/listing/11304128
https://www.pistonheads.com/buy/listing/11304128
IanG1 said:
Interesting upgrade of an otherwise standard 2001 3.4 £50K though
https://www.pistonheads.com/buy/listing/11304128
I shouldn't but I quite like that. Externally at least. But I'd have those badges off the back. https://www.pistonheads.com/buy/listing/11304128
IanG1 said:
Interesting upgrade of an otherwise standard 2001 3.4 £50K though
https://www.pistonheads.com/buy/listing/11304128
My god, that's horrific and looks nothing like an RSR. Here's a 2001 car that was owned and run in period by a good friend of mine:https://www.pistonheads.com/buy/listing/11304128
The 'replica' has too many dive planes, a completely wrong wing (from a Cayman, maybe?), crap wheels etc etc. You can buy all the parts to make an RSR (or an R if you want to avoid the wide-track front end). This misses by a mile.
Ahonen said:
The 'replica' has too many dive planes, a completely wrong wing (from a Cayman, maybe?), crap wheels etc etc. You can buy all the parts to make an RSR (or an R if you want to avoid the wide-track front end). This misses by a mile.
I don't like the replica but the panel gaps are better than on the one above. Rear arches and bumper are especially bad.
It's a completely unrestored 2001 racecar.nunpuncher said:
I figured that. I made a mess of my reply, meant to quote Fastbug's post about the replica looking rough. My point being the factory race cars were a bit rough.
Bad choice of words. Replace rough with any of the following; gash/s
t/wk/pony/dogs breakfast. It just looks nasty, poor choice of wheels and you could fit a heard of Angolian goat herders complete with herd of goats in the wheel arch gapnunpuncher said:
Fast Bug said:
Bad choice of words. Replace rough with any of the following; gash/st/wk/pony/dogs breakfast. It just looks nasty, poor choice of wheels and you could fit a heard of Angolian goat herders complete with herd of goats in the wheel arch gap
t/wk/pony/dogs breakfast. It just looks nasty, poor choice of wheels and you could fit a heard of Angolian goat herders complete with herd of goats in the wheel arch gap
All pretty fair descriptions. Thoughts on this car gents? Might make a nice daily and seems well priced ?
https://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C1312726
https://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C1312726
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