Lol, I know the feeling. It's looking mint dude, I look forward to seeing it in the flesh! I need to get myself to another Ricoh meet! haven't been for a good couple months now!

really nice car mate, looks well clean for the millage and stuff!

Cheers all!

Couple more from tonight :)

Some more shots from tonight. Really happy with these :)

Edited 4 November, 200916 yr by Uncle Terry

Had a play with some of the settings on the camera tonight. Very cold and windy meet, but there were some cool cars. Night pics are deff getting better.

A couple with mine in...

Woot, post after post of dubclub meet pics lol.

Baldspeed just posted up the pics he took of mine on wednesday. Awesome photos as usual.

Coupla pics from tonights dubclub meet

On the way home...

170,000 miles.

Pretty sure it was on around 148k when i bought it, february 07.

Nice milestone. Heres to a few thousand more!

nice pics, trademark mk3 steamy windows lol.

nice pics, trademark mk3 steamy windows lol.

Yeah n i werent even doin anythin in it this time :p

Maybe ill curtain the back up

Nice pics, Saw the car at the dub meet, looked smart

Yeah cheers, was a good meet! You should get along to a few more.

A few pics from the last few weeks, just to keep this thread updated.

Few pics from the last few weeks...

Snow the other day...

After a dubclub meet...

Well id planned on doing a few things today. However this picture sums up last night pretty well...

Didnt feel too bad though this morning so cracked on with the headlamp plan.

No-one told me how rusted through the screws would be! Took quite a bit of WD40 and a lot of force with a chunkey screwdriver to stop them rounding.

And underneath i was met with this mess!

My bedroom then felt like a lamp company...

And i got to work sanding down and brush painting the panels with hammerite silver smooth. Perfect colour match as usual. Cleaned a lot of other bits around the engine bay too as i had good access with the lamps off.

Then i got the tinted units on (after a bit of hassle with one of the adjuster clips breaking and having to chop and change a few bits with some spare parts.)

After starting to clean the bay earlier and having got the headlamps on so easilly i decided to crack on with some other jobs...

After a few coats of VHT black...

Then a test fit of the eyebrow splitter. Looks 100x better in my opinion. Indicators still need a light coating of tint, but ill wait until after the headlamps have ben alignment and brightness tested.

I also blew a sidelight bulb so had to wander to Halfords and get some new ones...

nice straight front end, wish mine was like that.

looks good! i´d prefer the front without eyebrows.

Cheers guys!

Yeah still undecided about the eyebrows - going to be taking them on and off for a while i think.

Got the headlamps tested today, resined up a small crack in one of the carriers and gave the indicators a shot too...

Pics:

Brakes next... new discs, pads and rear shoes ordered and need to be in before UD!

looks soooo much better without the eyebrow!! Wow mate....thats a bloody clean engine bay for a car thats done 170k!! :thumbsup:

sweet ride and very clean

I love the tea coses on the brake reservoir

looks soooo much better without the eyebrow!! Wow mate....thats a bloody clean engine bay for a car thats done 170k!! :thumbsup:

Cheers, yeah I'm still deciding on running the eyebrow all the time or not...

Yeah well the block has done 170k. Low mileage head fitted a year ago, and i went round and cleaned the bay since then. Hard to keep clean but its quite enjoyable to do if the weathers decent :p Also helps spot any leaks etc if the bay is clean!

sweet ride and very clean

I love the tea coses on the brake reservoir

Thanks! Tea cosy? Meant to be a reservoir sock but its just a wristband off ebay :p Adds a small splash of colour to the engine bay aside the air filter and dizzy cap... :)

Cheers for the comments :)

Time for an update on here!

Just before UD i discovered my brakes were completely shot, so had my local garage fit brand new OEM discs, green stuff pads, reline the rear drums, new shoes and bleed the system. Stops brilliantly now.

On the front:

I also cleaned a few bits for UD, Brush painted the wheels with satin black hammerite - also covering the gay fake split bolts.

And also fitted an original 90s Kenwood sticker on the back window :)

Got me to UD and back fine, some of you will have seen it there I'm sure.

Got these rolling shots courtesy of charlys bf, which I've then edited.

And some of the shots from the polo3.co.uk stand at UD. Paint/bodywork looking very tatty in the direct sunlight!

And over easter i joined a few peeps from here on a cruise down Southend and Pitsea (see thread).

Managed to get a couple of shots of the inside with the lights on that id fitted the week before.

Heres to a great night! Cheers guys and gals!

MOT due this month so passing that is top of the list.

Also got plenty of uni work to be doing, before leaving in a few months and looking for a job.

In the meantime some bodywork attention is on the list. And hopefully new wheels by the end of the year.

Edited 5 April, 201016 yr by Uncle Terry

Time to update my CP thread i think!

Since the last time i was on here, I've fitted a genuine original snap off steering wheel boss kit (which is one of my fav mods i must say), smoothed the carbon fibre mirror base, tuned the engine a bit and with a service got it running nicely again after a bit of neglect. I then started attacking a few rust spots and got a bit carried away, and started working on the dented rusty drivers wing. Which is currently sat in satin black but is all smooth and looking brand new again, ready for a respray in diamond silver.

Then i started refurbing the wheels, had some silver left over so sprayed up my old pressed numberplates (long since replaced with legal halfords ones) for show use.

Lookin much better now imo.

Let me know what you think.