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The Car : Regrettably for sale my 1993, L Reg Revision 3 Automatic MR2 Mk2 in 3E5 Super Red 2. The car is a great runner and drives very well with no nasty clunking. The paintwork is a little tired but the body is solid no signs of rusting sills that I can see. Flew through MOT 1st time with two min...

Just weighing up the options, whether a modified or unmodified car is more likely to sell?

Whatever happens the car has to go, looking at getting a 4 door civic or corrolla to ferry the new baby around in

Not sure whether to take the kit off and sell the car via autotrader to be honest.

Looks like i'm going to be selling up now, baby on the way in november and I have to get something sensible with 4 doors and a boot

Put me on the standby list, for the moment and let the other chap have my place, I still need to check with the boss

Very tempted, I'll have to check with the diary first though. The warrington track is totally awesome we had a works team building day there

You got any piccys of your wheels? i'm interested in what would go nicely with a red car other than black.

I'm thinking about gunmetal....

Seen a set of wheels I quite like and was wondering what peoples thoughts on them / what colour would be best (bronze, gold, silver, gunmetal). They're 16'' enkeis As car is now... http://img843.imageshack.us/img843/1379/021gf.jpg Dodgy photoshop with bronze wheels.... http://img638.imageshack.us/im...

I'm quite fancying trying to get flappy paddles working with one of the newer 5 or 6 speed boxes off the avensis / rav4, I think it could be pretty entertaining in an mr2 :twisted: The Caldina boxes have flappy paddles as standard - okay they don't change gear in DSG times, but it does do what you ...

Glad to hear it was fun, i'm at a wedding on 10th so looks like i'll be missing that one as well

T.F.S. wrote:

Goldy wrote:
I did cut it first, then triplewax polish then zymol wax. The finish was looking spot on but it seems to have faded some what over the week.

you didnt cut enough mate

Right back to the buffer I go then

Damn,

I missed this one, would have come if i'd seen it earlier! I spent all saturday polishing the car as well

the very top layer of paint is oxidised; you cannot wax and hope the finish stays. you need to get rid of the top layer so compounding (G3/3m Fast cut/Tcut etc) has to be done first; the finish after this step should be spot on. then you want to use a polish with some fillers in; then seal that wit...

I'm quite fancying trying to get flappy paddles working with one of the newer 5 or 6 speed boxes off the avensis / rav4, I think it could be pretty entertaining in an mr2

RedMR² wrote:Nice work mate! Paintwork looks quite red actually

Thanks matey, it gets a good shine, but when you look up close, the red isn't very deep, it's not a solid red, especially on the roof its sort of flat and 1 dimensional and a little bit orange rather than being shiney deep solid red.

Today I have replaced all of the dash, centre tunnel, plastic trim parts and carpets with some nearly new parts kindly donated by Paul Woods :thumleft: The old stuff was mostly cracked, painted silver quite badly and had holes in it all over the place. The carpet I took out was actually grey and min...

Well the bit I did last week is starting to fade along the top edge again despite waxing, anyone got any suggestions to seal the paintwork to prevent oxidation, i'm not really rating the zymol wax?

Went up there at the weekend and they've put up average speed cameras along the whole road and made it a 50. In my opinion they've completely ruined that road, its more like driving through motorway roadworks watching your speedo the whole time rather than the lovely country road it was, you can't e...

Well I went for it on the wing and door this evening. Exhibit A : Bonet.... dull and a bit orangy http://img840.imageshack.us/img840/808/p1060284n.jpg Exhibit B : The wing after the following treatment : Rubbing Compound - Applied with buffer Triplewax (polish & wax) - Applied with buffer Zymol ...

I'm thinking to go for something a bit harsher to start with such as Rubbing Compound or G3 and work up to TCut and then wax.

We'll see this weekend what happens... at least there's no danger of cutting through the paint as it's got at least two if not 3 coats of red under there