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| DotMatrix |
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 Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | Metromartin - 6/11/2013 8:56 PM Excellent work! Looks a very tidy car now weldone! Thanks  it is a very nice car i think but it does have the usual 400 problems with driver side airbag and a little moisture in the passenger footwell from a sligthly leaky heater probably. | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | as you can see the sealing on the old plastic cover for the heater inlet was non existing and I have been experiencing a bit of water in the footwell so I am hoping that a new seel would fix this. I also bend the flap supposed to avoid water dripping down into the heater inlet back in hope this would also help. Lets see if it helped during the winter      Edited by DotMatrix 25/11/2013 6:47 PM | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | Changed my downpipe today in my new garage. damn those nuts was a pain to get off without snapping the bolts or damaging the thread. good thing I purchased new bolts.   | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | as you can see the front brake pads was well worn down so fitted a new set and also changed to my summer alloys which both drive and look very much nicer      | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | changed oil and filter today and changed the left hand side rear suspension bush as it was worn out. it has helped to make the car more directionally stabil but I can see that a couple of the bushes in the lower rear suspension arm also needs changing.       | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | so we got back from vacation and the trip to the UK was great. 2700 miles and no major problems. only slight trouble I had was the abs acting up but a bit of airing out the front brakes cured that, and the catalyst has started rattling from a heat shield  | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | my experiences with painting my own cars are not that good. usually it starts to bubble and rust come through after 1-2 years and it doesn't matter how I do it, normal base coat, rust proofing base, base and paint. So this time I sandblasted one of the places that have had rust repair work done to it when I god the car 1.5 years ago, painted it twice with rust proofing base paint three or for times with a thin layer of color and finally two times with some 1 component lacquer. it was allowed to surface dry in-between sprays and I know I didn't flatten the base coat so it isn't that pretty, but that doesn't matter for now decided to see if this lasts more that 1-2 years. but at least the blend in is pretty good   Edited by DotMatrix 29/7/2014 2:51 PM | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | Hamster12 - 14/8/2014 2:13 PM Fair play for doing all of this to a Rover 400 you've made a massive improvement. thanks I have done about 40k miles in it in the 1,5 years since I got it, so it has to be maintained somewhat. | ||
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 drive it like its hired | DotMatrix - 14/8/2014 9:34 PM Hamster12 - 14/8/2014 2:13 PM Fair play for doing all of this to a Rover 400 you've made a massive improvement. thanks I have done about 40k miles in it in the 1,5 years since I got it, so it has to be maintained somewhat.What sort of MPG do you get? No one over here would do those miles in a petrol. | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | petrol_head - 15/8/2014 12:44 PM DotMatrix - 14/8/2014 9:34 PM Hamster12 - 14/8/2014 2:13 PM Fair play for doing all of this to a Rover 400 you've made a massive improvement. thanks I have done about 40k miles in it in the 1,5 years since I got it, so it has to be maintained somewhat.What sort of MPG do you get? No one over here would do those miles in a petrol. driving normally I get 45mpg depending on what sort of road it is. I think its quite good for a relative big car. | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | today I started painting the rear wing on the right side of the car. It had started to bubble from almost two years ago when we welded the wing and I painted it using normal spray can primer and spray can color and nothing else. now I sandblasted it, and gave it two thick layers of rust proofing primer. next I am going to sand the primer down a bit to flatten it and then give it 2-3 layers of spray can color and then give it 2-3 layer of spray-can 1k lacquer in the hope that it will not rust within the next two years again but last a bit longer.     Edited by DotMatrix 27/9/2014 8:42 PM | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | so I continued with the wing painting. I am not a very good car painter. it often cracks for me when I apply the paint layers as you can see. in the last picture.    | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | |||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | I sanded down the wrinkly paint gave it a layer of paint or two and a couple of layers of lacquer and it helped a bit but on the look. I know it isn't super pretty but it is much better than what it was    Edited by DotMatrix 10/11/2014 10:49 PM | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | I did a few small things on the car this weekend, balanced a wheel and touched up a bit of under-sealant. next year I have to give it a thorough going over (or rather under) with the waxoil as it worn off many places, but touching up will have to do for this winter as it is to late in the year for waxoil (the wax is too thick because its cold and its to wet underneath the car)  | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | changed the gearbox and engine oil. used Castrol Magnatec 5w-40 C3 oil for the engine and Total BV75W-80 for the gearbox as it was one of the recommended oils from rover for this car. Managed to get the top gearbox filling plug out by welding a large nut on the plug. Didn't have an other plug so fitted this one with the newly welded nut. I changed two of the rubber bushes for the front anti-roll bar as they were going bad. The car has its MOT comming up in 1.5 month so need to get all these small things fixed.      | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | today I changed to winter wheels, changed the spark plugs as the old ones had done 19k miles, measured the plug-leads and changed two of them to some used ones that were better, changed the rotor and dizzy-cap to some used ones I had that were better as the old ones had done 44k miles and were quite worn, but the next time I order something from Rimmer I will order leads, cap and rotor also. When I purchased the plugs I'm sure the text said Champion so I thought they would be the RC9YCC ones which I like, but instead these funny pointy-elektrode ones arrived. I wonder what make they are. On my short test run they seemed fine.   | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | petrol_head - 25/11/2014 11:06 PM It will run way better with those in, but you want ngk r's in really what make are these? I will report back how I think it runs on these, but I dont like the small pointy bit it looks like it will wear quickly. | ||
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