Post #217
I am starting to get the car back together, but it will take another couple of days. I was going to get the bonnet, rear hatch and new bumper painted, and got a couple of quotes but with the possibility of a new rear window if the current one gets damaged removing it, the cost is starting to add up so soon after getting the rack, new tyres, sill fixed etc etc etc. Also I just want to drive it after only doing 4000 miles in the last 2 years and spending masses of time on the underside etc. So I am going to rattle can my spare bumper as an experiment (which is currently a mixture of blaze and primer) to make the car semi-presentable for this summer, then get it all sprayed up properly later in the year when my wallet has recovered from the masses of new bits etc.
So, after shooting the inside of the sills with Dynax S50 as seen above, I moved on to the outside of the sills where they will be underneath the sill covers and blasting them with Dynax UC:
First colour coat on the spare bumper offered up to see how good the colour match is. This bumper has loads of surface imperfections and has several coats of paint so it never will be perfect, even after loads of sanding, primer and high build primer but as I've never painted a panel before I'll see how difficult it is to get a good finish. Note how dull and flat the bonnet is. the paint is crazed after a dealer dodgy blow-over some years ago, and needs stripping back to bare metal. I'd love to find a cherry bonnet with good paint.
New rear sill clips which are now NLA from Pug. I've salvaged the old ones which can be re-usd with some new sticky stuff.
...and sill cover back on for the first time in 4 months.
The sill covers are reinstalled with M4 allen flat-head bolts and M5 washers instead of the factory rivets, so that I can un-bolt the covers and hose the mud out every year or so.
I got a new OE sill seal from a Pug dealer with one of the last in stock, it was discounted too. Both the original sill seals were split by people scuffing them with their heels getting out of the car. The passenger side one is a good second hand one from a breaker.
New driver's side sill seal installed:
With the C5 alloys now on the car I needed a 17mm wheel brace to suit as OE 306 wheel bolts are 19mm, so got a Citroen one, only £6.50 from the Pug dealer. However it is a different shape so it doesn't fit in the clip and it can't be used to undo the spare wheel retaining screw. If I can be bothered I might get the 306 handle welded to the Citroen head.
Here is my new spare - the worst of my C5 alloys sprayed satin black, need to get a tyre put on it this week.
The lighter weight of the C5 alloys will hopefully compensate for the vast quantities of Dynax wax and all the Electrox zinc primer applied to the car over the last 2 years.
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Cherry Rallye SOLD
mik
Posted 7th May 2013 at 22:08
