Episode 3 is where me and Dan (who was also a member on this forum and now is basically my bro and business partner) install PPF to protect the freshly painted front end, and then restore the paintwork with a lot of machine polishing, carrying out a paint correction and ceramic coating . In total it's about 65-70 hours of work, as the paint was very heavily swirled and the PPF took a little time as well, not too bad given we did it all custom without patterns due to the cars age.
Plan is to just use the car now for a while, although my commute is changing and going from 20 miles to 50 miles a day. I need to work out if it's financially viable as I have a Mk7 1.6 TDI bluemotion which does 70MPG (as well as a fully forged Renault Megane RS250!)
Ideally my Mrs would use it for work when she sells her car, so at least I can keep hold of it.
Things left to fix, which are pretty minor really and don't impact the car at all -
- The near side auto dimming mirror doesn't work, so I will need to replace the glass, but I hear it's quite expensive, will check with TPS).
- The mirror controller is wired up wrong - so when you set the mirrors to fold, they are actually heating, and the heated mirror setting folds them.
- The washer bottle leaks over half full - Originally I thought the bottle was cracked due to the impact, but it wasn't leaking from there - (I think it's something to do with the washer jets).
- The car has OEM Xenons but retrofitted, and the shutter isn't wired up, so I will look into activating that with the additional trigger wire
- The car also came with a Polar FIS but Rich said it stopped working so I need to dig out an old printer-USB style cable and see if I can find the Polar updater software.
- Drivers door locking module is dead so 9/10 times it doesn't unlock the door and have to use the key, that's being sorted soon.
Other than that the car drives 10/10 and has no knocks, rattles or other noises and feels very tight, thanks to all of the careful maintenance and tasteful modifications carried out in Rich's previous ownership. It really is an epic car.
