What Have You Done to Your Cougar Today?
- Thread starter Axximilli
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The very reason why I've had to stop myself buying an alloy task disk holder
Even my fiesta has one of them lol, bit of a waste of money as you say if it changes. The kuga sports a free of charge disabled tax disc.
After feeling a little ill this morning (always when I want to do something) I managed to get out in the glorious sunshine and do more work on the fiesta. Wired up crossovers and routed cable into boot, also decided to have a go at routing the cable to my rearview camera (yup the fiesta is gonna have one) quite an easy job, found an ideal position that don't look to obvious either, just a case of routing cable for video, power and the reverse gear switch (basicaly a cable to the reversing light to switch the video over) could have it done tomorrow depending on the weather
Well done Peter - about time too!
I treated mine to a new set of number plates, an air filter, (getting hold of one was a real mission around here, but now I have the perfect source for all Cougar filters...) a hot wash, de-tar, compounded the roof, bonnet and wings, then a coat of Poor Boys' Black Hole followed by Dodojuice Purple Haze and finally a coat of Natty's paste wax.
I treated mine to a new set of number plates, an air filter, (getting hold of one was a real mission around here, but now I have the perfect source for all Cougar filters...) a hot wash, de-tar, compounded the roof, bonnet and wings, then a coat of Poor Boys' Black Hole followed by Dodojuice Purple Haze and finally a coat of Natty's paste wax.
Sounds like you have had a very busy day. I need to polish my car as well but that can wait till I tackle the underside of it.
I write it off as "exercise".
What do you plan on doing with it?
I write it off as "exercise".
What do you plan on doing with it?
Going to wire brush it all where it needs it, then I have got some rust proof stuff to go on, then I have got 5 litres of waxoil to go on as well. It does look really clean and nice under there but I want piece of mind for years to come, so it is a job that needs doing if I want this car to last another 5 years.
Yes, definitely Peter.
Be brave under there, too. Give it a good tap about and listen to what noises it makes. If you hear dusty rattling noises behind surfaces that look okay, investigate from the other side. Check the voids behind the doors by taking out the side panels and getting a torch in there.
Much easier to get welding done now while the car has a ticket on it and you have the luxury of time, than to wait until someone puts their thumb through it on the test stand.
Be brave under there, too. Give it a good tap about and listen to what noises it makes. If you hear dusty rattling noises behind surfaces that look okay, investigate from the other side. Check the voids behind the doors by taking out the side panels and getting a torch in there.
Much easier to get welding done now while the car has a ticket on it and you have the luxury of time, than to wait until someone puts their thumb through it on the test stand.
Yeah I agree, I will be taking a very good look at it all, and i think I will be taking the rear door cards out and getting a load of it in the inside as well as the underside.
Cheers......... I should take one of how close that right corner splitter gets to my garage floor, it is really close...........
Broken a rear arb mount bolt and replaced one rear arb mount rubber, polished the headlamps, which i'm not completely happy with, might need to be done again, and removed, cleaned and replaced the washer bottle because it stopped working.
Not been a great day for stuff going right
Not been a great day for stuff going right
shouted at it and called it some derogatory names
I did manage to put that badge on thanks Al
Certainly is!
I carefully heated it up and used wire to remove the old one too
and the Araldite stayed in the garage.........
I carefully heated it up and used wire to remove the old one too
and the Araldite stayed in the garage.........
Change driver side strut (wheel bearing had gone) took strut and hub of doner car and replace it onto mine, garage wanted to charge me £80-100 to replace the wheel bearing that's not including parts also put new front discs and pads together with front drop links. Only worrying thing hub nuts loose on both cars is this common?
did both front wishbones ,fitted some lovely tsw alloys(thanks telboy) and then discovered play in front wheel bearings....oh well back to ebay....
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dun know about the cougar but my scorpio hub nuts seem to need tightening once a year...
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dun know about the cougar but my scorpio hub nuts seem to need tightening once a year...