What Have You Done to Your Cougar Today?

rikedwards said:
Thanks mate, about time I pulled my finger out

Spoiler was a right pain until I had the eureka moment and got somebody to help me!
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There was an OEM template for the spoiler kicking about a few years ago; I can't remember who inherited it from me after I'd done my first one. :(
 
I've been half-heartedly looking for one for a while. When it gets to sorting my Visteon scoop, I'll have a good browse and make sure I find one!

Anyway, I installed a new dash cam on Saturday after getting rid of my Halfrauds Nextbase one. The difference has left me somewhat disgusted

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Re-secured my rear heatshield (the curved one between the exhaust and the fuel tank) and sorted out my rear droplinks. The bushes were basically scrap. The links themselves were perfectly fine though.
 
Bought some of those all-rubber aero wiper blades (via ebay).
The vendor had listed them as a pack for the Ford Cougar, though the description stated 3 of 22". Which indeed they are, and I had allowed for.
Was kind of hoping it wouldn't matter, but 22" on the passenger side would catch the windscreen rubber, and there seems no way to re-jig it not to.
So i've fitted driver's side and tailgate, and have a spare, but at least they were "1/2 price".
Now to see if anywhere local has a matching 20".
 
Spent this morning washing & shining mine ready for something that should be happening on Wednesday. Not saying anymore at this point in case things don't go as planned...
 
Went to fit a new driveshaft as a £45 quick fix for a broken CV joint to get it on the road, split the ball joint away with a 36mm socket wedged between old CV housing and wishbone, just couldn't get the wishbone to separate far enough to release the balljoint pin. Bugger this, thinks I; "I'll just take the hub off the strut, compress the spring and do it that way - it's one bolt and makes the job easy!"
Sheared the head of the hub>strut bolt clean off. £45 quick fix now means new wishbones, struts, hubs, springs, drop links - I'm not putting new bits in to be let down by old bits. If I'm replacing one side, the other needs doing to keep it level, so may as well stick another driveshaft on the parts list.. Not impressed, but here I am thinking all new front suspension, would be a shame to leave the old stuff on the rear...

So far, I've driven this car 6 feet.
 
Herak said:
Went to fit a new driveshaft as a £45 quick fix for a broken CV joint to get it on the road, split the ball joint away with a 36mm socket wedged between old CV housing and wishbone, just couldn't get the wishbone to separate far enough to release the balljoint pin. Bugger this, thinks I; "I'll just take the hub off the strut, compress the spring and do it that way - it's one bolt and makes the job easy!"
Sheared the head of the hub>strut bolt clean off. £45 quick fix now means new wishbones, struts, hubs, springs, drop links - I'm not putting new bits in to be let down by old bits. If I'm replacing one side, the other needs doing to keep it level, so may as well stick another driveshaft on the parts list.. Not impressed, but here I am thinking all new front suspension, would be a shame to leave the old stuff on the rear...

So far, I've driven this car 6 feet.
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But what a 6feet that was (y)
 
Cheers bud, but had a foray a year or two back. Decided it wasn't worth fixing, but kept it on my drive and couldn't help thinking about sorting it to enjoy it again. In the end, the V6 tempted me as my only reason to not persevere with the old one was being a bit underpowered.
 
(Yesterday). Getting ready for MOT, had noticed a couple of bulbs out at rear. Changed reversing lights to LEDs, not intense enough for brake so replaced failed brakelight with bulb, thoiugh noticed wire to bulb-holder is also intermittent.
Changed numberplate bulbs for LEDs. Success.
One highlevel bulb also failed. Got enough trim pins out to access. Replaced all three with LEDs. Tested, looked good (white). Tried to refit bulb holder. FAIL. LEDs too big to go through reflector. Getting refector out and opening bulb holes job for another day. Put three bulbs back in and refit. That's enough for today.

Edit; booked in today for test Wednesday morning.
 
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Local shop has the aero wipers in, various sizes (22" OOS) at £4 each. Bought the 20" for passenger side.
Compared to the 22" ones I bought online, this has a very assymetrical aero profile, and needed the adapter reversing to get the profile to match how similar blades arw fitted on the Focus, S-Max and Mondeo I've observed today. Took me about an hour to figure out what the diagrams in the supplied instruction sheet meant but I managed to get the adapter off and refit the other way round.
Fitted blade to car, then tackled tweaking the washer jets aim.
 
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