What Have You Done to Your Cougar Today?
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Somewhat eerily, I got 'Rick'. A car named with a derivative of my own would be somewhat narcissistic, I feel!
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I got "Maggie". Bit uninspired I thought.
Mrs W. got "Poppie" for her Puma - somewhat vomit-inducing imo....
Mrs W. got "Poppie" for her Puma - somewhat vomit-inducing imo....
Englebert for my yet-to-be-owned Cougar, which may stick.
My daily got Cleopatra (actual name is Cecil).
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My daily got Cleopatra (actual name is Cecil).
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This threads gone way OT but, since we're here, some of you know the reason behind "DG" ie DOPPLEGANGER 
No idea what its off I got it some years ago and hopefully it stays on, fell off first time but luckily only on my drive !
Late night thinking; I added Capri after a faint recollection of the German V6 between the 2.0 and 3.0 - of course that was the 2.3
Further to 4106, surface corrosion chemically treated, primed and hammerite painted. Under skirt now refitted, the bolts to the subframe have been supplemented with 3 ty wraps to remove some of the dips and creases. Friday I raided the local scrappy and managed to prize a replacement for the centre console armrest closing clip from a scrap mondeo 3. Has anyone fitted a mondeo 3 armrest to a cougar ? its longer and a tad wider but the hinge looks to be identical.
Scrappy advised me he'd broken another complete Cougar since I was last there. "they break really quick" I couldn't do their job, I'd end up with a yard full of cars I wanted to save. To be fair to him he is into Vauxhall and showed me his 4 door booted Nova he has in the workshop. All credit to him a rare car but not my cuppa.
My Cougar ( Heti if she is anything other than " the Cougar " ) is now ready to be dropped back down onto the floor, doing that will let me refit the cover to the mega fuse I found sitting on the rear part of the front sub frame after my recent checking of the fuse.
Scrappy advised me he'd broken another complete Cougar since I was last there. "they break really quick" I couldn't do their job, I'd end up with a yard full of cars I wanted to save. To be fair to him he is into Vauxhall and showed me his 4 door booted Nova he has in the workshop. All credit to him a rare car but not my cuppa.
My Cougar ( Heti if she is anything other than " the Cougar " ) is now ready to be dropped back down onto the floor, doing that will let me refit the cover to the mega fuse I found sitting on the rear part of the front sub frame after my recent checking of the fuse.
Fitted a new 096 battery to the red one, checked imrc on ebony which works!
It will be going onto Sheila this week
It will be going onto Sheila this week
Polished the headlights.
First, a fine scotchbrite
Second, 0000 grade wire wool
Third, T-cut
Fourth, Meguirs Plast-X
And finally, a rub with wax polish
They weren't really bad so i didn't use the drill attachment, just did it by hand.
The results - well they look better than they did that's for sure, but of course they're not like when they were new. When you put the lights on you can still see all the little cracks in the plastic, which diffuses some light away from where it should go . . . but otherwise they look clear.
My question is, there is a hard coating on the headlights that was barely touched by the abrasive, and where that has come away (on the top) it's relatively soft and easy to polish. Is it possible to put something like that hard coating back on ?
Cheers
First, a fine scotchbrite
Second, 0000 grade wire wool
Third, T-cut
Fourth, Meguirs Plast-X
And finally, a rub with wax polish
They weren't really bad so i didn't use the drill attachment, just did it by hand.
The results - well they look better than they did that's for sure, but of course they're not like when they were new. When you put the lights on you can still see all the little cracks in the plastic, which diffuses some light away from where it should go . . . but otherwise they look clear.
My question is, there is a hard coating on the headlights that was barely touched by the abrasive, and where that has come away (on the top) it's relatively soft and easy to polish. Is it possible to put something like that hard coating back on ?
Cheers
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I think that is a UV protection coating that is applied to the poly-carbonate lens. You can buy the spray on coating on eBay I think.
Yes, and I think even our local Halfords sells it now. Next time I clean mine up, I'm planning on giving it a try.