BMW 123d/Rover Metro
Small Update! Apologies in advance for the first 3 photo's, they were taken using my iPhone.
Having a shiny steering wheel was really starting to bug me and after reading a thread over on ITR-DC5.com with a chap using "magic sponges" he'd ordered from Ebay to sort his steering wheel out, i thought I'd get some ordered and have a crack at it myself.
They arrived a couple of days later, i think there was about 10 of them for £2. You just add water and rub away the dirt, i can only imagine the sponge acts as a mild abrasive.
The "magic sponge"
Before
Untitled by Wayne J Keggans, on Flickr
I gently rubbed my way around the whole wheel paying special attention to the thumb grips and after around 10 minutes i dried it off to see what difference it had made.
After - Matte finish now matches the centre
Untitled by Wayne J Keggans, on Flickr
I'm under the impression the wheel wont stay matte forever but at least i know what to do when it starts to get shiny now and i still have another 9 sponges!
On December 28th I took the Integra down to Curborough which is a sprint course pretty local to me. I knew a few people who were running their cars and thought I'd go down and maybe have a play using it as a chance to blow some dust off my GoPro.
Unfortunately as I parked up this was being pulled off the track...Poor VRS.
DSC_0116 by Wayne J Keggans, on Flickr
Even though the weather had been dry all morning and that big yellow thing in the sky we don't see much of was out, the track was still largely greasy as the driver of this Fabia VRS found out on the first sweeping left hander. I was told the rear end stepped out and it was a case of he over-corrected it which sent him careering into the grass embankment. Nobody was hurt though so i guess that's the main thing.
Anyway, so after seeing this as soon as i pulled up and watching at least 2 other cars spin off the track in the first hour of being there i decided to give the greasy sprint track a miss in my newly acquired pride and joy which i was still getting used to! Instead I left the 'teg sitting pretty parked up, here's a couple of pictures for you guys.
DC5 at Curborough by Wayne J Keggans, on Flickr
DC5 at Curborough by Wayne J Keggans, on Flickr
Next up is a session on the rolling road just to see how the engine is performing and to see how much torque I haven't got.
That's about it for now really, thanks for reading!
Having a shiny steering wheel was really starting to bug me and after reading a thread over on ITR-DC5.com with a chap using "magic sponges" he'd ordered from Ebay to sort his steering wheel out, i thought I'd get some ordered and have a crack at it myself.
They arrived a couple of days later, i think there was about 10 of them for £2. You just add water and rub away the dirt, i can only imagine the sponge acts as a mild abrasive.
The "magic sponge"
Before
Untitled by Wayne J Keggans, on Flickr
I gently rubbed my way around the whole wheel paying special attention to the thumb grips and after around 10 minutes i dried it off to see what difference it had made.
After - Matte finish now matches the centre
Untitled by Wayne J Keggans, on Flickr
I'm under the impression the wheel wont stay matte forever but at least i know what to do when it starts to get shiny now and i still have another 9 sponges!
On December 28th I took the Integra down to Curborough which is a sprint course pretty local to me. I knew a few people who were running their cars and thought I'd go down and maybe have a play using it as a chance to blow some dust off my GoPro.
Unfortunately as I parked up this was being pulled off the track...Poor VRS.
DSC_0116 by Wayne J Keggans, on Flickr
Even though the weather had been dry all morning and that big yellow thing in the sky we don't see much of was out, the track was still largely greasy as the driver of this Fabia VRS found out on the first sweeping left hander. I was told the rear end stepped out and it was a case of he over-corrected it which sent him careering into the grass embankment. Nobody was hurt though so i guess that's the main thing.
Anyway, so after seeing this as soon as i pulled up and watching at least 2 other cars spin off the track in the first hour of being there i decided to give the greasy sprint track a miss in my newly acquired pride and joy which i was still getting used to! Instead I left the 'teg sitting pretty parked up, here's a couple of pictures for you guys.
DC5 at Curborough by Wayne J Keggans, on Flickr
DC5 at Curborough by Wayne J Keggans, on Flickr
Next up is a session on the rolling road just to see how the engine is performing and to see how much torque I haven't got.
That's about it for now really, thanks for reading!
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