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Heads up - this isn’t on the website but down to £130 in some stores. With trade card it came down to £104. By comparison, the non low profile mode is £200 and £160 on the card. It’s a big heavy bugger but 3 year warranty and overkill for what I use it for.

Faux suede stuff glued to the old headliner. Links below. https://www.terrysfabrics.co.uk/products/heavy-faux-suede-curtain-fabric-grey https://www.justkampers.com/trim-fix-adhesive-500ml-high-temperature-resistant.html You need a high temp adhesive otherwise it’ll sag etc in warmer weather.

Almost 6 months since I last updated. Still have the Clio. Still alive. House and work taking up car time but managed to get out to a few meets. Headliner finished and LED interior bulb fitted. I’ve also modified my driver’s side mat to clip to carpet and stop it moving about. Almost set on...

Spent the week surrounded by these. The F Car collection was the centrepiece of our pavilion this year.

Light surround and sun visors painted/dyed. Used some of the graphite I did my bullets with for the surround after priming and then a couple of coats of satin lacquer. Visors were dyed using Halfords vinyl paint which is somewhere between a paint and a dye I think. Letting it cure then...

Any pointers for a decent dimmable replacement bulb for the interior and map reading lights? Can’t be doing with flickering LED’s and the existing one is a nasty off yellow.

My Mrs reckons the contrast works. I’m not so sure. I can paint the light surround easily enough but not sure about the visors. Either a vinyl or vinyl paint maybe.

I doubt it. Colour’s a lot closer in the flesh and it’s probably beyond my skill set!

Next job was to retrim the headliner. Wanted to do this for ages but too many horror stories put me off. Needn’t have worried. Aside from a couple of snapped clips, it was a doddle and the old one pulled straight out. Wife and daughter assisted as both are more patient than me and daughter is...

Also brilliant for cleaning tyre walls.

They’ve tweaked a few of the formulas and spray heads are improved (never had an issue to be fair). There’s some new new stuff in the pipeline apparently but I guess it’s a case of “if it ain’t broke” etc.

I used one of the Aquagleam ones years ago as our water was harder than Lenny McLean. Got about 15 full car rinses out of it. New house has a new softener but not for the outside tap. Debating adding a proper filter as my driveway is in direct sun all day although around this time of year I...

Rebranded GT gear turned up today.

Couple from a recent trip to London. The wife snapped the Mac at the Kensington showroom and couldn’t understand why the Merc was my pick of the weekend. Refreshing not to see a vulgarly pimped out version