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Old 11th July 2019, 11:35   #11
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With spooky witchcraft muhwahhahhahhahhaaaaaaah!!!

Means you can quote things like Tuesday, 18th February 2003 @ 14:47:27 being your new car's birthday

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Old 11th July 2019, 11:36   #12
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As for making piccies smaller, I now edit them and either alter the size that way, or crop out unwanted bits, before attaching to posts.
Thank you I'm pleased with it, and thank you, i will try that next time.
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Old 12th July 2019, 06:00   #13
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Hi Steven.
Welcome to the club, maybe you would like to visit our next local Nano meet in the midlands, links below with my signature you are more than welcome, good banter and lots to learn from the meets, free T4 sessions, Arctic
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I was wondering how long it would take for it to appear on here.

Not long....
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PS, you need to fit a proper gear knob!
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Welcome to the club, maybe you would like to visit our next local Nano meet in the midlands, links below with my signature you are more than welcome, good banter and lots to learn from the meets, free T4 sessions, Arctic
Thank you, I will try and pop to one soon!
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Yes I do haha
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Found the dreaded jacking point tin worm...had a bit of a poke with a sharp object and it seems solid so I will take the arch liner out jet wash all the dirt out and treat the rust before it gets holes. If I find any holes I will just get my step dad to weld it as he was a welder at West works on R8, HHR lines.
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The pictures do it justice haha, there are various dents, scratches on body, paint peeling off chrome, spoiler lacquer peel and a tiny bit of rust on o/s rear arch...sills look okay...so will treat before it spreads down the sills.

And yes the front seats are both bobbly, I have started to debobble the passenger seat, but the drivers seat has gone too far, sagging material and cuts at the front. I think it is just alcantara.
My alcantara seats are the same - I did a temporary repair that has now lasted two years by :-

1) cutting the saggy bit in the centre of the “bubble”

2) then gently with fingers separated the alcantara from the backing material

3) use a felt material cut to the shape of the gap made with fingers between top layer and backing layer

4) cut strips of dressmaking “hem tape” - enough to cover the felt in 3) above - SWMBO uses this - it’s about a £1 for a large role of it - but it is only about an inch wide. Not found this stuff in large sheets.

5) glue the hem tape to the felt - I used a light spray of an aerosol impact adhesive - you don’t need much as it only to keep the hem tape in place on the felt piece whilst you insert it in the cut so it is on top of the old backing material and under the alcantara.

6) when this felt with hem tape “topping” is in place grab SWMBO’s Iron and a clean Tea Towel soaked in clean water.

7) make sure the alcantara top is nice and smooth and using the hot Iron on the wet tea towel on top of the alcantara gently work the iron from both sides of the cut into the centre. Don’t worry about overlap at the cut at this stage. The heat and the water/steam melts the hem tape and it then holds the material together and is flexible.

8) you should find the alcantara is firmly fixed to the new backing material - and I had an overlap of about a cm in the centre of the cut tapering out to the edges.

9) I then cut another strip of hem tape to match the overlap - recommend great care here as this will be visible when finished. Spend a bit of time making sure the hem tape is in place then gently place the wet tea towel on it and use the hot iron as before.

I was well pleased with the result!

You can only see the join if you really look.

I expected it to last a few months then new rips to appear - but to date it has proved to be a good long lasting repair that extends the life of an otherwise nice drivers seat that was really only fit to be scrapped.

If your seat looked as bad as mine did - give it a go - my thoughts were that I could hardly make it look any worse.

And the result is good!

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Old 12th July 2019, 17:58   #20
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Found the dreaded jacking point tin worm...had a bit of a poke with a sharp object and it seems solid so I will take the arch liner out jet wash all the dirt out and treat the rust before it gets holes. If I find any holes I will just get my step dad to weld it as he was a welder at West works on R8, HHR lines.
Champion, I'll bring my R8 tourer down then, does he have a rectification shed?

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