Thanks Miniac and Minimad.
It was now onto the lights, the head lights to be more precise.
The head light bowls was not removed on the previous resprays, so they looked like this.
No good
After some time, they looked like this.
The head lamp rubber sealing rings, old crusty on the right new shiny on the left.
Head light bowl fitted with inner metal headlamp bowl
The head lights and their inner chrome retaining rims was next, the retaining rims needed some serious cleaning....
After some TLC
Fitted to the car and process repeated for both headlights.....
Next the side lamps.
From the rear....
The all important plate that separates the two lenses. Also got cleaned up with the lenses.
After some cleaning up and stripping old paint etc off the LH one...
I recently brought these with me from the UK, the seal to the body and the seal to the lens, these have never been fitted to the side lamps the whole time I have had this car.
First the lamp to lens seal.
Then the body to light seal.
On the RH side this little reflector was missing, so I sourced it from my shed and cleaned it up.
Then the next thing I noticed is the silver strip around the inside of the clear lens, top lens nothing, bottom lens has some of the strip left....
From the front...
All fitted to the car, lekker man.
It was now onto the lights, the head lights to be more precise.
The head light bowls was not removed on the previous resprays, so they looked like this.
No good
After some time, they looked like this.
The head lamp rubber sealing rings, old crusty on the right new shiny on the left.
Head light bowl fitted with inner metal headlamp bowl
The head lights and their inner chrome retaining rims was next, the retaining rims needed some serious cleaning....
After some TLC
Fitted to the car and process repeated for both headlights.....
Next the side lamps.
From the rear....
The all important plate that separates the two lenses. Also got cleaned up with the lenses.
After some cleaning up and stripping old paint etc off the LH one...
I recently brought these with me from the UK, the seal to the body and the seal to the lens, these have never been fitted to the side lamps the whole time I have had this car.
First the lamp to lens seal.
Then the body to light seal.
On the RH side this little reflector was missing, so I sourced it from my shed and cleaned it up.
Then the next thing I noticed is the silver strip around the inside of the clear lens, top lens nothing, bottom lens has some of the strip left....
From the front...
All fitted to the car, lekker man.
Own some minis, break them, fix them, improve them, test them to the limit....
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