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What did you and your MK2 do today?
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Ordered all my service parts from ECP for £53.
Might do it all at the weekend. So tempted to buy some H&R's too.......also eyeing up some wheels, but think they'll be too wide for the Leon unfortunately
Mmmm H+Rs are on my mind too. Good stuff with the service parts!
Again I also took advantage of the weather yesterday and gave the car a good clean
Good to see you back on here mate!
Sprayed and fitted my interior plastics yesterday and today.
Went for matt black instead of the horrid blue/silver standard colour.
Did the radio, speedo surround, steering wheel insert and air con panel.
Personally I think they look loads better.
Thanks to Matt for recommending the paint and advice.
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Went for matt black instead of the horrid blue/silver standard colour.
Did the radio, speedo surround, steering wheel insert and air con panel.
Personally I think they look loads better.
Thanks to Matt for recommending the paint and advice.
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Sprayed and fitted my interior plastics yesterday and today.
Went for matt black instead of the horrid blue/silver standard colour.
Did the radio, speedo surround, steering wheel insert and air con panel.
Personally I think they look loads better.
Thanks to Matt for recommending the paint and advice.
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They look good.
Interesting day for me, had almost £1700 taken from my bank card in fraudulent transactions
Happy to say the bank sorted it and had the money back in my account within 45 minutes
. Have to wait for a new card now too...
Unlucky Dan! Glad it's sorted tho!
Looks great Gareth, good job
Thanks Matt, going to re do the radio panel at some point as I'm not 100% happy with it.
I think it was Dan really ha.
Sprayed and fitted my interior plastics yesterday and today.
Went for matt black instead of the horrid blue/silver standard colour.
Did the radio, speedo surround, steering wheel insert and air con panel.
Personally I think they look loads better.
Thanks to Matt for recommending the paint and advice.
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what paint did you use
Sprayed and fitted my interior plastics yesterday and today.
Went for matt black instead of the horrid blue/silver standard colour.
Did the radio, speedo surround, steering wheel insert and air con panel.
Personally I think they look loads better.
Thanks to Matt for recommending the paint and advice.
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Looks great that Gareth was it a nightmare to remove the plastics?
I used Hycote matt black and grey primer from Amazon. Only £2.38 a can!
It was ok actually, once you get the radio out it's the case of removing 6 screws and gently unclipping it all. Used a towel to out it all back in as I was scared I was going to scratch it ha.
Really like how that looks, really want to do mine but I'm cracking it about removed all of the facia panels. Got all of the trim tools, not afraid of this sort of thing normally but I have the fear regarding this job. I'd have to go gloss black I reckon as I've already got the bottom of the wheel that finish and the door handles are piano black. Must not fear the plastics 
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I didn't have any removal tools, used a cut up credit card for radio keys and a very small and thin screwdriver. Just be gentle and take your time. Once the screws are out they came off surprisingly easy. The only tricky bit is getting the connector out of the back of the radio and air con panel as the wires are short.
Great so I'm guessing once the radio is removed you can take the panel off it to spray it?
Been to S.h.a.r.k Performance today for a stage 3 (2+) remap Running at 362bhp at the shaft and 300 at wheels. 473Nm of torque, could of been higher at 520, but was suggested this would be too much and would shred tyres rather then getting the power to the ground.
First initial impressions are awesome, much better smoother delivery of the power and the power lasts longer and obviously stupidly fast
Cleaning the intake and valves of carbon build up helped it by around 10bhp.
Running at 362bhp at the shaft and 300 at wheels. 473Nm of torque, could of been higher at 520, but was suggested this would be too much and would shred tyres rather then getting the power to the ground. First initial impressions are awesome, much better smoother delivery of the power and the power lasts longer and obviously stupidly fast
Cleaning the intake and valves of carbon build up helped it by around 10bhp.
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Really like how that looks, really want to do mine but I'm cracking it about removed all of the facia panels. Got all of the trim tools, not afraid of this sort of thing normally but I have the fear regarding this job. I'd have to go gloss black I reckon as I've already got the bottom of the wheel that finish and the door handles are piano black. Must not fear the plastics
Yeah I wouldn't mind doing mine black to match the piano black door pulls
how long did it take you to do in total mate, really tempted cause it looks awesome
had this a couple of years ago, used one of those 'stand alone' cash box machines whilst on a night out in Durham. Had no choice, normally avoid them like the plague but A. Restaurant we were in only took cash B. It was the closest one C. I was, erm , well oiled ( No strippers involved!)They look good.
Interesting day for me, had almost £1700 taken from my bank card in fraudulent transactions
Happy to say the bank sorted it and had the money back in my account within 45 minutes
same as you, bank sorted it in minutes, think it was in Singapore or somewhere they withdrew the money or tried to. After first £140 bank stopped it.
Btw thanks for funding our honeymoon
You need a very small torx bit to remove the panel, which I didn't have so took the bulk off it and painstakingly masked all buttons etc. It came out really well except the masking came off the CD eject button and I didn't realise and have very slight overspray on a button. Nothing I can't fix.
Thanks mate, it definitely makes the interior a nicer place to be and should have been like that from new.
I did it over 2 days but could have done it in a day easy but I leave the paint to properly dry for 12 hours before I refitted them.
I sanded the panels first, applied 2 coats of primer, wet sanded after each coat, then applied 2/3 coats of black and again wet sanded except for the last coat.
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