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I have nothing to hide and will put my conversation on here if needed and i have not sleighed you on here as you clame at all i am a professional person and say what i feel and i was let down and you have not expained anything to me at all and you charge me money for testing even tho you have no rig yet as if you said to test on another rx8 i would have and done so and still having this problem plus not my fault the coils did not turn up today late in the day after 4.30 pm and refit them and then have them miss firing. After waiting a long time not been keeping me informed to what is going on and explained to me today and now done it on here as i said i was not able to call and you would not discuss to me in message i have not gone on google and left bad feed back or anything else and want to sort this out and resolve it in a good manner and in the way it should have been expand and updated from the start

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ChrisHolmes wrote:Decided to see if it was possible to return a painted carbon bonnet to a clear coated carbon finish and the answer is....eventually!
Don’t go through the lacquer over the carbon and you’ll be fine
That’ll take some patience


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Looks like there's quite a few distinct layers of paint so could use a rotary polisher with some fine grit discs to get through the first ones and just do the last couple of layers by hand to save time.
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A small job today, but had a rattle coming from my driver's side mirror, a quick tighten was all it needed. While I had the cover off, I noticed it's held directly against the metal door frame which is bound be be causing rattles when the music is up, so took the opportunity to minimise them. Fits much tighter now.

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Should really get the door card off and do the same behind there - It's gets a bit buzzy with some music on.
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Had to go downstairs first time in 9 weeks and get tools out of the boot of the car (flat battery) as the bike alarm was going off due to! (flat battery) lol at least the car alarm wasn't going off! 🙄
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just oil lines to fit at some stage ( had them a while too) :P

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Put another faultless 30 miles on the car
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Clay bar, T Cut and polished.
Blacked out tyres.
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Oh, and fitted a dash cam that don't work.
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Finally managed to give her the first clean And drive this year. Also took some up to date photos as I realised I haven’t got any.
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Ordered some premix from Opie, usually use Idemitsu from Aston, but his shipping is too expenive now, went for Millers KR2T this time, seems to be good stuff, so why not.

https://www.opieoils.co.uk/p-115235-mil ... t-oil.aspx
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SAS wrote:
Sun May 24, 2020 4:15 pm
Finally managed to give her the first clean And drive this year. Also took some up to date photos as I realised I haven’t got any.
Love the bonnet especially :thumright: Lovely 8 :thumleft:
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Sorted this horrible sticky mess out.Image
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Wow did you get any air passing through these
Hayward's Street/bridgeported rebuild,595's,Tein coilovers edfc Racingbeat rear anti roll bar oil pres oil temp gauge pod's,lockwood front rear grills,Tinted wind ws folding tow hook's,595s,connect2 ,at long last sohn and ap50 tank instaled ,revi ram air duct already fitted ! calipers painted,diff oil changed .
just oil lines to fit at some stage ( had them a while too) :P

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nightfire10 wrote:Wow did you get any air passing through these
Not really. The Aircon got so cold it clicked off today. First time ever! Well since it's worked, smells less too.
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New shiny parts from RRP fitted :lol:

Top quality =D>
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Vj4sothername wrote:
Tue May 26, 2020 3:14 pm
Sorted this horrible sticky mess out.
Worse than mine were ooft. Ahah. Probably never even been looked at since the factory.
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Charged battery and went down and fired the car up, first time in 9 weeks lol and only 2nd time going down to the car park 🙄
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just oil lines to fit at some stage ( had them a while too) :P

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Started mine today for first time in a few weeks.
Hopefully going out for a bit of shopping in it tomorrow.
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V8 Power wrote:
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Started mine today for first time in a few weeks.
Hopefully going out for a bit of shopping in it tomorrow.
Only on week 10 out of 12 and not sure if it will be extended for sheilding people, can't wait to hear rrp cat sound again going to the beeeep 😻😂
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just oil lines to fit at some stage ( had them a while too) :P

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Found the battery was so weak it would only rattle the starter solenoid. Gave it several hours charge, and then took it to do the weekly shop.
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Fitted my new RRP MKIII ignition upgrade set, and my RRP 100 Cel CAT. Really impressed with both the quality of the items, and what it's done to the car. It now actually feels like it's got a bit of power, and is so smooth it's like a completely different car! Plus, that rotary sound is much more noticeable through the new CAT, and sounds fantastic, but not intrusive.

A very happy chappie.
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Painted the Hinsberger exhaust shrouds satin black today. Most annoyingly I got two massive runs on the second one, very peeved with that!
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Took mine out for bit of a drive today for the first time in a good few weeks.
Went really well, had to wear the surface rust off the discs and took my time warming it up but once out on more favourable roads it seemed to be very good with no hangover from being parked up.
The backend felt a bit loose but that could just be the tyres are past their best.
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I'm reading this and I'm so jealous Im still waiting to sell my mazda 6 so rx8 can replace her on the insurance atm 2 cars on the road insured can't afford for n3
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Took mine for a decent drive this morning as I had to make a journey, then got busy cleaning and polishing it. Took a few hours but I think it was worth it...

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