Chortles Project Green Rivage. New roof time....

crack on fella,

mine were all pitted from not having the anti-stone chip foils on.

so needed doing really and will freshen the car up.

It wont be concourse of course, but a nice tidy motor.

cheers

chortle

Did you get my PM about leather paint?

Have looked at it Fella, it's in there with a few more that need answering..

I will send you the phone number etc.
when I get back to mine..

cheers

chortle

Cheers dude

Just sent fella..

Done nothing today as it's been windy and rainy GRRRRR!

Hopefully back on it tomorrow…

Just need to order a toffee wheel for the other side to  get the old adhesive off, then get the rear arches polished and off to my mate for the stone foils to go on.

Great progress here - I'm considering a full paint shop blow over on mine and fit those stone foils too.
But a job for later in the winter me thinks…

Great thread effort on all of your improvements so far!

Cheers Guy,

Well got a toffee wheel, brilliant, took the adhesive off the replacement front wing, spotless.

The rear was a different story though….The PO had the arches repainted at some point and they didn't clean all the old glue off, so got most of it off OK except for some bits that have been lacquered over…numpties!!!!

Back on it tomorow….

Cheers

Chortle

Not really managed to do much to the Rivage of late.

However fixed the clock rev counter issue.
I must of knocked it when working on the clocks and didn't check when I rebuilt them back up.
So took them apart and just moved the needle anti clockwise till it read on the 0.

Need to get the plastic polish out and give the lens a good clean and buff up.



 

Glad to hear you sorted it mate, hope your well

Rich

Not been able to do much, but annoyed I lost the clips from under the cill for the kit fixings.

Nice day so took the motor out for a spin. Realised I lost them.
Got some now thanks to Borednow, so massive thanks.
Had the temp light flashing all the time and and bridging the coolant level sensor made no diffrence, nor did a new temp, all very plausible reasons.

It was bugging me greatly so took the clocks out again and cleaned up the blue mylar ribbon contacts, so nice and clean.



Then to make sure I had good contact between the connector and the foil I wrapped a couple or so turns of electrical tape over the plastic tab the ribbon fits over, this allows for a tighter fit and better contact.



All back together and no more flashing temp light. It may also help with other clock related issues.

Very nice! what colour paint is your car?

LC6V PERLCOLOR GRUEN?

LC6U Classic Green Pearl is the colour.

It flips slightly in the sunlight, really nice colour.
These came in Blue or Green, so had a Green to be different lol…

cheers

chortle

It's slightly different from mine, really love that colour. Maybe when I get a respray next year….  

Keep up the good work, really love all the things that are going on here at the forum. Very much projects!

Nice little DIY fix mate.

Cheers just need a drivers side speaker pod as mine is cracked.

Need to crack on with this really. Loads of little jobs really oh need a dash surround insert aside is cracked.

Cheers

Chortle

The list is never ending mate isn't it wihen it comes to MK1's. I don't think there is such a thing as a completed one

Lol, I guess we learn to live with the bits we don't manage to sort.

Just need good weather really.

Need to sort out the carpet and heated seats. I have the old leather steering wheel to redo. Plus get the anti stone chip foils on and the Proper "Rivage" decals I make.
Fit the body kit..

Best stop as the list is getting longer lol..

Just been gutted that I been so ill of late to be able to crack on..

Cars looking fantastic Carl. Your making great progress.

If my rivage turns out half as nice as yours i'd be a happy man

looking good mate, hope your ok, we will have to catch up on the phone soon