RichieST

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Thanks guys, I picked up some satin black hammerite today so going to do the calipers tomorrow if the rain holds off, got some smoked side repeaters on order too as the orange ones stick out like a sore thumb now!

RichieST

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Painted the calipers today in Hammerite satin black. Was pretty chuffed with the finish actually, was going to remove them to paint but as it's due to piss down this afternoon wanted to get on with it. Cleaned the wheels inside and out and sealed with gtechniq c5.

Also did the rear dust shields but forgot to get pics.

Ford Macedonia

Hi,
My MK4 2.0 TDCI is liking water on rear wind shield on the top side of it, does any one have a similar problem and how did he solved the problem.

Mk4 Rick

Nice looking motor mate.

Mondtit

Hi Rich,

I'm new to the forum and just seen your post from last year with regards to upgrading the look of your car (which looks beautiful by the way!) you painted the chrome of the rear blue oval badge and put a dmb overlay on top, now I have the overlay and I want to paint my chrome and I'm just wondering how exactly did you do it or was it a case of getting it done professionally?

Thanks in advance
Kevin

RichieST

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If you take the sticky foam tape off the back of the badge, then the badge does just unclip into 3 pieces!

Mondtit

Cheers, but getting off and separate isn't the problem, I need to know how to paint it, sand it down? What grit paper?, then primer, which one and how many coats, then paint? Then clear coat?
Thanks
Kevin

Glenn_

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Theres nothing worse than a nice set of wheels on a car and seeing rusty brakes behind them.

Kam B

I love this! Such a great car the Mk4 mondy. I love mine to bits

furry

saw this the other day coming through Lyneham on my way home, looked good

RichieST

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Thanks mate, saw you too, thought I recognised your motor from the pics you posted on here.

marky_g

Looking good I'm in the market for a mk4 estate need something practical unfortunately and these look so good, how hard is it to get hold of the titanium x sport bits?

I'm just looking to buy any Mindel with full leather just so hard to find in a mk4 lol

RichieST

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Not too hard, they pop up on ebay every now and again and I got some bits new from a website called car accessories plus, which was the cheapest at the time!

marky_g

I'm feeling a black estate!

Do you have full leather?

RichieST

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No it's heated half leather, the factory sport models have exactly the same seats just with red stitching.

marky_g

I rely want full leather so hard to find think I seen one but it was cream

RichieST

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Well time for another update, not done much to the car really apart from driving it. Thought about adding some sounds, as although the standard system is pretty good, there is room for improvement. I have had a JL audio sub in the boot for a while but have upgraded the front components and started sound proofing. I have so far done the boot floor, bootlid inner and outer skins and the front door inner and outer skins.

I've fitted some Focal front components which sound fantastic, I plan on amping them up once I have deadened the whole car.

Anyway, few pics!

Boot floor ( I did do the gaps after the pics were taken)



Door inner and outer skins done





The components



Also, a vid of the difference between an un-deadened door and a deadened one!



I will have another update tomorrow, spent the last few months working on a little project

Rich.

RichieST

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Had another busy day again today, removed the seats, carpets and other various trim panels to carry on the sound proofing. Managed to get about half of the floor done until I ran out - underestimated how much I will need!!!






Never before have I seen so many clips, hooks, bits of glue, seals, wiring plugs etc etc to undo just to get a few bits of trim out.

Anyway, started with laying down the deadening material, quite a nice job to do actually as long as you don't cut your finger off with the knife like I almost did lol.



Now, while this little lot was out, thought it would be rude not to crack out the wet vac!



This came out the passenger's seat



So, seats vac'd, leather cleaned and protected with Auto Finesse's finest





No pics of the carpet as I was really loosing the will to live by that point!!

And it all went back together. Not yet been out in the car to see the difference the deadening has made but hope it has made a big improvement like it did in the doors and boot.

Another update in a bit

Rich

Carlos-Titx

Nice and thorough.

I'd hate to see the results of mine after a wet vac having to cart kids about in it.

sridgett

Cool car mate. Allways love seeing it in your sig.

RichieST

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So, this is something that I have been playing with for the last few months. Almost a year ago I purchased a set of second hand headlamps, so I could 'blackeye' them, was pretty pleased with the results. As standard, the car came with halogen bulbs behind a projector lens, which also has a system called AFS, which turn the lamp units side to side while turning the steering. It is quite a clever system that really does help driving through the lanes at night.

So, this is how the car looked with the blackeye headlamps fitted.



I fitted a HID kit to them which worked well behind a projector lens, but there was definitely no substitute for a proper HID projector lens.

I could have just slung in a set of HID xenon units from another Mondeo, but they don't have AFS for some reason, it is only the halogen units the have it. I wanted the best of both worlds, so got creative lol.

I purchased a pair of Morimoto H1 projector lenses from America and set about fitting them. It certainly wasn't easy and I couldn't fit them how they are designed to be fitted, due to the swivelling AFS feature.

These are the lenses I purchased,



Unfortunately I didn't get any pics of the install (kicking myself for not taking any) but have now got them in and working with LED indictors, both with no Canbus errors.





And the beam output



I will get some more pics with the sun off them, struggling a bit with my camera.

RichieST

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Thanks guys, much appreciate your comments

Carlos-Titx

The headlights is a good feature. I like the low speed cornering lights as well.

costina

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Looks good Rich are those Focals that good?

Used a lot of dynamat at work bloody stuff takes ages to fit.

Paul

RichieST

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I am currently running them off the standard headunit but yes, they are absolutely outstanding. So much clearer and the high notes from the tweeters seem a lot more defined. The standard speakers in a tinny door would shit themselves at the slightest hint of a low note, but I would definitely recommend these in a deadened door.

Letting my bank card cool off a bit, but next month I am going to shift these to the rear and put a pair of Focal 165KR's up front and will amp them up.

What do you do for a living then Paul?

costina

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I work for a restoration company working on anything from gullwing mercs to Bentleys 50's lancias, old alfas the list is endless.

Most expensive was a alfa valued around 4 million.
Bloody old sheds....

Paul

RichieST

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Very nice, you are from around this area aren't you? It's not the place in Lechlade is it?

costina

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No its in south cerney. so not far to go.

Glenn_

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Top work Ritchie. The head lights look well. Does the sound deading weigh much??

RichieST

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Thanks Glenny. Bearing in mind I have done the boot floor, boot lid, rear section of the floor and front doors I would estimate probably 10kg. So by the time the whole car is done I would have thought 20kg in total. Which is only 1.2% of the total weight of the car.

Glenn_

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Its not bad then is it. Ive never tried this sound deading before. I do love my tunes in my cars. Ive never had 1 car yet that hasnt had a modified sound system in it.

RichieST

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No me neither, I don't listen to loud music but do like it sounding good. Try some in your front doors Glenn, you'd be amazed at the difference.

Glenn_

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Where do you get it from.

RichieST

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Have a look on ebay mate, get some stuff called Silent Coat, it's the same as dynamat just much cheaper.

Glenn_

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Just had a look for that stuff. Its cheap enough. I might have to treat myself.

costina

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Louder the better for me boys

Paul

RichieST

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Get yourself one of these too to roller it on, they are foam so help get the material round and into the nooks and crannies.

http://www.diy.com/nav/decor/decorat...skuId=13769285

Take the window regulator out and do as much of the outer door skin as you can, then when you do the inner skin you basically want to replace the damp membrane with this stuff. I used about 10-12 sheets to do each door.
Your door will now shut with a nice thud instead of a clang!


I do like it loud but my housing estate terrorising days are long behind me lol.

RichieST

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Another pic I forgot to add. Next job - paint that bloody chrome trim on the bonnet!

costina

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Lol only loud on the move. I have respect for other people also when in the cossie it drowns out the piston slap

Glenn_

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Thanks for the info. The car looks mint in that pic.