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ChrisC · Alfa Sprint Joined: 13 Mar 2003 Posts: 152 Location: Frome

MOT finally passed today, and the cambelts were done. The old ones didnt look too bad in the end, and although obviously visual indications arent much to go by, im choosing to believe this means they were done not too long ago and hopefully the car has been cared for!

So, just the cosmetic rust to deal with now. Gulp.

This weekend im going to remove and do a bad job of repainting the wing mirrors. Why is it that 33s and sprints seem to have these dodgy aluminiumish weird stuff for mirror mounts???
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tvatavuk · Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2005 9:18 am Post subject:

Congrats ChrisC,

Don't know why it is there, but it doesn't help with oxidation issues that our mirrors have.
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Ben_nz · Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2005 10:10 am Post subject:

Ah, the old paint-the-wing-mirrors job. Wink

On both my mirrors the horrible aluminiumish weird stuff on the bases had oxidised underneath the paint, and I had to flake and sand the paint off and sand off all the white stuff before I could repaint them. It was a lot of effort to go to considering how useless the adjusters are on those wing mirrors! Evil or Very Mad

ChrisC · Alfa Sprint Joined: 13 Mar 2003 Posts: 152 Location: Frome

Well at least I know now there should be something left once i set to em!

I dont have any nice alfa romeo script on mine though. maybe a stencilling operation is in order Smile

nah!

Funny today, all the senior managers arrived for a meeting at work and were eyeing up each others cars and mocking the guy with a courtesy car (fiesta), then they were like 'wow, whose is that' when they came to the alfa. Must be about 1/30th of the value of their cars and it stole the show!
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Eddie W · Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2005 12:02 pm Post subject:

Hi Cris, this is the Alfa's elan, eclat, mistique etc. Isn't it fun to have a car that you can buy for the price of a decent pair of Guccis admired by all and sundry. Enjoy.
Ben, I'm drooling over the job you did on the mirrors. So much so that I'm busy unbolting the mirrors off all four of our Alfas. They should be on your doorstep in the morning. Razz

Take your time ,I can spare them for a couple of days. Laughing

Seriously though, that's a class job. How you got the lettering so good is something you'll have to share with me.
Regards Eddie
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ChrisC · Alfa Sprint Joined: 13 Mar 2003 Posts: 152 Location: Frome

Firstly,

I am still madly grinning my face off right now, over the simplest of things. On my way home from work a peugeot 206 (bog standard) was tailgating me. I recognised the car, as it had tailgated me previously and overtaken dangerously when I was in my shedmobile renault 5, and id not been able to do anything about it then. Not today I thought.

I was stuck behind a very nice looking old mini, which was great except for their consistent 40 through 60 limits and 30 limits alike. Approaching a dual carriageway section I saw the 206 getting ready to overtake, and as soon as it was clear I went to about as far throttle as i dared (mechanic advised 100 miles running after cambelt change, so still sticking to 4000rpm limit and light throttle), which was about 3/4 throttle. With a burst of noise the alfa just absolutely obliterated the 206. Literally id completed the overtake without changing gears or exceeding 4000 rpm and 206 person had just about managed to change lanes.

So, if this is what its like at this stage, I cant wait for another 50 miles to go Razz

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gritsop · Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2005 6:35 pm Post subject:

It is very encouraging for an old car to overtake newer ones at the blink of the eye ... Wink

... and too bad for the new car to be overtaken by an old one where the old one is usually looked down.

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Ben_nz · Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 10:03 am Post subject:

Eddie,
I didn't do a good job of the lettering, you just can't see much detail in the photo. Wink

I have a small paintbrush from painting model car kitsets, and I used some left-over white enamel paint for the lettering (ontop of the bumper black once it had dried). The lettering seems to be made of lots of separate pieces of plastic, i.e. not just printed on. That means there's a physical boundary between the letters and the rest of the mirror which makes it easier to paint.
That didn't stop me running out of patience and screwing it up, but I just painted over mistakes with black paint. Now if only I hadn't used black gloss enamel.... Rolling Eyes

LDA · Alfa 33 Joined: 28 Nov 2004 Posts: 276 Location: France

ChrisC · Alfa Sprint Joined: 13 Mar 2003 Posts: 152 Location: Frome

Maybe this weekend - only done about 100 miles since getting the belts done and its filthy! itll need a good cleaning first. That and me getting a digital camera Very Happy

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