It's finally time for me to reveal the car for all, before I start attending meets 
Despite having owned the car since the middle of March, it's been in a bit of a state and has never been 'properly' cleaned. I've taken it to Total Wax And Treatment Services today (actually my concours winning mate Vas's house) for it to have a 'quick' clean. I wanted to get a better idea of how good/bad the paintwork is after this thread, and Vas just loves cleaning cars and volunteered his services. For the price of a little Scratch-X and a couple of hours of my time, the car got a proper cleaning and we now know the true condition of the paintwork. Hopefully Vas will be along later to explain better than I can, but suffice to say that we found that previous scratch repairs did more harm than good, there is a penny-sized piece of lacquer apparently missing from the bonnet, and a load of stone chips all over the front. However, otherwise (!) it's in really good condition and Vas is confident that it can be repaired very nicely in the future.
So far:
Planned:
Note that there are no plans to lower the car, as I already make contact with the floor too often so there's no point, but I may still fit uprated suspension of some kind, I've just not decided what yet
So, on with the photos. I hope you like what T.W.A.T.S. did with it (see that previous thread to see the difference):
Despite having owned the car since the middle of March, it's been in a bit of a state and has never been 'properly' cleaned. I've taken it to Total Wax And Treatment Services today (actually my concours winning mate Vas's house) for it to have a 'quick' clean. I wanted to get a better idea of how good/bad the paintwork is after this thread, and Vas just loves cleaning cars and volunteered his services. For the price of a little Scratch-X and a couple of hours of my time, the car got a proper cleaning and we now know the true condition of the paintwork. Hopefully Vas will be along later to explain better than I can, but suffice to say that we found that previous scratch repairs did more harm than good, there is a penny-sized piece of lacquer apparently missing from the bonnet, and a load of stone chips all over the front. However, otherwise (!) it's in really good condition and Vas is confident that it can be repaired very nicely in the future.
So far:
- Recaro Front and Rear seats
- EBC Turbo Groove Discs
- Ferodo DS2500 front brake pads
- Carbon fibre wing mirror covers - Going back
- Brembo Refurb 1 2 3
- Kenwood double-din DVD/Sat-nav, which required a double-din dash conversion (Done)
Planned:
- Front and rear strut braces
- Front and rear ARBs
- Forge Big Race FMIC
- Forge 007p DV
- Hybrid turbo
- Carbon wrapped roof
- Carbon wrapped rear spoiler
Note that there are no plans to lower the car, as I already make contact with the floor too often so there's no point, but I may still fit uprated suspension of some kind, I've just not decided what yet
So, on with the photos. I hope you like what T.W.A.T.S. did with it (see that previous thread to see the difference):
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