Barry the XRDT

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Bit more progress on this recently.

I got the rust repair finished on the N/S/R in the end, plastic wheel arch liner of a ph3 fitted after stonechip painting all the inner arch. No photos as it was mostly done in the dark

Got all the door cards insulated and rebuilt, but need to have the fronts back off as the drivers one isn't sitting right and the pax one needs a new weather seal thing. few shots of the process.









Speaker's getting wet in the N/S/F door hence wanting to put a new seal in, and possibly new speakers. If i did put new speakers in though, I'd like to swap electric mirrors on and put tweeters up on where the mirror controls are but that seems like a lot of faff given the wiring state of these cars!

Got parts for the servicing the car needs.



fitted the fuel and air filters, and the new drop links. not sure if i'm going to bother with the discs and pads for now tbh as the look fine, think it's more an issue of unscrupulous mechanic trying to get money out of the previous owner and telling him they needed replacing as opposed to there actually being an issue as theres no bad wear on the disc and over half the pad lining left!

Finally gave it a bit of a clean! Ruined a clay bar taking some of the tree sap off the paint, but it's still needs another pass at least! Paints pretty good in most places, with few scratches but lots of little dings and a few sin cream hand prints, not to mention a few little scabby bits that look like they might try to turn into rust, in odd places! the boot lid for example and also a few on the roof :S











Insides starting to come up reasonably clean now too. Slowly starting to bring it back from it's life of being owned by someone who clearly wasn't really a car person, living under a tree and being used to carry children all the time

Rich