She's pink! Pictures ;)
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Re: She's pink! Pictures ;)
Not sure but it has the measurements there you would have to check. It might be alright for eating sushi off if nothing else.
Hey does your Spyder have a name?
Hey does your Spyder have a name?
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Re: She's pink! Pictures ;)
Haha well I do like sushi. And no name as of yet. Struggling to pick one. I want a paintable wing. But not a fan of the small close fitting original spyder ones.MIKEP wrote:Not sure but it has the measurements there you would have to check. It might be alright for eating sushi off if nothing else.
Hey does your Spyder have a name?
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Re: She's pink! Pictures ;)
https://auctions.yahoo.co.jp/search/sea ... 9&slider=0
Found you some wings.. though 198000 JPY = just under $2500
Found you some wings.. though 198000 JPY = just under $2500
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Re: She's pink! Pictures ;)
Hi Melissa. Just putting in my two cents worth on restoring your headlights. First off, DO NOT USE A BLADE to scrape the surface. Unless you've been doing it for years, you can do much more damage than good. Also the use of Brasso, never used it myself, unless polishing METAL. The same goes for toothpaste, its for teeth. Depending on how bad they are you can expect to be rubbing for hours! You can use a more coarse grit than 2000, but again it depends on how bad they are. If you need to use anything coarser than 800 then I would say you would need a proper machine to sand them back. Trust me, by the time you go through all the grades up to 2000-3000 by hand you will be over it quickly! Rule of thumb, always begin with the LEAST aggressive approach. Cobbwebbing, or spiderwebbing, is usually caused by people not going through the proper sanding techniques properly. If sanding by hand the best way to tell you have sanded back the previous sand marks is sand the surface say up & down, then the next grade sand side to side. This way you can see that you have sanded back the previous marks because if sanding side to side you should no longer see any up & down marks. Also polishing round & round is fine, DA (dual action) polishers have been designed to mimic this action, just faster & better. Now to polish the headlights a good quality plastic polish like Meguiars Plast-X will work wonders. As for recoating the headlights we are still very limited to what is available in NZ & some of the products I have seen are quite expensive. Meguiars do a headlight restore kit that has an aerosol can of headlight clear, & I've been told soon they will be selling this can alone. They already sell it alone overseas, but I'm not getting any because of the whole aerosol thing, I'll wait until Smits get it in. There are some headlight protectant products out there if you're prepared to look. What you can do that would be fine is to give them a quick polish maybe once a month after washing the car. Here's the before & after of a MR-S headlight, these only took me probably no longer than 10min each using a 3" DA with 3M Trizact 1500 then 3000 followed by polishing with Plast-X.
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Re: She's pink! Pictures ;)
Yea na that's a but priceySwampy wrote:
Found you some wings.. though 198000 JPY = just under $2500
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Re: She's pink! Pictures ;)
Decided on a name. Since she's a spyder.... the best spider I know is Charlotte off Charlotte's web! Charlotte it is
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Re: She's pink! Pictures ;)
Sweet looking Spyder.Good job! Best girly Spyder I've seen for awhile.
And I love the name. Charlotte suits her.Hope we see you on a run soon
And I love the name. Charlotte suits her.Hope we see you on a run soon
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Re: She's pink! Pictures ;)
Ha ha mint! Maybe Joel can call his one Boris (an old The Who song).Sweetmelly22 wrote:Decided on a name. Since she's a spyder.... the best spider I know is Charlotte off Charlotte's web! Charlotte it is
And I agree with Mike 100% Looks great with the hard top. Just needs a wing...
Hope we see you and Charlotte on the Christmas run Melly... Late Nov / early Dec, be there.
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Re: She's pink! Pictures ;)
Yea mags then il sort out a wing. But first I need to install my stereo and buy speakers. Haha I'm not sure about coming on a run. Will have to meet someone before hand so I know atleast one person!mickeyduck wrote:Ha ha mint! Maybe Joel can call his one Boris (an old The Who song).Sweetmelly22 wrote:Decided on a name. Since she's a spyder.... the best spider I know is Charlotte off Charlotte's web! Charlotte it is
And I agree with Mike 100% Looks great with the hard top. Just needs a wing...
Hope we see you and Charlotte on the Christmas run Melly... Late Nov / early Dec, be there.