MkIV Spitty

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Sunvisors

Got some new sunvisors during my visit to Newcastle, they look so much better than the old tatty ones.

Lots of heat issues had me puzzled, having totally flushed the cooling system and back flushing the rad, I took out the thermostat and it was not opening.
With the innards of the stat removed I drove upto to Newcastle to get a new one.

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

More Seats

Driver Seat

Passenger Seat

The yellow piping is an issue, I could get vynal paint or I could unpick and sew in red or black piping, or I could be really lazy and get a permenant black marker out.

Not sure which handles to use though

Dashboard

Here is my current one in place

Made a start on my new dashboard this is it after I stripped the veneer off.
Now I just need to decide what veneer to get, I really like walnut burr.
My options are
original black dash.
orginal teak
or walnut burr
but I have also seen laminate from formica amberwood burl looks similar to walnut but quite lighter and you can tell it aint wood.

Saturday, July 2, 2011

Update for June

I got some seats from eBay last weekend. They are from a later 1500 as they had the wires for the seatbelt sensor. Sadly I didn't wind the headrests and the seller is keeping the sliding frame so I will need to find frames by the time they are ready to fit.
They are in pretty poor shape but for less than £5 I am well happy with them.
Here they are after I removed the foams and covers, I think I can re-use the foams (just) but the covers although real leather, are just to far gone.
I will unpick the stiching and use the pieces as templates.
The passenger fram was bent out of true and the horizontal bar accross the back rest had also come away on one side.
With a little inginuity, the 4 post ramp and my weight I was able to rectify this and a club member was on hand to do a little gas weld for me. :)