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should really update this lol. alot has happened

should update this i guess alot of small things have happened... rear tints! 50% on the rear 3 windows flyeyes on the front lights and on the rears too. pain in the a*s to do but worth it. maybe need to do the rear again as its not amazingly done. NEW GAUGES! the old gauges were a load of crap, got a new boost and oil temp over at rtec. got the dash in tonight, REALLY happy with it. got a few small bits to do before japfest this weekend.. looking forward to it! http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj282/onamega/20160413_173340_zpshfoxycot.jpg http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj282/onamega/20160409_193206_zpsdaesnerl.jpg http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj282/onamega/20160402_195710_zpszb2nsjdy.jpg http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj282/onamega/IMG_20160419_2045261_zpss2elu0bu.jpg

hur hur whos ep3 is that? adams? yeah man looked clean when i got it! amazing what you find out! yeah they are based in loughborough, good sized unit aswell, Leon there is such a sick guy will hook you up with anything you need and reasonably priced too, i ended up getting about 250 quid discount on all the work i had done! damn man that sucks what you having done?

Right okay then! time to write this complete mission of a post... I'd been wanting a body kit for some time for the car.. basically since before i even bought it and was toying with the idea of getting one, it was always going to happen! so i had the funds to do it and didnt really have much else planned for the time being so i thought screw it why not! So i dropped Leon over at EPRACING a message to see if we could cut a deal with getting the car in and out as fast as possible, with them painting and fitting the kit for me, and did a fabulous deal for me including the new indicators i'd need. took the car down on Friday after work to Neil at DHD (Leon had organised for him to do all the paintwork and fitting) and was going to be picking the car up on Monday evening. Neil said to give him a call Sunday evening to see how things were going as 3 days to prep paint and fit is a tough one.. so i gave him a call Sunday evening and got no answer as he was busy. about 1 hour alter he called me with bad news. I'm sure any self respecting S chassis owner should be able to guess what has happened. the moment he took the touring side skirts off to fit the new skirts he has seen what any S chassis owner fears, yes, rust. It didn't look too bad so the gave me a quote for the rust that i was happy with and me and dad were on our way home (a 45 min journey from Wigston to Gaddesby! again!) He said the car would probably be ready Friday so i had to arrange for transport to and from work which thankfully wasn't too bad as one of the other lads lives just around the corner Got a call on the Wednesday and as i had feared... they had cut back more and basically put the sills were pretty rotten, i have pictures but im not sure if ill put them here ill decide when ive finished typing, its actually quite embarrassing! The worst part is, had i known about it id have got that all sorted before id gone for the body kit! (note to anyone out there, dont assume the car is clean until you take off your plastic side skirts!) I was left with 2 options, either a complete sill replacement on both sides, or they can cut back and treat the 'not so bad' bits, and weld new plating.. However much i'd have liked to have had the complete sill replacement i just simply could not afford to do it. the price he quoted me was 'not much change from 1000'. which is reasonable for the work that needed to be done. so i went with the repair and they've done a fantastic job of it, Neil is a welder by day-job and a painter by night-job so his work was second to none. They got all the welding done and things were almost finished, they wheeled the car out with the kit completely intact and ready to be mopped for collection that evening... i get a call from Leon down at EP saying there is an issue..... the colour isnt right!! now to cut a VERY long story short, this happened TWICE.. to no fault of Neil at all, I have at this point been without a car for around 2 weeks (apart from 2 days where i needed the car). yep.. 2 weeks, time flys! I spoke to Gary who you will see i have mentioned previously in my posts where he got the paint for his rear spoiler and he said he went to Central Car Paint in Leicester town center and they sorted him out, passed this message onto Leon and him and Neil went down the very next morning (tuesday), they were there for 2 hours. the guy came out with the shades of BN6 (my cars code) and not a single one of them matched. they had to mix a completely custom colour adding purple to a certain shade of BN6. they eventually figured out my car has had a respray at some point in its life. i have been through every single receipt, and that is a hell of a lot, the car has a full Nissan service history and there is nothing i can really see regarding it. I dropped Leon a message to see how they were getting on and said they would let me know ASAP if the colour was right, i am now without a car for 3 weeks and am set to pick it up Thurs/Friday. I get a message from Leon saying 'call me mate' at this point im absolutely s**tting it, ive had so much bad news its ridiculous.. thankfully Leon only said call me to completely s**t me up and said they have the right colour but want to let it cure for as long as possible due to so much paint being on the kit there has been a bit of a paint reaction so will be looking at saturday for it.. no problem for me ive waited 3 weeks, whats another day! Go down satuday and Neil rocks up in the car and im like YOOOOOOOOOOO!!! car looked F**king SICK!! Neil pointed out there has been a bit of paint reaction on the inside of the drivers skirt where the door covers so will be popping back in a couple of weeks to get that sorted, and also had no front plate fixed as i hadnt told him where i wanted it, and the front indicators didnt work because Leon forgot to give him the wiring, he gave me the wiring so i could do it myself which is no problem. So i now have the car, i got the indicators working to some extent, the standard ones are halogen bulbs and the new ones are LED so car is not seeing the bulbs as LED draw hardly any current, so waiting on some resistors to turn up which will hopefully be here tomorrow. Now it sounds like a right bloody mess whats happened, and yes, it is a right bloody mess. but a huge huge thanks to Leon and Neil for there insane communication skills i have always been in contact with them be it via phone text or facebook and the quality of the work done by Neil and his sidekick Stitch is bloody amazing im super super happy with it! let the pictures roll!! ^^^ This is a picture of when i had the car for 2 days. you can see the colour is wrong! ^^^ Side Skirts, Wrong colour ^^^ Rear Bumper (wrong colour) ^^^ Sample of the rust, im not putting anymore of it Finished product for following pics Will obviously have a few more in coming time, really happy with the work Comments, roll!

have the car back now but its gunna take me a while to post it. will hopefully get around to it this week

A few surprises came up so need to get them sorted

haha! right the car is going to be a little longer was originally going to be tuesday.. and then friday.. and now monday evening at the latest. not due to the workers fault but due to my descision making and tight funds its made things a little harder.. really looking forward to writing the extensive post to explain all this!!

@fyfie5 haha yeah its painted with that 'galaxy paint' in B&Q next to the tartan paint

its just a wrap that i bought got it from china haha quality is awesome though tbh!

Things are still happening, having a bit of some other malarky done at the same time which just makes sense so potentially wont get the car back until friday/saturday. worth it though. super happy with with work that's gone on so far! id show you guys a picture of the gauges but i cant seem to find any so will just throw a few little pics up here to keep things going... going for a bit of a different approach in the centre console area as its looking a bit too black for my liking! have only got this trim piece at the moment as this part fell off while doing the gauges, will get the rest done when i get the car back! amuse yourselves for a few days

i cant help it im just so excited car isnt currently at home at the moment its hiding away at a farm have some ??????????? will do a big update mid week probably

biiiig things happening this weekend! probably the biggest this year. cant hold my excitement!

Gauges are in. big things happening before japfest lads! will get a pic of the gauges when i can be arsed or check my instagram @andys14a

I'm not gunna lie i was at one point considering a set of rep brides because they do look absolutely insane and i still do want some. but the misses dettered me from them in the end so went with the corbeaus. and seatbelt is just a no brainer. Got the harness bar fitted in at the top but its not bolted in at the bottom at the moment.. the bottom bolts into the same holes as the harness is currently bolted into so am waiting for flexi fixings for the harness to turn up so that i can use the bolts that came with the bar and hook the harness onto that instead of using the eye loop bolts that came with the harness. sorry its hard to explain but anyone who has a harness should understand......... Gauges are now on order.. gone for Boost and Oil temp. decided to go for a sump plug temp sensor instead of running a sandwich plate.

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