Cheddar Bob

Purchased a back box today 😁😎👊

Used some colour restorer in the paint. 

Then too it for a 150mile blast around Worcestershire and Herefordshire.

Here's clee hill https://photos.app.goo.gl/crMrHD68D1HjZb1S6

10 hours ago, Berni29 said:

Hi

Thats cool. I have a plain jane beeping ultrasonic set to go on. Will use the tow hook eye I think then put a symmetrical one the other side, then another painted to match the plate in the middle. Will see when the time comes. 

Berni

+1 for the coolness of the camera. 

https://photos.app.goo.gl/LVjs6SWLVjs6SW7MkoncvWt9

Here are the photos 😁😁😎

That's mine all done. Moral of the story, buy enough sandpaper and do it once not twice 😁

19 hours ago, stupidget said:

I went for the Turtle Wax kit from Amazon for £10.  Did it yesterday and am really impressed with the results.  It's a far more manual process as the sanding pads do not attach to a drill but for £10 it did a grand job of removing 16 years worth of oxidisation. 

 

Looking good

I'll be on to phase 2 today. 😁

I've not managed to start the next stage yet but agree with the milky look until you get to the polishing, reminds me of when sanding paint before lacquer

Will I haven't personally done this, Lee and his technician did but:

Meyle rear toe arms

Meyle front control arms

Meyle top mounts and bearings

Meyle front and rear coffin arms

4 corner geometry for the second time in a week...

New fuel cap

Rusted heat shield removed

1 hour ago, dunks said:

Did some programming on the kenwood aftermarket stereo , instead of showing the kenwood logo on start up it now shows the Porsche logo in the first picture and then once booted up it shows the 2nd picture

Very good 

17 minutes ago, RedBarediver said:

I'm doing my left hand headlight at the moment. Have run out of the correct grade of emery paper for now. I am on 1500 and still have a fair bit of cr*p on the lens to get rid of before I move on to the next level but it's starting to look really good. I had bought a spare light off eBay because I didn't feel like the faff but that has a burnt inside lens (which the photographs on eBay didn't show...). At least it means the car still has both headlights whilst I restore this one.

I also ran out of paper. Ordered some more and I'll continue with this soon 

16 hours ago, JohnnyUK said:

Wow... What jobs are you doing and why? 

Wow indeed. That's some good spanner work outside of a garage

15 hours ago, Barryn said:

Evening Bob

 

I track the 993 on occasion and no harm in good oil for that, the Boxter is a good one, so happy to treat it to the same.

No harm in giving it the best. 👍

I don't disagree. I work in the oil industry, I was curious for my own reasons as to how performance car owners select their lubricant. 

Thanks for the few replies 😁👍

8 minutes ago, Barryn said:

 

 

First time Bob, normally I use Motul fully synthetic ester oils on my 993, but the Millers Ester oils get good reviews so trying them for the first time.

I also fitted a Gold plug magnetic sump plug whilst in there. (Note stock image) the correct one is MP10

 

 

1 hour ago, Barryn said:

 

Thanks for the reply. Just curious, what's the reason you are using a group 5 product for your car? 

Are you seeing any real world benefits? Fuel economy, performance?  

1 hour ago, Barryn said:

 

Time in my hands and what better way to spend it, working on the car.

Fresh Millers oil and filter, air filter, cabin filter, new serpentine belt.

The car is new to me, so very happy with the oil filter.
 

 

The old sixteen inch rims with decade old tyres have gone. Fully refurbished BBS classics fitted with Michelin PS4’s. 
New Bluetooth dongle for the Becker Indianapolis pro.  
Love getting this car ready for later in the year. 

Do you use Millers lubricant often? 

So the next stage of restoration will be arriving tomorrow. More sand paper. 

Once the cars back from cotswold Porsche specialist I'll finish the job on the lights. 

I'll update with further photos when I do  

23 hours ago, the baron said:

Sorry but 🤮

The greens not my taste and I used to have flames down the side of one of my cars. 

That said, chap if you like it then 😎👍

Took the snorkel off. 

Too warm to wash it now, but needs a clean again. 

2 hours ago, Pinewood said:

Welcome, but his is blue. 

I suggest you never wave back, stop to chat, or go driving with him 😂

In fact, I suggest you move house! 

Ah it could have been this chap then. 😎

10 hours ago, GmanB said:

Welcome, won't that process totally remove any UV protection that was on there previously? I t-cut mine once recently and it still had a bit of shyate on it, but I was reluctant to do another polish..

They were knackered anyway before I started. I guess I could keep doing it until the lenses disappear altogether... 

Alternatively, a bit of clear vinyl might do the trick 

thank you for the welcome. Yes I live in a village just by Evesham. A chap in a blue Boxster waved at me yesterday.... *just checked and his is red. 

My terrible searching then! I thought this would have been covered.

Yes I am pleased, I've ran out of sandpaper as they could do with smartening up a little more, but the difference is incredible.

No idea where to start with bodywork. I have a couple of 5p sized bonnet chips. I'll let a pro look at that when the covid-19 is over.

thanks for the replies. 

Hello everyone,

My first post

I am a new Boxster owner. I own a 2004 2.7 Boxster. Perhaps I haven't searched correctly, but I couldn't find a post about headlight restoration. 

Anyway, my Boxster had badly pitted headlights. Here is a photo of them before and after. The ones with masking tape are before:

https://photos.app.goo.gl/Spib5nk1vm6WWhDG9

I used Autoglym restoration kit. It was exceptionally easy to do. 

Here is the video I used to teach me:

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=autoglym+headlight+restoration+youtube&docid=608040306444471124&mid=C92EE379956BCBE21803C92EE379956BCBE21803&view=detail&FORM=VIRE