A friend whose hobby is detailing gives me products at Christmas and on my birthday!
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Started this job a couple of weeks back…
Before and after refurb.
Probably not everyone’s cup of tea but hey ho …‘Cadbury metallic purple’
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Changed out the power steering fluid (ATF) using Castrol Transmax ATF DX III Multivehicle 1L for £12 from Amazon. Bought 2L but didn’t need the 2nd. Didn’t jack the car up but stacked 2 melamine boards to make turning the wheels on the drive effortless.
My 2014 car has just ticked over 65000 miles and had 11 services at a Mazda main dealer including a recent major and this was supposed to have been changed then. I’ve now gone and ordered a full fluid service kit and will be doing oil, gearbox and diff next week along with new OEM filters for peace of mind - the engine oil is due anyway.
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Couple of hours in the man cave today…
Second front caliper stripped down , buffed and prepped for refurb.
Also sanded down a pair of 3D printed wing vents and gave them a couple of coats of primer.
Charged the battery , took delivery of Dinitrol 1000 cavity wax and a pair of front brake dust shields.
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I started in November with doing the brakes and have accidentally since done, shocks, springs, exhaust, new wheels, made a back bumper (almost done), custom taillights, welded one rear panel with one to go (luckily that’s all the rust on it). Now to finish sanding and paint it so I can finally drive it again! Hopefully it will be driving again by the end of June!
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Took delivery of Dinitrol 4941, also received the final piece to my rear arm refurbishment via a forum member 
Original bushes to remove and pop in the Strongflex polys
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I use same product 
New rear tyres fitted (Kumho) to my ND this week and just had a new windscreen fitted including new top and side trims.
A word of caution to ND owners - thermal shock (hot to cold) is a real thing.
Gear knob?
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That’s a bit rude!!!
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Made another visit to Performance Link in Tewkesbury today for a rolling road session and to fit the JBR diff carrier. Excellent care as usual from Alex and Tom, these guys are super knowledgeable! Pity I can’t afford a Honda PL-R K24 engine swap! Can’t recommend them enough.
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Trying my hand at working with sheepskin - four squares of short fleece all sew together this morning. Am fed up of a sweaty bahookie when the weather is anywhere north of warm so in the process of making a sheepskin ‘half’ seat cover. Yet to add strap/buckle securing points etc but I’m hopefully going in the right direction!!!
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Not today but yesterday I took the NC to get MOT’d, I’ve put a LOT of work into it over the last couple of months including a new rear subframe, control arms and a significant amount of rust removal/welding in new sections.
About lunchtime I got the notification on the MOT checker app (Vehicle Smart) that it’d failed, apprehensively I clicked on the notification to discover that it’d failed because the number plates didn’t confirm to the current specification. Two new plates later and it’s been given a clean bill of health with only a couple of minor advisories that I already knew about.
The tester said it was one of the cleanest MX5’s underneath that he’d seen and it’s really obvious that I’ve spent a lot of time underneath it.
I’m really happy that all the work I’ve done has been worth it and I’m happy to put my 8 year old daughter into the passenger seat and drive her around again.
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Given mine a good fettle everywhere, for my next show at the Thornton le Dale classic car show next Sunday.
Did the exhaust tips after a pointer at last weeks show and shine at Harewood…lesson learnt
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I hope it’s as fettled for your trip up here mate…
I will be inspecting on arrival 
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I’ll stop a mile down the road and make sure 
Not one fly mind
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They do make an impression . After a tiny blemish on our exhaust tip was also pointed out last week, it’s now as shiny as a shiny thing 
Will be showing off the shine at Lytham tomorrow 
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What was wrong with the old plates?