Transportation costs came to £550 - cheaper than driving, which is worth remembering for the future!
Thursday, 10 September 2015
And it's gone!
...and finally, the car transporter arrived at my house to take the Zero back to GBS for its pre-IVA inspection with Simon. It should be delivered some time next week and hopefully ready to collect by mid-Oct. Fingers crossed!
I made a half hood from a tarpaulin to try and keep it dry on the journey home. Thankfully, there's a Pimlico Plumbers' van above it to keep the worst off it too :)
Transportation costs came to £550 - cheaper than driving, which is worth remembering for the future!
Transportation costs came to £550 - cheaper than driving, which is worth remembering for the future!
Wednesday, 9 September 2015
Tuesday, 8 September 2015
Finishing touches
The car transporter was due to arrive today at 3pm and I had a list of minor jobs to finish before its arrival. Thankfully, the driver cried off, so I got a reprieve! However, on the task list for today:
Speedo calibration
Indicator repeaters
Boot cover fit
Door fitting
Nut covers / IVA trim
Speedo calibration. Easy. Turn on ignition with reset button held in. After 3 seconds, the speedo goes into set PPU mode, the magic number is 013021; input this number and it's done.
Indicator repeaters. My original ones blew because I wired them in the wrong way round late at night when I should have been in bed! I bought some clear-lensed repeaters from Car Builder Solutions and they fitted straight in. I bonded 3 cable tie bridges under each wheel arch to fix the cable in place and ran the cables through the wing bracket tubing:
Boot cover. Press studs look bad as I don't have (and couldn't find!) the mini-machine that is needed to fit them. I made my own from a block of hardwood, but they press stud caps are all slightly damaged. In slow time, I plan to drill them off and refir new ones when I have the correct tools.
Door fitting. Also straight forward, but a little fiddly! I followed Simon's instructions from the GBS Owners' Club forum here: http://www.gbsownersclub.co.uk/forum/technical-talk/doors/
I used M5x16mm bolts with washers and locknuts and they seem to be a perfect fit. The hinges are sided and have to be fitted to the correct side of the car so that the door can be lifted off the hinge. I chose to bolt the lower part of the hinge to the inside of the windscreen bracket, just so that it looks a bit neater without the doors fitted, but I think that either side of the frame would work. The top tip from Simon is ensuring that the rear of the door is supported before finally tightening all the nuts - I concur as the left hand door was very tricky to remove and refit until I did this. Here's what they look like now:
Nut covers / IVA trim. Fitting nut covers is about 1,000,000 times easier than fitting IVA trim, however they were both easy enough and needed doing. IVA trim is fitted to the nose cone, front wheel arches, exhaust / suspension / steering holes in the body work, seat belt ancher points, headlight brackets and inside the boot.
The only outstanding issue now is the door sill trims, but I need to find someone who is able to kink them inside edges for me. I tried the metal workshop in the village, but his machine is a monster and will eat the trims, so I need to find someone else.
Speedo calibration
Indicator repeaters
Boot cover fit
Door fitting
Nut covers / IVA trim
Speedo calibration. Easy. Turn on ignition with reset button held in. After 3 seconds, the speedo goes into set PPU mode, the magic number is 013021; input this number and it's done.
Indicator repeaters. My original ones blew because I wired them in the wrong way round late at night when I should have been in bed! I bought some clear-lensed repeaters from Car Builder Solutions and they fitted straight in. I bonded 3 cable tie bridges under each wheel arch to fix the cable in place and ran the cables through the wing bracket tubing:
Boot cover. Press studs look bad as I don't have (and couldn't find!) the mini-machine that is needed to fit them. I made my own from a block of hardwood, but they press stud caps are all slightly damaged. In slow time, I plan to drill them off and refir new ones when I have the correct tools.
Door fitting. Also straight forward, but a little fiddly! I followed Simon's instructions from the GBS Owners' Club forum here: http://www.gbsownersclub.co.uk/forum/technical-talk/doors/
I used M5x16mm bolts with washers and locknuts and they seem to be a perfect fit. The hinges are sided and have to be fitted to the correct side of the car so that the door can be lifted off the hinge. I chose to bolt the lower part of the hinge to the inside of the windscreen bracket, just so that it looks a bit neater without the doors fitted, but I think that either side of the frame would work. The top tip from Simon is ensuring that the rear of the door is supported before finally tightening all the nuts - I concur as the left hand door was very tricky to remove and refit until I did this. Here's what they look like now:
Nut covers / IVA trim. Fitting nut covers is about 1,000,000 times easier than fitting IVA trim, however they were both easy enough and needed doing. IVA trim is fitted to the nose cone, front wheel arches, exhaust / suspension / steering holes in the body work, seat belt ancher points, headlight brackets and inside the boot.
The only outstanding issue now is the door sill trims, but I need to find someone who is able to kink them inside edges for me. I tried the metal workshop in the village, but his machine is a monster and will eat the trims, so I need to find someone else.
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