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[minipixie]

cheers guys! i went to see her today, she's looking really nice! just hard to picture herfully finshed yet as she's quite dirty and got some marks on her, altho im hoping these marks will come off when she's washed!
around the bottum she looks a bit 'bobbly' and i asked him what that was and he said it's chip resistant stuff that he's put on! it looks quite bad round the front, im hoping again that some of it'll look less obvious once he's washed and then sanded her down (i dont know if that right, tom tried to explain, but i got a lil confsed)

rob_mini...yea there is a dint in my boot the white dint bring it out as much as the silver has, which is a bit of a pain in the a**!! but we'll see how that goes!

binge....yea the windows were taken out, have seen pictures with them out, so im hoping that shouldnt happen!

i took some more pictures.....













kinda wish i hadnt been to see her before she was finsihed now as i can just remember all these little marks over her, that im hoping will go when shes washed, but it's made me a lil paranoid!!!!

[CharlieBrown]

Looking good Miss Pixie and the minis not bad either .

Its going to look amazing when its finished, Ill keep my fingers crossed that all the marks go for you.


Who's mini is in the background of the seconf pic? Are they on the forum?

[minipixie]

cheers charlie :wink:

not sure on the lil green clubby in the background, it looks a bit abandond (spelling) ill leave them some flyers tho when i go to pick her up next weekend!!

[The Matt]

when you say about the little marks do you mean the streaky bits down the sides? They are from wet flatting the car I think (using a really fine sandpaper with water to really smooth it down). It'll come off really easy when it is washed and she will be a likkle beauty! :grin:

It is probably worth having the 'stone-protector' paint on the front too, it may look a little bobbly but won't be noticable really when she's all finished, plus it'll stop all the stones marking her 'chin' as much! :wink:

[minipixie]

It is probably worth having the 'stone-protector' paint on the front too, it may look a little bobbly but won't be noticable really when she's all finished, plus it'll stop all the stones marking her 'chin' as much! :wink:

yea it is on the front! it's mega obvious on the front, doesnt look too pretty which is why im hoping it'll go down a bit when she's fully finsihed!

but i hope she will be a ickle beauty!!

[Dom]

wow looks great!

havent seen one with that colour combination other than the red bull minis

[minipixie]

but she's silver n purple, red bull ones are silver n blue

rang up the garage today....she failed her MOT...surprise surprise!
she failed on....(lemme see if i can get this right)....

breaks....something about they should be in a straight line but they were 4mm out thats what was making my steering wheel shake when i breaked!???

and something else that went way over my head! but he says he's getting it sorted today and gonna go for a re-test tomorrow! so hopefully she'll pass if not ill.....

but still on target to pick her up on sat, but then again we were on target to pick her up on sat this time last week! so im not holding my breath!

[stormduck]

It could be that the clips that hold in the brake pads have snapped on one side or both, or the hubs/flanges weren't cleaned properly when the discs were fitted. Either way, fitting a new set properly will fix it, or removing the old set, cleaning and checking then re-fitting should surfice, just to let you know :wink:

Good Luck

[minipixie]

cheers, stormduck, he fitted a new set so thats all cleared up now!

jus got off the phone, she's passed her MOT! and is gonna be ready for Saturday!!!!!!! WooYayy!!!!

Can't wait!!!!

She's taken long enough........will have some pictures for you soon

[millsminis]

Yippee!!!!

But you will be very happy on Saturday when you pick her up!!!

[binge]

Are you getting the wheels sprayed up with purple spokes?

It does look brilliant. my mini has stone resistant paint on the front valance too, It does look a little bobbely but it stops stone chips (which lead to rust).


Once the grill and front bumper go back on, it will b hardly noticeable!


<|Ben|>!

[BabyBek]

Today's the big day....... Good Luck!!

[Bungle]

big day :grin:

[Tarks]

she's lookin nice! cant wait to see wheels turning! best oh luck for today!

[minipixie]

Well Guys and Gals....here we are! Babs is back home and looking spangly!!!!!

Still need to give her a wash as his washing skills are up to much if I'm honest! So I'm gonna do that tomorrow as I'm running out of time today!
But so far today I have hoovered and de-dusted her, she was real dusty!! I have put my black seat covers back on (till I can afford to buy black seats)! Put the centre console, new matts and new gear knob! She's looking quite good and I was quite impressed with her until it came to trying to fit the new door cards in.......they wont fit which has put a bit of a dampner on things, so I need to try and find some cheap ones and then transfer the vynal from these ones to the other ones, so that I can have door cards...yay!!!!

Anyway heres some pictures.....

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