The Forge adjustable tie bars have been painted and are almost ready to go back on, hopefully the finish will last longer than the original powder coating.
A combination of BH Deox Gel followed by BH Hydrate 80 on the more pitted areas and BH Electrox on the bare metal before the application of POR ...

Also completed a Haldex oil and filter change, made a bit of a pigs ear with the oil change and ended up losing quite a bit so had to order another tube but this time was successful.

Back in 2019 I replaced the boot hold open struts with some from Stabilus, so a couple of days ago I thought it was time to replace the bonnet hold open struts as they were becoming a bit weak and had a little bit of corrosion showing.

So a few days ago I started removing the Forge adjustable tie bars so that I could start cleaning up the corrosion that had started to flake away the powder coating and to replace it with a coating of POR15 satin black paint that I’m hoping will be more resilient than the powder coated finish ...

A few months worth of dust cleaned off while working on the front of the TT, now back in the garage to do a couple of bits on the back end.

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Wheel arch liners back in……….

Bumper cover back on last week after a couple of attempts and then realising that some of the fasteners attaching the splitter were fouling on the intercooler so some rearranging required and bumper lined up really easily. Apologies for the dirty bonnet desperately needs a clean after being in the ...

And both reinstalled, one yesterday and one today.

A couple of items given a fresh coat of paint, the bracket that supports the vacuum reservoir and N249 valve and pipework and the pipe that goes from the throttle body to a check valve towards the rear of the engine bay.