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Remove front Bumper:
* Wheel arch top & bottom bolt both sides
* Left, centre & Right grill sections [ 6 screws ]
* 4 Torx T30 bolts in top of bumper
* 2 Torx T30s INSDIE of each side of the front bumper & 1 10mm nut, best to access from apit or pulling away the wheel arch liner
* unclip wires to fog lights
Remove Headlights:
Once the bumper is off there are 2 10mm nuts & 3 sets of wires. Use a flat ehaded screw driver to push IN the metal U spring/clamp & then pull BACK the connector
Shows the 10mm nuts, top & bottom
Split the sealant around the lense using a stanley knife:
Remove the lense by unclipping each clip, there are 5:
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Removing the surround away from headlight:
All apart:
Remove the old sealant from lense & headlight backing:
Use 400 grade to remove the chrome paint off the surrounds & primer:
My lenses were badly marked & the lacquer was starting to peel of, similar to Redd's 1st picture
So with the lenses off its an idea time to re-furbish the lenses:
Using Redd's guide
This was one of my car's lense at the P1200 stage: 
B-B gets a brain wave & decides to try the Halford Power Buffer + Brasso + Cif to do final smoothing:
After 'power-buffing'
Clear'd Lense
Surrounds 'matt-black'
Have one lense to do, final coating of matt black on the surrounds & then a re-seal using fill-grip stuff
Update:
Last coat of Matt Black sprayed on, clean cleaned up & sealed with 'Evo-Grip' 
Edited by Black Beauty on 15 January 2009 at 16:42
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Great job again Pat, yes, more black, you can never have it black enough.
I will have the gripfill tomorrow for ya.
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Nice one Pat - I was lazy and lowered half the bumper 
Edited by 156-2.5-V6 on 29 December 2008 at 21:38
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bannowhog wrote:
Great job again Pat, yes, more black, you can never have it black enough.
I will have the gripfill tomorrow for ya. |
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I bought Evo-Grip today ..... hope that'll work.
Going to fit these to my car tomorrow & you can fit the others.
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Black Beauty wrote:
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Great job again Pat, yes, more black, you can never have it black enough.
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I bought Evo-Grip today ..... hope that'll work.
Going to fit these to my car tomorrow & you can fit the others. |
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Should have bought AlfaGrip
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Or Scoobie-Grip
overnight the Evo-Grip didn't dry much so I 'baked' one headlight this morning:
wrapped in tin foil, Gas Mark 1...... 10 min's
mmmmmmeerrrrmmmmm .... smellys lovely....got MY juices going anyways
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words spring to mind ..............but cant say them .............monday roast at pats house
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goes lovely with roasties & mushrooms
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Black Beauty wrote:
Or Scoobie-Grip
overnight the Evo-Grip didn't dry much so I 'baked' one headlight this morning:
wrapped in tin foil, Gas Mark 1...... 10 min's
mmmmmmeerrrrmmmmm .... smellys lovely....got MY juices going anyways
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FECK!!! 
I bet Marina is going mental 
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^^^^ does far stink around these parts at present
i think i have ahead-ache from the fumes
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Fit that one to Martins car
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Topic: Rough Guide to GTA-ing headlights [PIC’s]
