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I have a spare mirror left from my GT86, all the parts included, painted cover a little scuffed but could potentially be used again after some polish / touch up. The bad thing is the folding mechanism, the mirror won't fold, I think it was the gears in the mechanism that cracked, as I found bits of plastic when I opened it for repair. I've replaced the mirror since and this is a leftover. £50 as it's for spares or repair. I'd prefer collection from NN16 9DB, but will post for additional fee (it's big-ish, so you decide the courier service and I'll arrange it).

I have my exhaust system for sale, it comes with "Outverted Slashcut - Polished" tips and 2.5" Bore Cobra De Cat pipe. Only some surface rust, it is in good condition, I used chrome polish on the tips regularly. When taking it off the car though I was told that it might need a new gasket though. £325 for both. Collection due to the nature of the item, but I could possibly deliver for gas money if you're in Northamptonshire

now sold, please close

Hi, I've got a couple of items for sale, for replacing the stock head unit with: Original Subaru head unit trim, in piano black Part number: Subaru AV ESCUTCHEON 😏 Never ended up fitting it, as my head unit didn't have holes in the same places, so fair warning - you might need a drill. But I think the look is worth it, compared to alternatives. Since never fitting they are in perfect condition. Comes with a little vibration dampening black spongy material and screws. Going to ask for £25, since this is about their price in Yen, but I paid double that due to import taxes 😓 Next is FM antenna harness £4 Head unit adapter harness £5 I can post these if you pay for postage

USB harness now sold

Yup, there was no interest in anything so far 😂

idk anymore, maybe make me an offer if you're interested 🤣 really want it gone now since it's taking space in the garage

Double din 7" car head unit wired Android Auto support wired Apple CarPlay support DAB radio AM/FM radio Bluetooth USB RGB illuminated buttons Maximum power MOSFET 50W x 4 Supports reverse camera (not included) Comes with all the original wires and accessories, including mic £250 SOLD

I’m guessing there isn’t much interest in aftermarket exhausts now. I’ll drop the price to £300 for now

This might not interest everyone, but I've got a set of front seat covers, in as good as new condition. Bought it as a full set to replace a burn mark on the rear seats, never used the front ones. They are non-leather (poverty) spec, from 2012-2016(?) model. I do not have the head rest cover. I'd ask £45 for these.

Yes and yes. Sorry for late reply I haven't logged in here for a while

Haha, I went for poverty spec car as well, but ended up getting half leather seats in front 😏

Hey Since most of our 2012 cars are now running out of Warranty, what are your plans with it? Have any of you decided to extend the warranty via one of the dealers? How does that work? I'm considering it, since this first batch of cars is probably the one with most problems (before they noticed and fixed some of the quirks), but information on the internet is scarce. From what I gathered every dealer sells extensions to the warranty on their own and any claims would have to go only through that franchise, am I right?

It's just that they are so fiddly, the plastic comes apart in your hands. I had to use a lot of super glue just to put the new one on. But I'll see inside the broken one. By the way, here's the link with pictures of that tool for switching mirror position from another forum - http://forums.mg-rover.org/how-do-i-answers-common-problems-8/door-mirror-conversion-rhd-lhd-vice-versa-816465/

My driver side mirror's power folding mechanism has failed. So having contacts in East Europe I have decided to save a few quid and ordered a replacement there (used one obv.). Only, I didn't consider the different setting each mirror has, when it sits on driver's or passenger's side and how they obviously switch around between UK and EU. The angle is slightly different, different enough that my new off-side mirror is now useless. No worries, I read on the internet that in many cases these mirrors are the same and are just set when assembled, using some plastic tool. At least that's what I've found out from Internet, on some Land Rover's forum . Does this thing exist for the '86? I'm only worried how this setting and re-setting can affect the folding mechanism, as I wouldn't want to buy another mirror!

Difference is the mirror from LHD market, is on the passenger side. When I imported it to a RHD car it should be switched to driver's setting. I guess the best way to explain it is -try sitting in your passenger seat and looking through passenger side mirror, you can adjust it as far as you can, but it still won't show enough. It makes a massive blind spot.

Sorry, I don't think I can find one anymore, I've sanded them all lol. Any advice about filling these tiny holes properly, and avoiding them from gathering dried compound/dust?

Hey, I've got some Amazon vouchers saved from Christmas and wanted to finally go and buy a machine polisher. Since I'm limited to Amazon on this buy, could you confirm this is the real DAS 6 Pro? https://www.amazon.co.uk/Action-Orbital-Polisher-Backing-Brushes/dp/7392451979/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1518989236&sr=8-1&keywords=das6+pro As to accessories, what pads should I buy for it? That I'm not limited to Amazon, so links would be appreciated. Same about compounds and sealant / wax, I think I've got some Meguiars 105 and 205 as well as some Carnuba wax, but they've been laying in a garage for a couple of months unused, so not sure they're still good. Cheers

Finally got to actually doing work with the DA, it's only been 3 months! Now I've got a couple of questions. I've only done the bonnet, which was full of stone chips. The process I've used was: 1. Prep, prewash with IronX, 2 bucket method manual cleaning, drying 2. Decontaminating with clay bar 3. Wiped down with alcohol to remove any remaining grease Then I've split the part in 4 areas, using masking tape. I've noticed a lot of stone chips had paint slightly raised - do you think that rust that got under the paint? I took some 1500 grit sand paper and I've sanded it down, to be level with the rest. Then 1. Used Meguiars 105 cutting compound with Orange chemical guys pads, dabbed the compound around, spread it on setting 1, then switched to setting 5 and done whole area, until the sanding haze was merged with the rest of the paint. 2. Now instead of doing the rest of the process... I did all the other areas of the bonnet, which I'm not sure was an error or not. So I did the step no.1 on remaining parts of the bonnet. 3. Now I've used 205 finishing polish, on Green pads and did all the parts of the bonnet. 4. Finally I've sealed the whole bonnet with wax. Problems I've encountered: -After sanding raised paint, the remaining stone chip hole was too tiny to fill in with touch up kit ! Plus, there were so many of them it would take me more than the weekend (which I already spent most of). I'm not sure what I could have done with them, or how long would I need to leave the paint on, before sanding. The official instructions say 48hrs to dry before polishing... -Previous owner must have been doing something similar to the car, also when I did some attempts by hand, and it all left the stone chips gathering some dried polish. This looks terrible and I wasn't sure how to proceed with that. All in all, the bonnet looks really shiny, most of the holograms / swirls were removed, the only thing that's bothering me are the chip holes that filled with dried polish over the years and that I don't know how to fix them. Can you also help me identify why was the paint rising in the first place? Oh, I've also done the boot, and that looked ace! Run out of time and 105 to do the rest of the car (no I didn't use the whole bottle, only had about 1/3 - 1/4 left from previous work, which lasted me on the bonnet and boot this time ).

Are there any downsides of doing a full (body) respray? Does general quality of paint differ than what comes out of factory? I'm weighing in doing it, but only body, without engine bay etc. I'm assuming that it wouldn't matter as (at least on ginger cars) the interior parts already have a different paint - not metallic, and there wouldn't be any difference, right?

Sorry, I looked for liquid Waxes and didn't notice this one is a polish as well. Probably need to find something different then. Maybe @rob275 can chime in on that? Question is - liquid wax, and what pad to use when applying it with a DA?

Quick one, here's my shopping basket, how does that look? Need a 4mm backing plate as well, it's out of stock on this website. I've picked liquid wax as well, you don't use hex pads for applying wax, do you? Shouldn't it be one these soft pads?

Thanks, I'll think about it

Is a DA not suited for that or just an overkill? Sure, if you don't mind. Let me get my orders in and I could pop in. Although I think you'd have to show me on yours, unless we did all the prep work to remove the road muck, when I come over...

I've got some Carnauba wax left over from when I started doing some basic things. But I could upgrade to something better now if you can recommend anything. Small foam applicators - do you mean apply by hand? I'm based in East Midlands, Market Harborough not far from Leicester.