Trim tweeks

Yesterday the sunroof opening trim turned up. Having checked quite a lot of sites and trawled through so many profiles, Phoenix trim came up trumps.
At first I thought it was a bit small, but at the first chance I git I was down the garage and fitting the trim. Oh yes, it was spot on and got the trim to length just right. Overly excited when I stood back. But that is almost the sunroof saga over, lost a lot of sleep over that so its really nice to be getting there.

In the latest bundle buy was a switch panel. It's solid and straight, but scratched, tarnished and slightly rusting. Nothing new there, getting used to it. With the ally thin frame really not looking all that good, it forced a little think about how to improve it.

Having re found the silver and Kevlar  handbrake lever cover and fitted it. I was leaning towards Kevlar on the flat switch panel and filling then colour coding the frame. A lot of sanding, priming, sanding and finishing in the car colour. We are getting there and should be finished tomorrow.
I forgot about the gear selector unit. I checked the mountings for it and finally double checked the odd opening for.it. yep its wrong, not by much but enough not to seal to the standard gear stick gaiter. Being such a small but I used a sheet or 1mm ally and cut a panel.

Starting to look luke a car

More short rounds have been taking place when I get the chance..
The rear door bin trim and arch carpet (after I made the carpet template) has been fitted, and looking quite good.

 The rear seat belts are finally completely fitted with the parcel shelf carpet and speakers fitted as well. The trim under the rear window has been fitted as well as the rear heated window ground, I had to make up that lead. But the old mpi  loom helped with that again.

With that all done I was able to finish routing the speaker wire to parcel shelf and just grab the rear seats, which I had given a good clean a few days before, and fitted them for the last time. It was well worth the effort of straightening the metal base and lip. It looked bad and gappy before. A fresh coat of black on that as well brought it all together nicely.
The led lights under the rear seats where fitted as well when I did the speaker wires. All nicely clipped out of harms way.
Really nice to have the car tidy and it should stay that way as well.
In the front, the top dash rail was cleaned and fitted. Attention moved over to the peddle box. All captive bolts and nuts had a tap or die run down them, after it had ... just one more coat of paint!! Proper shinny, thats what we like.

Even after I removed the steering column the peddle box was still being a bit of a pian . Pulling it tight with the bolts into the engine bay helped a lot to get the 2 bulk head bolts in.
Then after a quick look at the clevis pin holes in the peddle ends .... I clearly need to buy some the right size. A local shop had some but a test fit will decide if one or both need trimming to length. Before final fitment. That looks like a royal pain in the butt so looking forward to that!
The boot has been cleared out again and the petrol tank tested. Which just passes the speaker so all is good there and ready for the last few parts to be fitted in there.
The rear speaker wires where fitted to the stereo harness plug.
A bit of time was spent on the gear selector box, cleaning, painting and wiring.

The trim goes on

Due to small time slots available .... and classic "5 min ish" jobs taking ages. Progress has happened but there is still not much to show for it.
Both rear door cards are in but the passenger side had a bit of a trim on 2 sides. Yes, that was peeling up the vinyl I had not long glued back down so I could trim the panel and then re glue it. Joy! But it really was just to tight to go in. Part way through wrestling it in place the first time, the thick noise insulation was winking at me while I struggled to fit the card. That extra thickness had reduced the card space. At least there was a reason I was struggling to do a simple ish job.
I almost finished mounting the rear static seat belts I got free with the front belts a few years ago. I added strengthening plates for the fixing bolts and enough is in place to do a quick test for foaling of the rear seats V the seatbelt fixings.
Lots of templating was done. Templated each rear bin to fit a insulted base and a template to cover the 1/3 exposed wheel arch with carpet. Which needs glueing in before fitting the bin bases.

The rear speakers I have turned out to be to big to go under the rear seats, so marked out the parcel shelf to enlarge the existing speaker holes. The jig saw kept throwing out the blade after one was cut out, yep got stubborn and the tin snips and file came out. It took much longer than it should but, have it! Done.
 Template withdrawal kicked in and I copied the parcel shelf, got some more sheet insulation and covered the under side of the parcel shelf. I'll use that jig on the parcel shelf carpet to cut out/double check the speaker holes.
It's looking like we are at a safe stage to fit the last parts from the roof lining kit, under the rear window and the C pillar trim. But lets cut the arch carpet and finish that off and the rear bins as well with trim that used to be chrome but had seen a rough life. Scratches, dents and tarnished, they got a dam good sanding and filling before I painted them black. I saved the parts using products on my shelf with a small nod to the rest of the black trim going in. They are vastly better than they where and will do for now.

Prepping trim

Lots of little bits are underway but not much to show at present.
Having put the carpets down... the have half come back up! The seat belt buckle bolts wouldn't thread in to the floor properly, so had to run the tap through the captive nuts.
Test fitted passenger rear door card and made sure the new route for the loom was ok.  Had to do a little slot in the card for the loom but the card was still a little tight in places, so I trimmed the card in a bit and I'm happy with the fit now.
I realised it was getting close to installing the heater, so dug it out of the loft. Stripped it and painted all the screws black. The rest of the heater components where cleaned and bagged up ready for sandblasting and powder coating.

The foam on the diverter flap inside it was past it's best, I was able to rub off most of it!

The final re assembly was slow but not to bad, a shame the rocker power switch was seized. I striped it and got it working, just a shame electrically I couldn't get it to only make but not brake. Will have to buy a new one, but that can be fitted later and the unit is all good to install.

Today I squeezed in a few short stints and painted another set of boot hinges as the others ones are missing in action. I have no doubt the law of sod will come good and the missing ones will turn up very soon. Only been looking 6 months for them. Still, all done and for a bonus this pair had all the nuts as well. Had to paint the hinge a few times, dam things have so many hidden sections. Lots of little spraying then opening the hinge to expose other parts.