She seems pretty dry inside now, windows aren't steaming up anymore in any case which must be a good sign, I'm currently negotiating somewhere to store it on the site where I work on the landlords bit as they have huge sheds, that'll be happening once payday rolls around as I need to get a new turbo feed pipe and a 2nd hand steering rack as oil leaking from this pipe and a leaky rack were both failure points on the MOT.
This week I decided to attack the series of dents in the drivers wing of the SE at work, first tea break, apply filler, lunch time sand filler off with 240 pads on the DA, then last tea break dust with primer, did that Monday and a few spots were slightly low, plus a big high spot in the metal itself just above the biggest dent, so precision tapping with a small hammer knocked these in and more filler added and sanded yesterday, as well as a light dusting of primer again. Today I used 800 grit paper by hand to get everything nice, then one thin coat of white etch primer (I ran out) followed by 2 coats of grey high build, I'll 800 it off again if it needs it tomorrow and then progress with the silver, I'm not expecting brilliance as the filling isn't perfectly flawless, and it's going to be from a rattle can but better than the dents.
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02 V40 T4 S, "Sargent silver" she's back!
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