Alright guys, guess best place to start is to introduce myself. I'm Jonny, 22 from Durham, England. Hello to everyone taking the time to have a look at my car and my progress along the way. My car is a K11, 1 Litre, 3 dr, celebration model with 82000 miles on the clock. Which i have named Matilda. I've been passed my test less than a month now and she is my first car. I actually got her 6 month ago and was driving her when learning to drive but there was nothing i could do until i passed. So here i am, i apologise in advance for the fact that i don't have many pics from the start, i wasn't really going to make a blog but i got persuaded by my mate Craig. He's on here as CraigIC, some of you may be aware of his build. So i suppose i better get some pics up and show you where i started really.
Back of Matilda so far, at this point really the only thing that's been done is the removal of the celebration badge, the blacking of the Nissan badge and new back lights courtesy of CraigIC and his dad, they're Taiwanese imports as i'm sure you're all aware, i think they suit the car. As a little extra there's a snail in one of them, how he got there i do not know!
And this is the Front, blacked out Nissan badge and matt blacked my grills. Chrome wasn't really my thing. I don't think it looks too bad right now. And yes, that is a dent in my bonnet, it's actually quite a funny story. Had bonnet up doing some tinkering work with CraigIC's brother, he had his tools on the top, i stupidly shut my bonnet to let his Dad out and dented it from the tools on the engine. Then, his dad decided to try and take my dent out with a hammer, missing and causing a dent next to it. Guess that'll be to sort at some point.
I've also got some cheeky alloys added to the car, started off with some bad steely's i didn;t have any pics of, they were tie wrapped (tie raps??) on and looked awful, so anyways here's some pics.
So these were the rims i received, for a swap of my steely's and 20 quid, bargain really. Yes they're shoddy in the middle and all that black stuff? that's 13 years of break dust and grime literally baked on, it took me SO long to get them cleaned again. I don't care though, they're my rims now and to be fair, they're not a bad set.
and this is how they turned out. looking nice and fresh (ish) again. They've had a spray in the middle centre hub thing, and i cleaned the spokes up. It took me a good hour or so to get them like this. Some may be wondering how i did it and to be honest you guys will probably cringe at how i did it but here goes. I had a bucket of hot water and added some household cleaning stuff, some washing up liquid (for grease) and a good glug of vinegar for acidity. I then used a floor scrubbing brush on em to get some of the thick off, followed by a normal sponge and scourer to get some of the finer dirt off. Eventually i resorted to a metal pan scourer which really got the dirt off. After this thorough beating i finished with a nice micro-fibre alloy cleaning brush and clean water and i think they came out beautifully.
Interior wise there's not much to say and right now i haven't got many pics of it, ALL SHALL BE REVEALED... i hope.
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And this are really the only two pics i have of my car interior. Yes i know, they're awful, grotty and quite frankly embarrassing, they're one of the next things on my list to do, when i actually get a chance to do anything on them. First a good clean and hoover i think, generally though they don't look too bad when i actually am in the car.
Well i guess that's the first post for me, i have more to add, but maybe i'll do that tomorrow, cheers for reading thus far, hopefully you'll like what you see! x
Back of Matilda so far, at this point really the only thing that's been done is the removal of the celebration badge, the blacking of the Nissan badge and new back lights courtesy of CraigIC and his dad, they're Taiwanese imports as i'm sure you're all aware, i think they suit the car. As a little extra there's a snail in one of them, how he got there i do not know!
And this is the Front, blacked out Nissan badge and matt blacked my grills. Chrome wasn't really my thing. I don't think it looks too bad right now. And yes, that is a dent in my bonnet, it's actually quite a funny story. Had bonnet up doing some tinkering work with CraigIC's brother, he had his tools on the top, i stupidly shut my bonnet to let his Dad out and dented it from the tools on the engine. Then, his dad decided to try and take my dent out with a hammer, missing and causing a dent next to it. Guess that'll be to sort at some point.
I've also got some cheeky alloys added to the car, started off with some bad steely's i didn;t have any pics of, they were tie wrapped (tie raps??) on and looked awful, so anyways here's some pics.
So these were the rims i received, for a swap of my steely's and 20 quid, bargain really. Yes they're shoddy in the middle and all that black stuff? that's 13 years of break dust and grime literally baked on, it took me SO long to get them cleaned again. I don't care though, they're my rims now and to be fair, they're not a bad set.
and this is how they turned out. looking nice and fresh (ish) again. They've had a spray in the middle centre hub thing, and i cleaned the spokes up. It took me a good hour or so to get them like this. Some may be wondering how i did it and to be honest you guys will probably cringe at how i did it but here goes. I had a bucket of hot water and added some household cleaning stuff, some washing up liquid (for grease) and a good glug of vinegar for acidity. I then used a floor scrubbing brush on em to get some of the thick off, followed by a normal sponge and scourer to get some of the finer dirt off. Eventually i resorted to a metal pan scourer which really got the dirt off. After this thorough beating i finished with a nice micro-fibre alloy cleaning brush and clean water and i think they came out beautifully.
Interior wise there's not much to say and right now i haven't got many pics of it, ALL SHALL BE REVEALED... i hope.
And this are really the only two pics i have of my car interior. Yes i know, they're awful, grotty and quite frankly embarrassing, they're one of the next things on my list to do, when i actually get a chance to do anything on them. First a good clean and hoover i think, generally though they don't look too bad when i actually am in the car.
Well i guess that's the first post for me, i have more to add, but maybe i'll do that tomorrow
, cheers for reading thus far, hopefully you'll like what you see! x
