Thanks - yes it is powder coat. I am impressed at how much more visual presence such a small thing gives. Here is the car before the calipers were painted, for comparison.



And here is the 'after' pic again:

 

Looks great!

 

I had the rear window tinted and also the headlights had a light tint to dull the chrome and give a more modern look.

 

Pics

 

Great fall day to drive out to the Owyhee Mountains in Southern Idaho. Mina exhaust now mounted and just an extra nice growl up in the hills.

 

Turned the engine over let it idle for 20 mins as its not moved in weeks, noticed i have a flat tyre (rear

 

Well, THAT was not good. Neither is the flat.

 

Well, thought I'd put my baby to bed for the winter a couple weeks ago, but... forgot it was blocking my stored snow tires for the other car.
So backed her out, changed the tires on the other car, and put her back in the garage and to sleep again for the winter.

 

Picked up that car from the body shop following re-spray and covered it in a the garage. Then forgot to add fuel stabilizer and park it over plastic so will take care of that this week. Just want to make sure you're not alone Ken:-)

 

Back drivers side tyre . blew it up will check again next weekend car is in hibernation

 

Put the winter rated shoes on with color change of wheel centers. While I had the wheels off I also touched up the painted brake calipers.
Not today, but had the windscreen replaced the other day......no more sun wiped out sparkly views!

 

You may know this. You dont want to cover fresh paint with anything that will react with the off-gasses from the paint.
I only know this painfully from our manufacturing, we cant use anything but cotton or paper, or it will leave an imprint.

The newer clear plastic wraps made for OEM shipments work fine, but they must be removed within so many days.

 

Shoot, yes I did know this. The paint was baked and was a week old when I picked it up. No mention of car covers from the body shop but no waxing for 90 days so I presume that's because it's still out-gassing. I removed the cover and sent a text the the shop. Thank you Q&C!

The cover is a loose fitting indoor breathable polypropylene but will wait for confirmation from the body shop as well.

 

Cold and raining here so just gave her a spit shine so it's ready for a new owner when he comes along.

 

These stories of putting away our cars for the winter are a bit funny as it was 97*F in the San Fernando Valley today. I'm looking forward to the winter if and when it comes.

 

I FINALLY got the E-Diff fluid changed. My old perfect Indie is now too far away to be practical, so I've been checking out a few now nearer to me. The guy I chose now does really good work and is very reasonable. So anyway, I DID have to give some pointers on removing the dreaded fill-plug, and once that was done there was a problem with their fluid pump. SO, it took awhile but it is now a job-done. At least for another 60k miles.
I used my own fluid, dude charged me the original $84, even after they modified several different tools to make it work and spent over two hours doing it.

 

Yeah, bite me.

 

I'm not putting her away for the winter, just wish there were more top down days involved!

 

I don't officially 'put the car away for winter' but I don't use it if the weather is bad. Here in the UK the weather has been so awful this year, if we put our cars away, we'd never get them out again. I leave mine in the garage, on its CTEK charger and take it out on any sunny, dry day, even in the depths of winter. Saves me from having to put it on stands to keep the tyres from getting flat spots too. How do you guys deal with that? Do you move the car in and out of the garage periodically?

I've just bought an X-Type for use in the winter

 

Yes i start it let it idle for 20mins then slowly move it back and forward for few mins then switch off . i do this twice a month