Pushki's BB4

[Pushki]

Gribble

August 2012

Autosol metal polish is the most effective product I’ve found to remove gribble. This blight affects the rear quarter windows and roof trim.
Autosol has just the right amount of abrasion to make short work of it.

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Roof trim
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Once the gribble was removed, I used some AutoGlym Bumper Care to ‘revive & protect’.

[Pushki]

Wind Deflectors

August 2012

My wind deflectors were in need of a refurbishment as the rubber seals had started to come off and the plastic had oxidised.





I found the easiest way of polishing them was with a buffing wheel on my drill.
I used Meguiar’s Plast-RX plastic cleaner and polish.





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I bought some new push rivets.

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Shock Knock

December 2009

When I bought my car it suffered badly from rear ‘shock knock’.
This was sorted temporarily by adding shims to the upper suspension strut assembly.



While I was at my local breakers yard ripping apart a Prelude, I noticed that it had some after-market damper rubbers so I bagged them. It turned out they were made by Spoon.

Worn OEM versus Spoon


I fitted them along with shorter collars. It's recommended that you replace the self-locking nuts when you do this, (Honda part # 90364-SG0-004).

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Spoon Strut Brace

January 2010

On the same Prelude that I got the top mount rubbers from, I also scored a genuine Spoon strut brace.
I gave it a good polish and bought a new decal for it. 







I got hold of a tool tray that sits in the spare wheel.



To finish it off, I fitted a boot liner handle.
These seem to be missing from the majority of BB4s (super lightweight).

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Snow

January 2010

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I used Bilt Hamber products to protect my car against the rust demon.

The Surfex HD I used to clean and degrease before applying the protection.
The Dynax UB is to underseal the areas that are exposed to impact damage. These include the wheel arches and the undercarriage.
The Dynax S-50 is for the areas that are not exposed such as behind the arch liners and behind the bumpers.

The Products


Rear Arches

April 2010

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Petrol Filler Tube

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Sills

May 2010

As with the arches, I've used Dynax UB on the exposed areas vulnerable to impact damage and Dynax S-50 on the areas covered by the trim. The box sections have been totally blasted inside with S-50. 

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Front Arches

June 2010

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While I had the arch liner off, I was able to check the resonator valve had not rusted up and could move freely. I gave it a quick squirt of WD40.

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Front Bumper

July 2010

Once again I degreased everything with Surfex HD and then applied Dynax S-50 to all the exposed metal. I also sprayed a load into the box section underneath the aircon radiator.







The metal bumper support was given a good clean and sprayed liberally with the S-50.

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Wiper Motor Tray

May 2011










I removed the wiper motor and plastic fan cover and gave it all a good clean and degrease. 



I cleaned off the surface rust around the seams and gave it two coats of Bilt Hamber Electrox.



When the Electrox was dry I sprayed liberally with Bilt Hamber Dynax S-50.



Then I put all the bits back in.



The reason there was so much crap in there was because the foam strip along the inner edge of the cover had disintegrated.



After cleaning the cover I replaced the foam strip with a length of neoprene tape. 





Finally, I put it all back together. 



With the new foam strip, there is now no gap for the leaves and crap to make its way into the tray.