Thought i'd get a little thing started, seeing as all you guys seem to put so much effort in!
Bought my prelude in June 2011, it's a 2.2VTi BB8 Manual that actually only had one lady owner since new in 1999! She'd put 66,000 on it.
I wanted the smartest Prelude i could find, and I bloody love it, which is why i probably paid too much for it....
After more than a year of happy, trouble free motoring (it's my only car), i found these forums. The impetus was a rear blowout at 85mph on the A303 (not very dramatic actually), which then led to the discovery of the wheel being badly buckled. Not sure if the puncture caused the buckle or the otherway round!
Oh, and one of the fronts has a big dent in it, probably a pot hole, which slowly leaks air.
I've only been a forum member for a week or 2, and reading about all the incredible work you guys do, and the time you spend on your ludes has inspired me.
I'm no mechanic, but i've done a couple of simple things, changed a radiator/bonnet/bumper on my old punto after a bit of a collision back in the day, and yesterday did my first small job on the lude. Inspiration came from Bio, and his Lude-Profile. I decided to seal the rear arches! Not a huge job, no one can see it, and it won't make it any faster, but hey, you gotta start somewhere!
before
after
I used Hammerite Underseal, and treated some signs of rust with a wire brush and Hammerite Kurust.
Next is to do the Front Arches, and maybe take the rear bumper off like Bio did and have a look at that.
This is fun!
