now the cleanest part of the car! and the most original paint colour code wise!!! cheers chas for pointing it out to me! and young ashley in the yorks for holding onto it for me
and if i get bored:
General new grille....
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General new grille....
now the cleanest part of the car! and the most original paint colour code wise!!! cheers chas for pointing it out to me! and young ashley in the yorks for holding onto it for me
and if i get bored:
Grill whore!
is this the one off ebay? that was like new?
if it is, then bugger! my mate was after it for his mk1
Dunc
if it is, then bugger! my mate was after it for his mk1
Dunc
Think AndySporting still has a brand new grill. PM him?
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Very tidy, why have you got so many?...
...and why has your Mrs let you?
...and why has your Mrs let you?
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whenever i see a decent one, or break a car, always get the grille, black ones are easy enough to find, but red......and white....phew what a palaver, one of the reds had a clip broken by some numbnuts at a garage when they were doing a chemical flush on the radiator
That's enough grilles for a fleet!LOL - you're obsessed
A man only needs one grille, maybe none if it's mesh...
The single screw in the middle is a great Uno conundrum - it's usually missing, but if the screw is there, you don't need the clips anyway.
Ever worked on a Jap car? That grille would be held in by eight 10mm bolts, each with a washer, and there would be a steel backing plate.
Here's a bit of Uno Trivia for you. The base models seem to have stainless-steel five-bars, which are next-to-impossible to remove (easier to mask with tape before repainting). Paradoxically enough, the more expensive models have chromed-plastic bars that you can remove pretty easily.
How're you going for badges? I find a bit of silver paint on the back helps to revive the FIAT letters. As for the Turbo, that usually needs a retouch in red.
Your headlights need a clean
It is possible to remove the lens if you heat the sealant that holds it on - very easy if the sealant is already partly-void. Grey silicone does a passable job of replacement; grey polyurethane is better. I used black polyurethane, which gives the lens a black edge - maybe a bit prominent. Especially when the excess squeezes out on the inside as it did for me :bang:
Alternatively you can just slosh some washing detergent inside the headlight, but I prefer to take the lens off so I can remove the metal cap that masks the bulb - unnecessary with halogen bulbs (H4 bulbs have a black or silver cap on the end) - getting rid of the large metal cap removes a 'hole' from the light beam.
-Alex
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I have 4 cables behind my grille, and they end up there.
Headlight wipers? Extra horns?
-Alex
I got headlight wipers, and horn.
Haha! Sorry - I guess I didn't understand your first post
I thought maybe you were asking what the four unknown cables might be?
Really I didn't know if you were asking a question or not, but since English may not be your first language and your post was still better-written than some English people manage, I didn't want to be mean and say I couldn't understand
-Alex
Haha! Sorry - I guess I didn't understand your first post
I thought maybe you were asking what the four unknown cables might be?
Really I didn't know if you were asking a question or not, but since English may not be your first language and your post was still better-written than some English people manage, I didn't want to be mean and say I couldn't understand
-Alex
that's allright, and your right, english is not my first language, it's norwegian
and I was asking about what they could be. so I guess you did understand my first post I'm pretty certain that 4 cables are for som kind of headlights.
but still not sure.
one of my main problems is some small technical problems
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I think you're right - someone has probably added the four cables for foglights or headlights. Oh - I guess your super-Uno-with-headlight-wipers-for-Norway also has foglights already
One way to tell (maybe) is to check the colours of the wires.
Most two-wire cable that you can buy in a shop has red and black wires.
FIAT would probably use brown/black, and brown-with-black stripe/black for the other side - for foglights - and green or grey with green/gray/black stripe for headlights (if you see what I mean).
Do you have any extra switches inside the car? If not, I guess it's just a case of pulling the cables out if you want, though they probably do no harm if you leave them there.
The thread wasn't 'mine' to start with - it was the Moderator's
Meanwhile you should start another thread for your other small technical problems
-Alex
One way to tell (maybe) is to check the colours of the wires.
Most two-wire cable that you can buy in a shop has red and black wires.
FIAT would probably use brown/black, and brown-with-black stripe/black for the other side - for foglights - and green or grey with green/gray/black stripe for headlights (if you see what I mean).
Do you have any extra switches inside the car? If not, I guess it's just a case of pulling the cables out if you want, though they probably do no harm if you leave them there.
The thread wasn't 'mine' to start with - it was the Moderator's
Meanwhile you should start another thread for your other small technical problems
-Alex
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