The Focusaurus :) ... May Contains traces of Ford!

[FarmerPug]

You get the early post
You could get another black backing, but body coloured wing mirrors are normally an extra cost option on most cars.

[steve_earwig]

You could be different and leave one black and one body-coloured

[FarmerPug]

or go for the low spec 80's japanese car look and just remove one and keep the other

[highlander]

My Coupe has black wing mirrors; according to Blue406, this was a design decision by Pininfarina, and makes the wing mirrors less obvious (almost invisible) at certain angles. I like it like that, I must say.

Why not try fitting this one, and if you like it black, then swap the other one? If you don't like it, take it off again and then put the blue casing on it.

[FarmerPug]

and while your at it you could try this led puddle light in the wing mirror idea

[Bailes1992]

Decided to paint the new backing because the old one wont fit onto the new one cause it's a pattern part....
Primed...
Basecoat...

Just waiting for that to dry, then I can flat it with some 2000grit and laqure it

[FarmerPug]

how do you keep the dust off

[Bailes1992]

how do you keep the dust off

Hopes and Prayers

[Bailes1992]

Right got the brakes done today


Also changed the wing mirror...
Got the old one off and was greeted with this...




No where near as bad as my Pug mind
Give ti a clean up and rubbed it all down with some heavy cutting compound...

Rubbed the rust back to bare metal...

Put some primer on the bare metal...

And then I painted it.
Now I was told by some knowlageable guy on Passion Ford that because the wing mirror I had was a pattern part the backing from the standard mirror wouldn't fit and I would need to modify the mirror or the car considrably to get it to fit in the first place.
So I painted up a new one...

And low and behold it's exactly the same as the standard one!
Now the one I apinted up was a pretty good colour match, but I decided to polish up the standard one and use that one again as it was perfect...

Oooo look it fits

Oh and it bolted on no problems either!

Then the car was cleaned and given a coat of an all in one product I aquired while working for a detialing company...

And done


Not a bad days work by all accounts

[FarmerPug]

a good tidy job there at getting rid of the rust. What about the old pug did you ever actually sort out the rust on its sills

[Bailes1992]

a good tidy job there at getting rid of the rust. What about the old pug did you ever actually sort out the rust on its sills

The more I patched up the more I found

[FarmerPug]

so its still a rust bucket then?

[Bailes1992]

so its still a rust bucket then?

Nope it's fine now

[FarmerPug]

good stuff, how did you fix it

[steve_earwig]