After stripping down the underside and having gone looking for any areas that had any sign of the early stages of rust. Now the best thing to do was apply Hydrate 80 rust killer to prevent the surface rust becoming more than that in years to come. No point being shy with it. […]
After thoroughly cleaning the underside anywhere I could with a pressure washer and allowing everything to dry out. Now it was time to get the car up on the lift and start removing any plastic trims and some suspension parts that would make the job of spraying the protective coatings easier and more effective. This […]
Having done my research, decided on the best overall treatment for the underside of the Forester and now got all the various bits delivered. There was nothing left to do but get on with it. The first and very important part of the whole process was cleaning the underside properly. I started by using a […]
The main reason I wanted a newly or at least recently imported car was how clean and rust free they are underneath. When I looked at a few cars for sale, the ones that had been in the UK for years had started to look pretty ropey underneath with lots of areas of rust. Rust […]
Before I get into fitting this….. Yes I know it’s unnecessary and there’s nothing wrong with the OEM dump valve for the kind of boost the standard turbo is ever going to make. But a big part of the enjoyment of a car, certainly for me, is the noises it makes and turbocharged engines can […]
As far as I can tell car interiors almost never get cleaned properly. This car was no different. It wasn’t that it had been untouched, it was nice and clean looking in general, the problem was just when you look a bit harder and in the areas that collect dirt and never normally see the […]
I could see it was likely the front pads were going to need replacing before I bought the car and sure enough when I got the car home and gave it an all over inspection I found the previous owners had certainly got their money’s worth! I also measured the disc thickness to compare with […]
As I showed in my last post, when I replaced a rear wheel stud, Brembo calipers can cause problems when it comes to removing them. This is because they are an aluminium alloy and they are bolted with steel bolts. Galvanic corrosion happens between the two different metals which weakens the aluminium and it sort […]
When I took the wheels off for the first time I was a bit disappointing to find a broken wheel stud. There was enough of the stud left to screw the wheel nut on but not really enough to tighten it up properly. After a bit of research I found that this isn’t that uncommon […]
So now I had a Forester STI but it wasn’t the perfect fresh import I’d planned on bringing home and I could see before buying it there were one or two jobs I’d want to do right away. Plus whatever I might find after a close inspection with it up on the lift. Tyres were […]