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[Bootdog]

I had a productive afternoon with the VX for once!

Removed the old front towing eye which I had almost rounded the thread on. The new elise shop folding one went straight in, no worries, looks great too:

FItted a nice red rear towing eye, went on good and tight, seems nice and solid:


Next I went at the headlights, the RH dipped and main beams are only working intermittently. The last time I went at the lights, the alarm went off constantly for about 3 hours and I blew a load of fuses.
Not so this time, I found a slightly corroded connection to the dipped bulb, cleaned it up and it fixed the dipped and main beams. And the wire wasn't even charred or anything, lucky me!

I also found another rattle, although I haven't quite fixed it. Its related to a blown foglight bulb - this is as I found it, it looks like the foglight split near the bulb, and half of the housing was rolling around inside the front clam, including the bulb:

[CocoPops]

Have you changed the front wheels yet? (it's got the strange Astra wheels hasn't it?) Towing eye looks good Must sort my fog light at some point too

[Bootdog]

Yeah, I picked up a set of 4 astra 16" wheels - and I've 2 extra VX220 NA rears, so I've a wet / dry Yokohama setup - AD08s for the wet, and AO48s for the dry - although I haven't even tried the AO48s yet

[Goosenka]

Nice paving

[Bootdog]

thanks - the specks in the bricks match the front of the clam

[Ollyj]

Bootdog, how did you fit the rear towing eye? Any drilling needed? Im looking at getting those parts from elise shop. Cheers.

[smiley]

FItted a nice red rear towing eye, went on good and tight, seems nice and solid:

Difficult to see at this angle.
Did you fit it at one of those 2 large M8 (i think) allens, or on one of those 5 smaller bolts, along the edge of diffuser/bottomplate?

[Bootdog]

Well, I'd like to say : I cut out a section of the undertray with a grinder, then got a welder to weld a bracket onto the subframe, then drilled the mounting points with a HSS bit, and finally brought it down to a workshop and got them to tap the threads into it... In reality, I undid the large allen keyed bolt on the right hand side, fitted the towing eye, and screwed it back in. Took about 4 minutes, 3 of which were digging out the allen keys and trying out 3 of them until I got the right size

[Bootdog]

Yeah, the pic is deceptive, the tow eye is over to the right of the car...

FItted a nice red rear towing eye, went on good and tight, seems nice and solid:

Difficult to see at this angle.
Did you fit it at one of those 2 large M8 (i think) allens, or on one of those 5 smaller bolts, along the edge of diffuser/bottomplate?

[Wolfstone]

Bootdog, how did you fit the rear towing eye? Any drilling needed? Im looking at getting those parts from elise shop. Cheers.

Olly - two minute job for the Northants pit crew. Pop it round when it arrives.

[Ollyj]

We have got some work to do on mine then, ordered HID upgrade kit, will order the towing parts, getting EGR blank done tomorrow and old bridgestones put back on fronts. Let me know when u r free ken! Cheers bootdog for your advice.