Showing posts with label DIY. Show all posts
Showing posts with label DIY. Show all posts

Saturday, August 23, 2014

HeadLamp Wire Reconditioning

Since I have the car, the headlamp wire, that is inside the headlamp is all brittle and cracked – the condition is terrible.

So I decided to  rewrap all the wire:

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Quite Easy to take off the cover, need to remove the side reflector to access to the main wire connector.

Condition of the wire before rewrap:

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The only think I can think of, is all this “Green” Friendly wire cannot last long enough for our climate – it’s bio-degradable I believed, it degrade before we scrap the car here in Malaysia.

So what I did is wrap remove all the bits (Check out the left picture, Left is after wrap, Right is Before)

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And additional protection, this should last for another 10 years Smile

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Total Cost of the exercise is less then RM50 – much cheaper to replace the whole lamp.

Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Interior Panel Light Repair

Problem with Volvos – The interior plastics are cracking and breaking like biscuits. Major headache. Getting it fixed is one the entertaining process it can be.

IMG_1619Look at the crack – well – need to fix this fast – it has been falling off once the car go over some badly patch road.

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First need to take it out – multiple pieces fell of, re-assembling the crack pieces like lego.

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And Tada – back in one piece!

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