GlennZS120
03-07-11, 04:20 PM
Afternoon everyone, I haven't posted my MG on here yet so I thought I would do a write up from when I got her to now.
Having owned a few rovers in the past they are not the best made car but i always had a soft spot for the new shape zs I managed to find one at Christmas, Nice low miles 120 but with the 180 kit, Wish I had got the 180 now but I use it as a work car so petrol is key.
Anyway on with the pictures.
Here is when I first picked her up pictures from the ad
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS/1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS/2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS/5.jpg
I went about getting some new little bits a pieces
New washer jets the MG ones are really bad so a set of mist ones
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/NewParts7.jpg
New wipers
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/NewParts2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/NewParts5.jpg
Also had some of the rear carpet in the boot hanging so picked up some new clips
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/NewParts8.jpg
Before
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/NewParts9.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/NewParts10.jpg
After
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/NewParts11.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/NewParts12.jpg
New front badge
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/ScuffAndBadges.jpg
Before
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/ScuffAndBadges10.jpg
After
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/ScuffAndBadges11.jpg
Never like the rear badge to so decided to de badge the rear
Before
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/ScuffAndBadges6.jpg
After
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/ScuffAndBadges7.jpg
Next on my list there was two scuffs on the front bumper one was my fault the other was there when i got it.
Couple of the damage
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/ScuffAndBadges2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/ScuffAndBadges3.jpg
During
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/ScuffAndBadges4.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/ScuffAndBadges5.jpg
After
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/ScuffAndBadges8.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/ScuffAndBadges9.jpg
Scuffs all compete it was time to sort out the saggy rear bumper thiunk this is a common issue for the ZS so
Here it is before
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/BumperSag.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/BumperSag2.jpg
Bumper off
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/BumperSag3.jpg
Clips modified
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/BumperSag5.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/BumperSag6.jpg
While waiting for help to get the bumper back on i took some metal polish to the exhaust
Before
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/BumperSag7.jpg
After
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/BumperSag8.jpg
Help arrived bumper back on
Afters
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/BumperSag10.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/BumperSag9.jpg
After sorting out the bumper i came across a set of the 180 calipers and carriers on ebay managed to win this lot for ?50
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/Brakes.jpg
All cleaned up and painted
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/Brakes2.jpg
New bolts for the disks
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/Brakes3.jpg
Decided on new disks and pads so got these quite smart black disks
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/Brakes5.jpg
And fitted
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/Brakes7.jpg
While the wheels were off i decided to give them a clean on the insides
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/Wheels2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/Wheels3.jpg
Megs wheel brightner iron x and tardis was used
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/Wheels6.jpg
Iron x at work
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/Wheels7.jpg
Tardis for the remain spots
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/Wheels9.jpg
And clean
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/Wheels10.jpg
They wont stay like this but makes future cleaning a bit easier
This weekend i thought i would try and get the car cleaned properly on the outside its been through a few hard car washes and was looking very dull. So
After a quick sort out of my garage few pics
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/FullDetailOS3.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/FullDetailOS4.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/FullDetailOS5.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/FullDetailOS6.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/FullDetailOS7.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/FullDetailOS.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/FullDetailOS2.jpg
I got cracking
Badges cleaned and side vents Megs apc and elite brushes
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/FullDetailOS9.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/FullDetailOS10.jpg
Rinsed over then tardis and iron x
Iron x at work hard to see on red
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/FullDetailOS14.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/FullDetailOS13.jpg
Foamed off
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/FullDetailOS17.jpg
Clay time when i first got the car it had been in storage for a while so the paint was really rough i knew it was going to be a long task just claying. New clay bar
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/FullDetailOS15.jpg
This was the result after doing the top of the boot
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/FullDetailOS16.jpg
about 2 hours later i had a lovely smooth car. Dried and ready for polish
Megs G220 with final finish on a finishing pad seemed to give enough correction so opted for that combo.
Result after 1 pass on the boot
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/FullDetailOS24.jpg
A few particular bits i knew i would have to step up the pad polish combo
Before
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/FullDetailOS18.jpg
After
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/FullDetailOS25.jpg
Before
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/FullDetailOS21.jpg
After
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/Detail.jpg
Not may other pics of the polishing i just wanted to crack on and not keep stopping. Its not 100% but its a good lot of the swirls out the roof could do with another going over but I was getting tired
Once finished the correction stage I topped off with a coat of this
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/FullDetailOS26.jpg
Still had some sunlight left so here are the afters hope you enjoyed this comments good and bad welcome.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/FullDetailOS28.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/FullDetailOS27.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/FullDetailOS29.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/FullDetailOS32.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/FullDetailOS33.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/FullDetailOS34.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/FullDetailOS36.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/FullDetailOS35.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/FullDetailOS37.jpg
And last one when I got home
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/FullDetailOS38.jpg
Thanks for looking guys enjoy
Having owned a few rovers in the past they are not the best made car but i always had a soft spot for the new shape zs I managed to find one at Christmas, Nice low miles 120 but with the 180 kit, Wish I had got the 180 now but I use it as a work car so petrol is key.
Anyway on with the pictures.
Here is when I first picked her up pictures from the ad
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS/1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS/2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS/5.jpg
I went about getting some new little bits a pieces
New washer jets the MG ones are really bad so a set of mist ones
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/NewParts7.jpg
New wipers
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/NewParts2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/NewParts5.jpg
Also had some of the rear carpet in the boot hanging so picked up some new clips
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/NewParts8.jpg
Before
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/NewParts9.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/NewParts10.jpg
After
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/NewParts11.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/NewParts12.jpg
New front badge
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/ScuffAndBadges.jpg
Before
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/ScuffAndBadges10.jpg
After
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/ScuffAndBadges11.jpg
Never like the rear badge to so decided to de badge the rear
Before
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/ScuffAndBadges6.jpg
After
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/ScuffAndBadges7.jpg
Next on my list there was two scuffs on the front bumper one was my fault the other was there when i got it.
Couple of the damage
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/ScuffAndBadges2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/ScuffAndBadges3.jpg
During
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/ScuffAndBadges4.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/ScuffAndBadges5.jpg
After
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/ScuffAndBadges8.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/ScuffAndBadges9.jpg
Scuffs all compete it was time to sort out the saggy rear bumper thiunk this is a common issue for the ZS so
Here it is before
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/BumperSag.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/BumperSag2.jpg
Bumper off
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/BumperSag3.jpg
Clips modified
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/BumperSag5.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/BumperSag6.jpg
While waiting for help to get the bumper back on i took some metal polish to the exhaust
Before
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/BumperSag7.jpg
After
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/BumperSag8.jpg
Help arrived bumper back on
Afters
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/BumperSag10.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/BumperSag9.jpg
After sorting out the bumper i came across a set of the 180 calipers and carriers on ebay managed to win this lot for ?50
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/Brakes.jpg
All cleaned up and painted
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/Brakes2.jpg
New bolts for the disks
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/Brakes3.jpg
Decided on new disks and pads so got these quite smart black disks
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/Brakes5.jpg
And fitted
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/Brakes7.jpg
While the wheels were off i decided to give them a clean on the insides
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/Wheels2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/Wheels3.jpg
Megs wheel brightner iron x and tardis was used
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/Wheels6.jpg
Iron x at work
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/Wheels7.jpg
Tardis for the remain spots
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/Wheels9.jpg
And clean
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/Wheels10.jpg
They wont stay like this but makes future cleaning a bit easier
This weekend i thought i would try and get the car cleaned properly on the outside its been through a few hard car washes and was looking very dull. So
After a quick sort out of my garage few pics
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/FullDetailOS3.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/FullDetailOS4.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/FullDetailOS5.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/FullDetailOS6.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/FullDetailOS7.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/FullDetailOS.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/FullDetailOS2.jpg
I got cracking
Badges cleaned and side vents Megs apc and elite brushes
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/FullDetailOS9.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/FullDetailOS10.jpg
Rinsed over then tardis and iron x
Iron x at work hard to see on red
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/FullDetailOS14.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/FullDetailOS13.jpg
Foamed off
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/FullDetailOS17.jpg
Clay time when i first got the car it had been in storage for a while so the paint was really rough i knew it was going to be a long task just claying. New clay bar
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/FullDetailOS15.jpg
This was the result after doing the top of the boot
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/FullDetailOS16.jpg
about 2 hours later i had a lovely smooth car. Dried and ready for polish
Megs G220 with final finish on a finishing pad seemed to give enough correction so opted for that combo.
Result after 1 pass on the boot
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/FullDetailOS24.jpg
A few particular bits i knew i would have to step up the pad polish combo
Before
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/FullDetailOS18.jpg
After
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/FullDetailOS25.jpg
Before
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/FullDetailOS21.jpg
After
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/Detail.jpg
Not may other pics of the polishing i just wanted to crack on and not keep stopping. Its not 100% but its a good lot of the swirls out the roof could do with another going over but I was getting tired
Once finished the correction stage I topped off with a coat of this
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/FullDetailOS26.jpg
Still had some sunlight left so here are the afters hope you enjoyed this comments good and bad welcome.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/FullDetailOS28.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/FullDetailOS27.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/FullDetailOS29.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/FullDetailOS32.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/FullDetailOS33.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/FullDetailOS34.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/FullDetailOS36.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/FullDetailOS35.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/FullDetailOS37.jpg
And last one when I got home
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/Glennroy/MG%20ZS%20Detail/FullDetailOS38.jpg
Thanks for looking guys enjoy