MG ZS 180 Mk2 - XPG Saloon.

[stamford]

Those seats look lush.

[Skillen]

Originally Posted by stamford

Those seats look lush.

They are, I sat in them for a while last night!
I also sound deadened the floor beneath them and it's so much quieter now!
Getting luxury!

[POMPSKI]

Yummy, I wish I had them.

[peterzs]

Great work, love the attention to detail.

[Skillen]

Today after a lot of swearing and some effort I changed the drab plastic mk2 kickplates for the better stainless mk1 kickplates.
It's the little details that give the car more class I feel.

Before:




After:










I also changed the rear quarter badges as they were faded.






I tried to debadge the rear today as well.
To take the aftermarket badge off as I wasn't a fan.

But after I had taken it off it appears that someone had had an over-zelous attempt at taking the original off and scraped the paint off the boot lid.



So it seems I am destined to have a boot with badges on.
Ill order some replacements and hopefully (as the paint is scraped off outside of the badge borders) Dazzer will be able to make me a slightly oversized badges to cover it up while I attempt to source a grey mk2 boot lid with a lip spoiler.

*sigh* there's always something.

[petet16]

I did the stainless tread plates on both our mk2's, it looks way better than the plain plastic, the badges come off much easier by a bit of heating with a hair dryer, and a length of nylon fishing line to cut through the adhesive pad.

[Skillen]

Originally Posted by petet16

I did the stainless tread plates on both our mk2's, it looks way better than the plain plastic, the badges come off much easier by a bit of heating with a hair dryer, and a length of nylon fishing line to cut through the adhesive pad.

thats what I did minus the fishing line, but the aftermarket replacement was poor at best and they had stuck it over the top of the old adhesive as it only contacted the body at the edges as it was a strange one.
I tried softening with some tar remover as well but it was old and crappy.
Im gonna get at it more over the next few days to clean it up for the replacment.

[daytona365]

Mines a mk1 and i still got the plastic kick plates.............

[petet16]

wd40 and a plastic scraper gets rid of the old foam pad pretty well, then a wipe over with panel wipe or meths before you fit the new one.

[petet16]

Originally Posted by daytona365

Mines a mk1 and i still got the plastic kick plates.............

I thought all the mk1's had the stainless plates