Newbie in Sydney
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- AndrewHolt
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- Joined: Sun Dec 16, 2012 9:58 am
- Location: Sydney
Newbie in Sydney
Well, it must be the season for buying 6's. I hope your red M6 is coming along well Will.
Bought my first ever 6er last month - have loved and admired 6's for years...ever since one passed my on the free-way about 1995 doing about AT LEAST 180km/h. Aus delivered in late 86 163k on the clock, 635 Csi in Polaris Silver with M-tech bodykit. Seems pretty well cared for and drives really well with manual dog-leg box. Looking forward to meeting some members in the new year for a run & swapping some info & yarns.
One issue the car has - which is really annoying - is the brightwork on the windscreen is lifting away from the rubber seal. Anyone know who/how this can fixed? Called O'Briens Auto and they didn't want to know.
Will organise more pics soon.
Cheers everyone, and hope you all have a great xmas
Bought my first ever 6er last month - have loved and admired 6's for years...ever since one passed my on the free-way about 1995 doing about AT LEAST 180km/h. Aus delivered in late 86 163k on the clock, 635 Csi in Polaris Silver with M-tech bodykit. Seems pretty well cared for and drives really well with manual dog-leg box. Looking forward to meeting some members in the new year for a run & swapping some info & yarns.
One issue the car has - which is really annoying - is the brightwork on the windscreen is lifting away from the rubber seal. Anyone know who/how this can fixed? Called O'Briens Auto and they didn't want to know.
Will organise more pics soon.
Cheers everyone, and hope you all have a great xmas
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Andrew
1986 635CSi
1986 635CSi
Re: Newbie in Sydney
You will have to take the screen out to fix this. The brightwork pieces are very soft and get easily bent out of shape. With the screen out, and the seal affixed to it, gently tweak the strips to fit the contours.AndrewHolt wrote: One issue the car has - which is really annoying - is the brightwork on the windscreen is lifting away from the rubber seal. Anyone know who/how this can fixed?
When you are happy with the shape, fit them into the seal, and then refit the screen.
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A beautiful Polaris, nice find.
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- AndrewHolt
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- Joined: Sun Dec 16, 2012 9:58 am
- Location: Sydney
Thanks
Mad - blown away with your welcoming words and friendliness. Took the old girl for a major service just before Xmas at Peter Mabey BMW at Artarmon. Took her out on then M4 to Glenbrook for a quick (120km) spin a few days ago with all the windows down. Its hard keeping to 110kmh Found out when she's hot the exhaust makes a really throaty, crackling noise at slow speed driving around town. Getting the windscreen brightwork re-set at Ralph Moore at Mascot in early Jan as the brightwork is popping out (seal's deteriorated). Will be right for a run after that.
All I need to do now is figure out to reduce photos to under 2 Mb to be able to post to the forum.....any thoughts gratefully accepted (I'm a technical dufus of the highest order!).
Anyway - I hope everyone's enjoying Xmas.
Cheers
Andrew
All I need to do now is figure out to reduce photos to under 2 Mb to be able to post to the forum.....any thoughts gratefully accepted (I'm a technical dufus of the highest order!).
Anyway - I hope everyone's enjoying Xmas.
Cheers
Andrew
Andrew
1986 635CSi
1986 635CSi
Re: Thanks
Good to hear Andrew. Its always great getting the 6er out on the highway for a decent blast.AndrewHolt wrote:Mad - blown away with your welcoming words and friendliness. Took the old girl for a major service just before Xmas at Peter Mabey BMW at Artarmon. Took her out on then M4 to Glenbrook for a quick (120km) spin a few days ago with all the windows down. Its hard keeping to 110kmh Found out when she's hot the exhaust makes a really throaty, crackling noise at slow speed driving around town. Getting the windscreen brightwork re-set at Ralph Moore at Mascot in early Jan as the brightwork is popping out (seal's deteriorated). Will be right for a run after that.
All I need to do now is figure out to reduce photos to under 2 Mb to be able to post to the forum.....any thoughts gratefully accepted (I'm a technical dufus of the highest order!).
Anyway - I hope everyone's enjoying Xmas.
Cheers
Andrew
Here are some instructions I prepared a while back to help people wanting to post multiple pictures of varying sizes...
viewtopic.php?p=119091&highlight=photobucket#119091
This method requires you to create a Photobucket account on which to host your pictures, and you then use the photo tags generated by Photobucket to display your images on this (or any) internet forum. Photobucket is free to use, that's why I use it.
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Andrew - nice to see another 86 in Oz, now just get a transfer up to Darwin and there will be two of us.
Cheers, nice find - Vinny
Cheers, nice find - Vinny
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