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Cinquecento Pink Cinquecento Finally Done

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Cinquecento Pink Cinquecento Finally Done

Looks good... but the Focus gear nob sticks out a mile :)
 
The bumpers are, as mentioned a split between the cinq and sei bumpers, cut just above the number plate on the seicento, and roughly cut on the cinq to suit, and then lots of fibreglass!

Will post some pics up when i can, but for some reason cant log onto my web server (hence pics currently hosted on a mates site), when i can, will post them thou

As for the door mirrors, hardest bit is spraying them, as they are a solid unit, ie, glass dont come out (well as far as i could tell with out breaking), but yea, get a cinq door mirror, undo the 10mm bolt behind the gaitor, remove the mirror unit and gaitor

do the same for the seicento, ya need to super glue the gaitor onto the cinq base plate where u want it, leave it to dry for a goooood long time, then, once sprayed the door mirror simply put the 10mm back on and pull the gaitor around, jobs a good'un!
 
aww, thats a gorgeous colour car. was thinking about getting mine done in pink. but i cant even find anyone near by that does reasonably priced resprays :( veyr cute car tho hun.
 
Got the mirrors on ours now!! just need to glue the gaitor down! I'm gonna use silicone adhesive though, as it's eaier to clean up and remove if needs be.

Only thing is the drivers side sei mirror hasn't got the teeth on to lock it in place? So it's easily knocked out of adjustment. Are they all like that or are we just unfortunate?


Jon+Em
 
1 of mine was like that, you can either just get another mirror base plate for a cinq

or, what i did was to knock out the split pin and then use the splined bit from the seicento (same but new lol) only hard bit is getting split pin back in as need a vice, and as i found, bloke must b blind who drills the original holes as they never line up, so i drilled my own hole for split pin
 
fiatpuntosx said:
Love the car mate!
Isn't it ilegal to do that? i know a copper who told me it was. Seems stupid though.
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I think the no plate maker has to put their business/town and postcode on the bottom of the plate for it to be legal.
 
Number plates don't need a postcode to be legal, Mine on the rear if you look at my pics in the gallery is actually smaller on the rear, the letters are slightly smaller than usual (altho they are not shown) but never been pulled up on it. Had police cars behind tons of times. As long as there are readable and nothing is changing wat they say i dont see a problem with them to be honest. Obviosly has to be seen from a distance and not be stupidly small
 
http://www.dvla.gov.uk/vehicles/reg...equirements.htm said:
The British Standard also requires that a number plate must be marked with the following information: -

The British Standard Number (currently BS AU 145d)
The name, trade mark, or other means of identification of the manufacturer or component supplier. (The company who actually make the number plate.)
The name and postcode of the supplying outlet. (The 'supplying outlet' is taken to mean a company whose business consists wholly or partly of selling number plates.)
A non-reflective border and the Euro-symbol with the national identification letters are optional additions.
There shall be no other markings or material contained on the number plate.
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To be strictly legal, you need the postcode etc (as highlighted above) if you buy a new number plate, so you're mistaken, Ashley.
The police wouldn't pull you up on not having a postcode, only if you have a blatantly illegal font, screws to make letters look like something else, etc.
 
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Problem the police would have would be to proove you recently purchased the number plate, who's to say that i didnt get the plates made up 3 years ago ? :)

oh, and i got a mate who makes em at work so all good n free :) heh

I always have personalised plates at the bottom



Oh, and saying that, every brand new car we sell at work simply has the Essex Ford logo and "Essex Ford" written next to it, no postcode or anything
 
XR-Cossie said:
Oh, and saying that, every brand new car we sell at work simply has the Essex Ford logo and "Essex Ford" written next to it, no postcode or anything
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That maybe because the number plates are made in house - just saying 'Essex Ford' maybe is enough :)
 
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