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Winter preparations for Gina while changing to Winter wheels. All the stories I read here got me scared, so a few precautions were implemented.
Rust prevention of the brake drums and disks under the wheels with Hammerite rust prevention primer. There was already quite some rust that had to be brushed off.


Nice find: outside the wheel area, the brake drums are already coated with black paint (or powder coat), so this should keep them rust free for some time.
The front wheels will get dust cover caps for the center nuts where rust is already growing fast. The back already has those.
The wheels got a spray wax cover on the inside, too

Once the dust caps have arrived, the Moon caps will go on the wheels again for the Winter.
While the wheels were off, I took the opportunity to change the DRL bulbs. My interior wings don´t have the service hatch (good, I can´t lose it...), so it requires to remove the lower screws of the inner wings to get inside to the lamp housing. Had a good laugh when I saw the horn
That´s another thing to consider for an upgrade.
It is still narrow inside, and (as we all know...) the whole lamp housing setup is a pathetic misconstruction. And I have fairly small hands. Nevertheless, I managed to swap the bulbs for "blueish" ones, looks much better with the LEDs around them. I know they may not last that long, we will see...
Before/after:


Interesting find: on the newer models with LED rings, there is no pilot light any more, the DRL bulb is a 21W single filament only. The dual 21/5W I put in still fits in the socket, but next time I can buy the simpler version
And while the rear wheels were off, the rear axle spring seats got a good flooding with wax fluid that will hopefully prevent early corrosion.

Winter can come
Rust prevention of the brake drums and disks under the wheels with Hammerite rust prevention primer. There was already quite some rust that had to be brushed off.


Nice find: outside the wheel area, the brake drums are already coated with black paint (or powder coat), so this should keep them rust free for some time.
The front wheels will get dust cover caps for the center nuts where rust is already growing fast. The back already has those.
The wheels got a spray wax cover on the inside, too

Once the dust caps have arrived, the Moon caps will go on the wheels again for the Winter.
While the wheels were off, I took the opportunity to change the DRL bulbs. My interior wings don´t have the service hatch (good, I can´t lose it...), so it requires to remove the lower screws of the inner wings to get inside to the lamp housing. Had a good laugh when I saw the horn
It is still narrow inside, and (as we all know...) the whole lamp housing setup is a pathetic misconstruction. And I have fairly small hands. Nevertheless, I managed to swap the bulbs for "blueish" ones, looks much better with the LEDs around them. I know they may not last that long, we will see...
Before/after:


Interesting find: on the newer models with LED rings, there is no pilot light any more, the DRL bulb is a 21W single filament only. The dual 21/5W I put in still fits in the socket, but next time I can buy the simpler version
And while the rear wheels were off, the rear axle spring seats got a good flooding with wax fluid that will hopefully prevent early corrosion.

Winter can come
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