I got out in the garage again yesterday for a good few hours while my wife and daughter were out. My plan was to take the windscreen out, and maybe put the driver’s side brake rotor on. I must have spent at least half an hour looking at the trim and trying to work out how you take it off.

Some of the screws holding the trim on were rusted in and rounded, so they took a fair while to get out. I was scared to death of braking the glass, and wanted to try and keep the rubber intact so I could re-use it temporarily to get it MOT’ed before I painted it. I reckon that I could have done it in half the time with someone else holding on to the glass. Eventually I lifted it out, and placed it carefully up in the rafters on blankets. The trim wasn’t too badly damaged by me, but was pretty beaten up anyway. I’ll see how much some new stuff is before I put it back on.

I took the screen grille out, and removed the wipers. You couldn’t turn them by hand, and the wires were covered in paint under the dash. They look like they’ve had a beating but I reckon they’re fixable, which is nice. There were some areas that looked really rusty, so I grinder brushed the paint off. It wasn’t too bad at all, but had been filled in the past. I cleaned a good area around the screen and then gave it a quick spray with some primer to cover it temporarily until I start to work on it properly. Its amazing how much of a lift that gave me seeing some of it in gray. The engine is all covered up again while I do all this, as is my new suspension bits.