Here I am, two weeks after the actual work has been done, trying to write up what I have done while being totally drained after another busy day, which, by the way, not related to the cars or bikes. But hey, tasks need to be done and we are here not to complain. So let’s talk upholstery.
So after sanding the parts down for two and a half years (that’s how long it felt like!) I got to the point where I was ready to paint them. It really was just the bonnet, but more on this later. I started looking at some cheap pop-up gazebos as I only needed it for one time use. Most of eBay and Amazon offers were around £60-90 but being cheap skates I challenged myself of finding one for under £50. Aaand good old google helped a lot – £39.99 for 3x3m with four sides delivered to my door!
As I am trying to repair the MG at minimum cost means I have to do many things myself. Not being keen on paying £600+ for new bonnet which only comes primed I decided to try repairing red bonnet (as seen in the last post) myself. This means repairing dents to minimum damage, sanding down, filling, sanding, priming, sanding, sanding and then priming and filling again.. In short, endless sandpaper usage.
One evening I was casually browsing salvage auction (probably hoping for some cheap newish Honda) but I came across this MG ZS EV. I know that it’s really a Chinese car (more on this later) and being quite new on 2020 plate with 34k miles I thought ‘eh, this will go for 5-6k and didn’t play with it in my mind at all. However, the next day, after showing it to my colleague Henry and seeing the price haven’t gone up much, I started to think about it more..