Little hint from experience with car plastics. I've found that if you warm the plastic parts with a hairdryer (not a heat gun) first they become much more cooperative. Don't use enough heat to upset paint or melt the plastic, just get them warm. Since coming up with this trick, I haven't had a breakage on lots of jobs.
Good tip. My usual thought is to gently heat up plastics that either commonly break or don't look very cooperative. I have abattery heat gun which is a little more than a hairdryer but has never caused damage on anything so far. Corded heat guns are terrible for melting things in a few seconds.
@@usuallyfixingtinkering Agreed. There's another way I've used, particularly on jobs where the part is off the car or external. The plastic shroud on the seat of my Opel Astra wasn't responding to the hairdryer treatment because it was big. I put a saucepan of water on the hob and heated it up. Pouring it on spread the heat over a wide area and the shroud could be levered off. The same thing would work on mirrors.
Little hint from experience with car plastics. I've found that if you warm the plastic parts with a hairdryer (not a heat gun) first they become much more cooperative. Don't use enough heat to upset paint or melt the plastic, just get them warm. Since coming up with this trick, I haven't had a breakage on lots of jobs.
Good tip. My usual thought is to gently heat up plastics that either commonly break or don't look very cooperative. I have abattery heat gun which is a little more than a hairdryer but has never caused damage on anything so far. Corded heat guns are terrible for melting things in a few seconds.
@@usuallyfixingtinkering Agreed. There's another way I've used, particularly on jobs where the part is off the car or external. The plastic shroud on the seat of my Opel Astra wasn't responding to the hairdryer treatment because it was big. I put a saucepan of water on the hob and heated it up. Pouring it on spread the heat over a wide area and the shroud could be levered off. The same thing would work on mirrors.
Nice trick I'll remember that one!
looking great mate - you truly are a credit to that motor
cheers buddy :)