Polishing...

I thought I'd give my wheels a bit of a polish. It was a lot harder than I thought and I did not manage to get all the rusty bits off the rims.

However, they got pretty damn shiny!

Checking the bottom

I never had a good look at the bottom of my car. No idea how much rust there would be for example or if there are any holes or damages. So some folks I know from a Dutch Ford forum offered to jack it up in their garage so that we could have a look together. The results were very good!

Here are some pics:

Up! Up! Up!

And there it is. Let's have a look. Finding the jack points was a bit hard. It's in the owner's manual I have but even that's not overly clear.

In this picture you can kinda see on which four points the car is actually lifted. Click the picture for a slightly larger version. Bottom looks pretty clean...

Only a little bit of surface rust. Nothing to worry about.

Here you can see the back jack-points. It's basically just in front of where the spring is attached.

Sparkling clean, rust-free, rock-hard bottom. Exactly what I was hoping for :-) The only funny thing was the exhaust pipes. Somebody welded those together themselves.

Ditto.

And back on the ground.

Gorgeous.

Bye bye!