Time spent: 3h
Cumulative time: 105h
Main activities:  Seatbelts, map pocket and seats

Light touch today with just a few jobs

First thing was to fix the seat belts onto the tunnel.  The hole in the carpet didn’t quite line up perfectly with the tapped hole but I was able to get them installed and torqued up reasonably quickly. [one of my ongoing frustrations was that I didn’t fix the seat buckle at the right angle – every time I get into the car, I have to rummage around my side to find the seatbelt buckle. Its difficult to get to now but with hindsight, I should have torqued it up with the stalk at about 45 degrees]

Next up was the map pocket to go on the rear bulkhead.  Once I had identified the extra-long pop rivets (they have to go through the surround of the map pocket and through the carpet), it was a quick job to fix.

So next were the seats.  I cant see how you can do this without removing the frame from the seats – otherwise you cant get to the underneath to install the bolts.  So that is what I did, and then, with the help of my wonderful neighbour, we fixed the runners to the car and then screwed the seats onto them.  You need an extra pair of hands for this job because the caphead bolts need holding in position from above whilst the nylocs are tightened from under the car.

[I subsequently realised that you need access to the radius arm bolt to do the final torque up as one of the last activities. So I ended up having to take the seats out again. Better to wait until the very end to fix the seats to the runners]

And note that the runners are asymmetrical (yes- got it wrong first time round).

After this, I peddled over to Halfords to pick up the brake bleed kit. That’s tomorrow sorted.