So I've had a bad time with my lower back all week. By Saturday I was pretty stir crazy but I didn't have swapping in the new rear shocks and springs in me, to say nothing of getting the compressor system for the rear load leveling shocks going again.
Out of desperation, I went to the storage Saturday afternoon and fiddled with the Concert II tweeter in the Driver's side door. It's been cutting in and out since I bought the car. The speaker is plastic welded to the grill, which also houses the door lock switch. The grill is secured to the door with one Phillips screw.
I pulled the speaker and grill to get a part number...
Those speakers are unobtanium. So I plugged the speaker back in and couldn't get it to drop out. I scraped the male side of the connection with a small flat screwdriver and put it back together. We'll see.
Earlier in the week I bought a refurbished stock radio that has had blue tooth added to it. The cassette deck in mine had failed and I've been using a bluetooth adapter. After fooling around with the speaker, I decided to pull the face off the dash in anticipation of replacing the radio and to address the cluster lens.
The cluster lens in the car has a strange abberation....
I pulled the cluster and then pulled the lens. I tried to polish the lens from both sides. I got pretty aggressive. I tried rubbing compound on both sides to no avail. The flaw seems to be inside the plastic. Several months back, I bought another cluster with a "perfect" lens. I'm planning to swap lenses since if I swap clusters, the replacement cluster will need to be programmed.
So this morning, instead of jumping on the lens swap, Sean and I went to the local Pick Your Part. I was hoping for a better front license plate bracket and maybe better grey bumper trim. Here is the donor....
After some struggling from having a C.S. tool kit, we left the yard with the entire front bumper assembly.....
The front plate holder was broken. The trim is in basically mint condition. The bumper cover also may be nicer than mine. Moving forward, I'll use this trim and the best of the rest of the parts. Whichever bumper cover I use will be refinished. This project will address the car's worst cosmetic flaw. I'm excited to move forward. I'm thrilled with this morning's purchase from the junkyard. I'll update with the progress friends.
