Slowly but surely...

Not much was done today. In between getting stitches out and travelling to Birmingham, I managed to get a couple hours on the car.

With the car now up on axle stands I could start crawling around underneath it just that bit easier.

As you can see the bumper is off, we'll come back to that shortly.

First thing was to take the wheels off and wheel arch covers. The arches were a pain with some stupid plastic screws, every time they just disintergrated to the point I ended up using a drill and getting them out that way!

But once off I could reach the front wings and bumper to get these off.

Starting to look rather sad now. But anyway, the bumper finally came off finding bolts hiding under wheel arches and underneath. Note for future: Remember the plastic clips & screws that sit in the middle! These pesky connections baffled me for 30 mins until I looked down behind the bumper and saw 3 black clips with screws in. These quickly got bashed out with a length of wood and a hammer (yes, the time for calm and collected was well gone) but this proved to be the best way as they popped straight out in one piece. Anyway, bumper off!

 Rear wheel arches/suspension/hubs/brake discs etc etc. These are more for personal reference as the rear wheels will probably go back on after a in depth discussion about engine removal techniques. All will be revealed once I decide how to do it and which is easiest.

 Again for personal reference of the front wheel arches etc. Looking a bit worse for wear but nothing a bit of cleanning can't fix when the time comes.

Once the car was jacked up, I realised that taking the front wheels off would be an issue with no one to put their foot on the brake pedal to keep the wheels from spinning....However, this is no issue for the master of disaster! A quick search through the garage sourced a metal pole which extended and retracted telescopically (that's my new word if it isn't already), anyway, I wedged this in between the brake pedal (clutch originally - ooops) and the body shell as seen below, and hey presto! Brakes applied and wheels off!

Genius.