Of the sun
A couple days ago I bought a 1994 Honda Civic Del Sol. This will be a replacement for the '88 Cabriolet, which was always a stopgap car and which has some issues I don't really want to put money and effort into fixing. The Del Sol is high mileage but seems to have been very well cared for; it runs and drives beautifully and was faithfully dealer-maintained for most of its life. It's also utterly stock, a rare thing on a used Civic these days. It sits on factory alloys, at its original ride hight, has a proper muffler, and there's nary a blue LED in sight. Practically an endangered species.
Today I set out to fix one of the few small problems the car has -- the passenger side window doesn't work. The previous owner thought it needed a new motor, and actually started to disassemble the door card before deciding he was in over his head. I took the door the rest of the way apart, and found that the motor and window regulator mechanism were fine; instead, one of the clips that holds the window to the regulator had broken, and the other had separated, leaving the window still on its track but otherwise adrift inside the door. The broken clip looked like a good candidate for gluing, so I put it back together with epoxy and I'm letting it sit over night before I reassemble the window and regulator.
The driver's side window was slow, so I took that door apart too, and greased up the window guide tracks.
After reassembling that, I called bluerain down to the garage and we took the roof panel off for the first time (and probably the last time before spring.) It's surprisingly light and really no problem for one person to handle, although the bulk of it is slightly awkward. The holder for it in the trunk is pretty clever and leaves a useful amount of trunk space available with the roof in place.
Today I set out to fix one of the few small problems the car has -- the passenger side window doesn't work. The previous owner thought it needed a new motor, and actually started to disassemble the door card before deciding he was in over his head. I took the door the rest of the way apart, and found that the motor and window regulator mechanism were fine; instead, one of the clips that holds the window to the regulator had broken, and the other had separated, leaving the window still on its track but otherwise adrift inside the door. The broken clip looked like a good candidate for gluing, so I put it back together with epoxy and I'm letting it sit over night before I reassemble the window and regulator.
The driver's side window was slow, so I took that door apart too, and greased up the window guide tracks.
After reassembling that, I called bluerain down to the garage and we took the roof panel off for the first time (and probably the last time before spring.) It's surprisingly light and really no problem for one person to handle, although the bulk of it is slightly awkward. The holder for it in the trunk is pretty clever and leaves a useful amount of trunk space available with the roof in place.