Yay for me! Boo for Hellfrauds!

First the bad news. I went down to Halfords today. I was after some new windscreen wipers, and some touchup paint to sort my various scratches and scuffs.

Apparently Halfords only stocks 323BJ wipers in their bog standard Halfords own style. Which I refuse to buy. The Bosch wipers they would have to order, no matter what store I went into to get them! Sigh!

So I thought I would get the touchup paint. Turns out they stock a whole 5 different colours for Mazdas, and that their paint mixer was kaput! So I ended up leaving the place with just some windscreen wash fluid! Least it was cheap!

Thats the end of the bad news onto the good news. While browsing round the Club323f forums I noticed a a topic about modifying the standard air intake system. The stock system has a really really bad location for the open end of the air snorkel.

So this afternoon I took my front bumper off, cut a hole into the bumper reinforcement below where the snorkel sits and reattached it all. Hey voila! My first ever mod! Not really tried it yet but I think throttle pickup is a bit more responsive! But thats not the bit that im happy about, its because I managed to take the bumper off and put it back on all by myself! Im so pleased about it because I have never done anything like that on a car before!

I'll try and get some piccies posted up here soon!