Once again it started as a single job, then spiralled into a few. 🙂
I’d noticed that my boot release wasn’t always working. In the sense that you can hear the solenoid sometimes click very weakly. Things like this, you need to jump on immediately- I’ve read too many horror stories of people stranded at a fuel station because they are out of fuel and then can’t open the boot to refuel.
The solenoid itself is a fairly easy fix, and can be picked up from Amazon for less than £10 a pair. Once you pull back the boot carpet, with some fiddling around with the cable, it’s soon out
old solenoid shown above
While opening the boot to do the aforementioned job, I noticed that the boot badge had started to delaminate. It was starting to go on the same corner that I would push to open the boot. I last replaced this badge in 2016, so I guess it hasn’t lasted too bad – but still; I replaced it and vowed in future to get in the habit of using the remote fob boot button.
new boot badge shown above
While changing the boot badge, I looked up at the underside of the open boot, and it looked tatty. There were many light surface scratches on the black plastic.
So, I decided, seeing as my painter was going to have the car to address the stone chips on the front, he might as well at the same time give the underside of the boot a nice satin black refresh.
Painted underside of boot shown above