November 2018
As I have to leave 403-1404 in the body shop to mend the LH window, I decided to tackle one of her (few) annoyances: the force needed to close the doors. Geoff Kingston, helpful as ever, hinted that possibly the door buffers were involved in this, and Andrea Bedosti and I checked them thoroughly. Geoff seems to be right: the buffers are probably a bit too long and though they measure exactly as long at the slot is in the body, removing them improved a lot the situation. The rubbers will therefore be duly shortened
The winding mechanism, the window not going up and down correctly. It seems that a block in the lower rails was missing and thus when somebody wound the window too much down it got out of these rails
As I've already remarked, the 10" long windscreen wiper blades of the 403 are the most ineffective I've ever seen on any car, short and too rigid to keep contact with the flat windscreen panes
It's quite disappointing to see that BCL sent me a blade (the one fitted now on the passenger's side) way shorter than the original one, to replace the arm/blade I lost at the Bernina Gran Turismo last year. The driver's side blade is the right one, but even this one leaves lots of screen unwiped, so I'm trying to fit longer (11") blades. We'll see if the motor can move them without collapsing...
New carpets, now in burgundy, looks quite nice. Andrea/AutoInterni made new custom carpets to uncover the headlamps floor switch and to keep them more firmly in place
11 December
11" blade against the old 10"...
...vs the even shorter one supplied by BCL
