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    FIGARO PROJECT PART 5 DASH, SEATBELTS AND LEDS

    Jul 10, 2020 4 minutes

    Last issue we detailed how the guys at The Figaro Shop in Didcot had helped us remove the dash from our Figaro in preparation for replacing the cracked top with one of their leather-covered items. This issue, TFS’s Ant Absolom showed us how to fit the new top, and also how to retension the seatbelt – the driver’s one has always been slow to retract, not enough to be dangerous or fail the MoT, but enough to make it more vulnerable to getting shut in the door. This is apparently a common problem on Figaros.

    While the dash was out, we also took the opportunity of replacing the dash light bulbs with

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