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I've been driving past this for a couple of weeks now. I thought I'd found new levels of base, I don't ever remember seeing a Matiz with plastic bumpers. I finally got up close to it today and they have actually rattle canned them black. 

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I really don't know what's going on with the headlights though, even looking at them close up. 

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1 hour ago, Yoss said:

I've been driving past this for a couple of weeks now. I thought I'd found new levels of base, I don't ever remember seeing a Matiz with plastic bumpers. I finally got up close to it today and they have actually rattle canned them black. 

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I really don't know what's going on with the headlights though, even looking at them close up. 

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It's got cataracts, poor old thing.

Looks like the MOT tester didn't like the look in 2019:

 Front Headlamp light intensity severely reduced frosty lens (4.1.4 (a))

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I don't know how people drive like that, I have to polish mine every few months, the difference in light intensity and pattern is noticeable. That must be like trying to see your way by candlelight

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That wing isn't mismatched, it's the same colour as the roof!

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That wing isn't mismatched, it's the same colour as the roof!
Colour coded to the tyres too.
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Had my MX5's rear arches done last year, since the whole car is to be painted at some point anyway I asked the guys doing the repairs to just throw on whatever paint they had lying around and not to bother matching it (since the rest of the paint is pretty scabby anyway). The result:

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Found a few mismatched panels while searching for bad headlights.

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An exercise in good taste and restraint

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By pure co-incidence, it was outside Halfords 

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I think this actually looks quite good, at least from this angle.

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Close, but cigar. Hard to tell but the wing's wrong too

 

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Christ. Must have cost more in Isopon than the price of a new wing

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