I'm worried about the inside of your mind...
Today, a small job got a bit out of hand. I only meant to fit the new rear light clusters, but when I put them on I found that the tailgate light clusters looked really dingy so they had to come off too so I could clean them, and then I found I was dismantling the whole tailgate to get at everything properly.
While I was in the tailgate I determined to sort the membrane out which had been letting water in where the original seal had failed. Easy enough to do with a bit of all-purpose glue which is all I had to hand.
Rebuilt all the lights and interior trim - after removing many dog hairs, more fool me for putting a shedding German Shepherd in the boot - and it looked a fair bit better... until I noticed the number plate now looked terrible. So I carefully peeled back the vinyl that had bubbled and trapped dirt, cleaned it out as best I could and reglued it before putting the plate back on the car. The central black trim isn't a separate piece as I'd expected, Heuliez/Citroen just masked that bit off and didn't paint it.
I didn't expect the new outer lenses to make much difference, but in person they really do and I'm really pleased I decided to do them. Note also the roof rack is now fitted, it's missing a couple of small trim items that I'd like to source eventually but it's perfectly functional as a roof rack and has, amazingly, been complimented as looking a bit posh.
Now it's had chance to cure and harden a bit, the repair to the dent on the rear quarter is looking much more invisible. It needs a bit of fine work to see if I just need more paint or the finest skim of filler known to man to make it look spot on. The arch and bumper too look much better now the paint has 'settled' and I'm really pleased I decided to sort this out.
I've been considering taking the craft heat-gun to the rear corner of the bumper trim to see if a bit of heat will help it pop back into shape in the same way you can do it with metal damage. Normally a material has a memory so I'd say there's a chance it'll work.
It's been very nice to actually get compliments on this car. I'm doing nothing I haven't done on any of my other cars but this is a much better point to start from and it gives me the warm fuzzies to get nice comments on a car I wasn't even sure I was keeping at one point.
before applying the plate to the lower tailgate. Shame they made an arse feathers of the rest of the work they were called upon to do, but..
W3DGE, even if it were available, wouldn't - unfortunately - be transferable to the Princess as the spoilsports won't let us use registration marks that are newer than the vehicle to which they're to be transferred. 
