CoachBuilt Prams

Where can I get hood arms for my beautiful Marmet? One side does not lock down when I put the hood up. And what can I do for a squeeky chassis?

Right  Juanita     is  your  chassis  a  chrome  collapsible  one?    If   so  I have never  had  one    so  I  can  only  assume  that  you  need  to  oil  the  joints maybe?    I  don't know  but  it  can't  hurt   surely?   See if that   helps  it.   If  it  is  a  pram  with leather  strap   suspension,  I have  heard that  others  have  had  a  similar  problem  but   I haven't   so  I will a sk around and s ee what  I  can  find  out,  but  you  will need  to let me know   what  pram  type  you  have,  how  about sending me a photograph?

Hood a rms  - there is    really only    Ebay  where you can  go  to for  hood arms.   You  need  to measure - on  the  good   hood arm -  the  distance  between the  two  pins  on your hood,  when the  hood arm  is  in the  fully  extended  position.     That  will  then  be  the  size  of hood arms that you need.    You will   have  to  buy  a   new pair of  hood arms  I  would  imagine,  it  will  be   difficult  to  get just one  to   match  the one that   you already  have.  I is  sometimes   easier  to  get  a  hood  complete  with  hood arms (still the  right  size for your  hood  though)  and   then  ditch  the  hood  when  you  have  removed the  hood  arms  and put them onto  your pram.

Sandra

This  hood   finishes  in    just  a couple of hours   Juanita,    ask  to  see if  it  has the  same  size  hood  arms  that you need.   I have  no idea   how  big  your  pram  is, or what  type  so  I can't    help you   there  I'm afraid.

Item number  is 130390047137

Sandra

juanita at May 16, 2010 at 3:58 AM

Where can I get hood arms for my beautiful Marmet? One side does not lock down when I put the hood up. And what can I do for a squeeky chassis?

Thankyou for your reply. I have a chrome chassis. I managed to fix the squeeky problem just by giving it a bit of a scrub with soap and water and tightening a couple of nuts n' bolts and it is just lovelly and shiny with no squeek and it even seems to have better suspension!

I've looked at some Coachbuilt pram photo's and I came to the conclusion that mine is a Marmet Bayswater. It is 32" by 16" and great condition with just a few little bits n' bobs that I want to fix up so she is at her best again! 

Yea, I will have a look on ebay and see what they got. If I can't get a pair of hood arms on their own then I will get them with a hood included. Also I was just wondering if you had any advise on what I should do with the wheels... I really would like to get them nice and clean again as I love white wheels. The previous owner had painted them white at some point but now they are looking a quite dirty. Shall I give them a scrub down and see how they turn out or maybe look to buying new one's?  I will try and put photo's on here as soon as poss.

Juanita X

You mean your  tyres  Juanita?    You have  two   choices,    what  I  do  is  I  get   some  cream  cleanser,  (like  Cif  but   I use  Lidl's  or  Tesco's own, it's  cheaper).    Then I  use   a    dishwashing   sponge,   one of the  ones  with a  nylon  scourer  on   one  side  and  I  use the  nylon  scourer  with the  cream  cleanser  to  really   scrub  the    tyres (and  wheels  as  well  if they need  cleaning).   You  won't hurt  your   chrome   wheels at  all   as long  as  you  don't   use  wire  wool.     Wipe off the  excess  and  see what you have   got..    When  the   cream  cleanser  has  dried on your  chrome   wheels,   get  a   soft  dry   cloth  and  polish  it  off,   you  will have    lovely  shiny  wheels  too.

The next option  I have  never  done  so I  don't   know   any  more than  I  am telling  you,    people  have  been  putting   the  whole  wheels  into  their  dishwasher  and    they   say  they  get  great  results  it    really gets  the  tyres nice  and  clean  and  shiny.     If you   diced  to  do this  don't forget  that  you  will need  to  grease  the inside of the hub  well  after  it  has  come out of  the dishwasher  and dried  out.   That  is  as much as  I know  of how   to   do  this I'm  afraid.   But  I can find out if  you are interested in trying  this  way of  doing it.

I'll  stick  to my  cream  cleanser  I think!    But  then again  I have  never had  to   get   tyre paint  off  yet.

Sandra

Thanx again,  I gave the tyres a scrub yesterday just with washing up liquid and water and I managed to get all the paint off, they are looking better, but I will try the cream cleaner tomorrow to bring them up a little more fresher. All I think thats left to do is sorting out the hood arm and just touching up a few scratches on the body work. Do you know how best to do that? And is there a particular type of paint I need to get? 

Are they  deep   scratches   Juanita?    If  they are     just  light  scratches  then you  could  try  to T  cut  the  paint work.    You  can  buy T cut  from  any   auto   supply  store,  follow  the  instructions  and  what  happens is that  you  take off  a   very  think layer  of  paint  and hopefully   that  will   get rid of  your scratch.    If   they are  deeper   scratches  then I  would  take it  to  a   car  body   shop  and  see if  they can help you.    You may be  able to get   something  from  Halford's  for it  but   it  would be  very unlikely  that  you could   get   exactly the same colour of  paint and you may  end  up   making it  more  nocticeable.   Sorry   to give you  bad  news.

Sandra

Thanks Sandra. I would say that they are farely small scratches, not too deep. I just wanted to get it perfect as it doesn't need too much doing to it. Might check out what a car body shop can do for it. Thankyou. X