Blasted out a few e-mails in the office in the morning to let everyone know I was working hard & then took a sneaky afternoon off in the other office (which was considerably colder..)

Took apart pretty much everything I had done so far...

shock bolts out to insert the washer I hadn't put in

Top wishbone taken off so I could get the headlamp bracket on...

Couple of 'adaptations'

Had to bend out the clip on the headlamp bracket so it would go over the chassis bracket. Took a while to realise why it wasn't going on but got there in the end. 

stripped out all the floppy cable cover protruding fro the end of the bracket & replaced it with my new favorite product 'shrink tube'. Pushed it up into the headlamp bracket. Much neater than how it was & no issues with it snagging on anything as I did up the bracket. Did everything up & it looked fine! I'll leave connecting the headlights till 'later'

Alll was well & then took a slight turn for the worst. As I've now decided to install the uprights next job was to torque up the wishbones level with the ground as suggested by Derek. Top ones fine no issues apart from access for a torque wrench but got there in the end. Bottoms ones not so well.. front went on torqued up fine, rear ones... after very little pressure the bolt started spining... WTF, took the nut off & I'd stripped it... I've never stripped a nut & this was only the second one I'd done.... took a step back from proceedings, had a think... & then e-mailed Derek... What followed was a comedy of errors. In essence I'd used the nut with a white insert (which is imperial) & not the nut with the blue insert which is metric. I hadn't even noticed the different colours & the nuts look identical. Further confused as Derek got his blues & whites mixed up LOL. After a few e-mails with photo's and a telephone conversation its all sorted... I will now be sent a nut to replace my stripped one with the white insert & an additional nut with a blue insert (as there was only one in the pack...).

Also I had put an extra washer on the head of the bolt on the lower wishbone (as shown on the Ikea manual). Apparently this is not needed & if you use it the bolt doesn't extend all the way through the nut past the nyloc grip... So both bottom bolts had to be drifted out & the washer removed. All the fun of the fair, fortunately they came out with no issues & went straight back in again to my relief.

So next job the was the uprights... This ground to a halt very quickly as it would appear I don't have 'the special nut' that goes on the bottom of the upright... I gave up at this point & e-mailed Derek...

So now I have two headlights anyway so I have something to show for the day.