RDW voertuigenrapport

Today I obtained a status report of my vehicle provided freely by the official Ducth road registration company (RDW). Nice to have this extra piece of history available. It shows the mileage is legitimate and the amount of previous owners, and some more minor details.

Autumn photo at the restaurant

It was a lovely autumn afternoon. So after the car wash I drove to a nearby historic village and made this photo. Typical how the rear wheel shows in a wrong angle on this photo, must be something silly with the phone camera.  

Dent repair

 A few weeks ago I received an invite from our insureance company to get free dent repair, max 3 dents with the max size of a 2 euro coin. I had been to such event before a few years back. I thought this was a nice opportunity to bring the Kappa SW since it has lots of small dents. 

I had the earliest timeslot booked so I was present almost first in line. Again this event is so well organized. Hats of to the insureance company Centraal Beheer / Achmea. 

I was welcomed with a free coffee, and a choice of some snacks.

I had a nice chat with the specialist and selected 3 dents to work upon. He liked my car very much, it turned out he was a liker of Italian cars and had once a Alfa 33 which he regretted to have sold. Then another guy showed up and he too liked my car very much and said it's a very rare car. Typical. So then the specialist mentioned the Lancia with the Ferrari engine. So I confessed I was a owner of that car as well, funny. Time to start the job:

I forgot to make a photo beforehand of the two dents in the left frontwing. It was fixed so quickly with a pry bar and a hammer

Then to the other side for another large dent:

And this was also fixed within 5 minutes

So after 15 minutes I could leave already. On my way out I was provided with a small bag of candy. The famous Dutch autodrop. 

Taillight failure

 Today this failure popped up:

So that was an easy fix, only one side was broken but I replaced both. The lightbulbs that came out were 5W, which is correct according to the manuel. They lightbulbs I purchased were however 10W

All bright again:

Lancia Kappa Dutch advertisement

 I found this Dutch advertisement in my archive, with a green SW just as mine :-)

water leakage

 Last week or so I noticed some waterdrops via the front ceilinglight. And it happened again, so I was wondering where it was coming from. I thought it was maybe via the antenna as they did mounted one at the front middle. So perhaps water was going via the antenna cable just above the ceiling light? All looked good on the top

And underneath as well, no signs of water:

On closer inspection on the window rubber seal I spotted these corrossion spots:

And this must have been causing miminal leakage underneath the rubber somehow, which was evident on the inside of the roof edge, a few small rust spots and water found it's way into the ceiling light.

Since the car was parked in the garage the last couple of years this now manifest with the rainy weather season and being parked outside on the street. It is minimal though but time to tackle this. Next I found two small issue's at the rearside doorwindows where a little bit of rubber trim is missing in the pilar on both sides:

First I had everything sprayed with rust converter and primer:

Next I had put black kit on it for final protection, including under the top window rubber. Not the cleanest job but sufficient for now. 

While scraping off a little excess of spray and kit some small paints chips manifested, so that needs to be resprayed next time.

It was rainy last night and today and so far it looks ok though. I think I will drive it through the car wash so I can have a better look. In fact I just did that and it looks dry:

And after another rainy night I had it inspected this morning and all is still dry. Good.

I also wonder what all these connectors (3 seperate cables with connectors) are used for, which are coming out of the ceiling, I can only identify one which can be fitted into a module (which is not present in the ceiling headlight). I think that one is for the remote control (which is not working - another item on my todo list).

Lancia Kappa booklets / manuals

I was also lucky to have the original Lancia map with the service, warranty and manual booklets.

Unfortunately it does not have the Lancia code card with it. Photo example:

Furthermore the warranty booklet did contain the registration of the Lancia mobility care service. I can see which company sold the car and to whom it was registered. Funny to see it was sold to a company in the city where I';m living:

Also the booklet showed the first maintenance intervals had been taken care off up to 88.000 km. So any further maintenance history is missing.

And at the time I bought also a new old stock Lancia radio for my K Coupe, which I now have installed in the SW. It did came with the papers and keys:

And separate I bought this original Lancia radio/navigation manual (German language). So effectively I have the whole paperwork complete.