Tobi's 1994 Vectra CDX 2.0 16V
Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2017 11:35 pm
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This "project" started back in May 2013 when I bought a Vectra CDX 2.0 16V. It was an Ebay auction showing a Vectra Hatch in Rioja stated with engine failure. Features were really good : A/C, leather, anti theft alarm, check control and the rest standard on CDX. So, what shall I do? The car stood in a small town near Stuttgart. 460 km (285 mls) away - one way.
Hatch is not really common in Germany as in UK. Mmh, my first Vectra was a hatch, too.
Features? Really good. Well equipped Vectras are not easy to find. Colour? Rioja... mmh, looks good and a colour which is also not very common.
So give it a try and bidded. Ended at 550 €... nice. "You won the auction!" After auction I thougt "What the hell? Did I really bought this car!? And why???" I needed a beer...
Next day I paid the car. How to get it home? Car had no MOT and no registration. I had no trailer and no time to invest a whole day driving. Google is friend and found solution. A rallye enthusiast is earning his money with car transports all over Germany. 200 € and four days later I got the car home. Sorry, I made no photos... The driver told me that he had to stop on the Autobahn because the car was honking and giving signal with hazardous warning. The alarm has triggered at his trailer...
Until today I made no photo of the car in total. So just the sexy back in the garage
So, what have we here. Model year 1994, first registration in June 1994 by a company in Remshalden (near Stuttgart). Funny detail 1: Remshalden is the home town of the Irmscher company.
Second registration was a private owner in Weinstadt (near Stuttgart, too). Funny detail 2: Weinstadt is the home town of Joachim Löw (coach of the German soccer team).
Optional features are nearly everything which was available:
- automatic transmission
- A/C
- trip computer
- leather
- check control system
- anti theft alarm.
Just the ticks at rear electric windows, passenger seat height adjustment, manual ride height adjustment and tow hook are missing. The car was really expensive in these days.
New paint finish in 2012 but I don't know why.
So what happened until now?
Ehm, good question.... I fixed the roof of the garage.
And I made a decision as I bought a completely new automatic transmission for a bargain of 350 € - the car will be fully restored, it's worth to keep it. Only 81 of this model with this engine are left registered in Germany. And most of them with less features.
Details:
Right arch with heavy corrosion:
Left arch in good condition:
Right rear section:
Left rear section:
Until now I stockpiled new original parts worth uncounted grand euros. Left and right sills, C-pillars right and left, rear panels both sides and uncounted small parts as door mouldings, badges, new headlights, new rear lights, new rear panel etc. Most of them double or more and I don't know if I will need them on this car, but I have another hatch waiting...
Some small mods will be done during restoration but the rest will be left original:
- coloured door handles
- rear electric windows
- remote control Omega
- cruise control Omega/Vectra
- Omega adjustable wiper
- tinted rear lamps and coloured rear panel (model year 1995)
and the special one: original electrical folding mirrors as used on Japanase models (I never see this mod in Europe).
Plan is now to strip it with the end 2017/beginning 2018, then bodyworks and new paint and back on street in 2019 or 2020. 2019 would be perfect as my present to my 40th birthday but I'm not in a hurry.
Don't ask for the costs...
This "project" started back in May 2013 when I bought a Vectra CDX 2.0 16V. It was an Ebay auction showing a Vectra Hatch in Rioja stated with engine failure. Features were really good : A/C, leather, anti theft alarm, check control and the rest standard on CDX. So, what shall I do? The car stood in a small town near Stuttgart. 460 km (285 mls) away - one way.
Hatch is not really common in Germany as in UK. Mmh, my first Vectra was a hatch, too.
Features? Really good. Well equipped Vectras are not easy to find. Colour? Rioja... mmh, looks good and a colour which is also not very common.
So give it a try and bidded. Ended at 550 €... nice. "You won the auction!" After auction I thougt "What the hell? Did I really bought this car!? And why???" I needed a beer...
Next day I paid the car. How to get it home? Car had no MOT and no registration. I had no trailer and no time to invest a whole day driving. Google is friend and found solution. A rallye enthusiast is earning his money with car transports all over Germany. 200 € and four days later I got the car home. Sorry, I made no photos... The driver told me that he had to stop on the Autobahn because the car was honking and giving signal with hazardous warning. The alarm has triggered at his trailer...
Until today I made no photo of the car in total. So just the sexy back in the garage
So, what have we here. Model year 1994, first registration in June 1994 by a company in Remshalden (near Stuttgart). Funny detail 1: Remshalden is the home town of the Irmscher company.
Second registration was a private owner in Weinstadt (near Stuttgart, too). Funny detail 2: Weinstadt is the home town of Joachim Löw (coach of the German soccer team).
Optional features are nearly everything which was available:
- automatic transmission
- A/C
- trip computer
- leather
- check control system
- anti theft alarm.
Just the ticks at rear electric windows, passenger seat height adjustment, manual ride height adjustment and tow hook are missing. The car was really expensive in these days.
New paint finish in 2012 but I don't know why.
So what happened until now?
Ehm, good question.... I fixed the roof of the garage.
And I made a decision as I bought a completely new automatic transmission for a bargain of 350 € - the car will be fully restored, it's worth to keep it. Only 81 of this model with this engine are left registered in Germany. And most of them with less features.
Details:
Right arch with heavy corrosion:
Left arch in good condition:
Right rear section:
Left rear section:
Until now I stockpiled new original parts worth uncounted grand euros. Left and right sills, C-pillars right and left, rear panels both sides and uncounted small parts as door mouldings, badges, new headlights, new rear lights, new rear panel etc. Most of them double or more and I don't know if I will need them on this car, but I have another hatch waiting...
Some small mods will be done during restoration but the rest will be left original:
- coloured door handles
- rear electric windows
- remote control Omega
- cruise control Omega/Vectra
- Omega adjustable wiper
- tinted rear lamps and coloured rear panel (model year 1995)
and the special one: original electrical folding mirrors as used on Japanase models (I never see this mod in Europe).
Plan is now to strip it with the end 2017/beginning 2018, then bodyworks and new paint and back on street in 2019 or 2020. 2019 would be perfect as my present to my 40th birthday but I'm not in a hurry.
Don't ask for the costs...