Another white V6

[psl]

Well i ended up buying the unwanted auto v6 off the fleebay, the one with short tax and test and blue interior.......... 4 weeks MoT to be exact lol.
How it looked on the ebay add and on collection


With 45,000 miles from new, i didnt think there would be too many issues with it, so an Mot was booked, presented and duly passed, no problems so with a full MoT the work can begin. The blue interior was full of fag burns and dog, so no choice but to change it..............didnt want to but i dont smoke and i dont want to be hovering bits of dog for months on end. Another black v6 interior was found but again was dirty but lacked dog hairs, so a full steam clean has been done on this, just need to remove old interior and clean up said car , being rather anal about cleaning, repainting screws and such forth but i dont like dirty cars...........















So that`s where it`s at, cleaned, tcutted and waxoiled the boot, just interior to fit, then the body work

[iangsi]

Looks good the wonders of a good clean, any plans ?

[V6power]

good buy, i almost purchased this to use as a future spare for me incase i needed anything.

[psl]

Bar the interior colour change, front and rear bumpers and a few upgrades as and when. The bodywork really is the best bit about this car, so should save me in the long run

[humbucker]

congratulations on the new motor, look forward to seeing how she progresses as you tidy her up. seriously low mileage for one of these engines but check when the cambelt was done as they need to be changed every 40k miles. anymore than that and you're on borrowed time unfortunately.

[psl]

belt was changed at 41,000

[Gray16v]

Looks very clean, is the rest of the car that good ?

[vauxhallnutter]

I drove this back for paul and it really is a good one. The bodywork and underside are in top nick. It was just the interior that let it down.

Top work paul, look forward to seeing this in the metel again.

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[psl]

Got the rest of the interior stripped out and couldnt wait to get the carpets out................


















...........Yep floor just as expected, like new, happy days. Cut the sound deadening out the front as i want to run some extra wires and see if there was any rust / rot under there............... none

Not many cav floors like this now, will give it a hover and polish before the newly steam cleaned seats and carpets are fitted

[rustyarches]

nice to c no rust good shell u have there..,


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[psl]

After feeling smugg at not having to do any welding on the floor the refit has started First fixed them silly seatbelt clips.



Then made a start on putting it all back together but with a nice colour lol






And what`s left

[psl]

started on the dash too, though lack of daylight put a stop to getting to far

[rustyarches]

lot of work done there looks so much betta than the blue.


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I am here: http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=51.786195,-3.237653

[jimmy]

You not hanging about are you lol looking good fella keep up the work you still have the dippy to?

[5853moore]

looking good there fella, your pics are helping my as well lol as i currently have a grey interior YUK and will be swapping to black in the near future.


How hard was the dash to get out ???

[psl]

dippy went in Oct dash is straight forward, takes less then an hour to remove

[humbucker]

good work, such a clean looking motor. i've dropped you a reply on your blue interior thread in the for sale section

[Envoy CDX]

Impressed Paul.

[vauxhallnutter]

Looking good sir

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[psl]

dash in just needs everything plugging back in lol, hit a snag with the new ignition lock, try as i may cant get it to lock into place. So gave up on that toady and modded some cup holders up

[psl]

3 hrs spent mopping and toobrushing with g101 and the paint work is looking a bit better, still loads to do

[gsi pie]

was the dash hard to swop fella?

any tips?

[psl]

Dash was straight forward to be honest, just got to be methodical in how you do it. Just make sure the dash your going to fit has most of the cable tie clips still in situ, or you`ll stuggle to reposition the loom into place. If things dont slip / clip back into place straight away, just walk away and leave it for a few hours or days or you`ll end up rushing it and snapping something. Took an hour and a half but 4 hrs to fit back in but i was cleaning 15 years worth of fag ash out before i refitted everything. Have a stash of new bulbs to hand too, get them all changed while its all out

[cavboy180]

Fantastic amount of work you have put in!

great work!!

[psl]

Converted the seats to heated seats will be doing the rears later in the years knocked up a vec front arm rest and fitted the rest of the interior, all plumbed in and working, happy days.
Lots and lots of things still to do and ideas i want to try, all in good time though