Lowrider Dave's 1.8 LS

[Lowrider Dave]

Interesting James.

I took the cards out for the respray but ripped both rears due to not being able to get the pin out that holds the rear winders on - the card didn't flex as much as I wanted it too and ripped at the bottom! Also the plastic holders that are glued to the back of the cards came off, normally its the white trim buttons that hold it into the door that normally ping out, looks like this lot didn't want to play that way!

I have my set of front door trims you could probably have as I am trying to get a complete set of replacement of door cards. I'll take some photos and you can see if they are what you want.

[James McGrath]

Interesting James.

I took the cards out for the respray but ripped both rears due to not being able to get the pin out that holds the rear winders on - the card didn't flex as much as I wanted it too and ripped at the bottom! Also the plastic holders that are glued to the back of the cards came off, normally its the white trim buttons that hold it into the door that normally ping out, looks like this lot didn't want to play that way!

I have my set of front door trims you could probably have as I am trying to get a complete set of replacement of door cards. I'll take some photos and you can see if they are what you want.

Yeah door cards can be a bit of a pain to remove I have been told.

Well If you sell them I'll take them, I've been looking for some for ages. I have a post for them in the wanted section with a photo:

viewtopic.php?f=37&t=11105

Are you looking to replace your ones with ones of the same design?

[Lowrider Dave]

Suppose it would be nice but not that fussed, just as long as I get a replacement set in good condition.

[Lowrider Dave]

[Lowrider Dave]

[btcctroy]

That's looking cool pal. Love it when a car is ready for paint

[Lowrider Dave]

[TurboDan]

That looks great, now the best bit putting it all back together

[Chip Pan Dan]

i want my car resprayed! looks mint

[iangsi]

Looks good, did vaux do black hatch's from the factory or just saloons ?

[Lowrider Dave]

I don't know whether hatches came in black, but I chose it as a colour that more likely to sell rather than an unusual colour that I would have gone for if I had planned to keep it. Itis actually a Ford colour - Panther Black, a slight metallic.
Once car is back together I'm most likely to put it up for sale, i won't get back the money I've put into it, but I'm not going to give it away as it is solid and reliable. I could almost be persuaded to sell the V6 and keep this...although I don't think anyone will match the figure I want for the V6!

[Yanayaya]

Nice to see a hatch getting this kind of work done, nicely

[Chip Pan Dan]

may as well keep it now, no point in spending all that just to sell it on.

[Lowrider Dave]

In reality it's a case of room. It currently lives in a garage belonging to an elderly neighbour - when she goes, the cav will have to go or get stuck out on the road.

[planetc]

In reality it's a case of room. It currently lives in a garage belonging to an elderly neighbour - when she goes, the cav will have to go or get stuck out on the road.

Buy the garage off her, or better still ask her to leave it to you in her will!

[Envoy CDX]

Sounds like a cracking bit of work going on. As for the door trims, yeah they will be rubber on the ls, gls envoy. Gls cdx and sri (facelift at least) used a plastic based trim.

[GLC]

Really like the colour choice and Cesaro wheel combo too lookforward to seening more pictures of it progressing. I have seen a stright black early shape Cavalier hatch myself years ago but not a facelift one apart from the odd metalic black SRI or CDX etc.

I've just checked in the garage to be sure and I still have the correct I think rear door cards you were after if you still need a pair? They are off my 93L reg Cavalier 1.8i LS hatch as I swapped the interior years ago for a slightly better condition SRI one. The rear doorcards were the only ones I kept as everything else was ruinned.

[Lowrider Dave]

Really like the colour choice and Cesaro wheel combo too lookforward to seening more pictures of it progressing. I have seen a stright black early shape Cavalier hatch myself years ago but not a facelift one apart from the odd metalic black SRI or CDX etc.

I still have the correct I think rear door cards you were after if you still need a pair?

Thanks, black does seem unusual for a hatchback yet it works as it was offered as a colour for the cavalier era. I think my initial choice of Arden Blue would have looked 'too modern' on a cav.

Not easy to see but these are doorcards...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/davekirwin ... 8966594213

Are your the same? I do actually have a complete set of doorcards but in a different pattern and I might transfer the material from the broken ones to the new ones...

[terkin]

looks cracking

[GLC]

Thanks, black does seem unusual for a hatchback yet it works as it was offered as a colour for the cavalier era. I think my initial choice of Arden Blue would have looked 'too modern' on a cav.

Not easy to see but these are doorcards...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/davekirwin ... 8966594213

Are your the same? I do actually have a complete set of doorcards but in a different pattern and I might transfer the material from the broken ones to the new ones...[/quote]

They seam the same. I'll have to give them a good vac as there dusty from my mums partner cutting wood in there but there in good condition.

[Envoy CDX]

Looked at the pictures properly (on the PC ) love it, nice colour indeed!

[Mikebmth]

To be honest never really seen many black Cavaliers bar the Sri's...Looks good buddy, keep up the work on her

[Lowrider Dave]

Started putting bit back on the car today as it was dry and not that cold.


I had new rear lights to go on. The left hand one I managed to crack by tightening up the screw too much…


I have new headlights and indicators for when I do the front.


After a few hours, most of it swearing over the aerial - I need a proper VX bung as the one I bought was wrong and caused all kinds of grief. Lights on, wiper on, interior of tailgate done.


I rolled it out and started fitting the door rubbers.


Took the opportunity to clean away the muck that had gathered behind the window rubbers.


More swearing as I managed to get the clip out from behind the window winders. Remembering how my Escort winders worked I embarked on using a screw to hold the winder onto the mechanism.


Had to cut some of the back off…and drilled a hole for the screw.


Test fitted it and it seems to work okay. This will do for the moment.


As the original door cards ripped and broke when I was dismantling it, I got some from a chap on Migweb forum (and he is now on here), they are grey and I am 50/50 on them - what do you chaps thing? Part of me likes the grey as it adds relief to the black everywhere, another part of me wants it to mtach the seating!


Is there anyway to retrim the door cards? It seems to me the cloth trim was press melted into place in the factory.

[iangsi]

Coming together then have you re-registered it ?

[Lowrider Dave]

Yes I have, Ian. Heaven knows why, as I'll be selling it once it's back together, but I tend to get a bit carried away when rebuilding cars.