Lowrider Dave's 1.8 LS

[Cavalier342]

Yep I was there with the sticky tape having the time of my life


Looking good Dave, progress is always good to see.

[DaveP]

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.

best thing to do would be to have the rest of the interior off me Dave

Looking good i must say

[Envoy CDX]

Excellent Dave

[Lowrider Dave]

First long journey since respray.

[humbucker]

Nice, although I reckon the standard facelift grille would look better imho

[humbucker]

unless youre planning the full gsi kit of course?!

[Cavalier342]

Looks bloody clean though. Resprays are costly but worth it I think.

[Ads]

just read through the whole thread and I must say some excellent work gone on there mate, you've ended up with a cracking cav well done . Ads

[planetc]

Crying out for those expression alloys that belmont_dazz is selling!

[iangsi]

Crying out for those expression alloys that belmont_dazz is selling!

or the cesaro's he has in the garage

[Lowrider Dave]

Brought out of the garage where she'd been stored and pressed into daily service I put the powercoated cesaros on. Next the rather nice interior I got of a certain Mr Humbucker at VBOA to go in. In September she's head back into Europe as I do a weeks 'driving holiday' with some friends in their cars.

[Lowrider Dave]

just read through the whole thread and I must say some excellent work gone on there mate, you've ended up with a cracking cav well done . Ads

Thanks!

[retrogeezer]

Looking great Dave..

[Lowrider Dave]

Why do I fudgery bother. Some fudgery has keyed three panels of the cav.

[Cavalier342]

Fk sake.... Why do these scumbags exist!!!! Gutted for you mate, especially as it's just had a respray... hope they get their throats cut and their wrists nailed to a wall......

[TurboDan]

I'm also gutted for you, I would be devastated!

Will they polish out or can you get your nail right in?

[James McGrath]

That's just unfair after all that effort.

Was it parked at home or where you out when it happened?

[btcctroy]

Assholes mate, just as you get it all nice some jealous bastard does that

[Lowrider Dave]

Due to house renovations I have been forced to park it in the street, despite it being a busy road its really rare for anything like this to happen. I haven't moved it in 4 days as I work partly away from home, when I arrived home today I discovered it keyed.
The door scratch is the first panel to be keyed and it is down to the primer.

[humbucker]

Really feel for you Dave, get some pics up... a problem shared and all that. What is it with these morons?

[Mikebmth]

Sorry to hear this mate, scum bags the lot of them......

Sure I felt much the same when my Astra got done, they didnt key that though but broke into it and stole all the stereo gear then decided to kick in the wing just for the hell of it.....W*nkers

[Pilky]

Sorry to hear about this Dave i know how you feel bud.

[planetc]

Depressing news, never understood the thinking behind such an act.

[Cavalier342]

understood the thinking behind such an act.

That's the point... there is no thinking because they have no common sense or a brain at that... Worthless brainless thugs who have absolutely no understanding of cherished personal possessions or anything of the kind. They're someone who has never owned a car and never will, because they haven't got a job nor the willpower to get one. They probably live off council benefits, earning money doing feck all that we all spend on things such as body re-sprays so they can come along and ruin it.... Think that sums it up nicely...

[Chip Pan Dan]

wrist jockies! the