Progress thread!

[lew893]

Hey mate. I like the way you dont take your car too seriously. I'm thinking of getting a hacth td as a daily runner. And i'd be torn between doingt it up to make it look nice or leaving it as a workhorse.

I'd problies go for the scrap look. Steel wheels, rusy panels. lol.

That was my plan for this!! But bought it with a couple off mods done so didn't take much encouragement! Ha ha! Most expensive thing I bought so far were some knackered fan blades that wouldn't hold air but had brand new tyres on £200 didn't realise they were goosed till I tried to pump em up hence I ended up with calibra alloys £50 got em shot blasted and sprayed em my self and made the centre caps my self. Back box £60 from this forum, £45 centre pipe, speakers cost me £40 ex display from halfords, serviced it my self with a nice new Bosch diesel filter too! New oil filter and oil about £30. Money saved on fuel has paid back the £500 I paid for the actual car. It's only currently got 112000 miles on it at the mo too!

[HAIRIBO]

I was just thinking on the way down to Leagrave about the wing mirrors as they are a dull grey and thought about carbon fibre wrap but there is also a guy on eBay that has started doing specific vauxhall sticker bomb so may try that!

Yeah I saw his Vauxhall ones.

I saw a white vectra C deon the seafront last summer. I was white with black roof and wheels. The interior had been sticker bombed. It looked good.

Parts of the dash were done.

[jimmy]

Sticker bombing is becoming quite popular and I like what you've done with the sticker bombing I like the fact its different to the usual following the trend instead of setting the trend lol keep it up fella look forward to what you do next

[lew893]

Cheers jimmy! I do like your car my fave car as a kid well one of my faves was the MK2 Cavalier LX two of my uncles had them a Gunmetal grey and a white one. Teres a lovely MK1 coupe on ebay I like the look of!

[lew893]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vauxhall-Opel ... 414wt_1270

[jimmy]

Thanks fella unfortunately don't own it any more do wish I could of kept it as it was awesome was an 1800 GLSi with a fair few modifications that yellow coupe is nice looks proper retro an tasty

[lew893]

Well another update! New discs and pads fitted so now stops very well and no shudder under braking! Got it MOT'd the other day and it only failed on the drivers side CV boot! The MOT tester was amazed at the condition for a 18 year old car! Also he was very impressed with the emissions readout said he had never seen a diesel with readings so low! So I may upset the purists a bit more but I've put on a badgeless mesh grille and more sticker bombing under the headlamps and grille managed to get some Vauxhall themed sticker bomb too!
Quick pic.

[lew893]

Gonna paint the grubby bits behind the grille black too.

[lew893]

Nice sunset picture on the way to the Lion Inn on Blakey Ridge.

[buster]

cover the whole car!!

[lew893]

There are a couple more on since these pics but not got round to taking any photos due to crap weather!

[lew893]

If the stickers were cheaper I probably would! Seem to get a lot of people either laughing with or at me either way they are happy! Car is a bit bonkers! Put even more stickers on but think its getting a bit out of hand! But still going well 13000 miles and 7 months later! For a car that I bought just to get me from Middlesbrough to London and back cheaply I've become quite fond of it and its character! Also goes, starts and runs a lot better since I did the shims!

[humbucker]

The whole car bombed would look amazing

[gsi pie]

looking good buddy

[terkin]

The whole car bombed would look amazing

[jimmy]

Do it bit by bit either way the whole car done would be cool

[lew893]

Grey wing mirrors no longer a problem as some tool has kicked them off my car completely! Luckily brand new complete wing mirrors are very cheap at euro car parts £25 for the passenger one a month ago when that was kicked off and £17 for the drivers side one this week. Gonna try and give it a clean and an update this week. Thought it was dead a few months back it popped it radiator but it survived the heat brand new rad fitted and runs like a dream again! Now to get the winter tyres off and tracking done due to pot holes! Still does my 600 mile round trip easily!

[lew893]

Recent pics in the nice weather at Whitby last weekend.
Bit of rust coming through under the indicator.

[HAIRIBO]

I really want a diesel hatch! More stickers and rat mods needed, me thinks.

A roof rag would be good.

Your car always looks really shiney. how do you polish it with out damaging the stickers?

[lew893]

I use snow foam wax on it then just wash it as normal sometimes I use meguires carnauba wax. Whats a roof rag? Got to the point where I dont know what stickers to get or what rat mods without wrecking it or spending too much money! You can have this one when I eventually sell it not sure how far in the future that will be! Got a caravan now but the wife wont let me sticker it up to go with the car that will be pulling it!

[Ads]

in my opinion i think the stickers etc look shit, other than that looks a clean cav. Ads

[John Owens]

in my opinion i think the stickers etc look shit, other than that looks a clean cav. Ads

Have to agree with you Ads . IMO that cavalier has the potential to draw attention simply from being a very clean example rather than being plastered in stickers

[HAIRIBO]

I ment rooff rack! lol, sorry

[lew893]

Cheers ADS it is a pretty solid and clean Cav underneath the stickers. The boot had the original stickers removed by the previous owner and it ruined the paintwork so the stickers hide this otherwise the stickers are there to be different. If the next owner doesnt like the stickers a hairdryer to warm the glue and they will come straight off and they would not be disappointed with whats underneath. 129000 miles 19 years old and still going strong! Just fitted a new Pioneer stereo and a 1300 watt sub my wife thinks I'm going through a mid life crisis! It is very much a Marmite car and I like that!

[HAIRIBO]

So are you planning on selling up?