[David]

Astra CD 5 door

See page 6 for first set of pictures.

 

[David]

Plans:

Wash, 't-cut', clay, polish, wax
Upholstery clean carpets
Clean engine bay

Smoked side reps
New aerial
New plates
Tax disc holder
Tailored velour mats
New rear mudflaps
Vectra SRI alloys or Astra SXI alloys
GSI headlights (depo style)
Smoked rear lights (SRI)
SRI Spoiler
New gear gaitor
Flat/aero wipers front & new rear wiper
Underseal


Longterm:
Colour coded bump strips
Colour coded Sideskirts
Colour coded door handles
Bonnet lifters
Wind deflectors

 

[Ash]

Would you be interested in buying the bumb strips and door handles for painting?? I have a full set with a de-locked drivers

 

[David]

Would you be interested in buying the bumb strips and door handles for painting?? I have a full set with a de-locked drivers

Possibly, but not this month, I'm broke with buying this, especially aswell after the corsa did its party piece on the motorway last week. :laugh:

 

[zapmole]

i love the heater panel and gear knob :shocked: debadge also

 

[David]

i love the heater panel and gear knob :shocked: debadge also

I quite like the 'old man' feel about it.

 

[dragon2309]

Is that a 4 disc changer on the dash there, at the bottom of the heater panel on the centre console?

 

[Serapth]

Plans:

Wash, 't-cut', clay, polish, wax
Upholstery clean carpets
Clean engine bay

Smoked side reps
New aerial
New plates
Tax disc holder
Tailored velour mats
New rear mudflaps
Vectra SRI alloys or Astra SXI alloys
GSI headlights (depo style)
Smoked rear lights (SRI)
SRI Spoiler
New gear gaitor
Flat/aero wipers front & new rear wiper
Underseal

Longterm:
Colour coded bump strips
Colour coded Sideskirts
Colour coded door handles
Bonnet lifters
Wind deflectors

Plans sound good, wouldnt t-cut it though.. get it machine polished instead.. if you are not confident doing it yourself most bodyshops will do it for a nominal fee

Is that a 4 disc changer on the dash there, at the bottom of the heater panel on the centre console?

They are just storage for cd's

 

[David]

Plans sound good, wouldnt t-cut it though.. get it machine polished instead.. if you are not confident doing it yourself most bodyshops will do it for a nominal fee

They are just storage for cd's

Hence the quotation marks, I have a machine polisher and some meguires stuff to use. Never used it before, but there's a first time for everything

and yeah, I thought it was a CD changer at first, but its just individual storage for 4 CDs :laugh:

 

[Serapth]

Go slow and dont press on too hard, if you get a set of bathroom scales and press down on them with your hands until its registering roughly 10lbs thats roughly the amount of pressure required. Havent used megs stuff myself but have heard good reports.

 

[Dan Seabo]

Looks well david, thought about new interior ? maybe leather

 

[David]

Looks well david, thought about new interior ? maybe leather

Leather would be nice but I actually like the interior in this

 

[youngsezer]

love this colour, i'm getting an astra soon too although mine will be a 3 door, bored of the corsa now, just waiting for insurance and money,

oh and as for interior the higher spec ones like the sxi and sri come with recaro's like the seats in my corsa, thats what i'll be getting

 

[David]

love this colour, i'm getting an astra soon too although mine will be a 3 door, bored of the corsa now, just waiting for insurance and money,

oh and as for interior the higher spec ones like the sxi and sri come with recaro's like the seats in my corsa, thats what i'll be getting

I wanted an SRI, but was looking for a 5 door, the only one I could find was either the 1.8 or 2.0, which would have been too much on insurance. Although the sports seats would have been nice, I'm more than happy with the 1.6

Driving this compared to the corsa, I wonder how anybody can put up with the corsa but if its all you know then you just get on with it. Didn't realise what I was missing.

Small update too.

Used some Meg ultimate compound, pretty good results to be fair. Also stuck some Halfords polish on top just for now untill I give the whole car a good going over. Was just keen to see what sort of finish I could get from it.

Tried to do some of those before and after shots, didn't really work though. :laugh:

The first two are half and halfs, the right hand side done the left hand side not done. The bottom one is the finished product.

 

[youngsezer]

looks good, yeah i did a quote on a 1.8 sri and its not too bad but might just stick with a 1.6 lol

 

[David]

looks good, yeah i did a quote on a 1.8 sri and its not too bad but might just stick with a 1.6 lol

If a 1.6 SRI 5 door came up in polar blue I'd of had it. This was a nice compromise though since its towards the top of the range.

 

[youngsezer]

do they even do a 1.6 sri, i've been looking but all the sri's i've found have been 1.8

 

[David]

do they even do a 1.6 sri, i've been looking but all the sri's i've found have been 1.8

Not sure to be honest, perhaps thats why, they probably don't.

 

[youngsezer]

haha yeah maybe, if i do get a 1.6 it will be an sxi most probably

 

[David]

haha yeah maybe, if i do get a 1.6 it will be an sxi most probably

Try and find one with a spoiler on, as they were optional on the sxi.

May save you a bit of money if you're after the spoiler.