saxo 1.1 my first car

[rhgrieve]

below are two pics of my car. my first car. which i bought 3 days ago. (she's had a wash since the pics where taken lol)

more pics to follow later today.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v200/rhgrieve/aa16d768.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v200/rhgrieve/9eae0da1.jpg

[Tony_Jay86]

Whats the plans for ger then?

Or are you keeping it totaly standard?

[rhgrieve]

i've a few wee plans

(in no order) :

front grill mesh
interior lighting
colour code all the trims
sound system in the boot
bita engine tuning - that's a scary one for moi cos i've no clue abt that - basically want a cool sounding excust smileys/smiley9.gif

long term plan: bucket seats!!!

[rhgrieve]

oh! and wheel arches!

[rhgrieve]

gah! and angel eyes...


wish i knew how to edit posts!

[rhgrieve]

and finally.....back windows tints. but that's one of the last things i'd get done cos i'm not sure how i wanna do that...depends how much money i have left after the rest smileys/happy.gif

[Tony_Jay86]

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[Tony_Jay86]

Neon interior lights?

Cant really do much to the 1.1 engines appart from a zorst & air filter.

What sort of wheel arches?

The vtr ones?

Ive got the full kit but cant afford to spray/fit it yet so ive just bought some of them stick on arches for the base models.

Yeah tints are good, i'd hate to drive around in my car without the tints.

[rhgrieve]

i fully don't have that 'edit' button. serious.

prob just the standard 'clip on' arches. where'd i get a set of those?

you do the tints yourself with film?

[Tony_Jay86]

gah! and angel eyes...

They dont actually produce saxo mark2 angel eyes yet unfortunatly.

[Tony_Jay86]

Yeah, sometimes you dont have it & sometimes you do, unless simo has made it so new member cant edit there posts.

I'll get you a link shortly for the clip on arches.

My dad did them with light smoke tinting film i got from halfords, the front side window ones are starting to peel off though smileys/smiley13.gif

[Tony_Jay86]

The person on ebay i bought the arches off dont actually have any on at the moment.

[Hazza17]

not bucket seats in a 1.1 mate. will look stupid cause a 1.1 is not exactly a race car or evan a fast car. lower it and put sum rims on it thats all you need for a sweet looking car in my opinion

[saxx]

look good! will be nice when you start on your plans! keep u all up to date!

[addictedtosax]

nice mate much the same as mine, 1.1 , same colour and mark!smileys/smiley2.gif iv started modding mine already tho, and imo you want to get some bitching alloys, induction kit and exhaust kitted out first smileys/smiley9.gif theres alot of v nice 1.1s on here bud, i think you find some inspiration from them smileys/smiley14.gif

[liamk15]

not bucket seats in a 1.1 mate. will look stupid cause a 1.1 is not exactly a race car or evan a fast car. lower it and put sum rims on it thats all you need for a sweet looking car in my opinion
yeah but its for the look ,who says if you have bucket seats you MUST have a fast car and 'race' it?

[Yates]

Yeah, sometimes you dont have it & sometimes you do, unless simo has made it so new member cant edit there posts.

what u on? only premium members can edit posts....

and why do you need tints to drive about?

[rhgrieve]

so - at 10:30pm friday - i decided to take the grill off and have a wee look around.

here's what i found

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v200/rhgrieve/Picture007a.jpg
yoink - of it comes

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v200/rhgrieve/Picture004a.jpg
bit of a dark picture (can't be bother to photoshop it this early in the morning!) just the front view with the grill off.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v200/rhgrieve/Picture005a.jpg
paint is a bit chipped and coming off round the edges - will have to touch that up.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v200/rhgrieve/Picture006.jpg
the grill

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v200/rhgrieve/e8c4bdf7.jpg
and the back of it

lovely smileys/happy.gif

next step - badgeless grill with mesh smileys/happy.gif

pics to follow of interior - which is standard.

[Tony_Jay86]

Very good choice (sp) also a good first mod.

This is a picture of what my car looked like when i had a badgeless grille on it, but sold that & have now got another, also the car has changed abit since this photo.

/members/tonyjay86/518BC_With_meshed_grille_SMALL.JPG

[rhgrieve]

question: i noticed that some of the cars with a grill like that don't have a hole for lifting up the bonnet - if you don't have a hole cut into the mesh how do you get the bonnet up?

[VTR_BOY]

looks good,jus stick rims on it and exhaust,then lowered,will llok good after that smileys/smiley4.gif

[rhgrieve]

getting it lowered and rims within the next 2/3 months. just need to save up smileys/happy.gif

get her lowered about 40mm?

[rhgrieve]

I PAST MY DRIVING TEST TODAY!!

[SNewham]

Excellant well done mate. Now the fun begins smileys/smiley2.gif

[Delboy75]

Congrats mate, keep the mods subtle and your car will look nice.

About the meshed grills, you'l find that most people have a bit cut out for the catch its just that some people have smaller holes than others and unless your looking up at the grill you can't always see it.

[rhgrieve]

this week is an exciting week for the wee car...got her 6x9s and her interior lights (yet to arrive)

so watch this space if you wanna see her start to grow ha ha smileys/happy.gif

[ScottishLad]

well done for passing your test mate

i passed mines 3 weeks ago, and have the same car as yourself

check out mines here

http://www.sax-p.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=26705&PN=1&TP (http://www.sax-p.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=26705&PN=1&TPN=1) N=1

[rhgrieve]

ooo cool. you got any paint work done on it? i've a few wee chips on mine - just general wear - and was wondering what paint you bought for it.

[rhgrieve]

6x9s going into the car smileys/happy.gif (excuse the mess off the boot in the last picture - boyf just threw loads of junk in my boot *pssh*)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v200/rhgrieve/e85beb93.jpg
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[b0t13]

arrgg
even the 1.1 have decent seatbelts !(i have a furio)

looking good mate and keep up the good work!

[rhgrieve]

my interior is pretty cool. it's all blue - with blue seatbelts smileys/happy.gif

i'll post proper interior pics asap.

[Steve.]

yer my interior is all blue, with blue seatbelts etc... 1.1's by far have best colour intereor smileys/smiley17.gif if only they were as nice as a VTS

[rhgrieve]

okay guys - i've a problem.

excuse me for being a girl...but i'm not to sure how i get the side panels off to get my speaker wires through.

do i use a long tork (sp?) screwdriver to just pull them off...or how else do you get the wires through for the 6x9s to run them of the radio?

[rhgrieve]

and ta da - there was neons smileys/happy.gif (bit of a shaky photo but you get the idea - i had to take the photo with no flash so we could all enjoy the neon lights lol )

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v200/rhgrieve/647de231.jpg

here's a pic of the interior - it's a bit dirty looking so i'm cleaning it all on saturday smileys/happy.gif

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v200/rhgrieve/7e9c8adf.jpg

[Baz]

which neons are they, you got a link to the site you got them from, if you did get them off the net, some neons you find are pretty dull. as for yours...looking very bright smileys/smiley17.gif

[rhgrieve]

mine are lovely and bright. i got mine of these (http://www.neon-nites.co.uk/) guys.

i would HIGHLY recommend them *thumbs up*

[mattwesty]

coming on well, keep us updated with lots of progress pics smileys/happy.gif

[rhgrieve]

my head unit
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v200/rhgrieve/Picture026.jpg

some fun lights for the glove box
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v200/rhgrieve/17fcf924.jpg

and under the hood
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v200/rhgrieve/d2ebbc23.jpg
here's the question - how do i get all the crap of the cover so i can paint it?

plans: induction kit, grille (ordered) and smoked rears (ordered)

[patrick2403]

clean it and sand the bitch down

[rhgrieve]

that's the question though - clean it with what?

[Yates]

take it off and go to body shop will cost bout 30 notes to get it all done ;)

[rhgrieve]

gah the wee saxo has a bad day today

i cleaned the car for like 2 hours...and during the cleaning spree kids on my street managed to hit the car not once...but three times with the football!!!

and then outside my church hall some guy was being a dick and tried to jump onto the back on my car as i was reversing it!! and i hit the car behind me cos i was like "WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING!"

reg plate of the other car got cracked...hope nothing else is done to it. *sigh*

[edit] no harm done to the car.

ordered myself a sax sticker to celerbrate smileys/happy.gif

[rhgrieve]

and here is the sticker smileys/happy.gif

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v200/rhgrieve/eb0b7d8f.jpg

[Yates]

if someones football hit my car when i was out cleanin it id have ago if they done it again i would of picked up the ball and booted it over the houses lol

[rhgrieve]

i was so close to cracking up on the third time like. if it happens again tomorrow during the weekly clean i will pop the ball.

[news]
ordered my smoked lights smileys/happy.gif

[w_jd_w]

nice one mate.shes coming along quite quickly!keep up the good work smileys/smiley2.gif

[rhgrieve]

after a good clean. shiny as anything smileys/happy.gif *is proud of wee car*

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v200/rhgrieve/53f42ce4.jpg
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[AM4R]

nice, very clean! Very clean wheel trims, lol!

[gazsaxo]

lookin gd very clean 2 keep up the gd work some nice pics in there 2

[rhgrieve]

so what's going on now? well i got a black sun strip put on, bought a messed grill and paint to colour code the trim of it.

pics to follow.