My Posi Blue vtr

[Luke01uk]

Right bought 2001 VTR in September, low miles on the clock at a good price so had to buy it.

Just few pictures of the car when first got it:
http://i956.photobucket.com/albums/ae47/arrowsmith01uk/30082009029.jpg

http://i956.photobucket.com/albums/ae47/arrowsmith01uk/30082009030.jpg

Finally got it home to give it a good clean:
http://i956.photobucket.com/albums/ae47/arrowsmith01uk/30102009046.jpg

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Few Mods:
Bee Sting aerial
T-Cut Badges
Smoked Jewels (Thanks to Psycho18)
New Grill

Engine Bay:
ECU cover
New Battery Clip
Dip Stick

http://i956.photobucket.com/albums/ae47/arrowsmith01uk/26494_10150122057020343_619115342_1.jpg

http://i956.photobucket.com/albums/ae47/arrowsmith01uk/26494_10150122058010343_619115342_1.jpg

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http://i956.photobucket.com/albums/ae47/arrowsmith01uk/26494_10150122059355343_619115342_1.jpg

Future Development:
New Rocker Cover (Thanks to Benji-Westcoast)
OMP Upper Strut
Raceland Induction Kit or BMC Induction Kit
New Exhaust System

[Pidge]

what size are your tyres?

[stormjojo1982]

good looking car mate, you gonna paint alloy wheels?

[Luke01uk]

im sure they are 15" but not to sure havent checked, cheers mate i was thinkin of doin them white but still thinkin about that one.

[Pixie]

Did you T-cut your badges to get them black or spray?!

[Luke01uk]

T-Cut them mate

[Rez]

Looks a good base to start with mate I'm sure you'll make it great.

[Luke01uk]

Cheers mate, I hope i do too lol

[Toz]

Looking good :y:

[Luke01uk]

Small Update:

Fitted new air box due to the old one having a cracked seal so got that done.

Finishing uni in a few days so going to start cracking with painting my grill in the same colour as the car :D

http://i956.photobucket.com/albums/ae47/arrowsmith01uk/IMG_0088.jpg

Door speakers to be fitted, had them in my clio but havent had time to do them yet

http://i956.photobucket.com/albums/ae47/arrowsmith01uk/IMG_0087.jpg

Then going to spray my rocker cover silver or mabye keep blue? any opinions??
http://i956.photobucket.com/albums/ae47/arrowsmith01uk/IMG_0086.jpg

[callam1989]

15" vtr wheels?? very clean car mate , how much did u pay?

[Luke01uk]

still havent checked mate, needed to do that lol thanks mate, i payed 2,000 for it with abit less than 50,000 on the clock

[Jay_]

go for white wheels......looks wicked! check out my progress if your not sure how it looks!!

[Luke01uk]

cheers jay, checked out your progress n ur car looks smart mate, but i think im guna stick with the normal wheels for now n then mabye go with white but still thinking on that idea

[Luke01uk]

Started the prep the spraying of the grill :D

http://i956.photobucket.com/albums/ae47/arrowsmith01uk/IMG_0089.jpg

used abit of wet and dry to take the top layer off n so its ready for the primer hopefully get the first coat of it done today.[/FONT]

http://i956.photobucket.com/albums/ae47/arrowsmith01uk/IMG_0091.jpg

primer all done n wanting for it too fully dry before putting the paint on

[shezzo]

nice clean car exactly wat mine looks like my vtr wheels are about to be sprayed white so hope they look good.

[Luke01uk]

Cheers mate, hope urs is going well, got some smoked indicators n finally spraying my grill the colour of the car will be adding pictures later

[Dano]

looking good so far

i cant wait to see the results of the halfords posi blue spray paint

i hear it doesnt match at all, but if it does, ill go get some ;)

- Dan :y:

[Luke01uk]

thanks mate, its looking good so far, pic of wat it looks like up to now with a few more coats to add to it.

http://i956.photobucket.com/albums/ae47/arrowsmith01uk/IMG_0094.jpg

[Luke01uk]

smoked indicators :D

http://i956.photobucket.com/albums/ae47/arrowsmith01uk/IMG_0093.jpg

http://i956.photobucket.com/albums/ae47/arrowsmith01uk/IMG_0092.jpg

[joe333]

nice mate looks good

[Luke01uk]

Cheers mate

[Philly1983]

Looks good luke, any plans for the engine etc ?

[Luke01uk]

only plans for the engine at the moment are to clean it all up n spray the heat shield n rocker cover n sort out a few problems that it has to make it run better

[Luke01uk]

Finally got the grill painted and put on me car, took a few pictures of what it looks like up to now. http://i956.photobucket.com/albums/ae47/arrowsmith01uk/P1000807.jpg

http://i956.photobucket.com/albums/ae47/arrowsmith01uk/P1000805.jpg

few others pics taken on the camera.

http://i956.photobucket.com/albums/ae47/arrowsmith01uk/P1000823.jpg

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http://i956.photobucket.com/albums/ae47/arrowsmith01uk/P1000820.jpg

[Luke01uk]

Next Update: Smoked Front Lights, Engine bay clean up and new exhaust

[Luke01uk]

Update:
New backbox thanks to chris84, nice guy and has a smart black vts :y:

Going to de-wiper this week when i get hold of a gromit, anyone know which is the best to use?

New wheel bolt covers should be coming also next week to make the wheels look abit better.

Thanks

Luke.

[Road-Runner]

This is the best one to use:

874542- Plug
874543- Washer
874544- Screw/nut
you get them from Pug dealers. :y:

[Luke01uk]

cheers mate, will get that sorted on monday :y:

[Road-Runner]

No worries, heres the guide if you want it :)

http://www.saxperience.com/forum/showthread.php?t=80948

[Luke01uk]

Thanks mate, that guide is good n can c where ppl have had there problems in the past, will post pics of dewiper next week,

Luke,

[pollard313]

Looks good mate.
Doing similar mods to what I'm planning on mine.

[Luke01uk]

Cheers mate, dewiper is done, couldn't get the parts from pug but used a halfords gromit for now until can get a better one sorted, washing the car today so will have pics up later,

Luke,

[Luke01uk]

http://i956.photobucket.com/albums/ae47/arrowsmith01uk/IMG_0107.jpg

Halfords gromit in for now, but have purchased a gromit from tommyhine5 just waiting for it to come through the post,

Wheel bolt covers also came through the post, really pleased with them and make the wheels look alot nicer.

http://i956.photobucket.com/albums/ae47/arrowsmith01uk/IMG_0106.jpg

Cheers,

Luke

[davidwest]

those wheel bolt covers look nice man, how much and where from? Ive been meaning to just get a new set of bolts for a while but if these are considerably cheaper il go for that!

[Luke01uk]

I got them off eBay mate, just make sure ur getting 19mm cos they sent me 17mm n they didn't fit and had to wait for a replacement, They cost about £15.00 but you get plenty of spairs

Luke,

[Luke01uk]

New gromit came through the post and fits alot nicer, just need to get rid of the ring left from the wiper, anyone know wat the best product is to use?

Luke,

[Rez]

Looking great fella, I like the front grille and the rear lights.

[Luke01uk]

cheers mate, ive been looking at your thread n like what you have done with your car, im thinking of smoking my front lights when i can get a chance to do it, but not sure what to do next

[Rez]

cheers mate, ive been looking at your thread n like what you have done with your car, im thinking of smoking my front lights when i can get a chance to do it, but not sure what to do next

The posi's do look good with smoked lights or you could get some nice black angels if your flush fella.

[Luke01uk]

Yeh mate, think I'm guna with the smoked front lights when I get time to do them n if they is a good guide to go with them.

Luke,

[saxomad197]

look like a really nice car car +1 to the possi blue saxo

[Luke01uk]

Cheers mate, got a few updates will add them abit later,

Luke

[Luke01uk]

Update: broken down 2 weeks ago, inlet manifold gasket had warped so was letting out air so the car sounded like a tractor... luckly my mate was able to take it to his garage and get it all sorted.

Done a full service on the car and now it finally runs normal again, need to change a wheel bearing but that job will be coming soon.

just got a new passenger side headlight so will able to change to my smoked lights ive got, will add pictures when i get chance to do the change over :D

cheers for looking,

Luke

[Luke01uk]

Right time for an update, Bad news is i had a crash n the car got wrote off n insurance wouldn't pay for the repairs so decided i wanted to do it myself.
http://i956.photobucket.com/albums/ae47/arrowsmith01uk/IMAG0177.jpg

[Luke01uk]

so after weeks of the insurance having my car in a "garage" to assess the damage, i wanted my car back to crack on and found that my car had been put in a scrapyard n was about to be scrapped, which they did not tell me about, so because they did wrong n i kicked off, i got my car back n a large some of money for repairs. did not take loads of pics while doing the repairs but some.

[Luke01uk]

http://i956.photobucket.com/albums/ae47/arrowsmith01uk/IMAG0186.jpg

that was most of the damage so managed to straighten it out as much as i can for now until i cut it out n fit a new piece in,

[Luke01uk]

right was time to put it back together with all the parts i got off here n ebay.

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was hard to get a posi blue bonnet so had to get a green one so it could go through its m.o.t

[Luke01uk]

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[Luke01uk]

After finally getting it all back together it was MOT time so it went for its mot, it passed on all the damage but failed on needed new break lines n ball joint on the passenger side n a needed a new axle, so got all that sorted n the car is running nice but needs more work before im finally going to be happy with it.

so i got a posi blue bonnet of a lad on here, so i drove to newcastle to pick it up n fitted it, so i had the meshed grill on the green one n decided to have it posi blue because didnt have a spare one just standard.

[slammed_saxo_vts]

shit man! bad news on the crash, but cracking good job on the repair! with an original colour bonnet, i think posi blue? ... i wouldnt have noticed lol :)

[Luke01uk]

sold the green bonnet to a lad i know for 40quid so carnt complain, ive decided to take the fog lights out of the car n they are going to be meshed when i get chance to do it n mabye widemouth if i get chance. havent got any updated pictures yet but will try and keep on top of updating it but what ive done up to now.

LED number plate lights
LED interior light
Painted me interior plastics apart from the centre console but that is my next job

decided to put new door badges on http://i956.photobucket.com/albums/ae47/arrowsmith01uk/IMAG0204.jpg

and have de pinned the doors aswell which looks miles better

[Luke01uk]

shit man! bad news on the crash, but cracking good job on the repair! with an original colour bonnet, i think posi blue? ... i wouldnt have noticed lol :)

wow thanks mate, it was a pain in the arse sometimes n did stress me out but its worth it, will try and get some new pics on when ive finished trying to get it to something decent.

[bobertmate]

that went back together really well, did you do it all yourself?

[Luke01uk]

that went back together really well, did you do it all yourself?

Aye it did, had to bent some of the front back in place but i did all the work yeh

[DeanAngell1234]

Well done on fixing it mate :)

[Luke01uk]

Well done on fixing it mate :)

Cheers mate.

Have picture updates so will be putting them on when i get chance.

thanks for looking

Luke

[Luke01uk]

Right finally got my arse in gear and done some stuff on the car. This is how it looks at the minute, just need to mesh the fog lights.
http://i956.photobucket.com/albums/ae47/arrowsmith01uk/IMAG0221.jpg

[Luke01uk]

Starting painting the interior plastics and the a and b pillars and finished de pinning the doors:

http://i956.photobucket.com/albums/ae47/arrowsmith01uk/IMAG0210.jpg

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http://i956.photobucket.com/albums/ae47/arrowsmith01uk/IMAG0243.jpg

and it might not be everyones cuppa tea but ive done this n i love it

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[Luke01uk]

ive also under sealed all the boot of the car because it was looks sorry for it self n it looks a lot fresher.

Things to do:

Finish painting the C pillars
Spray the centre console
Blue Led Fog and hazard lights in the dash

[Luke01uk]

Finally an small update, been busy with doing the house and garden up so the car has been left for a while, C pillars finally painted and fitted. new smoked headlight as my passenger side one was not the best so have changed that.

Magnex backbox i won on ebay for £10 which im picking up tomorrow so will be fitting that asap as my old one is falling to bits, but not much else i want to do to it now mabye lower it not 100% sure on that though but just really need start saving up for an Focus ST3.

[pete69zx]

Car looks nice Luke.

Cheers,
Pete

[Luke01uk]

Cheers mate, needs more work on what i want to do but will be leaving that til next year now