MLM - Saxo Vtr MK1 Progress. - Saxperience

MLM · 26th May 2010, 21:43

Well, im new to this so here i go...

bought the car for £850 2 weeks ago. Came lowered 60mm (i think) and with 80mm lowering spring in the boot, a priv plate, 72k and 12months MOT so bargain i thought?

Heres how it looked when i bought her. It had some saxo stickers n stuff on it so i took those off n got some snaps.

whitevanmen · 26th May 2010, 21:59

you got yaself a bargain there m8,any plans?

MLM · 26th May 2010, 22:56

got myself a list of things to do on the beast, which are:

*Colour code the door trims
*Decat and removed middle box with a straight pipe as the baffles gone and starting to rattle so its annoying me! ha.
*Respray alloys (possibly in black) as the are starting to show bubbling.
*Sort out the interior as guy before me sprayed the vents silver and the golve box silver too -.-
* Red hammerite on the calipers
* Fit new CD player

Anyway got a day off today so started on the car. So went to halfords and got some blue for the door trims, laquer, primer and some gloss black for the wheels which il eventually do.

I decided to do the door trims first as i think it would transform the car. Also managed to get the exhaust done, which now sounds the bollox!.

Didnt have my camera on me while to prep'd the paintwork for re-spray but heres some pics of the finished paintwork, which i thought turned out well for aerosol can paint!

The cat and midbox were next on the list. So got the car up on the ramps n cut out the cat/midbox section. And clamped in a new straight bit of exhaust pipe, which sounds alot nicer, doesnt even blow at all which i was chuffed with lol. Sorry about the dodgy pics here, was rushing to take pics with me phone.

n thats my work so far! didnt get a pic of the pipe installed as my boss needed the ramps but il try and get a pic soon.

Bound · 27th May 2010, 00:33

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Originally Posted by MLM

*Colour code the door trims
*Sort out the interior as guy before me sprayed the vents silver and the golve box silver too -.-
* Red hammerite on the calipers

Was gonna say replace the panels, look better in black, looked shit in silver.

Blue is good to though. Looks much better mate.

Did my callipers red the other day mate, I brushed it on though. red :y;.

Whirly · 27th May 2010, 14:29

lol my mate has S23 AXO for his number plate

MLM · 27th May 2010, 16:13

think il be brushing on the red too m8. How did they turn out?

lol yea reg plate is nice, got it with the sale.

Bound · 27th May 2010, 16:42

Came out fine bud;

MLM · 27th May 2010, 17:45

looks mint m8! hope mine turns out like that! gona give it a bash tommorrow if the weathers good!

MLM · 28th May 2010, 19:08

So today i got an afternoon free so thought id have a bash at doing the front calipers in red.

So first of all i got the front of the car up on axle stands and wire brushed the calipers to removed any shit!

Then got the Kurust out to prevent any rust under the paint

How it looks when i put the kurust on

Once the kurust had set

After 2 coats of hammerite, Could do with 1 maybe 2 more but it started to rain

How they look with the wheels on.

Bound · 28th May 2010, 19:27

Looks good mate

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When you were wire brushing, how much shit came off ?

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Bound · 28th May 2010, 19:28

Looks good mate

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When you were wire brushing, how much shit came off ?

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MLM · 28th May 2010, 19:31

fair bit haha!

calipers r still a lil rough so mite try n get them nice n smooth then spray them, but that will do them for now!

Gotta go run in race engines for my work tomoz but on sunday im off so guna try n get the rims done in white

Bound · 28th May 2010, 19:35

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Originally Posted by MLM

fair bit haha!

calipers r still a lil rough so mite try n get them nice n smooth then spray them, but that will do them for now!

Gotta go run in race engines for my work tomoz but on sunday im off so guna try n get the rims done in white

Yeah, that will look ace mate. Red callipers and white wheels :y;!

MLM · 28th May 2010, 19:37

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Originally Posted by Bound

Yeah, that will look ace mate. Red callipers and white wheels :y;!

=D thats the plan anyway. Will only be the vtr rims in white for now until ive got money to throw about to buy different rims

whitevanmen · 30th May 2010, 08:08

i cleaned my calipers off with a wire brush wheel that fitted to my electric drill.It removed loadsa crap and gave me a very smooth clean finish.

MLM · 30th May 2010, 10:20

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Originally Posted by whitevanmen

i cleaned my calipers off with a wire brush wheel that fitted to my electric drill.It removed loadsa crap and gave me a very smooth clean finish.

didnt think of that! will try that when i redo them (Y)

cheers

jack123 · 30th May 2010, 11:05

looks very smart did u take the panels off to spray them or did you just mask up around them??

Alexvtrmk1 · 30th May 2010, 11:57

mint price

MLM · 30th May 2010, 21:44

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Originally Posted by jack123

looks very smart did u take the panels off to spray them or did you just mask up around them??

just masked around it mate. Luckily my dad does cusotm helmet painting so i had some thin bendy masking tape so i could tape the edges better.

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Originally Posted by Alexvtrmk1

mint price

always good to hear lol

MLM · 30th May 2010, 21:52

well today i had a day off so thought id go for the alloys respray. Originallyy id planned on going for white rims but then noticed alot of people did white rims. My dad then convinced me to go for an anthracite colour lol.

Got some Primer, 3x Peugeot graphite metallic grey and my dad got some 2-pack laquer he used with the air gun. Anyway heres how they turned out..

Primer..

Without Laquer...

With Laquer and on the car..