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12th February 2014, 17:00
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#81
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Location: West Sussex
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Car(s): Citroen Saxo Vts
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Very inspiring work mate, Ive always struggled keeping the interior of my cars at a good standard, whats your methods on bringing the internal panels up to scratch? I can never get my dash etc to look that clean.
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12th February 2014, 17:47
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#82
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: wirral
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Car(s): Icelandic vtr turbo
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Going to subscribe to this, got a soft spot for 309's just never been able to find one when I've had money. Can't wait to see it all done mate, your cars are always class when your through with them
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12th February 2014, 17:59
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#83
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Location: Cheshire
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Originally Posted by willsy
Cheers mate, centre console had to start off with a good scrub with baby wipe/quick detailer combo, then a few coats of Autoglym Vinyl and Rubber care. Leaves a nice finish.
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Originally Posted by dobsd001
Very inspiring work mate, Ive always struggled keeping the interior of my cars at a good standard, whats your methods on bringing the internal panels up to scratch? I can never get my dash etc to look that clean.
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There ya go 
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16th February 2014, 20:00
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#84
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West Midlands
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Nuneaton (West Mids)
Posts: 13,835
Car(s): '64 Volvo V40 R’Design, '89 Ph1 309 GTi, ‘97 Mk1 S
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17th February 2014, 19:00
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#85
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West Midlands
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Nuneaton (West Mids)
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Car(s): '64 Volvo V40 R’Design, '89 Ph1 309 GTi, ‘97 Mk1 S
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Well today I got a bit more done on the 309. Started the day by hoovering the engine bay to get rid of all the conifer, I actually managed to fill the dyson!
I then thought I'd get the sunroof working again, another thing that didn't work due to neglect and an infestation of shrubbery blocking everything. It does now open but I want to figure out how to remove it entirely to clean things up properly. To give you an idea of what I've had to clear out....
I'll post up more pics of that once I've finished it.
I then carried on removing some interior trim for some more cleaning
Cleaned the rear bench area up easy enough
Funky old skool feature alert, the levers here open and close the rear windows
More to be done tomorrow
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17th February 2014, 19:09
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#86
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Car(s): 520bhp Honda Jazz
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The things you do to cars amazes me! I'd have cleaned one bit, and just given up!
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17th February 2014, 20:35
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#87
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West Midlands
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Lol cheers mate, it does take a fair bit of time and determination.
I've been fortunate enough to have had a decent size garage to do most of the work in, without that it would be very difficult. Much easier when the cars aren't daily drivers too, I can take much longer doing jobs without rushing to get it back together again for work the following day etc.
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17th February 2014, 21:37
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#88
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Join Date: Oct 2013
Location: near Manchester
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Love them cable operated rear window openers!
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17th February 2014, 23:49
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#89
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Originally Posted by willsy
Lol cheers mate, it does take a fair bit of time and determination.
I've been fortunate enough to have had a decent size garage to do most of the work in, without that it would be very difficult. Much easier when the cars aren't daily drivers too, I can take much longer doing jobs without rushing to get it back together again for work the following day etc.
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Totally get that, think i would find it easier to work on cars if i wasn't laid outside, on the ground, with the wind blowing through the garden!
Hopefully one day i will have a decent size garage where i can keep a project and take my time and work through it! With some heating in there too!
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18th February 2014, 10:37
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#90
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West Midlands
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Location: Nuneaton (West Mids)
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Car(s): '64 Volvo V40 R’Design, '89 Ph1 309 GTi, ‘97 Mk1 S
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Another day of progress to begin shortly. Think I'll aim to finish sorting the sunroof out and clean the backrest part of the rear bench as today's tasks.
Other than that I need to sort out and list for sale all my 106 XSi spares to free up some funds
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18th February 2014, 19:46
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#91
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Spent most of the day tinkering with the 309 again.
Managed to get the back rest parts of the rear seats cleaned up with the wet vac, they've come up brilliantly so very pleased with those.
The rest of the day was spent dismantling the sunroof and starting to clean everything up, goddam conifer & sludge everywhere
Got this far before calling it a day
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18th February 2014, 19:57
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#92
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L-plater
Join Date: Feb 2014
Location: Preston
Posts: 61
Car(s): mk1 vts
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i am loving this! the effort you put into the cleaning is great. can't wait to see it all back together!!!
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18th February 2014, 20:10
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#93
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Location: newcastle
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Is that a new sunroof?!? Ha! Loving the the progress mate, your putting some effort into it
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18th February 2014, 20:16
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#94
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West Midlands
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Nuneaton (West Mids)
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Car(s): '64 Volvo V40 R’Design, '89 Ph1 309 GTi, ‘97 Mk1 S
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Cheers Anton, it's painstakingly slow progress but well worth it.
I'll get everything cleaned up eventually and get it running again. This year will be spent doing that and making sure I've got all the parts/best ones I can find.
Ultimately though I won't be happy until I've saved up for a full respray, but that'll likely be next year as I'll want strip it right the way back to do a bare shell respray on it.
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18th February 2014, 20:20
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#95
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West Midlands
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Nuneaton (West Mids)
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Car(s): '64 Volvo V40 R’Design, '89 Ph1 309 GTi, ‘97 Mk1 S
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Originally Posted by shaund123
Is that a new sunroof?!? Ha! Loving the the progress mate, your putting some effort into it
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Lol everything in the pic is original except the replacement nuts and bolts, I've got loads of high tensile A4 marine grade stainless bits so it's always nice to replace knowing that things will come apart easily in future.
I spend quite a bit of time cleaning out existing threads here and there aswel, popping a final tap through cleans out any muck & rusty residue that old bolts leave behind.
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18th February 2014, 21:05
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#96
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: west london
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good job on the sunroof. Like new
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22nd February 2014, 08:51
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#97
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Location: E yorkshire
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Car(s): 53 black vtr
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Liking this progress thread. It just shows ya ya dont need to go out and spend shit loads of money just a lot of elbow grease lol. I must admit after seeing the 106 and this ive been cleaning my car a lot more thoroughly lately. Nice one
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24th February 2014, 09:07
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#98
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West Midlands
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Nuneaton (West Mids)
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Car(s): '64 Volvo V40 R’Design, '89 Ph1 309 GTi, ‘97 Mk1 S
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Cheers mate, always nice to know my efforts inspire others a bit too.
It is amazing how far a little bit of attention to detail can go.
Rest days coming up again after today so I should get a few more bits done. I should probably stick with finishing a bit and then carry on, I tend to wander off on a tangent & start doing random bits. Ideally I want to get the interior finished and refitted, it's amazing how much room it takes up when it's out the car. Then I'll see about getting the engine serviced & running.
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24th February 2014, 11:13
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#99
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Join Date: Mar 2008
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Awesome.
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24th February 2014, 11:40
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#100
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Looking good mate,i`ll be interested to see how the engine runs.
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