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22nd October 2013, 09:52
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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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Originally Posted by AS_BO
Super anal, I love it! What did you use to clean it off? I'm assuming that it was factory underseal that was coming off and not dirt/road grime?
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It's coming off quite easily on this one so I'd certainly say its just road dirt & grime. I use autosmart Tardis on the underside, its very effective. Once its all off I've given it a good wipe with quick detailer to clean any Tardis residue off as its strong stuff.
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Originally Posted by Joe
And as per the ax, looking good Willsy. Looking forward to updates
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Cheers mate
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Originally Posted by m4tt274
werent these painted and then waxoiled when they were new? May be wrong. Lovely find though!
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Certainly just seems like general grime on the XSi as its relatively easy to shift. The AX on the other hand was very thick & stubborn and took hours to remove so I suspect that there was a layer of under seal on that one.
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22nd October 2013, 11:20
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Saxperience Post Whore
Join Date: Jan 2006
Posts: 9,363
Car(s): Focus ST
& 206 GTI180
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Defintely agree these look perfect. Lovely colour and love it when people go all atd on cars. Appreciate the effort.
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22nd October 2013, 12:08
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Infrequent Poster
Join Date: Nov 2012
Location: Leicester LE2 7JU
Posts: 166
Car(s): 106 Xsi - Sam
Clio 172 Cup - Tommy
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matt.... you need to come scavenge parts before my XSi take its final trip to the scrapyard in the sky 
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22nd October 2013, 23:19
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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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Last edited by willsy; 11th November 2013 at 19:14.
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22nd October 2013, 23:34
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nice,again great job-
i follow this thread.
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23rd October 2013, 20:44
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Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Littlehampton, West Sussex
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Car(s): 1997 Amazon Green VTS
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Looking good!
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23rd October 2013, 20:56
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Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: Washington Tyne & Wear
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Car(s): Ph2 VTR
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+1 I'm also all over this! Subscribed.
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24th October 2013, 09:35
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Saxperience Post Whore
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Location: Nuneaton
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Car(s): RB RS 200
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Looking very clean under there matt considering the mileage on this  great work
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Racing Blue RS Clio 200 Bitches 
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24th October 2013, 17:37
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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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Off with the old
On with the new
Off with the old
On with the new
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25th October 2013, 12:45
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Saxperience Post Whore
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And it begins... lol 
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25th October 2013, 16:55
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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 jpsaxo
And it begins... lol |
Right 3 hours til the Mrs is home from work, that's 2 hours solid work on the XSi with enough time to spare to shower & put the dinner on....
....to the garage!
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25th October 2013, 19:52
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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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2 hours well spent, carried on where I left off pretty much
After
And a few more
So that concludes the drivers side footwell area.
I've had another look at the abs system as to why the light is on. I'd already had a look and noticed that the abs sensors had been removed (possibly both broken) and that the main plug to the abs unit was also unplugged. It seems that this was most likely done when both driveshafts had been replaced as some wally has refitted non abs shafts. So I've got a few bits to source before the systems up and running again.
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25th October 2013, 20:47
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Saxperience Post Whore
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Shropshire
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Car(s): Moonstone Blue 106 GTi
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you shitting me lol this does actually have abs?? I'll defo dig all parts out tomorrow afternoon for you then
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25th October 2013, 20:54
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Regular Poster
Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: Hampshire
Posts: 489
Car(s): Saxo silver forte 1.1
Mazda mx5
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I'm surprised you bought it up that much in only 2hours! What are you using, a stiff brush and good products?
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25th October 2013, 21:47
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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 Sophia_Bush
you shitting me lol this does actually have abs?? I'll defo dig all parts out tomorrow afternoon for you then
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Lol yes it has ABS as standard it just needs fixing. That'll be awesome if you can dig the bits out Gav, as soon as that's fixed ill take it for an MOT :-)
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Originally Posted by OllieVigar
I'm surprised you bought it up that much in only 2hours! What are you using, a stiff brush and good products?
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Amazingly its been easier cleaning the underside of this than it was my AX which had less than 1/3 of the mileage. I've used an old toothbrush, some baby wipes, autosmart Tardis on the stubborn bits and the less aggressive auto Glym intensive tar remover on the easier bits.
Seems to do the job quite well.
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25th October 2013, 21:58
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Regular Poster
Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: Hampshire
Posts: 489
Car(s): Saxo silver forte 1.1
Mazda mx5
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I hope your monitoring how many hours your putting into this project unlike the AX?
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11th November 2013, 19:26
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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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A little more progress made, this was my aim to get up to scratch today
Started by removing the arch liner, old discs and pads.
Typically the disc retaining screws were buggered, one sheared off immediately, the other was already snapped. Set about drilling out the old thread and successfully retapped the original thread without causing any damage. Also ran taps through all the other threads simply to clean them out, most of which had an ingress of muck and dirt. So they're all in perfect order.
Then the arch got a good clean with the tar remover. Cleaned and de-tar'd the arch liner and gave that a good coat of trim detailer.
Result so far, this will suffice for the time being, at some point ill remove the entire front suspension, bits will be powder coated and new components fitted. Just waiting for some new disc retaining screws to arrive now
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11th November 2013, 20:56
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Established Member
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Milton Keynes
Posts: 1,210
Car(s): Yellow 106 Rallye
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Coming along really nicely!!
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12th November 2013, 16:44
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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 Beaniemoo
Coming along really nicely!!
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Cheers :-) speaking of which, how's your red XSi going?
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12th November 2013, 22:29
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Newbie
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Car(s): Ax gti, T reg saxo vtr from new...
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Good work as usual 
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