Ger's Saxo East Coast 1.0i - Leafy! - Saxperience

geraintthomas · 11th October 2011, 22:31

Right!

Made a thread about this before but decided to make a fresh one on it.

Bought this about 5 months ago; 67,000 on the clock, stunning condition, runs perfect, £500. Yeah it's slow, but it was meant to be a 'run around'. Trouble is I've got a huge soft spot for it since having it, and want to keep improving it!

Here's the car:
(It's named Leafy, thanks to my sister, who also looked at it and instantly shouted "Viva La Leafy!" due to it being french.)

I've fixed every button, feature, light and mechanism on the car - happy to say that everything works as it should, and there's no "Meh, have to fix that soon" in the back of my mind.

Things I've done:

- 6000K HID's with custom made glare shields.
- VTR spoiler (done by previous owner)
- LED white side lights
- Aero flat windscreen wipers
- New number plates
- New wheel trims (for now)
- Re-sprayed rear badges silver

Things I want to do:

- VTR front bumper (with sides tucked in) - OR - Desire bumper (green colour coded with fogs).
- Smart 3 stud alloys (Possibly 106 'snipe' alloys)
- Swap clock for rev counter dials
- Change dial lights to white
- Mk2 rear jewels
- Projector 'Angel Eye' headlights
- Colour coded black trim (Similar to Desire models)

Well that's that for now! I don't want to do TOO much to it - I'm not going to keep it forever, and want to make things subtle.

So what do you think? Suggestions? Opinions on future plans?

Cheers

Ryan1992 · 11th October 2011, 23:01

This looks good mate

You should smoke the front lights as well though, it completely changes the look of the car, oh and de-wiper it

geraintthomas · 11th October 2011, 23:15

You sure smoked front headlights would suite a dark green car?

Saxovch22 · 11th October 2011, 23:56

yes black on green is win

geraintthomas · 12th October 2011, 10:16

I've seen a few cars with compomotive alloys and lowered. They look great, but I'm not sure I'm willing to do it - not sure how long I'm keeping the car!

tomsmarty · 12th October 2011, 10:35

Looks tidy for £500, plans sound good

sam_16v · 12th October 2011, 10:46

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Originally Posted by Saxovch22

yes black on green is win

agree with the above.. my car is green and i changed my standard rear lights for smoked jewels and they look so much better, checkout my progress thread

nice clean car too btw

geraintthomas · 12th October 2011, 11:03

Thanks guys

to be honest I'm not a fan on having smoked rears on this one. I think it would be too dark. I do like these though:

M3 Style lights

Could add these to clean it up?

sam_16v · 12th October 2011, 11:07

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Originally Posted by geraintthomas

Thanks guys

to be honest I'm not a fan on having smoked rears on this one. I think it would be too dark. I do like these though:

M3 Style lights

Could add these to clean it up?

go for it mate, they look alright

chris-hall-yo · 12th October 2011, 11:12

Definately de-wiper. good effort man!!

geraintthomas · 12th October 2011, 11:26

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Originally Posted by chris-hall-yo

Definately de-wiper. good effort man!!

I've been SO tempted by this - has anyone got any pictures of de-wipered saxos WITH the Mk1 VTR spoiler? I'd de-wiper it if it didn't have one or had the Mk2.. not sure how it would look

should give it a try though!

Might be getting the VTR front bumper in about a week or so!

chris-hall-yo · 12th October 2011, 11:34

de-wiper it and if you dont like it jus simply put it back to standered. i tink it will look good man!

geraintthomas · 12th October 2011, 11:36

I'm not a fan of the Mk1 spoiler, the guy who had the car before me put one on. I'd much rather the Mk2, but I don't want to take this one off in case it'll damage the paint. As far as I know he's plastered it with tiger seal.. would it damage the paint if I take it off?