3rd Time Lucky VTS - Poorly car :( Treated it to a K&N Gen2!

[JoshB]

Well, onto my 3rd Saxo now, after mine selling earlier this year, and the missus' gone, there was an empty space on my drive to fill!

The original plan was to move house, but as the housing market is shite at the moment we've decided against it.

Anyway, to recap, here's how my first saxo turned out.

Bought this standard ish 1997 VTS on 61K for £1000 back in December 08.



Which got stripped out and some lightweight wheels



Before ending up getting neglected and taken away by the scrap man...



So roll on December 10, and I went and purchased this VTR



Which got stripped out with the intention of taking on track days.




But, me and my girlfriend were going to buy a bigger house so it unfortunately got sold to put towards my negative equity! (mark1311 is the new owner).

Anyway, as aforementioned, the house move is on hold, so I went out and bought myself a VTS!





Picked up this 2002 'S' with 103k on the clock for £850. Full service history (booked stamped every 20k) and every MOT from its first.

The engine runs sweet as a nut, however there a few niggling little issues with it. Brake warning light is on, just needs the fluid topping up, and the ABS warning light is on, its been disconnected.

Plans for this are not alot really, not going down the stripping out route again, although it might lose some weight inside. Its going to get lowered, new manifold and exhaust, new panel filter and some 266mm brakes. Then I'm going to get the VT kit colour coded and the alloys in grey.

I'll keep fiddling with the styling, but no major engine mods or big ice installs here. Just going to look after it.

One plus point is the paint work is immaculate! There are a couple of annoying dints in it, but its never been through a car was in its life!


You can just about make out how shiny it is, and it hasnt even had a clean here!

Anyway, enjoy and I'll keep it updated as I change things!