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glad to hear it mate, good luck

Sti rear lights mate?

Cheers mate, as much as I dislike autoglym`s stuff I may give that a go.

My mum has now taken delivery of her vectra from me, as she`s now happy with the way it looks. It started off looking like this: After a bit of compound polish it was starting to look much better though, note the difference between the two sides of the bonnet! And finally, once the wheels had been cleaned and i`d given the whole car a polish, inside and out, it looks like this:

Monday night, there was little to do so my mum suggested going to have a look around the garages for a new car for her. She set a limit of around £2000 to find her a half decent car that she could take to france but would also be fairly reasonable over here. The main stipulation was that it had to have a big boot. After a couple of garages, we found a 2.5 gsi Vectra for sale for £2000 with a full Irmscher bodykit and agreed we would return the following afternoon after work to enquire about it. As it happened, a close friend works in the parts department of the garage that it was for sale al so I got him to look into it and find out the history etc of it. This was it: About 330 on tuesday afternoon I received a call from my mate to inform me that the car had sold within half an hour of them opening that morning and that it had only been put on sale at close of day the night before! What he had found out though, is that behind it was a 2.5 vectra sri in red that the paint had faded on (have a look at the pink car behind the astra next to the black one) that because of the faded paint it would be possible to get for less. After i finished work that day, I collected my mum and we drove to the garage to have a look at it. My mate appeared with a small amount of polish and a couple of rags so that i could see for myself that it would polish up. did the usual checks on it and it didn`t seem to be too bad other than that, the wipers needing replacing and a couple of spots of rust. Checked for smoke on start up and there was nothing at all from cold so I was well impressed. Took it for a test drive and although lacking power in comparison to the impreza, I was quite impressed with it, and also of the sound of the v6 even through its standard exhaust. Once we returned, I popped into the parts department to see my mate and find out what he had managed to dig up about the car. I also checked to see if it had had the cambelt changed and did the usual oil and fluids checked. After a short while, the salesman returned and started to give me the usual spiel about how once polished they were going to put it up on the forecourt for £2000 but had decided against it whilst the black on was for sale. After a bit of negotiating, stating that I have the materials to clean it up myself and so didn`t feel it necessary that they do it, and that the rust patches would need some attention and the wipers etc I offered him £900 for it. All I can say after that is his jaw practically hit the floor in disbelief as he said "sorry" thinking he`d misheard me. After I repeated my offer he seemed to take me quite seriously and then stated that he would accept no less than £1000 for it. Again I tried to haggle it down a bit further but after a bit of thought, I gave in and settled for the £1000 that he wanted for it. At the moment, the car is currently sat in my grans driveway where I have started cleaning it up a little, compound polishing the door shuts and the inside of the boot and bonnet in preperation for the batteries being fully charged on my polisher. I also noted the engine fan was a bit noisy when operating so I will be investigating what that could be over the next few evenings. My mum has stated that she has no wish to drive the car until it was all clean for her and so potentially, her first drive of it will be on saturday as that is when I believe it will be completely ready for her

Ok, this is the reason I want to sell

Well, I went out in the type r this afternoon. Apart from the looks of it (its a 22b replica without the wide arches) i didn`t think it to be particularly special. I`ll see how things go, if someone makes me a decent offer on it then it`ll be going but until then I guess i`ll be keeping it and doing a few little bits of it

Cheers mate. I`m half tempted to pop in and see about the type r tomorrow and see if they`re interested in taking mine in too but tbh I`d rather see it go to someone that appreciates it, and preferably not over here

Cheers mate, i`m open to reasonable offers around that area to, as long as its not taking the wee

the price in my mind is around the £4500-5000 region mate Cheers

I`ve been considering it on and off for a while now, basically since I needed it rebuilt a couple of months ago. At the moment it sits on my driveway doing very little, and there is also a type r that has caught my eye at the local importers

In my STi 3? Most of you know the car and pictures and the spec of it are as follows: 17" white symms alloy wheels Scoobyworld exhaust: -afterburner vortex downpipe -ninja mid section with very small silencer box -afterburner vortex backbox STi 6 rear spoiler front lip spoiler WRC roof scoop all skirts colour coded oversize bonnet scoop walbro 255 fuel pump Samco turbo hoses magnecore leads NGK plugs brand new grooved front discs with ferodo ds2500 pads as supplied by godspeed to their specification Blitz boost gauge SARD short shift SUbaru OEM gauges (oil temp, pres, voltage) PIAA front fogs Sparco wipers boost controlled water spray Autobahn88 FMIC de-tangoed with silver tech bulbs sti high preassure rad cap and fancy oil filer cap Simtek ecu with switchable anti-lag 22b bonnet vents Painted brake calipers Exedy organic clutch

well Parker there is 3 lots of mods on show, see if you can work them out Obviously the bonnet vents is the first

cheers mate

Finally, after it taking me all weekend to get them onto the computer I have pics at last of my latest mods. Wheels should be getting powdercoated in the near future and then turbo some point this year. Unless that is, I sell it before then

nice one mate

some pics of mine for now: A couple of the fiesta a mate and I have been building for hillclimbing: A few others from our stand: And a few random cars from the rest of the show:

I shall be in attendance at this show on sunday so I`ve been preparing the car for it. I can honestly say I don`t think the car has ever been so clean. New disks and pads are in the process of being fitted, the calipers have been painted and I`ve spent two nights this week polishing it, and thats without waxing so far!!!!! Should be a fair mix of cars there so I`ll try and get some pictures

I accepted your add Ed, and also suggested a few new friends as well

I`m too lazy to go in and search for people lol, add me under james warren, in case there`s more than one i`ve got a yellow tshirt on holding a smirnoff ice at pontins

I do

Ed, you get someone to change a wheel for you

Good pics

Not only that, but that story has been doing the rounds about the same length of time as the two RAF pilots in the porsche with night vision goggles