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Cheers all. Cleaned up the abs rings in case it was but no difference. Weirdly the time I did have an abs problem the lights never came on! That's Clios for you! I replaced the steering wheel about 6 months ago when I started putting my car back to standard. Refitted the seats and...

Hi all Recently had the traction control light and serv light come on after putting my car back to standard. Plugged in my RSTuner which came up with a brake pedal fault. Adjusted the switch as per the guide on here, cleared the fault code, refreshed the faults list and all good. However...

Sorry for the lack of updates. The guy doing it has been moving workshops after falling out with his landlord - roof started seriously leaking and landlord refused to repair it - not great with a workshop full of rusty vdubs!! So been on the bottom of his list of priorities for a while. Now...

Re: Clio sports in bedfordshire And i'm another Leightonian :)

Re: My 1st contribution to the Dub scene - 1966 VW Split Screen complete resto + good Cheers, can't wait to get to the rebuild stage like you :) PM'd you about costs. Hope you don't find too much when you bare metal her.

Looks like a great project (and always good to learn on someone elses car ;))

Looks great Will - really nice finish on them :)

Re: My 1st contribution to the Dub scene - 1966 VW Split Screen complete resto + good Good job! Will follow this with interest. I've got an early bay dormobile but nowhere near solid (well wasn't - its getting there now :)). My progress thread if you're interested -...

One side just about done: Now onto the next:

^^ anytime mate :) Just seen your new business, looks good - i'll pm you about some bits :)

Me too! Fortunately found someone who does so it stands a chance of getting finished!

Now 'new' front arch on and staring to look more complete down this side. Arch is actually a cut from a rust free cali van as the arches on my van are one year only and not available as pattern parts:

^^ fank you :o Its comments like that that keep the motivation up when the light at the end of the tunnel seems a long way off :)

Hey gower, long time no see. HoD are up in Stanbridge so very easy for me to drop in and give him a hand (watch and drink tea lol!)

Been ages since I've updated this but work has been coming on at a pace. Realised the more I did that there was no way I was ever going to get the van back together this year! Stumbled across a restorer literally 5 minutes away from me called House of Dub. Got a quote, got the van shot...

No, if you remove the wheel and arch liner you can go in that way as they are bolted on from behind.

Nice idea. Love to have the money/balls to chop my 182 up lol.

Glad you're chuffed with them mate. Look spot on and thats a great weight saving :)

No particularly great photos but used vw brilliant orange on mine.

Staying blue but a different shade, neptune blue, and up to the roof line so it will look something like this:

Cheers for the comments everyone. Bit of an update on the last couple of weekends. Massive thanks to FunkyMunky on here who has now spent a couple of days helping me out. So last weekend carried on with the strip down. Started on the roof. Top coat of paint came off with very little...

Hehe you're welcome dude :) car looks cracking

They're a bit marmite but doesn't show up in photos so well without them lol

Quick update on the weekend's progress. Spent Saturday over in Norwich with FunkyMunky off here swapping his standard seats for a lovely set of trophy recaros. Only took a couple of hours but traffic was sh!te on the way back and raining when we got home so nothing doing on the van Saturday...

One of mine for you...

^^lol no! Could do with the £1000 tho!

So, thought it was high time I did a bit of an update. My father in law got me a book on restoration for Christmas and I thought, how hard can it be? lol. So as the weather warmed up I decided to crack on with it... Day one. Had the lads round and removed the pop top and started to bare...

I had to do that in my chimaera as it was my daily driver. No abs and traction control , rear wheel drive 300bhp and a tonne make for interesting snow driving!

^^Would love to, but it would take me years and just want to use it! Garage is local though so am going to be free labour for him in the strip down and rebuild plus going to strip and rebuild the engine myself. Just leaving the welding and spraying to the experts.

Right, went to see the first resto man at the weekend. Good news is its reasonable solid as i thought, jacking points, outriggers, beam and majority of the body good :) List of work goes something like: - new inner and outer front valance - new a-posts - new panel under bottom edge of...