TT 225
Done quite a bit to the car since I’ve had it so I thought I might as well start a progress thread. As it was when I bought it.
First thing I got from the car when I bought it in Feb 2007 was an RS grille. I think I ended up getting one off ebay for £40 ish.
I then decided to buy some smoked (blacked out) rear lights around August 2007. I got these for a whopping £60 fully legal with reflectors visible. Sorry, sorry! Now trying to get some OEM ones so ZIPIT! From ebay again I bought some silver 16v bullets for £20
Joined the mighty Cliosport.net around this time and things started heading up.
I then set about CC my car starting with door strips. Made an OK job on them (first attempt). (see above)
Next the bullets were sanded down, primered and sprayed LY, which I got from Autopaint in St Helens.
Closely followed by dash strips and AIRBAG decal.
Then the callipers went yellow. (Not to everyone’s taste)
The car then sat like this for around a year as I was only earning £80 a week doing 2 days work whilst at college. I then got an apprenticeship with Unilever in August 08 and started earning a bit more money!
So I bought a set of coilovers from matt_trev 2 weeks ago. Drove down to Hinckley with the girlfriend to pick them up set off around 12:30pm and ended getting up home around 6:00pm after visiting KFC etc on the way home.
The car before I had washed or fitted anything...STATE!
Started fitting the coilovers last Saturday around 12:00 pm. I had only just installed the front struts by 5:00 pm as I ended up visiting a few local garages to get the top mounts undone (pain in the arse). National were really helpful and didn’t charge me anything for undoing them! I painted callipers on Saturday evening whilst it was pissing down and then decided to call it a night.
Got up 7:30 on Sunday began work again...had to give the callipers another lick of paint and install discs and pads in the rain...gutted. Got the front finished (wheels back on etc around 2pm) and began on the back... I thought I was going to finish with plenty of daylight to spare as people have mentioned that the rears are a POP to install. Was still outside at 5:00pm as I found that when matt_trev had boxed them up for me he had slid the copper tube onto the damper without the washer underneath and I spent literally 2 hours trying to figure out what the hell was going wrong.
The car was up and down and on and off the axel stands constantly until I Pm'd f0xy (Jord) who gave me a few helping pointers and it was finished by 7:00pm. (Well, nearly.)
I then had to get up again at 7:30am to bleed the brakes with the helping leg of the old fella.
I gave it a wash today and went out for a couple of photos. This is the finished result…
I am currently waiting for a front badge to dry and I have primered front bump strips, which I bought off a member on here (sorry I cant remember who). Bullets are then going Glacier white with black lettering.
Updates soon!
(Please can a mod move this to where it should be, v.sorry)
First thing I got from the car when I bought it in Feb 2007 was an RS grille. I think I ended up getting one off ebay for £40 ish.
I then decided to buy some smoked (blacked out) rear lights around August 2007. I got these for a whopping £60 fully legal with reflectors visible. Sorry, sorry! Now trying to get some OEM ones so ZIPIT! From ebay again I bought some silver 16v bullets for £20
Joined the mighty Cliosport.net around this time and things started heading up.
I then set about CC my car starting with door strips. Made an OK job on them (first attempt). (see above)
Next the bullets were sanded down, primered and sprayed LY, which I got from Autopaint in St Helens.
Closely followed by dash strips and AIRBAG decal.
Then the callipers went yellow. (Not to everyone’s taste)
The car then sat like this for around a year as I was only earning £80 a week doing 2 days work whilst at college. I then got an apprenticeship with Unilever in August 08 and started earning a bit more money!
So I bought a set of coilovers from matt_trev 2 weeks ago. Drove down to Hinckley with the girlfriend to pick them up set off around 12:30pm and ended getting up home around 6:00pm after visiting KFC etc on the way home.
The car before I had washed or fitted anything...STATE!
Started fitting the coilovers last Saturday around 12:00 pm. I had only just installed the front struts by 5:00 pm as I ended up visiting a few local garages to get the top mounts undone (pain in the arse). National were really helpful and didn’t charge me anything for undoing them! I painted callipers on Saturday evening whilst it was pissing down and then decided to call it a night.
Got up 7:30 on Sunday began work again...had to give the callipers another lick of paint and install discs and pads in the rain...gutted. Got the front finished (wheels back on etc around 2pm) and began on the back... I thought I was going to finish with plenty of daylight to spare as people have mentioned that the rears are a POP to install. Was still outside at 5:00pm as I found that when matt_trev had boxed them up for me he had slid the copper tube onto the damper without the washer underneath and I spent literally 2 hours trying to figure out what the hell was going wrong.
The car was up and down and on and off the axel stands constantly until I Pm'd f0xy (Jord) who gave me a few helping pointers and it was finished by 7:00pm. (Well, nearly.)
I then had to get up again at 7:30am to bleed the brakes with the helping leg of the old fella.
I gave it a wash today and went out for a couple of photos. This is the finished result…
I am currently waiting for a front badge to dry and I have primered front bump strips, which I bought off a member on here (sorry I cant remember who). Bullets are then going Glacier white with black lettering.
Updates soon!
(Please can a mod move this to where it should be, v.sorry)
...got it all sorted then?
