chrisritch
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Registered: 2nd Sep 08
Location: Northants Drives: V40
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Not a corsa but hey!
Well as most of the people who went to French Car Show know or/and saw my car was written off on the way home when the bonnet decided to fly up and bend the roof and A Pillars
Just happened to have gained some inheritance from my stepdad so decided to use it on another car, it was going to be used to throttle body the gold sax but shit happens lol.
Got this for £800 which i feel is fair with 77k and a few mods which are growing on me slowly, if im honest when i went to pick her up i hated her but when i drove her to the pub andit got all sorts of comments and made me focus on the good bits rather than the not so good bits which could do with touching up.
Ill start from the top lol
The previous owner attempted to colour code the black bits and did a poor job so paint is starting to flake everywhere so im just awaiting a quote from PaintWRX in Daventry to book her in to restore some glory.
It was also missing an arch so i ordered a new one which hasnt arrived by the time of these photos so i sprayed one up myself from my gold one, it looks rubbish close up but hey atleast its not trying to be a flat arch
Herea a few pics i took today:
Heres a close up of the arch i did which i feel isnt too bad for my first attempt at spraying
Heres a list of mods it has:
Magnex Backbox with de-cat pipe but has a silencer so it sounds just right
OZ alloys,not sure which but could be getting refurbed soon in anthracite
All round window tints
Meshed front grille
colour coded bumpstrips(badly)
smoked rear lights
smoked side repeaters
BMC CDA induction Kit
Raceland strut brace
On their way:
JVC Loom so i can wire up my stereo thank god!
Raceland GTB Relcining bucket seats in black and blue alcantara
Blue carpet from 106 rallye
Plans for not to distant future:
16v conversion, i have everything needed just need to save up money for fitting lol
Just put a deposit down for a flocked dashboard in electric blue
my mum runs an upholstery business so doorcards and rear bench are gonna be re trimmed in alcantara asap
bidding on a load of electric blue flocked parts such as
A Pillars
B Pillars
Speaker Covers
Vent Covers
Steering cowl
fuse box cover
sunroof cowl
centre console
and some more i cant remember
Show cage
And soon mooie from here should be building me a boot build
hope you all arent to mean about her lol
any input or ideas would be greatly appreciated cheers
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MarkSport
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Registered: 22nd May 09
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back lights no
mirrors no
everything else is nice
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chrex
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Registered: 26th Aug 07
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that centre cap in the last pic needs turning to align wit the spokes.
[Edited on 23-06-2009 by chrex]
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Anty
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Registered: 19th Mar 08
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change the front end !!!
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Ben-B
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Registered: 28th Jul 08
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quote:
Originally posted by chrex
that centre cap in the last pic needs turning to align wit the spokes.
[Edited on 23-06-2009 by chrex]
i agree it would look better with the cap turned,
anyway, looks like a nice little car mate  i think them wheels are called OZ titans btw, but im not 100% sure
[Edited on 23-06-2009 by Br.ANDO]
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Baskey
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Looks nice bud, never really liked saxo's but just bought a vts of a bloke of work for £200 and there growing on me now. Cant pick mine up for a month though. If you need a 16v engine let me know cus il probely break it.
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BluKoo
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Phase one saxos are so much nicer than the phase 2's imo.
Don't like the wheels, mirrors or the rear lights.
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chrisritch
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Registered: 2nd Sep 08
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just got my Fox Evo 3s back from the breaker, cunt tried sellin em:O
mirrors are just there till i get round to finding ones with quartrz mirror caps
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taylorboosh
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a=standard mirrors mate and the proper smoked rears and it will be ace, i loved my spaxo
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taylorboosh
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just get your old mirrors and lights
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chrisritch
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yeah lol the proper smoked jewels are a tad expensive at the mo but thy'll be on the list
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taylorboosh
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when i had mine they where 45 quid
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Richardhhha
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Iirc saxo's had a big recall out to fix the bonnet catch problem that you had in your old car.. Make sure this one's had it done. Not a big fan of saxo's but i cant fit in them to drive them so thats most proly why. Umm different front end as it looks kinda like a weared delorian to me, different rear lights and standard mirrors and it will look a lot better
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taylorboosh
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http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/CITROEN-SAXO-SMOKED-JEWEL-STYLE-REAR-TAIL-LIGHTS-VTR_W0QQitemZ260427513619QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM?hash=item3ca2b07f13&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=65%3A12%7C66%3A2%7C39%3A1%7C72%3A1683%7C240%3A1318%7C301%3A1%7C293%3A1%7C294%3A50
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chrisritch
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Registered: 2nd Sep 08
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ATM im trying to focus on the most obvious things such as paint defects and such
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*JonnyG*
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i like it. 
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DannyB
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Registered: 6th Feb 08
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Not much luck with cars have you  Personally I would have got a VTS, not keen on lights tints or mirrors though.
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Oli_p
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when fitting the vts engine , spend abit extra on getting your fly wheel lightened and balanced before you fit it all, thought it was a good thing to have on my old vts. boy do i miss that car  was pretty nippy running only 135/140bhp with a few small mods
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chrisritch
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Registered: 2nd Sep 08
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quote:
Originally posted by DannyB
Not much luck with cars have you Personally I would have got a VTS, not keen on lights tints or mirrors though.
would love to but insurance would butt rape me
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andys sxi
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Registered: 19th Jan 06
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the saxo looks pretty bad how fast was you goin when it happened? i have had a bonnet come open on my first corsa b and it isnt good when your doing 70mph in the middle lane of a motoway and can only see a little bit of the bottom of the bonnet mine wasnt as bad as yours tho but the car still got written off
April 08 feature car
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DAZ1985
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quote:
Originally posted by BluKoo
Phase one saxos are so much nicer than the phase 2's imo.
Don't like the wheels, mirrors or the rear lights.
+1
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chrisritch
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Registered: 2nd Sep 08
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swapped the rear lights with a mate for clear jewels
changed the wheels for fox evo 3s but the mirrors are the same llol
DAZ1895, got any interesting bits for sale?
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Ben G
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Registered: 12th Jan 07
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are you the guy who's mg zr's (read rover) headgasket blew??
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chrisritch
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yeah lol
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