Silver X10XE Slow project

Teastick · Post by **Teastick** » Sun Sep 01, 2013 12:05 am

Went on ebay last night before bed and bought :

2 x door hinge pins. My doors nock alot
2 x micro fibre drying towels
Microfibre wash mit
Polishing pads
Linseed oil
Heatgun
Black vauxhall logo dustcaps
Clear side indicators
Centre cap key

Teastick · Post by **Teastick** » Sun Sep 01, 2013 12:06 am

johnny wrote:Yeah it happens alot tbh theres nothing wrong with using them part from they scratch thevwheel

5 euro a wheel we charge but thats dealer garage, a tyre fitter is normally cheaper and you only need the fronts balanced

By fronts you mean just the front of the rim?

Or just the front wheels?

Post by **johnny** » Sun Sep 01, 2013 12:11 am

The front wheels

4 wheels only be balanced on cars with independent back suspension

Just to say them weights probly are the oringnal weights from vauxhall but since then stick on weights mean no one uses them on alloys any more

Teastick · Post by **Teastick** » Sun Sep 01, 2013 1:17 am

johnny wrote:The front wheels 4 wheels only be balanced on cars with independent back suspension

Just to say them weights probly are the oringnal weights from vauxhall but since then stick on weights mean no one uses them on alloys any more

Cheers for that bud il get them done when finished

Teastick · Post by **Teastick** » Mon Sep 02, 2013 10:03 am

Little update

Put battery back in yesterday and let it idle for five. Then took it for a five mile drive and it felt alot quicker / responsive. Madness.

And i fixed my mfd. it was because i cut the illumination wire. Derp

Also the rears of all wheels are primed. Just gotta do the fronts but im off to bed now so will do some when i wake up

Got in from work at 8 am from a 10 hour nightshift. Was tired. Till i remembered i had some spare leds left from mfd. i bought a 10 pack but broke about 5 trying to do mfd.

Took a broken led out of the plastic cap (t5) and was left with the little smd and its connectors. Put them into my cigarette light bulb socket and now have a bright blue light instead of the wedge type ones which are dull blue. Wedge ones are now in heater panel. Which is dull so eventually going to wire additional leds like i seen someone on here do before.

With the spare smd's i figured may aswell try them in my dashlights. So i now have two blue bulbs and one white bulb in the middle. I know its odd. But it will do untill i get more bulbs then its literally a case of wip clocks out and change one bulb and i have a full blue interior

minus map lights there white. Never realised how easy it was to remove the clocks. I love corsa's even more now. Such a pleasure to work on

steviebuggy · Post by **steviebuggy** » Mon Sep 02, 2013 6:56 pm

Yer they are good to work on!!! That's why I love mine hahahaha

Teastick · Post by **Teastick** » Mon Sep 02, 2013 8:26 pm

Got some goodies in the post today

Heatgun turned up so i can start the debadge

Linseed oil turned up so black bumpers again

Replacement side indicators arrived ( one broke )

Getting to dark to do anything and im at work tonight so hopefully start the debadge sometime this week while continuing with the wheels

slowly starting to get somewhere

Teastick · Post by **Teastick** » Tue Sep 03, 2013 12:14 am

Odd speedo lights :p

Teastick · Post by **Teastick** » Thu Sep 05, 2013 9:30 am

Another small update.

Done an hours worth of prep on the two damaged rims today. I put metal epoxy putty on a few days ago and left it to set for the next day but couldn't be bothered to go round garage that day so left it till today.

Goes on like this

After a lot of sanding

Finished wheel

Also got my door hinge pins, polishing pads, microfibre cloths, dust caps and centre cap key aswell so plenty to keep me busy in the next few days

Thats all for now

Big C · Post by **Big C** » Sat Sep 07, 2013 9:41 am

looks like a gd job there mate well done

keep the updates coming!

Teastick · Post by **Teastick** » Sat Sep 07, 2013 12:17 pm

Big C wrote:looks like a gd job there mate well done keep the updates coming!

Thanks mate going to b+q today to buy new bulbs for the garage so i can work at night

then i should have wheels done soon

Love your corsa looks properly clean mate good job

Teastick · Post by **Teastick** » Sun Sep 08, 2013 4:23 pm

Got quite a bit done today

Sprayed the rest of wheels so just need to wait till tomorrow to check there good then get lacquer on them and im done

Figured while ive got black paint out i may aswell paint all wiper arms black as they were faded and almost silver in parts

Tested out linseed oil. Very impressed with it so far

Before

After

Teastick · Post by **Teastick** » Sun Sep 08, 2013 4:25 pm

Finally remembered to take picture of my subwoofers. So here is the beast

Also had some little cans of plastic paint off my model cars so i took centre console back out and have sprayed it a light gunmetal grey

Here are the wheels

Garage is a tip again

give it another clean when the wheels are done, still got to do centre caps but need to take the vauxhall logo off to spray. Or should i just spray over the emblems?

Also fitted new hinge pins and my doors are silent now

Anyways thats all for now till tomorrow morning when i can clear coat and put things back on

Teastick · Post by **Teastick** » Sun Sep 08, 2013 4:28 pm

Got everything fitted back on today and test fitted a wheel

Also started work on centre caps. First job was to debadge them. Finally got to use my heatgun lol

Just gotta get the rest of the glue off and im done and ready to prep then paint them

Will get wheels balanced sometime this week

gazza_no7 · Post by **gazza_no7** » Sun Sep 08, 2013 4:37 pm

Looking good!

going to have to get myself some of that linseed oil!

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