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Hey up im alex from devon. Got a flame red corsa 1.2, nice little car except its slow as f**k!

A few pics of what the car was like when I bought it:




Straight away I put mudflaps all round on it, debadged the rear and sides, added a few accessories I had been given, and gave the car a good clean inside and out! Oh and added my L plates lol!




Tax disc:


I then had to replace the rear wiper as it was knackered, put a brand new one in, but looking back now I should have put a punto wiper there instead tbh


New Kenwood door speakers:



My car trying on a new rear end :p :


Before:



After:



Fitted my new cd player, a Kenwood KDC – W4041W

Had a bit of a crash in the country lanes in august 2009:





Bought a black wing mirror from scrappies, got some primer and flame red paint from Halfords, sprayed it red and fitted it on =)
Got the dent pulled out,good as new..nearly. and fillered the wheel arch and sprayed it black to fill it the crack it had from the crash.

Fitted my interior leds:

Looks a lot better and brighter in the dark of course

New seat covers:



Sprayed my grill black, cheaper than buying a badgeless grill and looks just as good imo, if not better.


Rear 3 windows tinted in limo black, will get better pics tomorrow


Sprayed my dust caps red :p, done in the dark tonight so i'll have to see how they've turned out tomorrow and get a pic ha

Red dustcaps, not done a very good job tbh as it was dark and i couldnt be bothered to give them a second coat of primer, and only gave it one coat of red paint as the spray can was empty lol

lol u sprayed ur dust caps?.. m8 u can get red dust caps from halfords for like £5..

but like the tints

not a bad project. not to keen on seat covers tbh. and de-badge grill looks better but youve done a good job from what i can see. are you still a learner btw? just that i see a learner sticker and the fact that your saying its too slow and yet you managed to crash it lol. looking foward to project

Shezer wrote:lol u sprayed ur dust caps?.. m8 u can get red dust caps from halfords for like £5..

but like the tints

yeah sprayed them lol, i already had the primer and paint from when i had to respray my mirror after the crash, so i thought why not. saved me a £5 then didn't it?

kie-1200sxi-shed wrote:not a bad project. not to keen on seat covers tbh. and de-badge grill looks better but youve done a good job from what i can see. are you still a learner btw? just that i see a learner sticker and the fact that your saying its too slow and yet you managed to crash it lol. looking foward to project

yeah seat covers are a bit poo lol but tbh they were only lke £10 i think and do the job, and work well with the red/black theme so im happy
nah im not a learner, passed my test about 2months ago or somin =)

im thinkin about stripping my back seats out tbh, save some weight, as i only need the driver and passenger seats for monday - friday, but i kinda need the back seats for weekend sometimes so not sure about that yet
thinking about sunstrip nxt, air filter, meybe extension spoiler, not sure what else to do atm, possibly a redtop conversion in a couple years (:

just a pic of whats its like atm;



ideas of what to do next? wt do you think of;

• drilled air box or exhaust back box if i can find a cheap 1
  silver bee sting aerial
  finish my window tinting(rear window left)
  respray dust caps red again, respray drivers mirror again but this time sand it so its smoother n actually laquer it and spray a bit of the center console too
  fit pedal covers
  new outside temperature sensor
  new rear shocks
  white led sidelights
  restore paintwork and restore wheel arch and bumper plastics
  maybe allcorsa sticker or kenwood sticker in rear quarter windows?
  sunstrip?
  paint brake calipers and drums red
  tint my side repeaters
  red boot neons, need some that have a permentant on and off switch and that connect into the cig lighter though
  maybe fiat punto/maera rear wiper if i can find one for pennies?
  n maybe the get the small dent pulled out even better?

opinions?? obviously money is the main issue atm lol damn it bein a student

I think a new mirror is in check

twoandahalfmen wrote:I think a new mirror is in check

already had it replaced as shown in the pics after

Very nice motor mate, loving the flame red

Mike_Parr wrote:Very nice motor mate, loving the flame red

cheers fella any suggestions on things i could do next other than what ive said in that list? i would get aftermarket alloys, its just being a student, money and insurance is a issue lol! but yeah anything to make my car more unique or whatever then just let me know please guys

theirs loads of stuff you can do yet mate, drop her to the ground and stick some 15" alloys on her with a 40mm drop you'l be fine, orr do a 40mm drop with 17" alloys you will have to adjust your arches slightly but it will fit then you can get your mums hair dryer and heat up the plastic bump strips on the doors and pull them of for starters, then get new tinted black side repeaters to blend in with the black trim. then remove your back box and make up a new one by just getting a piece of pipe and welding an exhaust hanger bracket on it that will give you the sporty sound. or if you want to go the whole way, decat it, and get a larger centre exhaust and rear exhaust. buy a green cotton or k&n or Pipercross cone filter OR panel filter then drill the holes in the bottom of the air box, buy an after market steering wheel such as momo etc, take the badges of your boot and take the rear wiper of your boot and put a rubber bung in its place that will give you a smoother look on the rear. urmm oh but a rear strut brace and a front upper strut brace but make sure its a good one otherwise you wont notice any difference, oh also get hold of a corsa diesel front anti roll bar as they are larger than that on standard corsa's and SRI and GSI corsa's. some other stuff to but iv forgot lol

Your fuel cap cover how much did u get that for n where + wasit hard to fit lol? Btw nice carr

you can buy them from halfrauds, its just sticky back basically. looks bit chav'y to be honest unless you go the whole hog and get the proper race fuel flap.