It's a 97 1.2 Opel Corsa viva, which in England is known as the city. My Granda was a heavy smoker, so naturally the car needed a good cleaning.
When I first got it.
Beside the dents in the boot, and the fairly standard faded trim, the body was in good shape.
I started off by debadging it.
Before and after :
Then I went out and bought a load of car upholstery cleaners. This is the colour of the water after cleaning the dashboard 3 times...
The dash was so dirty that I used up two cans of dashboard cleaner. Before I went and bought more cleaners, I painted the faded trim.
While the paint was drying I took the badly stained roof out of the car. The roof was originally light beige and turned brown over the 16 years.
I then went to halfords and bought a couple rolls of window tint film. Here's the back drivers window tinted. It's the darkest tint I could find. You can see the difference between the front and back window, and the difference between the clean and dirty part of the pillar trim.
As you can imagine, the seats smelt really bad, so when the opportunity to get heated leather calibra seats came about, I quickly set to work removing the old seats and installing the new seats. Also while I had the old seats out I took the opportunity to lay some new carpet, which covers up the smoke smell and the holes in the original carpet. I know it's not to everybody's taste, but personally I like it!
Before :
During :
After :
Seen as the seats were leather I decided to cover the roof, parcel shelf and door cards in leather.
I heard that painting over a smell is meant to cover the smell, so painted the roof blue before covering it in black leather.
And the roof in the car along with the calibra sun visors.
