Soo... I thought that i would get back into the swing of things after loosing my old 6n

I brought this for £500

106k miles on the clock AFH engine 100bhp standard.

Body word , isnt the best.

Interior VERY NICE and tidy!

After driving it back:

After getting back and having a quick toilet stop

Also made a start of getting all the years of gunk off the head

Soo , now its night time I've come in to order all my festoon bulbs for the interior and plate.

Also about to order pressed plates.

To do in the next week:

Fit my old coilovers on

Get the backbox on

Clean the throttle body

Induction kit down to the lower grill

Fit the sprayed badge

Spray some interior bits

Sort the pasanger electric window

Polish the head

Give the engine a good clean

Debadge the back

Dewiper the back

Recieve and fit the HID kit

Fit the bonnet strut

recieve and put new sparkplug and leads in

Sort the manifold cover out

In the coming months

Retrim the roof lining

Spray the car

find some alloys

sort the tracking

find some 6n2 rears

sort the bodywork out

and ALOT MORE!!

Thanks too:

elie_n - providing 2 blanks FREE! underneath the hazard light - I can now cut the holes for other switches right!

Edited 9 November, 201015 yr by mpsheen

Ah good buy mate! looking foward to seeing this :)

bargain mate, can wait to see some good progress

Got a good deal on that (:

Tiny little update , Been a hetic week for me so hardly anything has been done....

Holes cut in dash switches

Receving 2 more from elie_n on this fourm for FREE (Thank you!) , Going to re-cut and get 12v ones in.

Lowered the back end with great difficulty , There about an inch off being all the way wound down

New sidelights in

On the left is LO and on the right is PO

<-- 1.4 16v --> 1.9 TDI sport

Tomorow

Hopfully , Rubstrips , rear badges will be removed. I'm now smoothing the back over (badge and boot handle) so orange badge is usless...

Wiper will be taken off.

If i get time (picking gf up from college) the front will be sat on the floor, Pain the the bum to compress the springs :/

Any spare time , il be working on prepping the spare set of 16v bumpers i have , also fitting a air intake into the front and smoothing it over.

While doing other work , will soak the head again in oven cleaner (worked really well to get the top layer off)

Also need to find the right socket to get the new spark plugs in!

Hopfully in the coming weeks this will take off..

Edited 9 November, 201015 yr by mpsheen

Back end is looking much better already!

Back end is looking much better already!

Thanks.

Been doing things which you never really notice.

Such as cleaning the engine bay up, Putting little things right witht the interior. Cleaning it, preping the wiring ready for everything to go in.

Now some of thats done hopfuly now it will take off. Once its the way i want it. I can get hold of a compressor and start spraying bits candy red (changed my mind) and go with red/white theme and it will really start to change.

I'll get round to do the roof lining at some point and some other bits and pieces.

Also need to order my pressed plates , the old plastic ones where worse then my trainers i had when i was about 7 , Toes used to poke through... i used to love my old star wars trainers.... offtopic

Nothing like an old pair of shoes though!

It's the small things that make the difference on a car though

Nice man! you are only up the road from me, I'm in fleet. Give me a shout if you want a hand! I've got some special spray that removes the gunk under bumpstrips dead easy if u wanna borrow it?

Nice man! you are only up the road from me, I'm in fleet. Give me a shout if you want a hand! I've got some special spray that removes the gunk under bumpstrips dead easy if u wanna borrow it?

ahh sweet , that would be cool.

If your ever near basingstoke gimme a shout

its only 10 mins up the road mate, let me know if you want a hand

If you fancy a chat just gimme a shout :)

Going to see if i can find all the tools to get my front mounts off :L , my old 6n was a c**t for it , blow tourch , hammer the lot!

Do need help welding a backbox on although i dont have any tools , will have to wait till xams :)

Edited 10 November, 201015 yr by mpsheen

Nice man! you are only up the road from me, I'm in fleet. Give me a shout if you want a hand! I've got some special spray that removes the gunk under bumpstrips dead easy if u wanna borrow it?

Do share the secret? Had a nightmare de stripping my mates loop.

my mate works in a bodyshop and he gave me this polish spray stuff. I cant remember what its called but he swears by it, ill have to get the name

You spray it on and it comes out almost like glue, but it doesnt damage the paint whatsoever. Leave it on for 2 mins, literally wipe away all the bumpstrip with a credit card. Piece of piss. I was unbelieveably impressed at how easy it was after spending an hour and a half doing one side of my mk3.

Also halfords sell sticky stuff remover, which although not as good as the stuff I used, does the job suitably. If not a fudge wheel on a drill is always your best option. Get them from ebay, literally take it right off.

get your hands on one of these : http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Automotive-Toffee-Wh...=item51913f664d

I'm a local as well :)

You'l have to get the name of what you use :).

I'm going to rip one off and see how many chemicals i can use on it to remove it. If its too hard i'll leave and get on with the back badges and front coilies.

I'm just hoping that one of many packages arives today which means i can get on with other things :)

@richoco , I picked up car up in guilford from SeAutoworks

i actually live in farnham :)

cars looking tidy mate

Ahh sweet , so your both about 15 - 20 miles away from me :)

I'm @ RG22 5LF

Just ripped the bump strips off and badges .... theres a ton of glue and crap left.

Spent nearly an hour trying to find a 7.0 allen key (think thats what i need) to get the mount undone and i just can bloody find one. So i ripped the back boot pannel off and got the wiper off insted.

When ever i need to find a tool to do somthing , although we have it its no where to be seen. Almost asif it just walks off by its self..

EDIT:

the dash blank that elie_n on here sent me for FREE arived. Ripped it open and cut a new hole :)

As the post came my LED and wireing all came so I've soldered up a LED ready to go onto the alarm system , when thats in.

Edited 10 November, 201015 yr by mpsheen

Who at SE Autoworks did you get it from? Phil?

haha I know them really well! When I worked at Euro car parts in Guildford they one were of my biggest customers. Used to go round there and hang out after work

Also, Richoco, i always forget your so close! We should do polo shit soon! Theres noone in fleet with a love for polos!

EDIT:

I just realised that I remember them sorting this car out, if its the same one? Came to them with a knackered gearbox which they replaced then serviced it if i remember correctly? If its the same mate thats weird, i ordered all the bits for it!

Edited 10 November, 201015 yr by bullawayo

I'm at uni at the moment so only back at holidays but in december ill definately be up for some polo shit haha

lad! where r u at uni mate? I finished this year doing transport design at huddersfield. I miss getting drunk 3 times a week+ :(

ah awesome, I'm at nottingham. yeah bet you do! uve always got jaxx though

Edited 10 November, 201015 yr by richoco

haha sweet.

I think they said it was thier cortousey car (spellings bad).

Silver 1998 6n 1.4 16v.

Few scrapes on it. Once sill is pushed in.

That would be crazy if it was :L

It idles really strange but mehh , £500 I'm happy.

Get it over to my house and ill sort the idle for you. Only takes 20 mins

Yea they did use it as their courtesy car. It was in pretty good nick when I saw it. I just checked the numberplate and it is the same one haha. I've driven you are motor!

Ha Ha thats mad!

I'm not insured on it at the moment.

Its sat on my drive to work on as insurance is like 5k

was ment to do the front coilovers today but cant get any allen key to fit the mounts so i ended up ripping th strips , badges and wiper off.

Also attempted to remove the back bumper again.... Dont know how to get the 16v ones off :/