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Progress Thread - dutton84 - 27:th-Jun-2015

Thought I'd do one..... It's not going to be quite on the same level as some of the other cars on here but to me, buying and hanging a little tree air freshener is an upgrade......


So I bought an Astra 1.6 SRI

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First thing I wanted to do was change the alloys so I bought the diamond cut ones you see on GTC's, BiTurbos and Zafira Tourers.

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They were quite badly curbed as you can see

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So had to get them refurbed...... Which cost an arm and a leg

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They'd done a really good job in the end so was worth the cost and look a lot better than the 17" ones I had on

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Next thing was changing the centre dash trim. Mine had a slight scratch on it so I wanted to change it but ended up buying the wrong trim. Mine is metallic silver and I'd bought the dull silver one.

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Then I found a darker coloured trim wish I liked and stuck with that.

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Ended up with quite a few. Ha.

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I'm still after the gloss black one though.....

Next was one of the most complicated of all car upgrades.……number plates. Had to think long and hard about doing this on my own, sleepless nights and everything.

Mine were a bit tatty and the front plate sticked out at the ends due to it being screwed in

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So decided to stick the on..... Revolutionary I know.

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They no longer stuck out at the ends

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Then I bough the VXR pedals

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Which look loads better

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See I'm not lying

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Next was smoked repeaters

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And it now looks like this

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RE: Progress Thread - Rusty2009 - 27:th-Jun-2015

Very nice mate, some hekos and tints will look nice.

RE: Progress Thread - tucpal - 27:th-Jun-2015

Looks really nice [SMILING FACE WITH SMILING EYES]

Progress Thread - dutton84 - 27:th-Jun-2015

Cheers. And thanks for the help along the way.


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(27:th-Jun-2015, 08:20:45)Rusty2009 Wrote: Very nice mate, some hekos and tints will look nice.

I've run the wind deflectors by the misses and she said.....no. Ha.

Tints could be an option though.


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Progress Thread - Tonto - 27:th-Jun-2015

Looks awesome mate!


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Progress Thread - dutton84 - 28:th-Jun-2015

Thanks mate.

Finally found a gloss black trim. It's half chrome half gloss black. Finally.

Will Match the gloss black and chrome door handles now.

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RE: Progress Thread - tucpal - 28:th-Jun-2015

that will look better

Progress Thread - dutton84 - 4:th-Jul-2015

The new trim is in. 3rd one so far... I'll be on the look out for a complete gloss black one now. Ha.

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Old one

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Matches the door trim now too

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