Progress thread: Tonto

[Tonto]

Yeah the blue connector for USB and the grey connector for aux..?


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[opelastra]

Hi Tonto,

I just both the same radio as yours just woundering the The factory USB slot the ( black plastic around the USB slot ) in the Opel Astra J 2015 can that be use again in your pic (The unit has a USB slot on the rear you plug the grey cable ) or will i have to buy a new one like what you did ?thanks

[Tonto]

Hey mate, no you can unplug the factory connector from the USB and then plug in the blue connector pictured above. The extra USB with grey cable can be used elsewhere.


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[opelastra]

Thanks a mill for letting me know

[Tonto]

Fitted the grille this morning, wow that fm grille is a nightmare to get off, I literally just cut it off!

The fun and games!


Fitted



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[mrtc]

hate it, bloody awful,,,,,





ok maybe that wasnt the best joke, awesome matey, nice one

[Tonto]

hate it, bloody awful,,,,,





ok maybe that wasnt the best joke, awesome matey, nice one

Hahahahaha, well the Mrs looked at it and said

I don't like it, it now looks like a fake/snide car... Is it not illegal to not have the badge on the front!!

the things I put up with hahaha!


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[mrtc]

what a wonderfull insight into her brain, lmfao

[Tonto]

As you may have guessed, she doesn't drive..


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[mrtc]

could rent your car out now for insurance adverts as they never show the badge of the cars lol

[tucpal]

very good much better

[mrtc]

Have you got the details of where you bought your reversing camera please

[Tonto]

Have you got the details of where you bought your reversing camera please

Of course

CAR ROVER Car Rear View Backup CCD Camera for Opel Vectra, Opel Astra, J Vectra, Antara, Corsa, Zafira https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0154QAEZK/r...ExbY64KA6K


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[mrtc]

Thankssßssssß

[mrtc]

hows is the astra. whats next for it?

[Tonto]

Hello, Astra is good. The battery died 2 weeks ago and got a new one. Vauxhall wanted £176 but I got a Yuasa one for £107. Better ah and cca to!

Nothing planned for a little while as I need to get some debts paid off and get my money sorted! Ideally I'd like to got for front splitter next as I have the side skirts! Maybe exhaust, I'm so undecided lol.


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[mrtc]

the batteries are expencive is it due to stop start?

[Tonto]

No I don't have stop start lol. Very expensive but never mind! 5 year warranty on this one


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[Tonto]

Few little things I've purchased to help me when working on the car!

First up I've finally purchased a trolley jack and axle stands. Never owned these before


Then I purchased this awesome book!


Since I have this next week off I'm going to try and sort out my brake squeal, clean wheels thoroughly, then follow the how to to clean egr valve, throttle body and boost sensor. Car isn't playing up but thought I may as well give it once over.



And I may have new alloys shortly too


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[Rusty2009]

The Haynes manual is lacking so much information.


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[Tonto]

Really? I've only had a brief look so far. I'm sure it'll still come in handy for myself at least.


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[Rusty2009]

What is there is good abit unclear described in places but yes lacking quite a lot of information.

[Mystic11]

Love the view with painted Front grill!!!

[marcus]

I bought the Haynes manual as well when I was trying to find out info about my inlet manifold coolant leak. I'm not brave enough to actually try any maintenance though. Best left to the professionals.

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[Tonto]

@Mystic11 thank you, I love it too!

@marcus I'm getting braver, done a few things and plan on doing more!


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[Tonto]

Wow been nearly a month since I last posted! Well tonight I got the next piece to the puzzle fitted!







Still need to get the headlight switch done and the needles on speedo green and then the driver info screen white/black. Then that's all for the interior for now.


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[Rusty2009]

Looks so much better mate.

[Tonto]

Thanks again to @Rusty2009 for the penultimate piece of my jigsaw!



Now I need to source some spare needles to have a go at painting green and then find someone local to do my speedo for me! This is how it should look once finished.



A very basic mock up


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[cornishtaz]

You could use some mild tcut to remove the red paint and leave them clear and put some plcc2 leds to illuminate the needles

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[Tonto]

You could use some mild tcut to remove the red paint and leave them clear and put some plcc2 leds to illuminate the needles

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Ah good idea mate, I'll try it. I'll be changing the leds to green ones anyway! Will see how the t-cut looks when done.


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[Tonto]

Nothing much happening recently except maintenance, I had two Uniroyal Rain Sport 3s put on and absolutely love them, very good grip in dry and wet conditions.

I had my timing belt, pulleys, tensioners, water pump and whatever else is included replaced today for piece of mind as the car is now at around 67,000 miles and will be 6 years old in March. Strangely the clutch pedal and gear changes feel smoother now, I don't know if that is meant to happen or what but I'm very happy with outcome.

[Tonto]

I have also purchased a set of heated leather seats, door cards and prefacelift control panel for my J. Picking them up tomorrow morning, I can't wait!


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[stigeye]

I would love to get a set of leathers for our car, they make a massive difference to the look of the interior.

[Tonto]

They certainly do mate, when I sat in @sheppy1 's car i just knew I had to get them for mine! A


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[Tonto]

So I got round to fitting rear leather seats and drivers seat only to find out the dreaded heated seat problem was there... I will finish installing passenger seat and leather door cards tomorrow!



I also had my led drls fitted today with the help of @Jonathaneuk



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[marcus01]

Those leather seats look great. I'm tempted to do the same. Those LED's work without throwing errors. (are they the same ones as Sheppys? )

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[Tonto]

@marcus01 thanks mate, I love them. The leds do throw up errors unfortunately, but for how they look I can live with it! Me and @sheppy1 think that prefacelift gets errors and facelift models don't..


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[sheppy1]

It's odd... It could actually be that my car came from factory with led DRLs and I swapped to halogen ones and have now installed led bulbs... So it might be that my car is programmed to deal with the power load from the led bulbs

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[marcus01]

It's odd... It could actually be that my car came from factory with led DRLs and I swapped to halogen ones and have now installed led bulbs... So it might be that my car is programmed to deal with the power load from the led bulbs

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I suspect you are right....

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[sheppy1]

Basically my car is an anomaly and no other weirdo goes from factory LED lights to halogen ones hahaha

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[marcus01]

Haha, you said it..

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[Tonto]

Finished putting the passenger seat in today and put the passenger leather door card on. Just three more to go.

Dan came round and I fitted the M072 unit to his 1.6cdti GTC with the dab module.




I just need to send @Rusty2009 my new heater panel to have the leds converted!


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[sheppy1]

Looking great mate! you happy with them?

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[Tonto]

Love them mate, just need to keep an eye on the drivers seat as it has the dreaded fault but was spot on today!


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[sheppy1]

Arrghhh not much you can do about that either... Just gonna have to live with it glad ya like them though! Did you have to drill holes in the rear door cards for the winders or did it already have them?

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[Tonto]

Well there is a how to and roughly costs around £120 to fix by yourself but it's not something I'd like to try!

I think I'm going to have to drill holes but I haven't put them in yet!


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[Tonto]

Absolutely love the leather seats, they're so comfortable!

Thanks to @Rusty2009 for converting my new heater panel for me as well.




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[tucpal]

much better mate

[Tonto]

Finally got to have a real good clean today with the help of Phil, he brought his Carpro products down and I highly recommend trying them out!


And also finally got my new sticker on!



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[Tonto]

Got my front splitter fitted today and have another off in order so hopefully have that this week!!




Also a good clean before we all met up at Beamish Museum today!






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