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03-07-2007, 08:27
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03-07-2007, 08:30
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| oooooohhh! shiny! 
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03-07-2007, 08:38
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Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Essex Drives: Astra Saloon TD
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| Very Nice ! Love the saloon astra! | |
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03-07-2007, 08:40
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| good as new  ......................bring on the photo shot after I get from france at the end of the month  | |
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03-07-2007, 08:42
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| Ooohhhhhh shniney!!
Subtle colour too what is it?? Almost a kind of Euro colour | |
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03-07-2007, 09:15
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Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Essex Drives: GSIT.... Allegedly!
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| Looks spankers big K. 
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03-07-2007, 12:30
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03-07-2007, 14:50
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| Nice one Kev, it looks like they have done a good job. When do we get to see it?
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03-07-2007, 20:10
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| Excellent work fella, and Brian not 'they' just the guy you can see in the photos on his tod lol.
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03-07-2007, 20:12
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#10 | | MIGClub Member
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| 'They' as in the business Chris..  | |
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03-07-2007, 20:13
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#11 | | MIGClub Member
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| but there is no 'they'...............................  | |
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03-07-2007, 20:15
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| Looks good mate, rare to see a saloon about aswell | |
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03-07-2007, 20:20
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| looks spanking mate!!! | |
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03-07-2007, 21:20
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#14 | | MIGWeb User
Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Huntingdon Drives: Opel Astra 180iE
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| Thanks guys - i'm dead chuffed with Pauls work.
Brian, so long as everything goes ok tomorrow it'll be there Saturday, i'll be there from about 8/9ish i would have thought.
It's booked in to have some things looked at tomorrow, the EML comes on, and there's some knocking from various places i want checked out.
Plus it could do with an oil change and i just don't have the time to do it myself. | |
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03-07-2007, 22:19
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| Looks spanking Kev, bet you're glad to have it back.
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03-07-2007, 22:21
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Originally Posted by Calibra_se8  Looks good mate, rare to see a saloon about aswell | Not in these parts
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04-07-2007, 08:54
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Originally Posted by Drizz Not in these parts | haha | |
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04-07-2007, 18:29
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#18 | | MIGClub Member
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| Theres more of the bloody things in east anglia then there are in south africa!!! | |
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04-07-2007, 19:45
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Originally Posted by Spinbitch Theres more of the bloody things in east anglia then there are in south africa!!! |
buy a South African astra....all the cool people are doing it  | |
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04-07-2007, 21:07
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#20 | | MIGWeb User
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Originally Posted by mind_crash buy a South African astra....all the cool people are doing it | hmmm. well after the conversation i had with the garage manager today - i'm not sure i'd advise that tbh.
Dan and I had both long had the suspicion that the eninge in my iE wasn't necessarily the one Opel gave it. Today that was confirmed.
I've got an X20XEV.
To quote the mechanics at the garage; 'it looks like they've just thrown it in there, shut the bonnet and f*cked off'
Refering to the wiring, some small bits that haven't been mounted, vacume hoses that have been blocked off with a screw and the general condition of the thing.
I should note that this is not anything to do with the crash.
And, to top it all off, i've got a bent steering arm, bent track rod, buggered lower arm (not the one we replaced, the other one), buggered or missing ARB drop links, shagged rear wheel bearings, the exhaust is resting on a small pipe that connects the 2 sides of the fuel tank, and it cost me £91 labour to find all that out!
Oh, and i nearly forgot - because of the VERY dodgey wiring, they can't tell if the 2 fault codes for the crank position sensor and cam shaft sensor are because of the sensors or the wiring - they tried to test the wiring, but couldn't understand how it works because they didn't get readings from wires that should provide them! | |
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04-07-2007, 21:17
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#21 | | MIGClub Member
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| Kev, buy a complete XE from a smashed up Astra and swap the lot. Wiring, ECU, G'Box everything. | |
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04-07-2007, 21:25
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#22 | | MIGWeb User
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Originally Posted by Dave GSiT Kev, buy a complete XE from a smashed up Astra and swap the lot. Wiring, ECU, G'Box everything. |
I have considered that, believe you me!
Would it be easier to XE it than try and sort the wiring on what i have? | |
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04-07-2007, 21:33
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#23 | | Regional Co-ordinator
Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Essex Drives: Astra Coupe
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| Probably in the long run yes, and also remember XEV engines love to munch a head gasket, downside is, take away the XEV and it's just an astra saloon with an XE, without seeing the wiring, I obviously can't comment toom much, BUT, I may have an X20XEV engine loom knocking about, if I haven't, I know a man who has. | |
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04-07-2007, 21:39
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#24 | | MIGClub Member
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| go XE matey....in the long run will be much easier to put in a known working XE than try to rewire your engine unless you find a full loom.........just do it...use it as an excuse.....you know you want to....... | |
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04-07-2007, 21:47
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#25 | | Regional Co-ordinator
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| ^thats good advice I must admit^ | |
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