dewismotorsport's MK4 Astra Coupe 2.2

[TigraTurbo]

Love it Dewis!Its hard to resist on blue and black the wheels kicks a**

[dewismotorsport]

Cheers guys

The chrome strip just looks out of place to me want to make it a bit more subtitle less is more and all that

[TigraTurbo]

Spray it flat black??

[dewismotorsport]

Spray it flat black??

I have thought of that but then it may just look like a bit of plastic trim that needs painting

Will try it first before I colour code to see if I like it or not

[sonic-coupe]

Spray it flat black??

ive seen some coupe with black or carbon fibre strip, its alright but does look tacky.... rather leave it chrome or better yet colour code it sounds good to me :-)

[dewismotorsport]

Been having a few problems of late turned out to be a faulty alternator not kicking out enough power and then eventually dying all of a sudden causing lose of power steering and various other side effects whilest at speed on a dual carriageway :cry:

New re furb item was £149 But a quick scan of eBay found a recently refurbished one for £43 delivered :clap:



Nipped round to Rich's house as I have no tools with me and let the apprentice help fit it


Powered up and everything back to normal

[dewismotorsport]

Still trying to cure my P0378 fault code, so far different battery, alternator, crank sensor, spark plugs and now coil pack



But still no change :cry:
Will give it a good service once back at work and investigate further with op com

Will also re gas the air con as its coming into the warm weather now :clap:

Finally got round to getting myself the TC loom so I can get rid of the intrusive TC

[dewismotorsport]

Went back to my car Monday morning after my drive back to work Sunday night to find I had a flatty :cry:

Found the hole so whipped the tyre half off so I could repair it


All done and back on the car, decided to take the wing off and fit my original wing back on as it was a better colour match than the spares I bought


I have removed the inner metal lip on both the front wings now as tyres would catch on them over bumps so hoping this will solve that


Also trimmed the last bit of bumper plastic at the rear which the tyre was catching on, and while I was at it thought I'd give the calipers a quick lick of paint to match the fronts


My new depo lights turned up today so fitted them (nice picture of the two cars)


Have always hated the chrome strip on the rear of the coupe just think it doesn't look right, weren't 100% sure how it came off so left it on and masked up and painted it in place, bit lazy really msl:


And end result, just want to tint the top brake light and colour code the griffin badge now

[Corsamitch]

Looks much better painted mate!!

[dewismotorsport]

Only a small update but quite a pleasing one, since fitting the 2 1/4" exhaust I always thought it was a little too loud for what I wanted and it seemed to have a drone at between 70-90 which is what it's normally sat at on the motorway (private one of course) so relieved another landrover of its rear silencer (free from work ) and welded that in


Has a much nicer burble to it now and seems a fair bit quiter

Also since removing the lips on the front arches I now don't get any scrubing, so really happy with that to say it has 235/35/R19 on a 8" rim