Hi guys, Thought it was about time I started one of these seeing as ive been here a few weeks now. Progress will be slow, probably extremely slow just now as I've just started working in a new job so funds are a little short at the moment. Hopefully things will pick up in the next few months!. Anyway, this is my mb2 when I first got her. Only had her a few weeks and love her already! Got it for £850, 2 previous owners, including the guy I bought it from, who just buys and sells them. 83000 on the clock, full service history and all mots and services done by arnold clark. Engine runs sweet and everything works fine. Bodywork has alot of scratches on it but they just look like surface scratches so they should just polish out. No rust apart from a small part on the rear arch, again, just surface rust. First thing I done was give her a good clean then went up to halfrauds and got a new headunit as it still had the factory headunit in it with a tape player!. 100 odd quid later and we have this (excuse the dust and s**te photos) Pioneer headunit with cd player and aux input. Also got if fitted as I was meant to be getting speakers from them too, so the £100 was for the headunit and the 30 quid fitting. Then they told me they didnt have speakers in stock and I would have to wait till the next week, plus pay 30 quid PER SPEAKER to get them fitted. Needless to say I told them where to put there speakers. So got the measurements from mate who works in halfords and jumped down to a local auto shop and picked up 2 sets of these. Not the best on the planet but they will do just now, and they are much much better than the factory ones. So thats all ive done just now, but heres some plans for what I want to do and I'll keep this updated. • Lower her on coilovers, thinking about 20-30mm • Polish and remove all the scratches • New interior, black leather as I hate the creamy beige thats in it just now! • Install an armrest, hopefully with cupholders • Upgrade the speakers and get a sub and amp. Hopefully make a clean boot build • Alloys. Deep dish of somesort, not had a proper look about yet to decide though • New steering wheel. The one I have on it just now, the rubber moves round the steering wheel when you grip it! And if I get a few quid together, and the missus doesnt rip my balls off for it........ B20! Haha! Well thats all I can think of just now, but I'll keep this updated with progress of the car. Comments and criticism welcome! William
Its not too hard mate, the only reason I never finished it the other day was because I got called into work. The long bit is a little tricky to get off, but if you have patience when doing it, it will be pretty easy I would recommend having a stanley blade handy though as it comes in very handy!