Okay, many people saw my new car (J's old car) down at the bonfire and saw what condition it was in (not the best) and I have promised to keep updates for everyone and after a pathetic attempt to keep everyone updated through PM's I figure its just easier to make a thread.
Keep in mind I wrote this all at once and may have missed out info / not made any sense whatsoever and doubled up many times.
So just quote me on it and will fix it up
.I'll get it started with some basic information.
I originally test drove and even went down to the bonfire with his 18" SSR's, and I knew with this front bar it would be low, but I didn't think about later on, when we got stockies for it (because I didn't pay for the SSR's (not a huge fan)). So it dropped even further. Pathetically Low, almost bad enough to not drive it all.
All the consoles where smashed, Stereo didn't work, and half of the interior was painted a faded red. And as everyone else saw, it had some preety bad rust in the roof (yes its common in the sunroof models).
While on that note, down at the bonfire I had lots of people give me a hand take out all of the console pieces(Thanks everyone), had taffy pull out stereo, re-wire it, and even test another stereo in there for me, and believe me or not, it worked...
When we were swapping over the rims. After doing so I moved the car and noticed an oil leak... It looked preety bad, within 15mins it had at least 15drops there... Was very concerned and checked oil levels - they looked low at the time as well. Oliver with the GPvR (he's on here somewhere), a friend of J's is a mechanic at Holden and was able to get it on a hoist before I left for my fun filled trip back to Brisbane(sarcasm) and it looked real bad, there was oil all along the..... urgh... the long bar that goes down passenger side of the car(not to sure what its called) and another mechanic there told me it was a rear main seal and if i was planning on driving back to brisbane without getting it fixed I should just buy some real cheap oil and check on the way down every 1 1/2 hours and top it up if need be...
I packed up and left and did so, checked every 1 1/2 hours on the way down and I couldn't notice it going down whatsoever, stayed in between the two notches. As I was driving back to Brisbane I thought id pass through and see my mechanic (Joe n Riks) and see what he thought of the car and I needed to book it in for a RWC (so I can transfer it into my name). He told me that it was too low (yeah no sh*t) and needed to be raised to at least pass my RWC, and to get the rust cutout.
After getting home and planning it out what was my highest priority's to be done, and how much each was going to cost, I figured after driving all the way down here and not loosing oil that I should just smack bang out the rust as I thought it would be the most expensive to be done...
I got 3 quotes, First one was $1200, second was $1500 and lucky last was $800. I had a look at all of their work and asked them when they were able to get me in, the first 2 had a month waiting list, the third guy i had to wait 3 days (i ended up going with him). Was very nice and I went down to checkup on him to make sure he wasn't doing a dodgy job and just bogging it up and painting it, On the day I drove down he had already cut it out and plated it, I will post pics of the rust he cut out at the end of this thread.
While I waited to get my car in (3days) I Replaced some more of the red faded pieces in the interior, and had the stereo checked out by a mob up here, they got it working but they said the wiring was fucked ( which I saw after they un-taped it, but luckily it was still working, so they re-wired it for a little fee for me and i put it in but no bingo, so they thought it was a fuse, but it was wierd because I checked all the fuse at the bonfire, so I had another look over the fuse box translations (thanks Dwayne for Completefto.com) and realised I was missing a fuse - got another one and bingo, it works, also fixed my air conditioning was resetting every time I turned off my car and my clock wasn't working so now its all good (though my interior lights still arn't working - I'm guessing they are just blown).
The smash repairer (that was doing my roof) said it would be done in 4 days..... He worked across from Joe n Riks and rick was the one who referred me to him & told me he did some good work, so I got Rik to pick up the car after it was done, Rick said to put in some 2nd hand fto springs in and do the RWC would only take 1/2 day so he'd do it asap... Figures I dropped my car in at the Smash Repairer on Monday(19th) and picked it up today (Friday - 30th) So it went at a little over the ETA but that's what you get.. right?
Okay. So I picked up the car today had a nice chat to Rick, first of all, he said the leak wasn't bad at all, he had it on the hoist from 8am - 4pm (Got interrupted a lot apparently) and it hadn't dropped one bit of oil. So thats a relief.
But he said he couldn't pass me on the RWC because of the following: So a few questions in here aswell.
1.Rear Engine mount is shot - He said he can order a brand new one for $110 and put it in for $60 labour, is this good?
2.Rear Exhaust pipe has some holes in it on the bend near the Muffler - Plan to get a varex system in there so not to worried.
3.No Parker lights due to the Facelift T's factory front bar... Where can I get some aftermarket ones?
4.Rear tyres don't have enough tread - Nps i can get 2nd hand ones as I plan to get some new rims in the future anyway.
5.Brake pedal has no rubber on it - nps easy fix.
6.My Right hand mirror the glass wobbles abit
So yeah.. that's where I'm up to at the moment, I guess I may as well chuck up what I plan to do to the car as well after I fix everything else up.
1)Rusted roof fix. [DONE]
2)Stock springs bought/installed. [DONE]
3)RWC & Leak Fix.
4)Service.
5)Paint Front bar.
6)Side skirts (Dwayne's GB)
7)Paint/install Side Skirts.
Air conditioning fix.9)Exhaust System.
10)Rims/tyres.
11)Alarm / remote central locking
12)Dials.
13)Leather seats.
14)Green Carbon fibre dip interior.
15)Carbon Fibre door sills.
16)HID's.
17)New sound system.
Keep in mind I will remember other things and this isn't a set order but I generally prefer to smash out the expensive sh*t first.
So I've got a fairly big wish list.
But I plan to stick at it and get it all done.. After this if i'm happy i'll be moving onto swapping a Mivec in there and a Manual Gearbox. Ive got 2 years left on my P's then i'll be looking at either dropping in a 6A13 or a turbo on there so not sure which way I wanna go about it but it'll only be something running really low boost, I'm not a huge fan of racing but would just like that extra power Thanks for reading guys, and I will update as I go along.
Heres some pics as well - I'll start off with the rust.
need to get some rust fixed up while it's not too bad.. Did the guy finish it at the quoted price? Abs was that including repainting?
