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All I will add is do it. A few choice mods and they really can ange character. Great to drive and easy to live with.

Great looking car and amazing price you have paid! I miss mine and would have another in a heart beat. i absolutely loved it and the way it drove and looked. Has yours got the lux pack? (Climate control and rear electric windows) if so you can program rs monitor yourself quite easily, only needs...

Mine were purple, so must’ve been street lines?

I personally would leave the shocks, replace the springs and go from there. Shocks are definitely more expensive than they were a few years ago I’m sure! I fitted eibach to mine and I was very impressed with them. Alternatively find the make of the springs on there now and contact the supplier...

That takes me back to mine back in the day. Rs grille always look the part on these….

Grilles look much better gloss black. It’s a yes from me.

Hi and welcome. I can’t help you with the problems, I never had any with mine, rattles yes, but problems no. Get some pictures up please! I’ve only seen one frost white in real life, beautiful colour. Awesome cars and with a few bits done even better! Really miss mine.

Hi and welcome. Very nice car and good choice! Always liked them in white. Sadly you can’t get rs monitor fitted because I don’t think you have the correct radio in yours, the lux pack came with the rs monitor enabled screen. (You look to have the cup pack on yours though which is a bonus.) But...

Absolutely awesome. I had the same idea re the seats but didn’t get round to it sadly. They look great and they are proper nice feeling seats. As @Sash says they should have fitted similar seats from the off! Side panels look good too, really good match from the photo.

looks good on the wheels, and nice progress so far! Nice to see a ‘normal’ model getting some love too.

Why not a 200/220 edc? With the edc gearbox it’s like a a45 (cough) but with french build quality and they are fun. Easy enough that you can fettle with it and more than capable.

Congratulations. A nice car for a tenner as said. Watching the videos they did a lot of work to it, but I do wonder if they just do the bare minimum or go all out. I too used to enter loads these comps, but never win them.

I had a billabong back in 03, it was that sick green colour with climate control and sunroof. Didn’t realise it was rare! I got it 6 months old because someone who worked there wanted more economy than the 1.2 16v could offer! This looks really clean and will be nice to see what you do with it!

Ah the memories back in the day of me in my sportka and my mate in his vtr NOT racing. Very close though. I almost bought one recently but it was rotten in places I didn’t know cars rotted in! Holes everywhere but the fuel filler cap area was clean!

Perfect on the stitching mate, looks a different seat now you’ve repaired and debobbled it. The paint you’ve done also looks really good. I prefer the colour coded strips, think it changes the car personally.

I didn’t think that would work as well as it does. Look forward to seeing the finished car!

That is looking much better already. Great project and look forward to seeing you get it back to its former glory. I fixed a car seat myself a couple of years ago with some thick thread and a curved needle. Was quite relaxing sitting doing it and saved me paying a trimmer to do it.

you can remove the washers from under them to give a little drop in seat height, but it’s not much.

I’m sure it was 1500 launches or something, not 200. That’s far too low. Non of the press cars would have any launches left after a week.

I too had to change the speedo sensor on the gearbox on my 172. Same symptoms as your having and it was such an easy fix to change. Definitely worth changing it for the cost

I’m sure there were some Vauxhall dealers that added these badges and other bits as a dealer special edition or something.

That looks awesome and definitely how they should’ve come from the factory.

That looks mint, but we definitely need more pictures!! 172 wheels look good but it needs a slight drop…..

I never had any problems with a variety of different air filters and exhaust setups on mine, even adding a 220 intake pipe to mine (200) didn’t cause problems

Im no expert but it could be either a boost or vacuum pipe has come off. Could be the Hotside gasket is leaking although I’m not sure of the symptoms of that. Check the simple things first.

Not my photo but maybe it should be in the car spotted thread as seems quite a rare model?? 🤔🤣

Absolutely brilliant job. Well done. You should see the mess I make of spraying the wiper arms, let alone how bad the whole car would be!!

I had to change mine on my ph1 because it slowed down and then snapped. That had also had the recall completed for the replacement at some point but still failed. The new one was easy to fit and made a massive difference.

I had a fiesta si, in aubergine. Loved it and the seats were something else!

Or just debadge it, the rear looks much better without it.