benkitcher 0 Posted October 10, 2007 Hi, I've recently bought this from a guy called Si in Birmingham. It was a 16v converted to a VR, and he did some other mods including the TH lines, jamex coilies and a few exterior bits. When it goes, it drives really well. At the moment its got an electrical fault so is going no-where! These are mainly his pics at the moment, will update this tread as time goes by! Cheers Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
yorkshireone 0 Posted October 10, 2007 looks nice on the TH lines! I love silver Cs :) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
benkitcher 0 Posted November 21, 2007 Just to update, The electrical prob was down to the loom not being properly attached to the bulk head. It touched on the manifold, melted a big bugger power cable into some smaller ones and they all ended up as a big black smouldering mess. I chased the burnt section through the loom, finding its limits and replaced each wire one by one. Took a full day to do but she's done over 1k miles now without hiccup so worth the time and effort! While dash was out i put a new heater matrix in. I used a Valeo unit from GSF for about £40. When i bought the car i failed to notice it had been bypassed. No more wet carpets and steamy windows for me now! If anyone is considering doing this job, go for it, time consuming but not hard at all and now i never have heating on full wack cos its too damn warm in there! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jim 2 Posted November 21, 2007 Bit dissappointing that the guy neglected to mention the heater matrix when you bought the car! Sounds like its in good hands now tho! :) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
vwdeviant 0 Posted November 21, 2007 Nice one Ben.. And you've got one of the "Nasty" jobs out the way! Enjoy the heat.. Mine's only on Max for about 5 mins then down to 1/2 otherwise I'd be doing a "James May in an Aston" and that's not nice! Oh and for me, I'd respray the headlight surrounds Satin Black... Just a thought.. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
benkitcher 0 Posted November 21, 2007 Yeah the previous owner had put pics on e38 and there were a few comments on there about the light surrounds. I'm thinking of doing them but maybe the grill also? Anyone want to do me a photoshop that'd be nice ! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bally 0 Posted November 21, 2007 remeber si from flog crew had it.... good to see it in good hands... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jenks 0 Posted November 23, 2007 followed this on e38, great colour,alloys and stance. Any plans except for headlamp surrounds? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
benkitcher 0 Posted November 23, 2007 Yeah i got it from si, don't think the poor lad was keen to sell! I bought it wanting somehing a bit less mundane than the old a4 i was usung to do the 16 mile round trip every day, however the amount of work to get it to daily was a bit more than i expected :? Plans are just to make more reliable at the moment, heater had to be done since i was feckin freezin before. I've spent a little time on the interior today, been pricing up the flase floor too. Hopefully it'll be nice and tidy inside soonish. I'll get workin on it, get some pics :D Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
benkitcher 0 Posted January 8, 2008 Little update: Was going to get the false floor finanlly done over christmas, but the thing decided to start mis-firing on boxing day and the battery died on me christmas day. New battery, plugs, leads, rotor arm and dizzy cap on and shes runs beautifully again :D Drove to edinburgh and back for new year from sheffield and happy to say she did 600 trouble free miles in 4 days. Have to get some aero wipers sorted though, the A68 would have been fun if i could have seen where i was off!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
