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[BigUKG]

Well, heres my baby !! M Reg Fiesta Freestyle2 1.3!! This is my first car, brought for £200 with 38k mileage!

[BigUKG]

Just brought clear side repeaters and bidding on some back lights, need to get down the scrappy sometime to pick up some bumpers!!

[chrislock]

looks good got pontenial

[Stemh]

Looks great mate, definitely got potential, the XR kit will make a massive difference when you manage to find one, good luck

[BigUKG]

Cheers, and thanks Stem, going to give the scrappy a call at the beginning of the week and ask them to keep a look out for me !! Quite keen to do the interior and other bits first, possibly even wheels before body kit because I don't want to have to ring my insurance company and suffer an even bigger blow than theyve given me !! £1300 quid for the year because I'm a first time driver.

Not passed yet, Got a week intensive and test in Mid August and then I'll be well away. Cant stop looking at parts though! Very very excited about cracking on with this!

Love the new signature bit to by the way Stem, looks mint !! RS Bonnet and Arches next???

[Stemh]

Thanks

Hopefully getting my arches and skirts sorted fairly soon, they're just in the garage all painted up waiting to be fitted at the moment, just gonna get my test over with and actually get on the road before doing much more on the car, test is in 3 and half weeks so not long to wait ... hopefully haha

then i'l be on the lookout for a decent set of alloys and maybe spoiler and then i'l go from there realy, not sure what next

[BigUKG]

Sounds like a plan to me mate!! My plan is 1) Interior, 2) Wheels, 3) Bodykit 4) Exhaust 5) Tarting about with badges and stuff

[BigUKG]

I haven't posted here for a while so heres a little update with a little more background to previous posts!

I am still a learner driver, so I have booked my theory test for 22nd July and my driving test for 22nd August. Doing a week intensive the week before my test so going to try and get a few more lessons out of the way before then. Despite having to save up all that money I still cant stop buying stuff for my car, and it has to stop!! At the rate I'm going I wont be able to afford to drive the forquette thing, but it'll be a nice car =/.

So far I've brought:

- Sony head unit and some simplee speakers, which wont be cained on the bass but brought a cheap package deal so why not! Head units in, speakers are going in this weekend.
- Agreed buying an SI interior which I expect to have delivered some time next week, front and back seats and all the door cards. Love the SI seats but been waiting a while to get a complete interior so it all matches and the seats dont look out of place.
- Clear side repeaters, just because I actually hate with passion the orange ones on the side, and they should look good on a white car Those will be fitted the weekend aswel.

As for the interior, the old one is being stripped out this weekend and I am going to try and sell it even if I dont get a lot for it. Then as soon as it comes next week I'll be fitting it. Keen to make sure there are loads of pics off all the work coming on here so I'll take some before and after pics on Saturday when we strip it out, and get some pics up when the new interior is in too!

I plan to get hold of some smoked tail lights next, and de-badge it all (and that GB sticker has gotta go!!!). Looking at a back box too in the not too distant future!

Any comments welcome and suggestions for what I should be looking to do when all this is done! Probably going to give the body kit a miss for now (because of insurance) but seriously considering some mondeo zetec style wheels (the 5 spokes...) and some 35mil lowering springs!

[Tweek]

Oh look, it has 5 doors

[MK2 Jamie]

Looks good mate, get a white xr2i kit on there and it will look mint.

[BigUKG]

Oh look, it has 5 doors

Oh yes !! This car was originally brought by my step dad (was a cat D and he repaired it) for mum (lol =/) to drive but she didnt want it so picked it up cheap. nice little first car, low mileage, 1.3 as opposed to the usual 1.1, well pleased

Looks good mate, get a white xr2i kit on there and it will look mint.

If I did decide to bite the bullet on insurance and go down the bodykit and wheels road I would probably go for some mondy wheels (not to expensive and look nice) and a cossie front bumper cos I think that looks stunning and I think it would suit a while car well too.

[MK2 Jamie]

My first car was a 1.3 mk3 fiesta and i paided £1300 so your paying about right on your insurance mate.

[BigUKG]

nice, its a bit expensive mate gone up now a little bit, cheapest I've found works out about 155 quid a month. Not good really but has to be done! Relying on a staccident free first year to help me out in the second year.

[Stemh]

Sounds great mate, looking forward to seeing some pics

[BigUKG]

Looking forward to doing it mate well excited. Gna be a great little first car.

My brothers got a Mk2 1.3 Golf in Red, 5dr, nice looking car but its engine is a biittt forked and no power steering! Well happy I got the Fiesta when I could !

[frst2006]

Yo, fellow Maidstoner, plans sound gd and non-chavvy! Mondys - good choice of wheels

[BigUKG]

Thats the plan mate, avoiding some boy racer sh!t to be honest. Just want it to look different but not like some halfords sh!t.

SI seats and door cards paid for and meant to be coming Wednesday, so should have some pics of it stripped out soon and pics of it all done on Wednesday or Thursday!


Looks like theres a bit of wear on the left hand side? Will see when they come!

[BigUKG]

Having trouble getting the back seats out (and the front to a point, the 10mils in the corner near to door pilars are a real sh!te to get to I'm finding! Pain in the ar5e )

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[hb69]

Back seats shouldnt be difficult to get out. If they are proving tough, get more leverage on your spanner.

[BigUKG]

lol using torx bits to get then out and need a wrench with a shed load of leaverage I reckon to get them buggers out!! Will have to have a rummage round later on or admit defeat and ask someone for their tools

[bakewell001]

You might be better off just removing the foam parts, rather than the whole seat backs. This means you don't have to use massive torx bits.

[BigUKG]

You might be better off just removing the foam parts, rather than the whole seat backs. This means you don't have to use massive torx bits.

Agreed mate, will look at that as a last resort if unleashing the wrench doesnt beat it! Poxy seats!!

[MENACE]

hello mate if you are going to put xr bumpers on are u going to put kit on as well.only being that u will have to extend side skirts and modify it to fit around the rear doors.keep us posted many thanx

[BigUKG]

hello mate if you are going to put xr bumpers on are u going to put kit on as well.only being that u will have to extend side skirts and modify it to fit around the rear doors.keep us posted many thanx

Not too sure what I am going to do, like I mentioned to you before, I'm all ideas at the moment and open to any new ones too. Might go for SI bumpers as the SI interior is going on soon but then I will be missing arches and skirts, which dont go too well with the SI bumpers (dont like the way they dont blend in well at the front at all....).

Another thing is I'm not sure how long I'll have the car for, so not sure how much money I am willing to spend.

Dammit, seats just got here and the back seats split in the middle where as the old ones didnt which is a pain, so will need to buy some brackets me thinks! They will need a good clean aswel!

Here they are, look much darker here. Might just be bad light...

Bit of wear on the drivers side seat here....


Will be fitting them tomorrow night, so I expect I will have to put some pics on! Will try to get some better pics of the car aswel, the underside possibly too if the weather isnt too bad.

[Luke1990]

Might go for SI bumpers as the SI interior is going on soon but then I will be missing arches and skirts, which dont go too well with the SI bumpers (dont like the way they dont blend in well at the front at all....)

theres only a teeny gap but you have to be very up close and personal to see it

[djnathand]

Well, heres my baby !! M Reg Fiesta Freestyle2 1.3..... Fester the Fiesta!! This is my first car, brought for £200 with 38k mileage!

Not a bad little buy! nice one, good luck with sorting it out to how you want it! Also good luck with ya test etc mate! I only passed mine 2 months ago... Still not got a car of my own to drive... SO FRUSTRATING! Need to get my Fez sorted, MOT'd, Cossie bumper back on, get the new bonnet sorted, buy some wheels and get her sprayed!

My first car was a 1.3 mk3 fiesta and i paided £1300 so your paying about right on your insurance mate.

Reckon mine's OK... I got quoted just under £1800 on mine, that's with the, bodykit, lowering, wheels and exhaust declared.Embarrasingly it's only a 1L but needed to keeps costs down... I'm a new driver and written off my Mum's car about a month ago 'cause of some sketchy old folk.

[BigUKG]

Cheers Nath, sounds like a bit of worth but will be well worth it!! Good luck with gettin that all sorted too mate.

Luke, looking at those pics too I'm tempted to do the SI bumpers and XR skirts...... Looks nicely done!

[BigUKG]

Well the front seats are in, and need to crack on with the rest sometime soon, a bit new to all this doing stuff with cars simply because this is my first car but really eager to learn! Will have to get some brackets for the back seats to get them in and dont wana mess too much with the door cards. I've got a nasty habit of assuming stuff is easy and then cocking it right up!!

Anyway pics...... not very good quality but enough to get a rough idea.

Stripped out


Front Seats In

[Stemh]

Looking great mate, they look soo comfy! I want some keep us updated mate!

[BigUKG]

Thanks mate, yeah theyre not too bad at all Next is debadging the back cos Im so skint and it wont cost anything Got plenty of t-cut! Gona leave the front alone I think, not worth filling holes in and I dont think the badge on the front looks too bad.

[BigUKG]

So tonight I said about de-badging the back end.... a hair dryer, my brothers bank card, some white spirit and some t-cut is all it takes!
Weeyy that stupid GB sticker and those poxy "splash" ones are gone!! For ever!!

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I really recommend doing this to anyone, as long as you've got the patience to do it, it makes such a massive difference and doesnt cost a thing. Comments welcome.

[knuckles]

Oh look, it has 5 doors

Which is 2 too many in my eyes

glad you can count wayne

[BigUKG]

Was a case if getting what I was given, opportunity came up to buy a good car for £200 so I took it, would have had a 3dr given the choice though, they do look better. Make the best of what you've got though.

There should be an exclusive 5dr club... special.... lol

[BigUKG]

Anyone alive..... lol

[dontpannic]

Ignore the 5 door comments, I happen to think 5 door cars look pretty good. I have no preference really as have had one of both, but I do have to say 5 door is way way more convenient.

Looking good mate, debadged rear looks much better