bolehaps
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Hi All
First posts on here i know but thought it should be a goodun, so here goes, i found myself a little 5 door LS at the weekend for £200 nothing wrong with it whatsoever the girl who sold it just thought it was worth feck all as the paint was "faded" however theres nothing a good be of T-cutting couldnt do to make this car look mint again, so i handed over my £200 got the car home, and the next morning dropped the car off at my local car audio/windowtint/valeting specialists, fortunatly i know a guy who works there so i got a full work up for a very lushious price, heres some pics below of the car when i got it:
As you can see it looks like someones covered it in chalk and left it to set a couple of hundred years.
Heres some pictures after it had been completly cleaned up properly on the outside:
and to see the transition between the two:
Quite an amazing job, them pink speakers are getting chucked as they dont match the colour of the car anymore  aswell as all the black trim resprayed and will also be de-wipered at the back, it will be finished tommorow evening so will take some more pics and add them then.
Contact for SCR (the place that did the work) is 01784 420563 they are based near heathrow generally do all audio stuff even full builds door cards ect, real good tints, alloys, car valetting, phone/nav installs u get the idea.
As for the future (staying in my £500 budget)
Car - £200 so i've got £300 to play around with
All trim is going to be resprayed gloss black along with a set of alloys that i should have soon.
Two Red on Black Buckets coming in.
Car to be stripped throughout minus the dash. (free so why not:boggle .
Manifold through to exhaust system from a friend (so not emptying my budget!).
60mm Lowered.
An air filter of which i have not chosen yet.
So basicly your run of the mill setup but all hopefully for less than £500 including the car!
Wish me luck, ill have updated as soon as the works been done to keep you all nodding
Cheers
Pete 
UPDATDED PICS 
[Edited on 14-01-2009 by bolehaps]
[Edited on 14-01-2009 by bolehaps]
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Haimsey
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 Paint work came up amazingly!
Marcy Marc 
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noshua
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Paintwork looks amazing now. Mates rates eh?
Looks really odd without the black arches though
[Edited on 14-01-2009 by noshua]
Is this the place? http://www.scraudio.co.uk/
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bolehaps
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Yeh thats the place, and the arches are coming in black will hopefully be finished tommorow!! will update
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Corsa_Scotty
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Looks lovely that came up really well Noticed your mate posted it up on CCUK 
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bolehaps
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yeh, forgot to mention hes also the proud owner of a rather kitted out C full Hertz system n that all done by thier company aswell
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FAZ
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not an air filter, drill the box and put some cold air feeds in?
look better than a cone filter as well, then use a panel kn filter
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nova_gteuk
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Where the 6x9's red and faded pink aswell?  lol
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Haimsey
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What did it used to do?
Is that not a number outline in the paint?
Marcy Marc
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Whittie
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You've saved it!!
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bolehaps
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haha yeh that numbers gone now though fortunately aswell as them pink Fli's, to get it back to looking nice the whole car was G3d with a machine buffer and then polished up using super resin polish and thanks whittie we did indeed save it!! more to come soon
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Gazdaman
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Looks like a phone number rather than a number plate print. Starts 01206 maybe it was signwritten?
Gaz
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FAZ
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01206 573 868, ring it?
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bolehaps
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haha yeh maybe was the person who sold it before the person who i got it from, no idea :S
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deano87
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quote:
Originally posted by Haimsey
Paint work came up amazingly!
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STEvieXE
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remember to keep waxing the paint up regularly or it will be pink again in no time
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bolehaps
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Yeh got myself some autoglym gonna do it every few weeks, also got the alloys for the car yesterday, two front tyres need replacing so will get than done and get em on the car asap
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