I cant believe you didnt mention a 1.7 Isuzu'd TD Cavalier Tom.
There must be more of thos available in Germay compared tio mk2 Jettas?

Oh, I just remembered. Theyre not cool. At all!

volvosneverdie wrote:I cant believe you didnt mention a 1.7 Isuzu'd TD Cavalier Tom.

You mean an Opel Vectra A?

macplaxton wrote:

volvosneverdie wrote:I cant believe you didnt mention a 1.7 Isuzu'd TD Cavalier Tom.

You mean an Opel Vectra A?

Prubably.
My German/Euro model knowledge is weak.

Ben, I dream of diesel-engined Cavaliers at night but they have no "Umweltplakette" unfortunately. Damn!

I wouldn't say no to an Opel Vectra GT (16V?) though:
http://suchen.mobile.de/fahrzeuge/detai ... =136617808
http://suchen.mobile.de/fahrzeuge/detai ... =135617809

But if it has to be Opel, I prefer these:
http://suchen.mobile.de/fahrzeuge/detai ... =137039587
RWD and more oompf.

Tom

Opel
Vectra
Isuzu diesel

Vote me in for the 'There I Fixed It' bodge repair approach. Love the fact that it's got the stupid green sticker despite being what the general public refers to as a 'Dreckschleuder'. That'll teach them.

nvdw wrote:Love the fact that it's got the stupid green sticker despite being what the general public refers to as a 'Dreckschleuder'. That'll teach them.

There is a certain amount of "Schadenfreude" to be had, when your 23 year old car gets a green sticker, and the other guy's 5-year old diesel costing tens of thousands only gets yellow

I do feel sorry for tradesmen though - particularly last year when they were all struggling to make do and along comes the govt with this grand new scheme rendering most of their vans useless.

Anyway, this problem:

http://www.volvo300mania.com/forum-uk/v ... =5&t=10548
needs to be tackeled first, driving around with a wheel fixed with only three studs is a bit worrying ...

Cheers

Tom

Spare axle laying around? It's not a long job to change it, but does seem a bit keen for a small problem. You can at least rebuild that one at your leasure with new brakes, bearings etc though.

No, no spare axle unfortunately I have a set of studs and a wheel bearing though, I'm going to take them around to the chap who did all the work on my vario - he's going to have a go at it ...

Cheers

Tom

Rust? I didn't see any rust..

This is RUST!



Soo.. What do I do. I go to Aukki's place and he does some of that his MIG/MAG-magic.. We didn't have any repair panels available so Aukki took out his hammer and some flat sheet metal...



Looking much better already, allthough in this pic seams are unfinished etc...

Welcome to Finland, home of the rusted cars. Luckily anything can be fixed if you have enough drive and skills to fix it. Huge thanks to Aukki for providing his skills, space and his own time to fix this. Allthough he's way too modest when he said that he's not satisfied enough with the result, when it's more then enough for me! There's not much you could do better without proper repair panels. I'll post some pics of the finished repair also.

New repair panels are available for rear wheel wells but I have not able to locate any for front.

Fuse, when you say rear wheel well panels are available, do you have a link?
Adam

340GLT wrote:Fuse, when you say rear wheel well panels are available, do you have a link?
Adam

Klokkerholm/NOR has inner and outer repair panels available for rear wheel wells.

Volvo has outer ones I think, I haven't asked if inner ones are availaible as OEM part.

Here are links for aftermarket Klokkerholm/NOR parts: http://www.klokkerholm.com/xProductCata ... oup=916799

Different outer rear panels:

http://www.klokkerholm.com/xProductCata ... oup=916799
http://www.klokkerholm.com/xProductCata ... oup=916799
http://www.klokkerholm.com/xProductCata ... oup=916799
http://www.klokkerholm.com/xProductCata ... oup=916799
http://www.klokkerholm.com/xProductCata ... oup=916799
http://www.klokkerholm.com/xProductCata ... oup=916799,

Inner repair panels:

http://www.klokkerholm.com/xProductCata ... oup=916799
http://www.klokkerholm.com/xProductCata ... oup=916799

trabitom99 wrote:driving around with a wheel fixed with only three studs is a bit worrying ...

all fixed now I wasn't there when Rainer changed the studs, but it was an easy job apparently. No problems with the hub, as feared.

Fuse wrote:Rust? I didn't see any rust..
This is RUST!

Ah yes, that looks a whole lot different! Well done aukki - how is he, he hasn't been around on the forum for a while?

It seems such a shame to scrap a car which is running so well "just" because of rust. We're going to see if we can split the work up, have some done in Romania, some in Germany.

Fuse wrote:Klokkerholm/NOR has inner and outer repair panels available for rear wheel wells.

Klokkerholm/NOR (I believe it's just Klokkerholm now, they've bought up NOR) is the panel supplier for Volvo 300s. Sills, windscreen surround repair panels, wheel arch repair panels, front spring seats, wings - there are a lot of their products in my cars

Tom

I would also like ones for the front inner, its the only part I can't really attempt myself. I have some recovered parts that only need a slight repair.

Hadrian's supply most of the same parts in the UK, but I see Klokkerholm do a few more, useful to know.

OK, part 1 (or maybe 0.5 beta ) of getting this car ready for the MOT. It now has a new windscreen, and the a-pillar has been patched.

I picked up a replacement windscreen in the summer. It was an 800km round trip to east Germany (but that's nothing really, picking the doors up from filthyjohn was a 1100 km round trip from London )


The crack, increasing in length every day:


The borrowed special tool, to remove the window surround trim (the only part I did myself ):


Push the trim connector thingy piece up with a screwdriver:


Slide the special tool underneath the trim, the seal is squashed apart at the same time:


Cracked trim (has been for years, wasn't me!)


Up we go:


Top half done:


... and the bottom half off too:


Then off to the garage, and this is the result:

New window, NOS window seal:


A-pillar. They didn't do a great job of the painting, but never mind:


I actually prefer it "de-chromed" but I have a feeling the trim pushes the seal apart a little, thus giving the window a better fit, so I'd better put it back (maybe one day some black GLT-spec trim will come my way). Would washing up liquid do any harm, to help squash it back into the seal?

Cheers

Tom

How about spraying the chrome if you like the black? Been meaning to do this for a while but better to wait until warmer times