Well i've finally got round to starting a thread in here on my Insignia
Some of you will know i joined on here in March of last year, having recently bought a 2009 CDTi 160 SRi, :
also some of you may remember i had a problem with it, in that it had quite a shimmy through the whole car when under acceleration, more details here:
After everything that had been done, another car was sourced and purchased in August of last year and i'm very happy with it
So this thread will be about this very car
I admit i havent taken many pics of this car so far, and non before i swapped the wheels over (more about that later), but ive taken some fresh ones today after having the chance just after washing it!
Here are a few from the dealer it was purchased from:
One of the first things i did was to de-badge the rear, i was going to just remove the 'CDTi' badges, which i did at first, but then i took the 'INSIGNIA' badges off and it looks alot better in my opinion...
Next on the list was a set of mats....I mulled over a set from Vauxhall, but they didnt 'do it' for me, they were too thin and looked abit plain...I love Irmscher mats, but i dont love the price of them, so I decided to buy from Autostyle as i had thier mats in my Calibra and they are excellent quality and the company themselves are great to deal with and you can customise how you want....and they use the same fixings as OE
So as i liked the look of the Irmscher mats, i went with a similar style, of Black carpet with Silver effect leather-cloth bindings (They look light-Grey or White in the pics, you'll just have to trust me) and also the embroidered 'SRi' logo, which is not too far away from the genuine 'SRi' logo Vauxhall use
The mats:
Yeah i know, alot of pics of mats, but i love em, can you tell?
The alloys on this car were quite scabby and kerbed and i'd been thinking of getting them refurbished or going down the aftermarket route...after much umming and aahh'ing a set of 2012 style SRi wheels and tyres came up for sale on here at a good price and i bought them.
They were all like this when bought:
and rather than just fit them as they were i wanted to give them a right good clean and protect inside and out with abit of wax, so out came the wheel cleaner and brushes, which did this: (Sorry about blurry pics, i got the shakes )
and after abit of a waxing:
Some of you will know i joined on here in March of last year, having recently bought a 2009 CDTi 160 SRi, :
also some of you may remember i had a problem with it, in that it had quite a shimmy through the whole car when under acceleration, more details here:
After everything that had been done, another car was sourced and purchased in August of last year and i'm very happy with it
So this thread will be about this very car
I admit i havent taken many pics of this car so far, and non before i swapped the wheels over (more about that later), but ive taken some fresh ones today after having the chance just after washing it!
Here are a few from the dealer it was purchased from:
One of the first things i did was to de-badge the rear, i was going to just remove the 'CDTi' badges, which i did at first, but then i took the 'INSIGNIA' badges off and it looks alot better in my opinion...
Next on the list was a set of mats....I mulled over a set from Vauxhall, but they didnt 'do it' for me, they were too thin and looked abit plain...I love Irmscher mats, but i dont love the price of them, so I decided to buy from Autostyle as i had thier mats in my Calibra and they are excellent quality and the company themselves are great to deal with and you can customise how you want....and they use the same fixings as OE
So as i liked the look of the Irmscher mats, i went with a similar style, of Black carpet with Silver effect leather-cloth bindings (They look light-Grey or White in the pics, you'll just have to trust me) and also the embroidered 'SRi' logo, which is not too far away from the genuine 'SRi' logo Vauxhall use
The mats:
Yeah i know, alot of pics of mats, but i love em, can you tell?
The alloys on this car were quite scabby and kerbed and i'd been thinking of getting them refurbished or going down the aftermarket route...after much umming and aahh'ing a set of 2012 style SRi wheels and tyres came up for sale on here at a good price and i bought them.
They were all like this when bought:
and rather than just fit them as they were i wanted to give them a right good clean and protect inside and out with abit of wax, so out came the wheel cleaner and brushes, which did this: (Sorry about blurry pics, i got the shakes )
and after abit of a waxing:
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