its my wife's car..
History has taught me to have spare bumpers and alloys available for her....... So i buy what i can find and if its cheap enough different styles.. While one is off the other is being repainted ready to transplant, then the other one gets refinished and prepped for its next fitting etc... I quite like customizing bumpers as well, i can fibreglass them and weld them and make something a little different to the average car in the range.
Bless her its not always her fault... For example on her last vec she got dinged in car parks and hit by police cars that were not looking where they are going to name just a couple of instances. I had replaced both the front wings and three doors plus the front and rear bumper on that car mainly due to hit and runs. One honest Astra owner did give his details after his new car rolled down the hospital car park into her OSF front wing when its electronic hand brake failed... I only billed him £40 for a second hand wing in the same colour which i fitted myself..
In her Insignia she has already been reversed into twice this year (hit and run), both times witnesses left info of the offending driver and car, but the feds were not interested in pursuing it...
As for alloys, we all know the state of the roads, especially after winter does it bit... Pot hole season takes its toll but she has nailed a kerb once or twice..
Now there is nothing i can't rebuild on a Vectra, Signum or Insignia but i am not as well as i was. So light jobs that leave me to sit in my garage or in the garden and work on a bumper and get some peace I find quite therapeutic...
I still like to modify my cars a little, not wide boy max power style but subtly.. I will not be touching the engine on this one though as i no nothing about it and am not interesting in tuning it, just keeping it tip top and reliable with its factory components.. I think the days of doubling the horsepower on my cars are behind me... Besides in the time I have left I also need to finish remodeling our house and that is costing me enough..
So once again, any help with info and part numbers is always appreciated as i am forever looking at options for me or another owner who asks me stuff but is not a member here..
HTH
History has taught me to have spare bumpers and alloys available for her....... So i buy what i can find and if its cheap enough different styles.. While one is off the other is being repainted ready to transplant, then the other one gets refinished and prepped for its next fitting etc... I quite like customizing bumpers as well, i can fibreglass them and weld them and make something a little different to the average car in the range.
Bless her its not always her fault... For example on her last vec she got dinged in car parks and hit by police cars that were not looking where they are going to name just a couple of instances. I had replaced both the front wings and three doors plus the front and rear bumper on that car mainly due to hit and runs. One honest Astra owner did give his details after his new car rolled down the hospital car park into her OSF front wing when its electronic hand brake failed... I only billed him £40 for a second hand wing in the same colour which i fitted myself..
In her Insignia she has already been reversed into twice this year (hit and run), both times witnesses left info of the offending driver and car, but the feds were not interested in pursuing it...
As for alloys, we all know the state of the roads, especially after winter does it bit... Pot hole season takes its toll but she has nailed a kerb once or twice..
Now there is nothing i can't rebuild on a Vectra, Signum or Insignia but i am not as well as i was. So light jobs that leave me to sit in my garage or in the garden and work on a bumper and get some peace I find quite therapeutic...
I still like to modify my cars a little, not wide boy max power style but subtly.. I will not be touching the engine on this one though as i no nothing about it and am not interesting in tuning it, just keeping it tip top and reliable with its factory components.. I think the days of doubling the horsepower on my cars are behind me... Besides in the time I have left I also need to finish remodeling our house and that is costing me enough..
So once again, any help with info and part numbers is always appreciated as i am forever looking at options for me or another owner who asks me stuff but is not a member here..
HTH
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