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Edition 38 2008 pics on page 3
Suspension change finished - p7
Well, I've had my Ibiza for a year (give or take a few days), and I've never put it all together in one place. So, at the 12 month point (and with exams looming), I think there's no better time!
Well last January, i decided to move on from my 22k mile mk2 Golf. I didn't want to put the extra miles on, and it was dawning on me that although it was very low mileage and drove like new, it was, unfortunately, a rusty nail. So after seeing the ad on here, I took a trip up to Derby to look at the Seat. Unfortunately on the way back to Bristol, the gearbox on the golf let go - but that's a story for another day!
Minty on the outside, soft on the inside!
Between January and the summer, it was given new front wheel bearings, tie-rod ends, ball joints, front discs and pads, 1x CV joint, a radiator, 4x Goodyear Eagle F1, a new exhaust system and the usual oil changes / service! Other than the tyres & exhaust, the all work was done with the help of friends! Oh, and also the infamous pedal box problem reared it's head, so that was bolted too!
In various states of undress:
Taking the old rad out, for the third time after ECP kept supplying the wrong part......
Wheel bearings etc etc (Yes, we carried on working on it in the snow. There's a pic floating about somewhere with the angle grinder making sparks while the snow falls!)
All this was building up the main event of the summer - a trip to the alps for me and two others (+ mountaineering kit) in the 'biza. Happy to report that it got there and back with no problems. And performed in fine style on the mountain pass that we went up and down half a dozen times
At the top of the road was the village & campsite we were staying at, at the bottom (25 miles, ~50 minutes) was the town where we got supplies & petrol from. Unfortunately we ended up at the campsite with almost no petrol and had to go down idling wherever possible. The two guys in a van behind us commented that for someone with no petrol, I was going at a fair rate (given that the Ibiza disappeared from their sight). What can I say?!
Edition 38 2008 pics on page 3
Suspension change finished - p7
Well, I've had my Ibiza for a year (give or take a few days), and I've never put it all together in one place. So, at the 12 month point (and with exams looming), I think there's no better time!
Well last January, i decided to move on from my 22k mile mk2 Golf. I didn't want to put the extra miles on, and it was dawning on me that although it was very low mileage and drove like new, it was, unfortunately, a rusty nail. So after seeing the ad on here, I took a trip up to Derby to look at the Seat. Unfortunately on the way back to Bristol, the gearbox on the golf let go - but that's a story for another day!
Minty on the outside, soft on the inside!
Between January and the summer, it was given new front wheel bearings, tie-rod ends, ball joints, front discs and pads, 1x CV joint, a radiator, 4x Goodyear Eagle F1, a new exhaust system and the usual oil changes / service! Other than the tyres & exhaust, the all work was done with the help of friends! Oh, and also the infamous pedal box problem reared it's head, so that was bolted too!
In various states of undress:
Taking the old rad out, for the third time after ECP kept supplying the wrong part......
Wheel bearings etc etc (Yes, we carried on working on it in the snow. There's a pic floating about somewhere with the angle grinder making sparks while the snow falls!)
All this was building up the main event of the summer - a trip to the alps for me and two others (+ mountaineering kit) in the 'biza. Happy to report that it got there and back with no problems. And performed in fine style on the mountain pass that we went up and down half a dozen times
At the top of the road was the village & campsite we were staying at, at the bottom (25 miles, ~50 minutes) was the town where we got supplies & petrol from. Unfortunately we ended up at the campsite with almost no petrol and had to go down idling wherever possible. The two guys in a van behind us commented that for someone with no petrol, I was going at a fair rate (given that the Ibiza disappeared from their sight). What can I say?!
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