Brando47
22nd November 2012, 02:43 AM
Hi I'm Brando, just got a good deal on a 5 door '03 TS Astra City a month or so ago and its been a good ride so far :) Technically my second astra, although the last one was from '87 and made by the japs. To be honest I don't know a lot about opel, always been a holden man, but I can appreciate some good german engineering :) Hope I'm not going to get shot down too much for appreciating the lion badge haha.
Been scrolling the forums the last couple weeks and checking out some of the other rides on here, getting me real keen to do some stuff to mine :) Have heaps of questions, thought I might mention some of them here and if I don't get much of a response I'll make a thread where its a bit more appropriate. Got a pic below I snapped on my phone (she's looking pretty dirty from the neighbours tree raining hell on it), not too sure how I'm feeling about the dark green paint at the moment, be good to see if anyone has done something with it.
First off, not sure if its just an astra thing, but she seems pretty slow returning to idle when you back off the accelerator, sometimes even see the revs go up a bit after you put your foot on the clutch. Lot worse with the air con running too. Cleaned the throttle body and that helped a bit, and I've derestricted the air box which helped a lot, almost normal to drive now with the air con off. Be good to know if anyone else has had any trouble though.
Only other mod is transferring the sound system from my old astra, running an alpine 12" type r sub, and fitted a new alpine head unit, sounding good :) Managed to pull the rubber grommet that the bonnet release cable runs through out of the firewall and couldn't get it back in, have to address that one soon, other than that it was a pretty smooth process.
At the moment I'm looking at some new headlights, rather than mucking around cleaning up the yellowy discoloured ones that are on there. The angel eyes look good, was wondering if there's much difference between the $200 or $400 sets on ebay though? Seems to be a large price range between them. Also keen for a nice set of rims, but that's just me day dreaming at this stage, bit hard making the cash as a uni student delivering pizzas on the weekend haha. Probably focus on cleaning up a few little bits in and around the car before anything. If someone could point me in the direction of fixing the peeling paint off the lion badge on the steering wheel that'd be great, seems like it might be part of the air bag after searching here a bit but some say you can lever it out, so I'm not sure. Needs a new ashtray in the centre dash as its stuck open, and there's a small dent on one side I should be able to push out. Few light scratches around the door handles to buff out and it should be looking pretty clean. If anyone from Adelaide knows how often they pop up in upullit I'd be very keen to hear, bit of that sort of stuff is what its perfect for, and I wouldn't mind seeing if I can score a bit of stuff out of the better models and vectras; like electric windows, cruise control, air intake, etc.
Also I'd be keen to know if there's many cruises that go down for the SA mob? I've been out for a hills bash a couple times already and have been loving it, be nice to see some of the great cars on the forums from around adelaide up close and personal. Would like to give a thanks for all the work gone into the guides and the like made easily available through the forum, that have helped me a lot already :)
http://i985.photobucket.com/albums/ae331/Brando47/IMG_20121024_183555.jpg
Been scrolling the forums the last couple weeks and checking out some of the other rides on here, getting me real keen to do some stuff to mine :) Have heaps of questions, thought I might mention some of them here and if I don't get much of a response I'll make a thread where its a bit more appropriate. Got a pic below I snapped on my phone (she's looking pretty dirty from the neighbours tree raining hell on it), not too sure how I'm feeling about the dark green paint at the moment, be good to see if anyone has done something with it.
First off, not sure if its just an astra thing, but she seems pretty slow returning to idle when you back off the accelerator, sometimes even see the revs go up a bit after you put your foot on the clutch. Lot worse with the air con running too. Cleaned the throttle body and that helped a bit, and I've derestricted the air box which helped a lot, almost normal to drive now with the air con off. Be good to know if anyone else has had any trouble though.
Only other mod is transferring the sound system from my old astra, running an alpine 12" type r sub, and fitted a new alpine head unit, sounding good :) Managed to pull the rubber grommet that the bonnet release cable runs through out of the firewall and couldn't get it back in, have to address that one soon, other than that it was a pretty smooth process.
At the moment I'm looking at some new headlights, rather than mucking around cleaning up the yellowy discoloured ones that are on there. The angel eyes look good, was wondering if there's much difference between the $200 or $400 sets on ebay though? Seems to be a large price range between them. Also keen for a nice set of rims, but that's just me day dreaming at this stage, bit hard making the cash as a uni student delivering pizzas on the weekend haha. Probably focus on cleaning up a few little bits in and around the car before anything. If someone could point me in the direction of fixing the peeling paint off the lion badge on the steering wheel that'd be great, seems like it might be part of the air bag after searching here a bit but some say you can lever it out, so I'm not sure. Needs a new ashtray in the centre dash as its stuck open, and there's a small dent on one side I should be able to push out. Few light scratches around the door handles to buff out and it should be looking pretty clean. If anyone from Adelaide knows how often they pop up in upullit I'd be very keen to hear, bit of that sort of stuff is what its perfect for, and I wouldn't mind seeing if I can score a bit of stuff out of the better models and vectras; like electric windows, cruise control, air intake, etc.
Also I'd be keen to know if there's many cruises that go down for the SA mob? I've been out for a hills bash a couple times already and have been loving it, be nice to see some of the great cars on the forums from around adelaide up close and personal. Would like to give a thanks for all the work gone into the guides and the like made easily available through the forum, that have helped me a lot already :)
http://i985.photobucket.com/albums/ae331/Brando47/IMG_20121024_183555.jpg