It's all down to hard work mate that's all, you missed out the porsche 911 and the BMW by the way!

I stopped drinking (not completely) about a year ago which saves me £100 a week. Plus working 7am till about 8pm actually makes a difference, also having a girlfriend which pays half the bills helps too.

Carl

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C.G.Cars of Leicester, Peugeot/Citroen/Renault specialist Tel: 01162 624498/07799 405184 WWW.CGCARSLEICESTER.CO.UK
36 narborough road south, Leicester LE3 2fn

MOT station now open, tests £35 with a free retest.
Recovery available with a recovery unit, for those not so local jobs

Also offer the loan of a free courtesy car 306 dturbo

Anyway, back to the 180. My mate Mark sourced me a set of mint phase 2 Valeo OE crystal lamps for the front of a 20k mile late breaker, so this evening i carefully removed the morettes and fitted the correct lamps, with new bulbs throughout. The grille was refitted properly with the little hockey stick clips that always break, replaced with new Pug ones.

Looks loads better now.

Next job is to replace the broken o/s/f fog light and renew the orange capless bulbs in the side repeaters.

Oh, and the wiper arm decided to drop off as i was shutting the tailgate, so ive got a new arm and blade from pug, just need to carefully remove the centre of the old arm off the motor splines as its stuck solid.

The fun of old pugs eh!!

More pics over the weekend

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1999 Astor Grey GTi-6 OEM+ (now gone...)
2004 Aegean Blue 206 GTi 180 (also gone...)
2006 Skoda Fabia vRS in Sprint Yellow

probably because 206 beams wear so fast they've had replacements of gti's already

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need a part number? get on here - http://public.servicebox.peugeot.com

Bring on the Trumpets.

what makes everyone think they should be 20mm btw? they're listed as 20mm for the 180 on SB, 19.5mm for standard ew10.

22mm arb, 21mm for the 138.

massive scope for stiffening up there!

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need a part number? get on here - http://public.servicebox.peugeot.com

Bring on the Trumpets.

That beam is a brand new refurbished unit, as when I got it it was shafted. I bought it from imi axles in Melton Mowbray.


Carl

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C.G.Cars of Leicester, Peugeot/Citroen/Renault specialist Tel: 01162 624498/07799 405184 WWW.CGCARSLEICESTER.CO.UK
36 narborough road south, Leicester LE3 2fn

MOT station now open, tests £35 with a free retest.
Recovery available with a recovery unit, for those not so local jobs

Also offer the loan of a free courtesy car 306 dturbo

Having just had a look at mine it appears the height adjustment is part of the seat, not the runner

What do you use to yellow the fogs? Im not sure if i like it or not but i might do it anyway lol

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Astor 6

Car looks clean but the fogs just dont work with it imo

Anyway, with today being so cold, progress has been quite slow, saying that, most of it would go un-noticed anyway LOL

I've replaced the front discs with Genuine Peugeot ones (Cheaper than non gen from the factors!!)
Fitted new pads front and rear (OMP road and sport ones)
De-rusted and painted the front calipers and carriers
painted the rear brake yokes
and cleaned and polished the wheels inside and out using Autofinnese mint rims.
Gave the wheel bolts a quick rub over with fine grade wire wool.

One other thing which annoyed me was the rear tailpipes on the new exhaust. External chrome trim which is fine,but there was no protection on the inside of the tailpipes and rain water which caught there was leaving unsightly rust marks, so i got a scotch pad, gloved up and gave them a good fingering to get rid of the surface corrossion, then gave them 2 coats of gloss black heat proof paint inside. Should see it through the winter without them rotting away.

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1999 Astor Grey GTi-6 OEM+ (now gone...)
2004 Aegean Blue 206 GTi 180 (also gone...)
2006 Skoda Fabia vRS in Sprint Yellow

Got the original "sport" lower bumper grille on this afternoon, general internet forum opinion was the bumper HAS to come off.. meh, goes on just fine with the bumper in situ, lots of skinned knuckles but fits fine and looks 100% better than a tatty old tarnished SP alloy grille



Then fitted the foglight covers, major faff, had to jack the front up, remove the splash shields and unbolt the foglight, fit the cover then refit. They fit ok and look very discrete, just hold water drops between the cover and the lamp when you've washed the damned car!!:censored::



Gave both the 206's a quick wash and heres how they look.




Next up suspension work over the next few weeks, along with a n/s driveshaft seal as thats leaking ive noticed as well

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1999 Astor Grey GTi-6 OEM+ (now gone...)
2004 Aegean Blue 206 GTi 180 (also gone...)
2006 Skoda Fabia vRS in Sprint Yellow

Get that f**king tint of those foglights and it will look better

About time we had an update...

Had to change the heater matrix as it was weeping, piece of p**s to do on the 206, an hour from start to finish, Gen pug matrix wasnt cheap though!!


Fitted a custom sized front plate, and plain normal rear plate, removed the french ones.



Painted engine cover - brightens up the bay a treat




Fitted the carbon pollen filter that was missing from the hole (??) and also fitted the new leather/chrome Pug gear knob

I also fitted the janspeed cat back exhaust and K & Panel filter and have done a few miles, and it drives mint, sounds very subtle, pipes look OE. I'll get a pic when its lighter.

I attended my local car clubs rolling road day today, even CosKev came along in the Rallye, and mine made 181.5 bhp at 7010rpm, power levelled off at that point, and they revved it to 7600 rpm!!

Kevs made a very solid 177bhp - one of the sweetest sounding cars of the day

Next plans are suspension work, I've got the new Eibach Springs ready, just need the Bilstein B8's to arrive then I can build the suspension units up. Rear dampers will be B8's also.

Then its a new Bottom Arm on the passanger side, full 4 wheel alignment, and then some engine bay detailing - im looking for a spare inlet manifold to get powder coated up.

Some more trackdays coming up, we've booked up to go to Spa-Francochamps in June for a 2 day trackday, then a day at the ring the same week, so it'll be earning its keep this year.

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1999 Astor Grey GTi-6 OEM+ (now gone...)
2004 Aegean Blue 206 GTi 180 (also gone...)
2006 Skoda Fabia vRS in Sprint Yellow