my 406 estate

[lozz]

ive got a big roll of leather et ithink
idont want it on my car it will make it look old,

im going for the carbon look, it will blend in better with the black plastic ithink

thanks for the tip on the glue ive got some carpet fitters use so imight give that a go,

[andymacg]

had a few hours yesterday on the car so tried something different,under the bonnet, I wasnt sure about it at first but its grown on me





and another one with the fog lights fitted

[andymacg]

had another tinker with the car this afternoon gave it a service and debadged the rear end

[andymacg]

had to change a wheel on the way home from work this morning and broke a wheelstud, luckliy for me there was enough to get the molegrips on to undo it

ive also had the red paint out got shiny red drums and calipers, should be ok as its the stuff the paint the chassis and axles on the rucks at work

and fingers crossed i should be getting my leather interior next week or the week after when its payday as long as it doesnt get snapped up before then

[waue1978]

Did you ever look into that splitter option I told you about?

[andymacg]

yup noticed one in the scrappy on the way to drop the wife at her work earlier shall be investgating further with tape measure tommorrow morning

[waue1978]

That's even better than what I was going to do. Let me know the measurements please? 85ins is the magic number.

[andymacg]

That's even better than what I was going to do. Let me know the measurements please? 85ins is the magic number.

finnaly got round to going to the scrappy measured it and its 83 ins but i reckon the 2 peice type could be ok with a filler peice in the gap

[waue1978]

83 ins isn't bad news. Where it's a 2 piece, you could always leave a larger gap in the middle as I'm pretty sure there's an overlap piece. Even if thre isn't, you would only be leaving 1 inch in front of the wheelarch & if I remember right, the Laguna ones are only 84ins anyway.

[andymacg]

time a for an update

after a 3 hour drive yesterday i collected my leather interior from travis part of the stealth mobile lives on, btw travis was nice meeting you

spent 25 mins this morning fitting the rear seats ,then another hour or so cleaning them and feeding them. then spent another 2 hours cleaning and feeding the front ones. the front seats arnt being fitted yet as i need to get the modified loom and ecu off ade from the coupe club, next week when i get paid.

ive also changed the mirrors to a set i had also off travis after someone smashed the back of my mirror in the car park at work

[Gary406]

hi mate. you dont really need the ECU for the electric function.

what i did was track down a drivers seat from a GTX - these seats are electric cloth seats.

and used the switch from that seat. and it converts your drivers seat to only 2 wires for power and negative just like your passangers seat.

the ECUs are a bit of a pain mate they are bulky , the best option would be to do what i did. (waue give me the idea)

all you need to do is swop the switch and wire from the GTX cloth seat to your leather seat.

[plod]

I agree with Gary

Try and source a GTX switch
Works out cheaper as well

[andymacg]

cheers for that chaps

[andymacg]

i now have working leccy front seats, un beknown to me the missus had ordered me the ecu off ade, spent an hour yesterday fitting them but need to take the drivers side back out as its stopped reclining for some reason, worked fine when i tested them before fitting, but wont recline now weird

i ve also cured my dodgy speedo by fitting the clocks i had off omega, as the soldering had gone on the back of my old set,, worked out it had to be the clocks in the end after changing the speed transducer

painted the grilles on the air vents inside in silver as with the black leather its a bit dark inside so decided to add a dash of colour

[andymacg]

had nothing to do last night at work so had the silver paint out again



after doing the heater grilles i decided to to do the small vents on the dash top, the ashtray and surround and the speaker grilles, the handbrake lever cover, and the radio surround i think it works quite well