My Beautiful ''Miss Pug'' [A Working Progress!]

[lozz]

Aye yeah, thats minging!
but still it looks better than palm trees,

[Sonia406]

Aye yeah, thats minging!
but still it looks better than palm trees,

Let's see the palm trees? I haven't seen those either

[lozz]

Aye yeah, thats minging!
but still it looks better than palm trees,

Let's see the palm trees? I haven't seen those either

ive already posted apic (evidence)

go back to page 9

[Sonia406]

Nicer colour?

im sure youd change your mind if you seen the seats /interior in my pug 306 (fail)
id swap for grey cloth any day, again no sick smiley-fail,

fecking palm trees patternd half leather cloth, Blah, the peugeot desighners must of been licking the wrong side ofth the stamp

And you boys carry on about us women being hard to please

a very ghay looking seat.jpg

says it all realy

How the devil is that supposed to be a palm tree?
I presume, this is what you meant?

[waue1978]

Do you have pictures of your half leather SRi interior?

As requested:





& the original 1 piece:



I updated all the links in my photo thread, so you can see how it got there now:

viewtopic.php?f=20&t=10942

[Sonia406]

That looks amazing but I bet you had some patience to get your hands on all those parts........... I love it.... Red and Black always go together well.
As much as I am tempted to follow suit I shall stay blissfully as I am
May have to recover the back row seat though, so not looking forward taking it out and apart on my own, the front seats were heavy enough as it was for a mere woman to take out with limited access.........

[hammerman]

The late spec SE`s like mine also have half leather.viewtopic.php?f=20&t=10603

[waue1978]

The late spec SE`s like mine also have half leather.viewtopic.php?f=20&t=10603

They certainly do, but there are a few differences. I actually had an SE interior before I got hold of the SRi interior (but kept the SE doorcards as I preferred the black wood effect). SE seats are electric which means they are much heavier & possibly require some wiring work (if you're not lucky enough to have one of the handful that was pre-wired for everything) & they also have all grey cloth centres & stitching on the leather - the SRi interior had blue detailing in the cloth centre & blue stitching.

[Sonia406]

It's back




And on other news: Cheap I know but will do the job better than that ridiculous scissor jack.........



May have a very very exciting update coming later....................

[Sonia406]

Lost all motivation with the car at the moment, Jacked her up ready to access the ABS sensor and replace. Just so tired at the moment the car is taking a back burner compared to my lovely warm bed.
It's times like these I just want shot of the car............ Sonia is not her self as one can tell.

[lozz]

Lost all motivation with the car at the moment, Jacked her up ready to access the ABS sensor and replace. Just so tired at the moment the car is taking a back burner compared to my lovely warm bed.
It's times like these I just want shot of the car............ Sonia is not her self as one can tell.

I get like that a lot with cars,just close the garage door on it and leave it a week or so
At least then its then its always there for another day,

I've binned loads of cars when I've been miffed off.


Keep your chin up. X

[rwb]

I know what you mean. I feel absolutely sick when there's something wrong with it. But you'll feel great when eventually you work it out and fix it.

[Sonia406]

Air Bag electrics: complete.

First off, the crimp on insulated connectors were cheap and off flea-bay, as a result, Mr Spade Connector was too big for Mrs Spade connector, thus - I had to chop his willy off to a certain extent, lol.

In an ideal world I would of bought some ''heat shrink tubing'' which does exactly what it means. It is tubing you shrink onto the connectors. However that would of meant not only buying the heat shrink tubing, but also a heat gun as I think my hair dryer would of been very much insufficient (closest thing I have to a heat gun).






This is a job I have feared ever since I mascaraed the electrics.
Not only is it a job that could leave an air bag deploying in ones face (probably mine) but it was a job that if the air bag had deployed would of lead to MAJOR work in taking everything out the console to replace it and that would of taken hours, if not days. On some cars you can just pop out the panel but my fascia is one solid piece, so when the air bag is deployed it breaks through the plastic surround, leading to one expensive and long job.

As you can see from the first picture, I had 2 oranges (same side) to connect to 1 pink and 1 blue cable. Now the writing on the orange cables were just too small to recognize if there was any difference what so ever on them.

I then consulted Mr Haynes; who wasn't that clear either.
I made the decision then that it didn't matter exactly which orange connected to the pink and it didn't matter which one joined to the blue.
The fact of the matter is I based my decision on this A4 page of scribbling I did after consulting Mr Haynes.



The fact of the matter is (hey I said that already didn't I?) the fact Mr Haynes refers to them as ''2or'' (2 orange to me and you) is just it, 2 orange cables. IF there was a different between the two it would be something like ''or1 and or2''.

After speaking to my ''Robbie Williams Voice Substitute'' he put ideas in my head.... Turn the passenger side air bag on (when job complete obviously), put the key in the ignition and then re-connect the battery from the engine bay: that way IF the air bag deployed I would be no where near it.

After I had crimped them up, taped and secured all connections back in place I made a life-line call.
My mechanic friend up North (not the voice sub), I told him exactly what I had done and made sure that everything was A-ok and that a fibro fog hadn't made me do something stupid like connect it to the wrong one or something silly - Fellow fibro people will know what that's about. Anyhow, he re-assured me I had done everything as he perhaps would of and that it should be ok.
I thanked him for his kind words then set about putting the air bag switch in the central console back in the ''ON'' position and put the key in the ignition. I then started to shake with the most stomach churning fear ever. Was I about to write my car off? I laid a rug over the seat and floor pan just in case the air bag deployed as the powder / gas would go everywhere. I even left the door open for good measure, if the air bag deployed it would be important for that gas to escape into the atmosphere as it is highly irritant.
Anyway, battery time. Shaking with fear and my stomach churning, I picked up the negative terminal and attached it to the battery. I instantly heard the ignition tick tick tick and thought, ''6 second air bag test, will it or won't it? It hasn't gone yet, it hasn't gone yet, 6 seconds must be up by now? It hasn't exploded'' I then let out a very typical woman high pitched scream from excitement. I tightened up the terminal and then went into turn the key. The lights were all static. I couldn't remember if this was a good or bad sign. I turned the key off and then put the ignition back on, all lights remained static.
I then fired the ''old girl'' up and the air bag light went OUT.
The ABS sensor still sounded and flashed up with the typical ''car skidding on road'' symbol but so much for the 'now the passenger side is ''off'' and the air bag light remains the fault MUST be on the drivers side'' I am so pleased that with help, support and guidance I have done this job with my own fair hands. No asking someone to come and do it (I won't lie, there was a few times where I thought, I am well out of my depth, let's pay a professional to come and take over now) but I am glad I persisted because it HAS paid off. I may be FAR from a professional but everyone learns somewhere and I am on my journey of learning.

Thank you John, Lou and everyone else who has offered welcome support and advice.

[Sonia406]

Quick update for the site (in case not many actually follow the blog)

Been having troubles getting off the ABS sensor retaining bolt off today.
Access isn't that great with the cable holding bracket thing, handbrake cable and axle in my fooking way.
Tried 2 different 5mm allen keys, also a screw driver bit on rachet screw driver (too thick set) and a slim line screw driver, which sits above the axle just about and using adapters, even tried using the 3/8 drive wrench.





Whoops


Does anyone know what the C shape cable holding bracket thing is attached to? It looked like some kind of rubber spring thing. I think if still no luck I will have to remove that to get better access at the damn thing. In the mean time, I have ordered myself some hex sockets, to improve my chances. As you can tell, still a little short on tools - getting there though!

[Bailes1992]

Sonia if you need some good quality crimps let me know and I'll chuck some in the post to you!

I pay pennies for mine!