Right Thought id better start documenting a bit of my struggle with my gtt.
It has over the past year been the most annoying car i have ever owned.
Im not gona go into to much detail but over the year i have had:
3 headgasket changes
a failed turbo
a cracked oil sandwich plate
Found a cracked liner
found melted pistons
Changed blocks
Loads more stuff too, but im just focusing from now on.
One good thing in this time is ive enjoyed learning, and enjoy getting stuck in
Right car went in for mot just before christmas and failed on corrosion of sills
Managed to get new sills chopped in under the bodyskirt rivets, so no painting was needed.
These are new inner and outer sills
One thing i wasnt happy with was the price
Looks to be a good job though.
Managed to paint the areas of the wings front and back behind the bodykit with por15 chasis paint. Wasn't the best idea to do it in this weather, but it was now or never.
Looks like the back arches have been cut at some point for larger wheels
I had problems with the body kit arches. The thread had gone in them and left the weird bodykit screw in the wings.Hours later i got out all 14 fixings with a dremel tool.
I decided to modify the arch fixings so this is what i came up with.
m5 plastic threaded bar cut down to 25mm
This was then bonded into the old hole with chemical metal
Job done, These can now be taken off, and put on the car realy easily.
Used the same 40mm m5 threaded bar with a 25mm washer spacer for were the rivets go on the sideskirts and on the back arch behind the light.
Bodykit back on
Just been driving it for the last few days with no reported problems.
Loads more stuff to do but i'm just enjoying, driving it like a granny for now.