:eek::eek: Come on you lot! It honestly takes about 3hours and it looks like new!! cost me about £75 all in plus 3hours of my life!

Takes 3mins to stick drawing pins in and probs 3 quid a box. Its a long list till i get round to a new one. Beige carpet is black and oil stainded. All door cards need attention. Front seats are cracked. Only rear seats and dash is worth keeping. Mabye time to go for a grey interior insted of creme haha
 
Who did you go with? And how much!

In the end I found a guy selling a top hat short engine (minus cam) with refurbed crank, new pistons & conrods, bearings etc. Was for a project that didn't happen so got it for £1100.
Hopefully picking up from London next week.
Just need to decide whether to go standard or upgrade for cam?
 
ordered my roof lining samples today, now if i could only find whats causing my coolant to leak from me hoses id be happy still waiting on my sniff test kit to arrive to check for headgasket failure or worse, all plugs look good dont lose no collant driving no over heat no steam just park it up at night and in the morning the expansion bottles empty and me coolant leaked out from the T piece in the top hose and yes its new :confused::confused::confused: new expansion bottle cap went on today lets see if that helps

well done that man finding a new engine
 
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Repainted both front seats as the passenger one was scratched. I was quoted £300 by a bloke I found on t'interweb. So I bought a kit for £40 inc delivery and sorted it myself. Pics are before and after.
 

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Repainted both front seats as the passenger one was scratched. I was quoted £300 by a bloke I found on t'interweb. So I bought a kit for £40 inc delivery and sorted it myself. Pics are before and after.

That's fantastic. Could I ask where you got the kit from please?
 
The £92 one? I saw that and the next thing I remember is waking up staring at the ceiling.
 
did my sniff test to check for headgasket pressuring the cooling system. checks out ok blue liquid stayed blue so got to find whats cauing coolant to leak from me hoses
 
did my sniff test to check for headgasket pressuring the cooling system. checks out ok blue liquid stayed blue so got to find whats cauing coolant to leak from me hoses

My D2 TD5,was losing coolant,could not find out where from,until i removed the fan cover,the braided hose,from the header tank,to the radiator,had gone porous,under pressure,cut a few inches of it,re connected it,job sorted.
 
Undid 3 screws and swapped my knackered 'E' post exterior trim. At least that's what RAVE said I did.
What I actually did was remove the 3 screws, saw the old one into as many pieces as I could get away with, then fought using a stanley knife and a skinny chisel to hack out the remaining pieces held in by mastic from some over-zealous glass fitter to let the replacement get half a chance at fitting.
 
My D2 TD5,was losing coolant,could not find out where from,until i removed the fan cover,the braided hose,from the header tank,to the radiator,had gone porous,under pressure,cut a few inches of it,re connected it,job sorted.

leaking from my new hoses n new clips
 

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