Looks good
Any photos of the Steels without the trims, Intrigued as to what they look like underneath
Looks good
Any photos of the Steels without the trims, Intrigued as to what they look like underneath
Lol so the poor vectra is heading to the breakers eh Joff, btw did you get my text this morning?
can you get/buy new chassis leg ends. i have fixed a few ford focus's that way basicly pull it as much as you can then cut the ends off and replace.
cool i would deffo get them and dont throw anything out till your done. i.e the plastic part on the cross member that looks re useable.
looking good joff
look a easy fix tbh joff should make a nice car when done
Finished off the stripping today ready for the jig .
Ben as requested here is a couple of pics of the steels behind the wheel trims - theyOriginally Posted by MK1_Ben
look quite cool just bare ! Noticed that they are ET43 as well !
Anyway, got busy with the spot weld drill and removed the headlamp surrounds
and got the wings off as well . Just in case anyone else is doing a wing change /
removal on a meriva there is a really tricky bolt behind the quarter light. That's
right the bolt is actually behind the fixed glass - great bit of design
Fortunately the nice people at Haynes had told me (even though it wasn;t in the
manual - I had to email them direct to get it) how to get the wings off - the last
bolt behind the glass is reached from underneath using a 13mm spanner - all you
need to do it back it off by half a turn and the wing tag pulls out !
So wings and headlamp surrounds sorted - I pulled some more loom out of the way
and removed the chassis leg end plate ready to weld in a new one.
You can now see by the pics where the n/s chassis leg has been smacked. It's
rotated around the engine bed bracket, however looking at the o/s chassis leg
and the angle of the front of the upper wing I suspect this side has also been
knocked out of alignment.
I think everything shound pull back straight - I may need to put a plate on the
inside of the n/s chassis leg just to put a bit of strength back into the panel,
but apart from that things are as I suspected....
Cheers
Joff
i would be tempted to cut the pasenger side chassis leg. along the top down the engine side and bottom then knock f out it
Very short update.
Went to see a nice bloke last night called Chris Peart :- Peart Motorsport
Based in the middle of nowhere he seems to know his stuff and has been recommended by a trusted friend who has had a couple of write offs pulled straight by him.
The Meriva is being collected on Wednesday evening and should be ready the following week.
I'm off to see the bodyshop I use in Brid this morning to get it booked in there for the spraywork the following weekend.
Cheers
Joff