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 Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2010 2:57 pm |
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Joined: Feb 08, 2010
Posts: 819
Trade Rating: +7
Location: Southampton
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Right, so I'd already done a bit of a progress thread, but I thought I'd start a new and put all the pics up of my car from when I bought it to how it is now.
So, this is what the car looked like when I first got it, completely standard apart from the horrible trims I put on it, which at the time I thought looked good....
The first thing I did was take out the sound system I had in my old car (a 1999 Fiat Bravo 1.4s, which survived 2 crashes and awful driving. Finally gave up by the gearbox smashing itself to pieces all over the road...) I don't have a picture of the original set up in the boot, but it was horrible, I very roughly cut out holes for the 6x9s in the standard parcel shelf, run the cables over the carpets, but under the seats and mats and had the 12" sub smashing about in the boot in its box.
The car was running 14" 175 steelies, which were just complete crap and made the car handle like a boat. So, following an accident I had while driving in England where an old man in a brand new Ford Focus managed to rear end me, I got £500 compensation, which I decided to treat myself to some nice alloys  I bought some AEZ 15" 195s. They instantly made the car look a millions times better and increased the handling hugely.
I then left it how it was for a few months as I had been 18 for just less than a year and the going out on the razz every weekend was still a novelty to me, and I was almost spending as much as I was earning...but of course, it got boring after a while and I managed to start saving up my money.
I was getting pretty sick and tired of my boombox knocking around in the boot and how crappy the 6x9s looked so I decided to make my own custom parcel shelf. I managed to get hold of a bit of MDF from work, pencilled out the shape and worked out where I wanted the speakers and made this.
My cat decided to help out
In my opinion the standard lights on the phase one 206s look ugly, and after seeing angel eyes on my mates Megane I decided get myself some. I sourced some on eBay and bought them. They took ages to come through, the company didn't send them when they said they would and sent me no confirmation emails. Also, to make it worse when they did arrive they weren't 'plug and play' as advertised. The adaptors which were meant to be included weren't there either. I emailed them several times with no response. So in the end I fitted them by chopping and connecting. Oh and I do know that blue side lights are illegal, but so far I've not been pulled on them
I then painted the callipers red, which came out pretty good. I'm still undecided what to do with the drums on the back, might just paint them black.
While trawling through the scrappys for a splitter for my mates Megane I found a nice gear knob off a written off 206 which I got for a fiver.
Looking through the project threads I came across someone who had put this tax disc holder on their car, I had to have it 
I'm not too keen on the black bumper grill, so I looked into getting a sp grill, which to my surprise are pretty expensive, after posting a thread on here asking for cheaper options Mattie@ got in touch with me asking if I wanted his one second hand. Which I bought off him.
After making my parcel shelf I left it uncovered following several failed visits to a constantly closed fabric shop. Finally got round to doing it and bought some black fabric for £6 and it now looks like this. I had also got pretty fed up of the cables being visible so I took out the seats, pulled up the carpet and run the cables with the cars wiring loom.
The next job was to tint the windows, I attempted the back window first, and failed...it was harder than I thought! But I did manage to tint the two rear windows with the only problem of having to drill one of the brackets holding the window on due to it being riveted on for some reason.
After looking around for a while I came across craig.head selling his 3" sportex backbox on here. It looks and sounds awesome
My brother bought my a spoiler for my birthday, I got that sprayed and fitted, looks like this. I also put on the 206info sticker, I would assume I'm the only person on the Isle of Man with one on, so I'm hoping a few people from here might join!
And that's everything I've done up to date, so here's before and after.
Hope you guys have enjoyed reading through this and sorry if you haven't  opinions and constructive criticism welcome
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Last edited by Mike_XS on Thu Jan 05, 2012 12:42 pm; edited 8 times in total
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Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2010 3:10 pm |
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Joined: Feb 07, 2010
Posts: 1197
Trade Rating: +3
Location: Plymouth
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thats a tidy 206 you got there! what a transformation the SP Grille made.
Think the next thing on the job list should be new interior!
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| No longer a 206 owner
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Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2010 4:16 pm |
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Joined: Mar 01, 2010
Posts: 475
Trade Rating: -1
Location: South East UK
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Great 206, coming along nicely. P.S where did you get the tax disc from. I could never find one. lol
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WARNING: This User Has Had Bad Trade Feedback In The Past
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Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2010 5:47 pm |
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Joined: Apr 04, 2010
Posts: 191
Trade Rating: +2
Location: Coventry
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loooking alot better
you send me the link to those headlights at all , they look ace
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Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2010 6:41 pm |
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Joined: Mar 08, 2010
Posts: 73
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Location: Ripon
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were did u get the tax disc?
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| 1.4 52 plate silver, limo black windows alloys sound system | |
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Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2010 12:58 am |
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Joined: Feb 11, 2010
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Looks very tastey
I've been working on an Orange XS for a while now, so appreciate the work put into it 
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Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2010 8:17 am |
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Joined: Feb 08, 2010
Posts: 819
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Location: Southampton
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I got the tax disc on eBay, took ages to find it though. I got a spare one if anyone wants it for a couple of quid?
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Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 8:18 am |
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Joined: Feb 13, 2010
Posts: 163
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Location: leicestershire
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have you just got the rear side windows tinted then? I attempted a diy job on it too and the back one was effing solid.
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| Black 1.4 lx, you can only tell when it's moving.... | |
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Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2010 6:01 am |
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Joined: Feb 08, 2010
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Location: Southampton
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Yeah, just the rear quarters, I tried to tint the boot window, nut epically failed! Haha. Sorry for the late reply. not really been on here much...
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Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2010 12:48 pm |
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Joined: Oct 05, 2010
Posts: 1105
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Location: West Sussex
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Whats the sound system like with that set up?
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Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2010 6:44 am |
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Joined: Feb 08, 2010
Posts: 819
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Location: Southampton
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It's immence mate, it's so very clear, and has to go right to the highest volume before the speakers distort. I never get bored of it, it makes all types of music sound amazing
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Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2010 3:15 am |
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Joined: Mar 28, 2010
Posts: 307
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Location: Neath, South Wales & RAF Marham
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Is that welsh at the bottom of your tax disc?
Looks like our language!
Looks like a really nice car mate! Great transformation from what it was before.
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Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2010 3:32 am |
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Joined: Feb 07, 2010
Posts: 5120
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Location: Raunds, Northamptonshire
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Nice tax disc but iirc it's down to the council not tax to fix roads so I read in the paper other day. dont matter tho
Comming along nicely 
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Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2010 9:58 am |
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Joined: Feb 08, 2010
Posts: 819
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Location: Southampton
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| JayP wrote: |
Is that welsh at the bottom of your tax disc?
Looks like our language!
Looks like a really nice car mate! Great transformation from what it was before. |
Thanks :D, got a few updates to stick up soon! Nope, it'll be Manx, the Isle of Man language.
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Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2010 10:24 am |
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Joined: Feb 07, 2010
Posts: 2025
Trade Rating: +6
Location: Gloucester
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Nice, don't paint drums!
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