Been lurking for a while now this is my 3rd cossie I started off in an escort cossie when I was 20 here it is..


I move out from my mums and had my daughter who is three now add love cossie car so the escort was sold and I brought a 2wd saff..


Which brought out an animal in me so many near death experience so I sold it to mate mate who still has it

Brought a frs mk1 hated every minute of it so sold that and brought my 4x4 which was completely standard just stage one which is abit of a shock since all my cossie have been stage 3

This I'd how I got it



Then I changed the side indercators to orange ones...



Then I had a nice bargin for some brand new comp th et35in the boxes for £700 off the rsoc :mrgreen:
My daughter giving her approval


Had some tyres fitted to them today so when I got home from work I fitted them up what do you guys think? To me they transform the car






Wouldn't mind fitting some flush centre cap but what do you do with the rears as the drive shaft nut sticks out?


She had her mot Saturday passed no advisories well chuffed

Next thing to do are front splitter new hoses and up the power but proper happy with the car and I have new disc and pads to fit all round

Cheers Martin

 

I think the normal comp centre caps in chrome or blue will look fine...
The wheels look massive. Car looks lovely, but buy a new camera lol

 

IPhone 5s shit camera I have sliver comp caps but not sure

 

Liking the new wheels and also the escort and your old 2wd saff

 

Have you left the protective film over the camera? Lol My 5's quite good tbh

 

Looks like someone's been playing with the filters, reset the filters in camera mode, if the three circles at bottom right are coloured you've a filter selected.press circles and select norm, my pics on i5 are very good, much better than i4s

 

the sapphire looks spot on with them wheels on.

 

im a sucker for the originals on the saffs

 

You have had some nice cars.

The new wheels look mint matey.

Why didnt you like the focus rs for??

 

boring no character if im honest glenn but my missed loved it used to blast about init all the time like she does the cossie a focus rs is a car you will either love or hate my mate had a mk2 focus rs which i thought the same of when i drove that aswell

 

They look better without centre caps imo.

 

Looks lovely.....but a cossie at 20!

 

Cost me £2500 too insure but as soon as I was 21 £1200 with need to insure
a lot of money but worth it

 

Had a right touch popped over to the powder coaters over the road from my work asked about get some bits powder coated satin black they said bring it over it will be ready Monday the guy popped over in my lunch break said come see me in a min and he had already done them and he didn't charge me either which was nice as he had other stuff todo here are the bits



And a cheeky pic of my car tonight



Can't wait to fit them

Cheers Martin

 

What size are the wheels, they do look good ! Wonder what they would look like on a 3 door

 

18x8 et35

 

Magenta is my favorite color of seirra. Nice car m8!

 

Well it was over 7weeks ago my car go a little knock work has started!

Taking out a couple off dents out the top of the wing




There was a car park dent in this rear door is been removed



Couple of bit that was to perfect on the rear bumper


Front bumper started on




All glued back if if was coming away any where


New bumper brackets fitted


All primed






Bumper trail fitted one of the straightest bumpers on a saff I have seen as this lets most cars down imo




Then while I popped over to R W masters today my rs500 spliter turn up so I thought I would try the fit






And it's one of the best fitting splitters I've even seen so anyone looking to buy one Ian Herron is the man imo and I work in composites so I'm picky when I see repo stuff but this is a work off art and I no the effort that goes in to get a product as good as this so for 130 quid is worth every penny !!


Also got new genuine bump strips to go round the front and back bumpers 2 new genuine Indercators and new decals for the wheels

So glad my cars coming back together
Cheers Martin

 

Very nice, wheels are stunning slightly period, subtle and very hard lol, suits the colour too, I like this style of wheel on any staff really suits them. Escos was in my fav colour, mum one day, well probably not

Keep up the top job, love the attention to detail on the front bumper, how ford meant to get it.

 

Cheers bud

 

Looks really good on the new wheels! What glue did you use for the bumper? Mines starting to go a bit here and there, the worst bit was the middle bar, but got rid of that!

 

Love it

 

Nice

Keep the pics coming...

 

looks great

 

Bit more of an update will be finished tomorrow as it's getting painted tonight pushed into the oven ready for degressing and masking up!


All baged up ready too go getting exciting now






Base coating on ready for colour which I have got the paint the whole car was painted in in 2009 spies hecker ment to be really good paint so the body shop says it's not the normal stuff he uses as its to dear




But had to leave so didn't see the colour and the clear going on but when I get to work in the morning I'll pop in see how it looks

While working on my car I noticed this broken the washer pump for the headlights so I got a new one as you do

These are the decals I got for the wheels from dmb graphics

Hopefully a better update tomorrow

Cheers Martin

 

My mate that works for ford to,d me to pop over and see him this is what he had for me cost a small fortune but worth it as mine fell apart removing them



That is all till tomorrow

 

Popped in this morning to see it in colour











All in masked and polished up









Front bumper fitted back up looks straight as you like soo happy how it's come out


Cheeky pic of the angle box

Rolled out side at 5ish tonight to check it out



All tucked up in bed at home

Just got to give the car a good goin over inside and out fit my wheel decals and sort my headlining out fit my new door seals and not this Friday next friday fit the rs500 splitter back on
Cheers Martin

 

Wow what a top job they have done.

 

Bloody lovely job Martin mate

 

Cheers chaps can't wait to get the splitter on !

 

Well as it was the weekend set out to do a few bits to the car first job was fit the wheel decals so off with the first wheel


All cleaned with autosmart g101 and using my kranzle



All measured and taped in place


Stuck down!



So I did that to all four wheels clean all my wheels arches and just to show the backs of the wheels are just as good as the front




Once back on the ground I thought I would give it a little clean!
Snow foamed up

Washed and rinsed off

The end result all auto smart products used

And today went out for Sunday lunch so I took a cheeky pic



Cheers Martin

 

Looking good mate.
Came out well after the mishap

 

Cheers bud

 

Cars looking awesome mate, i need some of those wheels again

 

Love it! The stickers on the wheels totally transform it....

Not that it looked bad without them!!

 

Cheers chaps

 

Stunning!! Love the rims!

 

Now get those calipers painted lol

 

Great wheel choice!

Miss my saff....

 

No ap 6 pots are next