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@mastermindd Ай бұрын

Hey there, I have pretty much the same vehicle, it's just labelled az Opel Astra F. Thanks for the information, however I have to install new locks, no? My car doesn't have central locking by factory and I'm sure the locks have to be modified as well, don't they?

@80s90sVauxChris Ай бұрын

@@mastermindd yeah you would need to swap the central locking motors and wiring from a donor car into yours first before installing the vectra module

@heyheyfrapfrap Ай бұрын

Where have you got those rims ?

@80s90sVauxChris Ай бұрын

@heyheyfrapfrap they are standard mk3 astra alloys, it was originally on steels and trims but alloys look better :)

@L555ENC1 Ай бұрын

Garage looks worse that the car brother...

@80s90sVauxChris Ай бұрын

@L555ENC1 it's not a garage 😂 its a storage unit I cut the car up in

@IsThereOneGoingSpare Ай бұрын

❤

@Choober65 5 ай бұрын

I have a 1994 GLS 2.0L 265K miles, original engine, been sitting for 15 years sprayed with salt water on a monthly basis (I live by the sea) and it STILL looks like new (OK the floor has rotted away and the engine needs a rebuild) but find me ONE modern car that can handle that. I've HEARD that Saab floorpans are the same and will fit, as I have been unable to find aftermarket parts. Looks like I have to make my own.

@80s90sVauxChris 5 ай бұрын

Yeah new floor sections don't exist unfortunately so it's either make them or cut them from another car, mk3 astras make a good donor, the floors arnt quite identical but are very very similar

@roasthunter 6 ай бұрын

Friendly MOT tester

@MegaReddevil71 6 ай бұрын

Spraying black schultz under a car makes things worse as it trap moisture and rots the car out

@andrewjohnson7960 6 ай бұрын

Wow thats baddd ! Stevie wonder motd that bet that cost about 2-3 grand too mot

@paulkelly7609 7 ай бұрын

I've driven worse

@nissand21boy 7 ай бұрын

I get micras like this and find not always owners but had alot of garages bodge the crap out of cars some charge good money , one to weld up soon got expandy foam in the sills as a favour,for the owner 😑 , she was pissed when i showed her and the damage it created , and for cars with a mot tbh surpised what can pass, one of my dailys looks solid and is solid but im gonna have to cut the floor out as its just made of fiberglass

@ColinBarrett001 7 ай бұрын

Well, that's what you get driving on cold, wet, salty UK roads for over 30 years with no real rust prevention maintenance.

@petergrinnell2500 7 ай бұрын

How did that pass the MOT it must of been hidden well or the MOT bloke was blind 😂 but its a old vauxhall and fords are the same ive welded up cars for years but basic model not worth so don't blame you parting it out mate

@80s90sVauxChris 7 ай бұрын

Bit of both I think 😂🤣

@BrooksterMax 7 ай бұрын

How on earth that had any MOTs for the past few years I’ll never know. That had been setting in for a while. Anyway glad it has helped save others.

@MaddMattsGarage 7 ай бұрын

😂 well if you have the room, and the tools, and the patience, and of course the materials you could rebuild it... 😂😂 but sad to see it in such bad state.

@80s90sVauxChris 7 ай бұрын

I hate to see one go to waste too, new panels are hard to come by, the floor sections you can't buy new, wouldn't be worth cutting up a solid car to save a rotten one, she's kept a few other on the road though which is good

@MaddMattsGarage 7 ай бұрын

@@80s90sVauxChris totally agree by keeping others on the road. I'm all for making panels for the vehicles however it does take time, money, and space maybe some skill.

@dinatarkteruz 7 ай бұрын

Wow, that's a ripe one 😳

@icanseeyou3418 7 ай бұрын

used engine oil will bring back the black and shine to the faded trim

@80s90sVauxChris 7 ай бұрын

If you mean the bumpers the centres are grey from factory 😅 thats how they came

@StanleyKubick1 7 ай бұрын

mate, it's an Opel

@TorquilBletchleySmythe 7 ай бұрын

I'm looking at that magnificent British weather, with its inherent seawater atmosphere and think, "Well, there's your problem..."

@dspencer8827 7 ай бұрын

A alfa 155 on flipping bangers had same problem p reg but was rotten as a pear. Must of lived by sea. 😢

@roasthunter 7 ай бұрын

My dad had a Mk2 Cavalier as a company car, when it came up for renewal in 1989 I wanted him to get a Mk3 but he went for a Sierra instead.

@Tidda86 7 ай бұрын

I remember my science teacher brought a brand new one of these!!! He was so pleased with it he had the whole class go look at it

@John-c1n9t 7 ай бұрын

Faint heart never saved a MK3 Cav I love em! Effing does nothing for your Vid.

@80s90sVauxChris 7 ай бұрын

I've got snother 2 to sort out 😂 considering the entire floor and inner sills had gone and you can't get new replacements of them it made sense it chop it up to save others rather than cut up a solid car to try and save a scrap low spec one, the shots that were portrait weren't going to be in a video originally, thats what I sent to my friends just after we started stripping it showing what it needed 😅 its the only footage I had of it though before knocking the sealer and filler out of the inner sills and floor, still thought it was saveable at that point 😂

@John-c1n9t 6 ай бұрын

Fair play.@@80s90sVauxChris

@The_Car_Stalker 7 ай бұрын

Cant beat a mark 3 Cav - i love mine

@The_Car_Stalker 7 ай бұрын

I think this was the 1 i was looking at back in Jan 2023 but pulled out as it only had 3 weeks MOT and was the other end of the country - i cant find any photos just the Gumtree conversation i was having with the seller and i MOT checked the same number plate a while ago

@80s90sVauxChris 7 ай бұрын

Going off the mot history it didn't seam too bad of a car, the drivers floor was a fail a couple of years ago then it passed but it hadn't actually been fixed,had a few years worth of bent mots on this for sure 😅

@thebigbowler 7 ай бұрын

Want to see more of that old hatch 😆

@80s90sVauxChris 7 ай бұрын

The hatch will have its own build series on here soon dont worry 😂

@InConsulting 7 ай бұрын

Even number plate says Rank!

@SiCrewe 7 ай бұрын

I had a mk3 SRi back in the early 2000's and it was already showing signs that water leaks were going to be it's downfall. The carpets were always a little bit damp, there were water marks on the headliner and when it rained I'd see the odd droplet running down the inside of the windscreen. Didn't really bother me, at the time, but I guess 25 years of it results in what we see here. Brutal watching this video but this is, basically, where every monocoque shell is headed sooner or later. Makes me feel slightly better about driving a Land Rover these days. It still rusts but at least repairing it is like working with big lumps of Meccano.

@barryjackson8512 7 ай бұрын

Nice looking Cav. Iv had a couple of expressions pre face lift didn’t get C/L. Face lift did. Only thing it got was power steering

@80s90sVauxChris 7 ай бұрын

The broshure I saw it in was specifically for the 1992 prefacelift expression, even the L's had central locking so think its a bit of a let down that a "special edition" didn't

@barryjackson8512 7 ай бұрын

@@80s90sVauxChris I had 2 H reg 1.6L. Blue one had electric windows. Central locking manual mirrors. White one had manual windows no central locking. Electric mirrors and power steering

@lettuceman3848 7 ай бұрын

Hell most of the visible stuff is just surface rust and the rest you'll patch with som 0.9mm steel. If it isn't worn out

@80s90sVauxChris 7 ай бұрын

Did you actually watch the video? 😂🤣😂

@lettuceman3848 7 ай бұрын

@@80s90sVauxChris have you seen jennings motorsports aar cuda? If you have enough patience or just no fucks to give about the final product it will buff out 😂

@ME-ke7qc 7 ай бұрын

never ever buy a vauxhaul car...EVER

@80s90sVauxChris 7 ай бұрын

What would you suggest instead? 😂 they arnt all like this

@peterdevreter 7 ай бұрын

After my tfsi nightmare bought a corsa twinport and replaced the chain the day I got it. No problems at all and no rust.

@josephtaylor3769 7 ай бұрын

Take it the rear sunroof drains in boot haven’t been cleaned out, foam around the rear seatbelts still present rotting rear arches, what about the foam on the bulkhead? 🤔

@80s90sVauxChris 7 ай бұрын

foam was still present on the bulkhead very surprised that hadn't rotted out, few scabby surface rust bits but very solid

@josephtaylor3769 7 ай бұрын

@@80s90sVauxChris you should set an email address up for the channel so people can contact you with parts etc. got an Sri myself and I know plenty of people with parts 👍

@80s90sVauxChris 7 ай бұрын

@josephtaylor3769 thats actually a good idea :D

@TheGreatBritishFarm 7 ай бұрын

The cheapest repairs are preventatives and I do my old Ibizas underside with waxoyl

@TheGreatBritishFarm 7 ай бұрын

@simonspider Used engine oil is genuinely a waste of time as the combustion byproducts in it causes it to be acidic. Waxoyl does a great job, we have been using it on the farm for 30 years. You have to apply it right though, on a nice dry surface on a dry day. If you don't then you're locking in moisture and it will do nothing.

@TheGreatBritishFarm 7 ай бұрын

@@simonspider I'm not sure what youre doing wrong, but we coat farm machinery with it that sits outside and its waxy water repellant coat lasts for a year at least and if stored inside generally it lasts near forever. Engine oil might not do any damage, but it does cancel out a lot of the benefit, old hydraulic oil is the best. We use it on chains and areas that I dont want a sticky waxoyl finish, but after a week outside its gone.

@Backwoodz 7 ай бұрын

Thats what i call a "Triggers brush" motor. I admire people like yourself who sees that as repairable, i just see scrap tbh 🤣

@80s90sVauxChris 7 ай бұрын

This one wasn't unfortunately 😢 it's kept many others on the road though

@hank5500 7 ай бұрын

it will hold for another 100k

@m4d_mark_xtr3me79 7 ай бұрын

Yeah.... At that point it's a fuck it off for parts mate. It's a cavalier, they are rot boxes as much as many steel body cars of the era. Like mondeos, they won't be missed unfortunately

@80s90sVauxChris 7 ай бұрын

I dunno like 😅 vauxhall enthusiasts love the mk3 cavaliers, there is alot of love for them, im constantly being stopped by people who want to talk about mine and ones they owned back in the day, late 90s-00s everyone knew somebody who had one, surprisingly there is alot more of them left than similar cars of the era from other manufacturers

@jamieelborough6795 11 ай бұрын

Is it just the red wire required Chris?

@80s90sVauxChris 11 ай бұрын

It is mate :) technically you could just bridge a wire from that pin on module to the red on the car loom side, there is other stuff you can do with them too though like wiring in a flashing relay so the indicators flash when it's locked and unlocked which is why its best to get the whole secondary plug, will be doing the same plus extras on my cavalier in the future

@jamieelborough6795 11 ай бұрын

@80s90sVauxChris thanks mate next weekends project!

@WebstersWorkshop Жыл бұрын

I see you're looking a lot more confident in front of the camera. Also, cracking video, didn't realise it was that easy to do.

@80s90sVauxChris Жыл бұрын

Aha not really 😂 kinda forcing myself to be abit louder and clearer, and yeah it's well easy 😂 watched the majority of your videos the other day from when you first started out, quite jealous of those carbon fibre dash caps you were making few years back, I wouldn't mind doing something similar but with fibreglass and covering the top of it with black leather or viynl

@WebstersWorkshop Жыл бұрын

You should give it a go, it's really not that hard.

@jude6kv Жыл бұрын

i didn't realise it was this easy lol, the drivers side door lock on the td has just given up so i shall be sourcing one of these ecus immediately 😂

@80s90sVauxChris Жыл бұрын

Yup super easy, hard part is finding an ecu with a working key already paired to it, dont forget the plugs with some loom too, best bet would be a scrapyard or find someone breaking a vectra b

@franksdad9899 Жыл бұрын

Seems easy enough! Nice one!

@80s90sVauxChris Жыл бұрын

Literally takes 10 minutes, hard part is finding an ecu with a key already paired to it

@WebstersWorkshop Жыл бұрын

Good mix of pictures and videos. Top job. Thanks for the cheeky plug, too 😁

@MitchB-ps6hx Жыл бұрын

What a stunning collection of pre 2000 Vauxhalls

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