Jay's Arden Astra GSi Progress Thread

[Jay-GSi]

Ben beat me to it, tx autosport do a good direct fit kit for them

To tell if your Precat is gone, look below and to the right slightly at the pipe directly off the turbo, if its shiny and cylindrical then its a decat, otherwise its dull, has a heat shield and is standard( also an unusual shape)

With the main cat, if you take it out it'll be stupidly loud, but if you want it gone then go for it. I fitted a sports cat as I can't be arsed to mess about near mot time

yeah its standard.. ill order a precat soon as funds are up again lol.. nah i dont want it ridiculous loud its loud enough as it is! cheers bud

[Jay-GSi]

Cheers for comments guys

[G1NG3R]

like the motor matey, real nice

[Jay-GSi]

Well was up bright and early and with some decent weather i thought id change the dreaded centre console.. turns out its easy as pie!!! took me just under an hour following a guide off google lol, had to add a few things in myself to help me along the way.. anyway pics......

Before




Got the glovebox out and HU out



Probably the most awkard part was getting the heater control module out, clips were a right S**T bag to get out and obv theres 4 so once i got one up i wedged it with a screw lol



Then unclipped the heater vents and changed the GID onto the wrapped one.



Refitted the main console



Refitted ash tray, 12v output and Gear stick surround & peice under the handbrake.



Only thing i havent got wrapped is the traction control peice so left that out for time being as its easy to clip back in, think im going to spray it satin black after alot of rubbing down.



final finshed photos, looks alot better than the tatty grey that was in IMO





C+C

[Rob]

Looks nice, glad to see you kept the weave the same direction on it all, it makes it look bad when its all done different ways

[Jay-GSi]

Still a bit tacky IMO but still looks better than standard as it was in crap condition, yeah the wrap is well done.. Gonna have a play with my stndard one now :P but dunno what to do yet :/

[Rob]

Spray it Arden blue

[conrad222]

yeah spray your original stuff arden and give the carbon a few coats of laquer gives it abit of gloss as i aint much for the matt look given from the carbon wrap still an improvement over what was in there before

[Toddyc]

Top job mukka

Thinking of spraying all my centre console gloss black

[Jay-GSi]

Cheers mate.. You should do its easy to get out yours wont be that much different