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Old Oct 19th, 2014, 12:40   #21
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He needs a egg crate grill also Alex
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Old Oct 19th, 2014, 13:21   #22
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Surely as it's a later model with arcadias and colour coded strips as standard it would have one already?!

They discontinued the waterfall ones in 2001 I think...
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Surely as it's a later model with arcadias and colour coded strips as standard it would have one already?!

They discontinued the waterfall ones in 2001 I think...
Nope I think Gordon likes his chrome waterfall grill from what he has told me in the past ,it would have had one for sure the older grills age the car I.m.o
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They discontinued the waterfall ones in 2001 I think...
Mines march 02 and has waterfall
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Sell it and get a Vectra youth
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Dog book I saw a silver vectra diesel saloon a week ago it was diesel but by god did it sound nice when he opened it up I don't know what he's done to it shifted aswell did they do a sporty diesel model, it could have left a lot of petrol engines standing , looked nice in the irmscher dress aswell

Twin pipes on it and it made like a really deep induction noise when he booted it,obviously has spent some cash on it

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Dog book I saw a silver vectra diesel saloon a week ago it was diesel but by god did it sound nice when he opened it up I don't know what he's done to it shifted aswell did they do a sporty diesel model, it could have left a lot of petrol engines standing , looked nice in the irmscher dress aswell

Twin pipes on it and it made like a really deep induction noise when he booted it,obviously has spent some cash on it
Yeah mines a bit mad with the 2 maps and thats before ive put a hybrid and a precat decat pipe on with another 2 maps lol.
The 16v cdti dont half go well and the engine is strong, unlike the parts around it lol
Said before, great car but parts seem to fall of really fast like shocks and sensors like to pop a lot earlier than on the Volvos. If i couldnt get the front bumper of in 5 mins id be worried about it all lol
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I prefer it to the insignia, you can't really tune the volvo diesel to that extent as you've mentioned it's no slouch but the vectra certainly shifted lol.looked good aswell better than the usual vectra taxis you see round.if I see it parked up ill snap a pic I've seen it floating round Paignton before, he has a cool reg aswell p44 rpm.
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I've only had my ph2 s40d Sport lux a couple of weeks but I've done a few bits. Firstly I've sprayed the door handles the same silver as the arcadias and I've also' chromed' the door sill plates which were just flat black plastic on mine. I'm not into 'modding' really but I like tidying things up a bit.

Ive been considering changing the black plastic bumper inserts to painted gloss black. Think it could look goid. Might try and Photoshop it.
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