moonstone blue hdi

[kentiiboii]

thought id start a thread over on here as im going to start getting lot of stuff done to the car.

so i paid £750 for my w reg hdi with full service history every 6k miles. it was in need of a new timing belt and a service so i got them out of the way as well as a new aux belt.

this is when i first had it and gave it a good clean.








later on it was debadge



hids



not a lot has happened over winter just mot and tax. but i bought some 16" araines that need 2 tyres and refurb. so i bought 15mm spacers all round and stud converions.


not got round to refurbing and fitting these yet as i wanted to lower the profile of tyres. but i been offered a set of 17" aidels from my dad at a very good price.

this just need a new coat of paint. but have a full set of brand new tyres the right profile for the 306.

heres a picture of them both together. ive chose the 17s just need to choose a colour for them. person who owned them before used taper nuts so i gott drill a bit of metal out to make the propper nuts fits.


over the last couple of weeks ive been preparing my centre console and spraying it moonstone and ive finally finished it and fitted today.



just left my house in car to see a ups van pull up today so i rushed back to mine and quickly got my parcel.

very shiney

will be getting my alloys sprayed and fitted over next couple of days. i have 307 283 brakes waiting for it as well. coils and beam will aall be lowered together. somewhere between 40-60mm. will be giving the car a good clean sunday as it hasnt been cleaned since september.

comments always welcome

[kentiiboii]

Spent today sortin the rest of my dash. Fitting the newly painted dial surrounds. And plasma white dials from niall's group buy.

[kingy]

does look good that mate.

[Connor]

Don't put the araines on as it'll be copying mine... lol

[kentiiboii]

Cheers kingy.
And conner that's what I thought loads of people have araines now. Where as I don't think any one had Aidels.

[Connor]

There ain't that many people with them, just i already have a manstain 5dr with them on lol

[kentiiboii]

but the aidels are more rarer on a 306 anyway plus they look so nice

[samass]

i actually like that dial surround, wasnt sure i would, colour coded stuff on the inside can look shite, but youve done a good job! nice!

also, noticed you have a four spoke steering wheel... mind helping me out a bit? ill pm you so i dont spam your thread

[kentiiboii]

Thanks I wasn't sure it was going to work either. I think any other colour and it wouldn't.
I've pm'd you about the steering wheel.

[mark_airey]

Nice progress, prefer the design of the Aidels over the Araines but I prefer 16" wheels on the 306 to 17" ones, so the ideal IMO would be some 16" Aidels

[kentiiboii]

Yeah I know what you mean. With the 16s I gotta get lower profile tyres for them to fit. Where as the 17s are perfect size with 4 nearly new tyres

[mark_airey]

Yeah I know what you mean. With the 16s I gotta get lower profile tyres for them to fit. Where as the 17s are perfect size with 4 nearly new tyres

Yeah I read that further up, 205/40/17 on them then? for 16" wheels you will need 205 or 195/45/16

I guess they still have the original 307 spec, balloon profile tyres on them ATM then?

[Kimmie]

Loving the colour coding!

[kentiiboii]

Yeah I know what you mean. With the 16s I gotta get lower profile tyres for them to fit. Where as the 17s are perfect size with 4 nearly new tyres

Yeah I read that further up, 205/40/17 on them then? for 16" wheels you will need 205 or 195/45/16

I guess they still have the original 307 spec, balloon profile tyres on them ATM then?

You've got it

Thanks kimmie

[Eeyore]

loooks good that mate! Good finish on that paint! Wish I had put my name down for the group buy on plasmas now

[kentiiboii]

Right so a little update.
I got found to giving the car a good clean and polish.













And finally made a start on refurbing my Aidels.
First wheel looked like someone sanded it with electric sander and left half the paint on and score marks. So been build it up and sanding it with filler primer. There is a few tiny marks left but hopefully with paint of you won't notice.
They're going anthracite grey with moonstone lion.
I'm also thinking of adding a light touch of silver glitter so let me know what your views are of the glitter? As I'm not sure yet.




Hopefully Monday and Tuesday are ok weather and I can get these almost finished are the other 3 alloys are already mint with no marks they just need a sand and spray.

[kingy]

bit of advice mate, a good finnish is all down to the prep work. if you got marks in em now you will see them with the top coat on. beleive me, its worth taking your time and doing it properly. been doing my wheels now for about 3 weeks and still aint nowhere near finnished.

[kentiiboii]

They're just tiny things. I think maybe one more light sand should get rid. But they're are very very light marks.

Off to pick up paint today.what do you think about silver glitter? I'm
Thinking a light spray of them might look nice. But too much could be wrong.

[kentiiboii]

Update.
Been working on car last couple of days fitting new ta-technix coilover kit. Also had aero wipers come too. Waiting for few more bits to arrive.
As for my alloys I have 1 finished and ready for lacquer and that's it.
But pictures of it lowered.



Rear is 55m front is 40mm.
Front still needs dropping 10mm.
Highly recommend saxo-parts in Langley mill for rear beam. Everything on my car has been seized specially beam. I also asked him to do the 2 front rear beam mounts and one of my dampers had seized and only charged me £100.

Next on the list is finish alloys and get fitted.
Fit 283mm calipers.
Fit laguna splitter.
Hopefully I'll have these done by fcs.

[Matt]

You sure that's 40mm on the front? Tbh I'd leave it as it is, or bring the front up slightly

[kentiiboii]

I think it might look slightly lower cos of the road. But I did measure it after I had it jacked. Will measure it again tomorrow.

[kingy]

i would wait till you get your other wheels on before you get the ride hight. might look compleatly different. nice to see it coming along mate. keep it up.
mines going in to day to saxo parts for lowerage and new dampers and he's only charging me £75. your cars coming on kent. get them wheels on bud.

[kentiiboii]

Any one know of 7.5j fit ok?

[kingy]

hay, kent. just had mine lowered another 25mm at the back. new dampers and a full servise in little under 4 hours at a grand total of £130. and that them supplying the oil. what a billy bargin. he said yours was a right twat to do. good man that jason. taking all my work to him.

[kentiiboii]

Yeah he was a top man mate. And like you said mine was a right lady garden. I had sized bolt on rear beam mounts, sized damper that he ended up grinding off and to lower rear beam which was seized. He had it from 9.30 till about 7.30-8pm. And charged me £100.
He really does know his stuff. If I have any work that I cba to do then I'll defferntly take it too him. Highly recommend him.

Got any pictures of it lowered on back? How's it feel with the dampers? I'm loving mine now been going long bendy ways for sake of it today

[kingy]

speaking to him today he said it should have cost you alot more but thats what he chargers so thats what you pay. dont matter how long it takes. that i my book is a top bloke.
only had mine dropped another 25mm so not a massive difference tbt. but the handleing is alot better with the dampers. will get some before and after pics later but cba at the mo mate. carnt wait to get my 16's back on to see the finnished product. as i said kent, if you need any help in finnishing your alloys then im here to offer you a shed and a little bit of knowledge on spraying.

[kentiiboii]

Yeah I was expecting around £150 tbh. But like I say it's got him a regular customer and recommendations what else could you ask for!
Cheers mate. I'm ok with spraying to be fair and I has a garage down the road if needed. Worst part is waiting for halfords to have the paint in. No where near me has any, might have to pay someone on here to get me some.
In meantime just getting them primered and do my splitter as I have paint for that.
I have enough experience with painting anyway. Sprayed my whole Astra last year with rattle cans.

[kingy]

got hellfords near me. let me know what ya want and i will have a look. need to go down and have a look see if they have my colour back in yet.

[kentiiboii]

Wheel and wheel trim paint anthracite mate it's £7.50 a can could do with x3 I can come and pick them up if they have them. Thanks.

[kingy]

thats the colour i wanted to do my alloys in but they said they dont do it??????? i went for a ford midnight (or summat like that). but will ask again.