Ford fiesta 53 zetec (Complete Interior Rehaul!)

[EW]

Just mention this is Charlottes car before we go any further.

 

Basically she had saved up for the new 10plate Fiesta in frost white (on finance) however after much deliberation I convinced her to keep her current car and save the money for a deposit on a house in a few years.

 

So I asked "why dont you like yours? Why do you NEED a new one?!"

And the reply I got was "The steering wheel bugs me and I want a black interior..."

 

Old...

 

 

 

So after telling her how daft that sounded I gave a breakers yard a call (Transplants Auto's) and priced up the bits and bobs, for a full new interior (Black of course) and had a chat with the woman and managed to get the price down from £350 - Interior panels, £125 - Steering wheel, £100 - Seats to an amazing £175 for the lot! I got it this cheap because I said I'd take the parts out of the "doner" car myself...

 

Doner car... Link

 

 

So I got a van with one of my mates, picked the stuff up and its only when I got home i relised what a dig job this would be... The only things that would be left in the car was the Dashboard, Roof liner and carpet. :eek2:

 

So I made a start, firstly cleaning all the parts bought and making them look brand new. Before starting with the passanger seat...

 

 

Then the rear's

 

Then the drivers (Harder because of electrics)

 

Then door panels & Rear interior panels

 

And thats it for today, will update on sunday when im finishing it off, but until then be safe in the knowlage that im KNACKERD!!!! 7am till now and this is my first sit down all day :lol:

[Jazzi]

Woah :eek: Thats a job and a half.

Good luck Elliot! Rather you than me mate :lol:

[Leadfoot[YT]]

Wow! Looks like a ton of work! Nice work. :)

 

-Leadfoot

[t.]

I admire your effort, faced with this I think I'd have said "meh, buy it". Nice work on the price. Re linking all the electrics should be fun!

[EW]

O I forgot to mention, I have to get this all done by thursday morning as were off to birmigham for the weekend... O and i have work Mon,Tues and wed so erm, late nights? xD

[T0M722]

Wow, what a job you've got on your hands then. Nice effort and I hope you get it done ;)

[Ryzza5]

Hope it all goes well, got to admire you for giving it a go (I suppose it's too late to change your mind now) ;)

[Jacob]

Wow, that looks like alot of work! It also looks the kinda Job would get half way through and say meh, Ima go make a sandwich

[GTAMADDOG]

I definitely admire the effort and I prefer the darker interior, too. The interior is definitely not something to warrant a car change these days seeing as most interior objects are easily removed and replaced on most cars. I took the chance to hoover the floor underneathe where my seats are the last time I removed them, not that anyone can see under them once they're in but it'd bug the hell out of me knowing I didn't clean there.

 

Makes me want to buy leather seats for my Pugger again now :/

[EW]

Yea I had the dyson on the carpets after ripping them out too, but it was too dark to take pictures so i put the carpet back in "Cleaned" its alot better so theres no mess down the side of the seats etc..

 

Tbh this is relitivly straight forward just takes a lifetime.

[Sponge]

If you haven't disconnected the electrics again, tape some paper or something to it and write on the cable what it is and where it goes. That'd probably save you a helluva lot of time ;)

 

Epic project, epic progress. Keep it up!

[killalldude]

Looking forward to see how this goes... Good Luck!