[burtonm]

Craig Cheetham has offered me most of a front end for £beer - that's good, as I can get it for that and a tank of diesel - managed to borrow an estate as a parts hauler. Alas the front wings are goosed apparently, so I may still be looking for those unless I can use them as repair sections. Passenger short indicator wing in particular.

The GTi is going all '70s with a black bonnet for a while!

[Montegoman]

Rimmers did have short indicator wings in stock.

[burtonm]

For £60 though!

[lemix1924]

I can send you a genuine new old stock LH short indicator (XBD10035) for 54€ no extra charges.

Th. Isaakidis
Lemix
EL051733416

[RoverRevival]

He needs the wing, not the indicator.

Your biggest battle with the UK market is we can buy a complete car for £100 and it's that main reason why they are the prefered classic because you can do a restoration on a budget.

[richard moss]

For £60 though!

For a genuine wing, that is a bargain

[lemix1924]

Excuse me if I got this wrong, not meaning to confuse, but the price I quoted is for an indicator light, NOT a wing (that's why I include a part number). I don't have GENUINE wings in stock, I can source some a/m ones, these would cost about 100€ shipped. I have some RH ones in stock, 4 I think, need to check how many are genuine and how many a/m. I can do them for 139€ shipped, or better if combined.
Regards,
Th. Isaakidis
Lemix
EL051733416

[burtonm]

Well, I now have a pair of wings, rust free, they were £50 delivered.

They look to be in a shade of Nightfire, and the body coloured rubbing strips with black inserts suggest they're off a 216GTi 3dr.

Going to slap them on soon, in an effort to get the car mobile again, and vacate the garage.

I've been on holiday in France so there's not too much to report, but my dad has been hard at work straightening the body out, and also continuing to mess with the main relay.

He's only gone and fixed it - it transpires that a wire had burned out in the dead relay, rendering it useless. The mystery NOS relay with a different multiplug was taken apart, and the innards/relays swapped over - I'm not quite sure what he did, but he commented that the later Pektron relay was of a better construction than the Mitsuba unit.

As I mentioned, the NOS relay came in an MG Rover box, but the part numbers lead to a 1999 Honda Civic 1.4: this made me suspect the relay was for an early HH-R 400 with a D16 - as we know, it is to all intents and purposes the same car as the 5 door 95-01 Civic.

I shall find some more information out on what he did as this may well be of interest to some members of the club/forum, as the main relays for these later Civics seem to be a bit easier to get hold of than the R8 original ones - though a dead R8 unit is needed as well as the Civic unit for the repair!

[burtonm]

Before:



After:



spot what's wrong with the picture - and it's not the red wing!

While I was on holiday my dad has been hard at work straightening the front end of the GTi out, then on Tuesday my new wings arrived, off a 216GTi 3dr it appears. Rust free, and even though they're Nightfire, the car looks a whole lot better for being grot free now. The driver's wing was undamaged in the accident, but as both wings were equally rotten, both were replaced, as I'd have had to do that anyway, or treat/sand/fill/prime/paint. Combined with a few bits borrowed from my dormant GSi, I've managed to make a roadworthy car for the time being - more importantly it means I can drive it to Cambs where I'll stick the front end of a dead 216GSi on it, then drive home again. Uncracked bumper, undamaged grille, hockey sticks, lights etc. As it happens both of my grilles are broken.
My mum and I are starting to question whether we really need the GSi now, as we weren't able to make use of it as we'd hoped, and the GTi is shaping up to be in as good, if not better condition - and in a more desirable package.
There's also the side matter of me having a hankering for a Renault 4...
I'll get the front end painted in time, might even go for a full respray as the car would be exceptional inside and out for that. The paint's all that's letting it down now (and a slight hole in one sill).

I rewired the radio too, swapping the incorrectly wired speakers and 12v feeds around - the radio (a Kenwood unit) now sounds really quite good - I was surprised how good in fact. The speakers are working supremely well.

[crepello]

Seems to be a Concerto bonnet?
I'd convinced myself that the contour round the headlamps differed between the siblings, but yours seems to fit well.