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[mart356]

Hello beautiful people!

 

I’m guessing most of you don’t know me, I’ve been an NA owner since 2002, old member of the site, when Thorney ran it

I moth balled my NA 4/5 years ago and now dragging it back to life. 127,000 miles on the clock and never went wrong.

 

What front tyres are now the best option, they stopped making the skinny ones I hear?

Any battery recommendations, that’s my first job?

I cracked the front clam, any recommendations for places to repair it? Does anywhere sell new front clams?

 

cheers!

 

Martyn

 

[Strugs]

Welcome back! Can't help with the tyres (swapped mine to 16" wheels years ago) or battery, but Jon Seal of Lotus Hard Tops does new clams (http://www.lotushardtops.com/)..

[blackoctagon]

I have 195/40/17 Nankang NS2-Rs on the front (215s rear). Clear the water well and grip well.

[mart356]

Thanks. So the 195/40/17 Nankang NS2-Rs fit on the standard skinny front wheels?? They seem cheap!! Result!

​on the rears at the moment I have" 

Toyo 225/45 R17 Y (94)

 

front Bridgestone 175/55 R17

 

Thanks Strugs for the front clam info. Think it will be easier to bite that bullet and maybe even get them to fit to too, am sure in Wales I can get a spray paint cheapest. Out of all the things I thin front clam and spray will be the most expensive.

 

 

[blackoctagon]

They fit snugly and you'll be needing a machine - the old tyre irons will not be your friend here - but I feel they are money well spent, and they compare well in cold and wet driving with the more expensive AD08r Yokohamas on one of my other cars.

[mart356]

Amazingly i jump started her and she came to life. Brakes all fuzzed up setting off ABS. Like a twat id left handbrake on so I thought I would never get it out if the garage. Off for battery swap and a deep service b4 MOT. Going to be a summer job doing all the things necessary. 124,000 miles. It never went wrong bar the plastic water tanks splitting in the UV.

[Cavturbo]

Mart, welcome back. Many like me have fairly recently come back to the fold but you still have your original vx fair play. I think it may be prudent to consider your timing chain if not already done and hub carrier bolts and toe links etc too. Good luck and I hope its back on the road with some of the summer left!

[mart356]

Thanks Cavturbo……

I am building a list of things that need doing.
And finding things in my garage which I bought with the intention of obviously fitting like an exhuast manifold, New inner wheel arches and a Steinmetz grill. Oh and piping for the heating matrix. Think i will also get a new heater matrix.

I didn’t think the timing belt ever needed changing on the NA? But if that’s the advice i will look at it. 124,000 miles now.
Hub carrier bolts on the wheels?
Will defo replace toe links and i need to check the shocks/ride height

The feckin bonnet release is all borked had to yank the wire with mole grips. Wonder if there is an upgrade for this?

Friends reminded me it might have been in the garage for 7 years in total. The last 3 it hasn’t moved at all, amazed it started. My mechanic bloke is going to spend some love on it to het it to MOT. Then i will start running through my list and can get it to a GRP specialist to tell me to repair or replace front clam. There are stone chip chunks all over the place.

[Ivor]

Thanks Cavturbo……

I am building a list of things that need doing.
And finding things in my garage which I bought with the intention of obviously fitting like an exhuast manifold, New inner wheel arches and a Steinmetz grill. Oh and piping for the heating matrix. Think i will also get a new heater matrix.

I didn’t think the timing belt ever needed changing on the NA? But if that’s the advice i will look at it. 124,000 miles now.
Hub carrier bolts on the wheels?
Will defo replace toe links and i need to check the shocks/ride height

The feckin bonnet release is all borked had to yank the wire with mole grips. Wonder if there is an upgrade for this?

Friends reminded me it might have been in the garage for 7 years in total. The last 3 it hasn’t moved at all, amazed it started. My mechanic bloke is going to spend some love on it to het it to MOT. Then i will start running through my list and can get it to a GRP specialist to tell me to repair or replace front clam. There are stone chip chunks all over the place.

Re bonnet cable, there's a thread somewhere re using a Landover cable, cost a few £ on flea bay. Google search should find it, I bought the cable,never fitted it and wrestle with the oem cable and catch regularly

[Ivor]

http://www.vx220.org...d-simple-to-do/

[mart356]

Awesome, that’s a good mod.