Love the style of the dashboard on the cavalier, still looks nice all these years later . The Astra too. The Alfa 147 is another one with a nice dashboard.
I remember buying QH brake caliper slider rubbers in the late 90's for the astra sri, and 6 months later they were split on both sides of the car. Never again. I thought QH stands for quality horrendous lol. Inexperienced youtube viewers never put copper grease on brake caliper sliders, it makes them stick. Put on silicon grease instead. On my bro's motorbike the silicon grease on the sliders made his brake pads last twice as long, compared to copper grease, due to not sticking and no brake binding. Copper grease is ok for back of brake pads. I think you put silicon grease on your brake caliper sliders didn't you dougie. Great video dougie.
@@Keirdo69r i was thinking about that, I need somewhere to keep store it when not in use though. I want to get one of those container sheds for the back garden to keep equipment in. My pressure washer is currently in my bedroom 😂
@@bigfist255 £16.99 for five litres was a good deal, the genuine GM stuff is all gone now. I got a drum of 10/40 Mannol recently as well for the Vauxhalls.
@@OnceDrivenForeverSmitten loving the videos been watching them for last few years! Quick one tho, that mannol 10w40 20l drum did you get it from eBay? Carrousel car parts? Anyway, I bought the same stuff. When you take the lid off, have a whiff, the stuff stinks and is very pungent. I love the price of the stuff and have done around 1k miles using it but not 100% sure on it. I've tried reading up about mannol online and found they claim it's German or something but is actually made in Lithuania and found reports online after oils causing engine issues and reports found the ester zinc and molybdenum content was either none existent or not what it should be. Mannol was under legal battle due to claims the VW requirements that they claimed to meet turned out were also untrue. I like the price 20l drum for under £40 but still unsure. Love the cav videos, my parents had a MK3 cav in white with all blue interior in a K plate think it was 2.0 8v. Engine froze solid one winter lol still ran once it thawed. I remember the front wheel bearings failing every other month 😂 keep the content coming 😁
@OnceDrivenForeverSmitten yeah actually I meant 5w 30 in my saab and it was 17 quid odd on amazon ,I read the reviews on it and its perfectly good oil.
@@briancooper-uv9uk yeah I was looking at new ones on eBay the four brown ones are horrible. I took the locking bolts off, take them off all my cars, nobody is going to nick any of my wheels 😂
In the past i fitted EBC redstuf on my T5R together with Tarox G88 grooved disks. They were fine BUT in winter temps i really needed to be aware that the brakes were still cold. They needed at least 3 or 4 brake applications to make them bite. Not ideal in traffic nor on long motorway trips (yes, your brakes do get cold if you travel at 70mph on cruise control. The first application will warm them pretty quit tho. IMO Track pads on the rear axel are total overkill. Unnecessary. Because the rear axel only does 15 to 25% of the braking anyway.
When ure doing the service, when doing the plugs be very careful with the plastic vac lines at the back of the intake they are very brittle also make sure the gaps on the plugs r no more than 1mm as these engines are very picky with plug gaps. Mines r set at 0.6mm on a stage 1 map was misfiring with anything more. Also the oil change is pretty easy, u can use a 2 liter coke bottle with the arse cut off it when taking the filter out to stop the oil soaking the oil heat exchanger.
Yeah the vented rear discs pass the carrier but the solid type don't, if you ever have to change a rear calipher just cut the bit on the old one that the handbrake cables go through ,you can never get them out ,they weld themselves in
Great job Dougie, just wondering if the Insignia VXR 18-inch wheels would fit the Cadillac, a bloke up the road has one, and they are some tasty looking rims.
They look good, but will they last ? I got lucky and found the probably last NOS GM originals for my Omega (discs and pads). Had a chat with the workshop ... if they last 29 years as the originals, I'll get retired with the new set still in use 😀
@@exgtt2061 no code for it. I bought a replacement sensor last year for the MAF and took it back off as the original one was ok. I suspect an earth but I've cleaned the ones I can see which means it's something Inside the loom. The way the wiring runs exposes parts of it to a lot of heat. There's a blue bonnet at a scrappy in Lancashire I might get and get it vented as this helps the 2.8 a lot as it gets so hot in the engine bay
those front caliper's look exactly the same as the ones on the front of my vectra C , I also did the rear brakes on my vectra the weekend just gone , caliper's , hangers , discs and pads , those hateful E-torx they have when they are rusted are zero fun.
@@BH71190 they are the same calipers, not sure which Vectra had 314mm discs maybe some of the 2.0 Turbos or the 3.2 V6. The VXR has gigantic front discs (and fancy shock absorbers) that the Saab Aero never got
@@OnceDrivenForeverSmitten yes mine are the 314mm , i took them from the 3.0 cdti , a car you may find interesting if you get your hands on one the 3L diesel , mine is a 1.9cdti with a little bit of fettling , yes the VXR got 345mm but its the same caliper on a larger hanger with larger discs and the IDS suspension it was able to be spec'd in other vectra C's but very rarely done , mine is on bilstein shocks and springs at the moment
QH? They were utter shite back in the day, the cheapest of the cheapest that the Motor factors sold. I guess they are better these days, seeing as they are still around?
@@DasArab the brand is owned by Tetrosyl. I'd say the stuff is fine, better than Napa, Comline, Unipart. Back in the day Veco was our cheap option, QH was standard aftermarket parts. Borg and Beck and Febi make good brakes. Depends what's the best deal on eBay at the time 😁
@@OnceDrivenForeverSmitten Didn't have the cash back in the day and QH was all I could afford, but generally it all got replaced a year later. I wouldn't touch the stuff now. Just replaced my discs and pads with ATE as its OE Honda. Saved a fortune through Autodoc's phone app. Ok had to wait a week but saved about £100 on UK prices and £450 on what Honda Dealer wanted for the same parts.
@@OnceDrivenForeverSmitten ATE brakes are also still available at good prices. I use Autodoc for a lot of parts, where you can browse the different brands. Sometimes I find eBay parts to be a bit hit and miss, but the prices are good on there tbf.
@@honeybadger9142 I'd put 18s back on it if I found some ones that weren't buckled.19s no way the roads are just too crap. Just happy to have wheels on it that aren't shaped like 50ps right now 😂
@OnceDrivenForeverSmitten I run 19s on 35 profile, yes its a little hard but f@k it, nothing better than good grip with quality tyres, roads are horrendous everywhere nowadays, even the repairs are like the sea 😂
