Hi all,
Let me introduce myself:
I am Jan aka Ledman, 23 years old and I live in Belgium (near Antwerp)
I am president of our own Astra club: Astra Friends Belgium (www.astrafriends.be)
I came to Astra Club Italia due to a request of GreyOwl for a friendship between our clubs. We are very happy with this request and to support the friendship, I will open a project of my car.
As some of you may have guessed from my nickname: I am very interested and active with L.E.D. lights
My car is an Opel Astra G of 2003
Here is some technical data:
Brand + type: Opel Astra G 3D N-Joy
Built: 12/2003
Engine: 1.7 CDTI diesel 59KW/80HP
Owner: second hand
# of kilometers when I bought the car: 60.000
Transmission: manual
Colour: Saturn Blue (Z21A)
Options:
-Full automatic airco
-Chrome doorhandles on the inside
-Chrome rings around the dials
-Foglights in the front
-15" alloy wheels
I bought the car in July 2007, and I did "some" adjustments
Here are a few pics of the car when I just purchased it: (complete original)
Not long after i purchased the car, it was time for the "subtle" updates: A sticker of the club on the front window, a short antenna, a license-plate holder without the spam, aluminium Irmscher doorpins,...
Even before I had the car, I had plans with it... I had her (I call the car "Astrid" ) completely in my mind: bumpers, lights, mirrors,..
The first thing I did was gather all pieces together and stored them in my garage
There were some little adjustments made to the bumpers, everything was checked for correct fitting. When everything I needed was peace-fully waiting in my garage, I called my paint job-guy (don't know the english word).
Once everything had a little touch of Saturn Blue paint, I took 1 week off at my work.
The car was parked in the garage for a week. "Astrid" got in the garage (almost) original, and came out like this: (thanks to YVE5.be)
In the meanwhile there is a lot more changed (more to come in the next posts)
Here you can find a list of all changes made to the car:
-front bumper Lumma LPC-R
-rear bumper Lumma LPC-R
-side skirts M3
-FK black angel eyes, with white leds in the rings
-red-white led rear lights, darkened
-Irmscher hood extension
-Lester front grill
-CLS-mirrors, smoothened with the adapter plate
-astra H OPC (VxR) fog lights en 2x6 white leds in the front bumper
-license plate holes smoothened in the front bumper (I use a static license plate in the front)
-white lights at the foot-ends (leds)
-extra original interior light of an Astra G met white leds
-KW variant 2 lowering
-Schmidt Jack-line tims 8x18" in the front ET45 in the back ET35
-Tires Dunlop Sportmaxx 215/35/18
-Opel logo on the trunk replaced by Holdon logo
-Left Right exhaust Skytune
-All the hard plastic parts on the dashboard and the door panels and several interior parts painted in the original Opel Papyrus colour (Z40H)
-maze in the bumpers also painted in Papyrus colour
-Blue dashboard/dial lights
-20 switches in the glove compartment
-Several small details (other dials (model '9, short antenna, alu doorpins)
-Xenon 6000K after market set for the front lights
-License plate light in the back changed with white leds
-brakes painted in black
-Air intake of a Vectra C (thanks to your technical guides )
-chrome door lock catcher with gold bolts
-K&N air filter
-seats, airbags in the seats, outside of the steering wheel, gearstick-, belt- en hand brake pockets in Helios leather
-doorpanels, the plate in the trunk (can't remember the word), inside of the steering wheel, floor mats in Helios alcantara
-key hole in the door grip on the driver's side smoothened
-logo's in the side of the doors smoothened
-all plastic around the trunk window and the rear view mirror painted in Papyrus colour
-white leds in the doorhandles
-and last but not least: a completly glowing and sparkling star sky in the roof of the car