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Ledman's Astra G from Belgium

Messaggiodi Ledman » 28/12/2009, 15:09

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)

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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)

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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
Ledman's Opel Astra CDTI Njoy edition: Enjoy the ASTRA side of life!
Astra G 3 doors 1.7CDTI NJoy edition 2003

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Re: Ledman's Astra G from Belgium

Messaggiodi Ledman » 28/12/2009, 15:12

Some time later, I had to visit my leather-guy, with this result:

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Ledman's Opel Astra CDTI Njoy edition: Enjoy the ASTRA side of life!
Astra G 3 doors 1.7CDTI NJoy edition 2003

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Re: Ledman's Astra G from Belgium

Messaggiodi Ledman » 28/12/2009, 15:15

After half a year, it became winter. and to the good old tradition in the tuning-world this means: work!
I always dreamed about having a star sky in my roof, so now the time had come:

This was my demo-circuit:

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and my desk, during the testing of the circuit

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Here is my empty roof top:

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after a couple of days:

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In the meanwhile i bought these:

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Ledman's Opel Astra CDTI Njoy edition: Enjoy the ASTRA side of life!
Astra G 3 doors 1.7CDTI NJoy edition 2003

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Re: Ledman's Astra G from Belgium

Messaggiodi Ledman » 28/12/2009, 15:19

Here is a nice pic of the result of the star sky in my car
(I hope star sky is the right word in English )
The "fluffy" things you see on my seats are protective covers, to protect the leather from my jeans and other dirt.

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A cool on the road pic :mrgreen:

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but then disaster stroke:
For an unknown reason, the paint (and the polyester of my rearbumper) was damaged
That was the trigger for a couple of "crazy moves"

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Ledman's Opel Astra CDTI Njoy edition: Enjoy the ASTRA side of life!
Astra G 3 doors 1.7CDTI NJoy edition 2003

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Re: Ledman's Astra G from Belgium

Messaggiodi Ledman » 28/12/2009, 15:25

After my paint-guy repaired my bumper, and some other stuff I dropped off, I could start to rebuild my car:

playing with the door:

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this is the door before the changes:

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and this is after:
NJoy-tags removed in door strips, side mirrors smoothened, key-holes removed from door handles and white leds installed in the handles

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the newly repaired rear bumper:

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my shiny exhaust (I polished it, it was about time :P )

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some more cables (for the white leds in the doors):

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after these works, my car was equipped with the following updates:
-NJoy logo's smoothened on the door strips
-key holes in the doorhandles smoothened + white leds in the doorhandles
-all plastic around the rear window painted in Papyrus colour (same colour as interiour)
-Rear view mirror painted as well
-my side mirrors were repaired again, and this time smoothened to the adapter plates
Ledman's Opel Astra CDTI Njoy edition: Enjoy the ASTRA side of life!
Astra G 3 doors 1.7CDTI NJoy edition 2003

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Re: Ledman's Astra G from Belgium

Messaggiodi Ledman » 28/12/2009, 15:29

I have some cool pictures from a shoot, just before I did the last works:

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me & my car Astrid:
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and one of the photographer :P
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Ledman's Opel Astra CDTI Njoy edition: Enjoy the ASTRA side of life!
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Re: Ledman's Astra G from Belgium

Messaggiodi Ledman » 28/12/2009, 15:32

last year, I was present at the Billing meeting in the U.K. and I must say: I totally loved it! It was one of the best meetings for me so far.
without any doubt: I am present again next year
A lovely picture of last year:

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In the trip back home from Billing, I had huge luck. The speed bumps at the border control were just high enough so I could pass (5 mm higher and I would be stuck in England forever :paura :mrgreen: )
But even before Billing I made out my mind: I had to drop my car just a little more. 1 cm to be exactly
1cm is not much, but then my wheel arches would be in loving distance to my tires

This is how my car is parked in font of my home:

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Re: Ledman's Astra G from Belgium

Messaggiodi Ledman » 28/12/2009, 15:33

Then it was meeting-time.
There was a lovely night meeting so I went there.
A few pictures I found on the net:

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Ledman's Opel Astra CDTI Njoy edition: Enjoy the ASTRA side of life!
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Re: Ledman's Astra G from Belgium

Messaggiodi Ledman » 28/12/2009, 15:35

This winter, I bought myself an All Purpose Cleaner from Chemical guys for cleaning my interiour (the alcantara parts)
I was told this product would also help me clean my engine-bay.
Because I had a day off, and it had been a long time since my engine saw some daylight, I decided to give it a try
It was not at all my intention to make my engine bay the cleanest one in Belgium, but just to remove the most moisture and make it look a little more decent

Here are some before and after pictures:
engine cover plate:

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Re: Ledman's Astra G from Belgium

Messaggiodi Ledman » 28/12/2009, 15:37

the worst was the top of the engine:

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after the threatment:

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Re: Ledman's Astra G from Belgium

Messaggiodi Ledman » 28/12/2009, 15:47

A couple of days ago, it started snowing in Belgium.
On a Sunday morning, it was snowing really badly and I had to go to work.

I had to drive 70 kilometers from my girlfriends house to my work.
This is how my car looked like when I arrived at work

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For the entire distance, I was Mr Plow :lol: :lol:
The snow was higher than the distance between my bumper and the ground :oops:

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This is a picture of my passenger door, that was completely frozen due to the snow from my tires:
looks like the start of a wide-body to me :mrgreen:

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My wheel-arches where filled like never before :P (this is passenger site, on the front)
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Driver's site, on the back:
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And this is how my "ass" looked like:

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Re: Ledman's Astra G from Belgium

Messaggiodi SOLDATO ITALIANO » 29/12/2009, 11:10

Congratulation for CAR..
I am a LedMan in this CLUB :)
Opel Astra GTC WHITE- kit OPC - Sblocco AirBox - Filtro CDA - Fari allo XENO - Posizione a Led - Spoiler Vxr - Mascherina Vauxall Nera - Autoradio 2 DIN al posto del CID (TV DVD USB. ecc) Centralina(140cv) - Feet light/Ambient Light Volante OPC - Poggiapiede - Impianto audio con Sub e neon Cerchi da 18" OPC - Cambio illuminazione - Tubi siliconici - ecc ecc

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Re: Ledman's Astra G from Belgium

Messaggiodi stefanom82 » 29/12/2009, 13:02

good job. beautiful car :ok
Ordinata: 1-Set-2007
Arrivata in Conce: 30-Nov-2007
Ritirata: 5-Gen-2008
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Re: Ledman's Astra G from Belgium

Messaggiodi teo82xx » 30/12/2009, 13:30

your work is perfect!!really very very very nice car,congratulations!!! :lol: astra g model is a passion for me
L'UNICO UOMO LIBERO è L'UOMO che COMBATTE Opel Astra GTC 1.7cdti 101cv MY:7.5 colour Black Sapphire
A.M.:
-cruise control
-calotte specchi cromate opc line
-cosmo pack
-check control
-antennino 6cm in ergal autocostruito
-posizioni ultrawhite DevilGear
-Anabbaglianti ultrawhite +70% DevilGear
-Set tappeti personalizzati
-filtro a pannello BMC
-modulo AlbedA-H #4 By Cl@udio
-Dunlop Sport Maxx


GRAZIE A DIO NON SONO INTERISTA

LE MIE DISAVVENTURE:
-6.700km ricircolo rotto
-10.200km ricircolo rotto
-16.000km ricircolo rotto
-32.000 km tromba clacson fusa
-46.000km FRIZIONE FUSA
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Re: Ledman's Astra G from Belgium

Messaggiodi ColinMcDan » 30/12/2009, 20:10

Jan, I give you my congratulations for your car and photos!!!! Honestly... I dislike Astra G :oops: , but your tuning actions made her unique!

The "starry sky" using led is realy spectacular!!!!

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Re: Ledman's Astra G from Belgium

Messaggiodi Ledman » 31/12/2009, 11:29

Thank you all for your warm welcome and compliments!
it is very nice to read your comments on my car. :thx

Hopefully we can meet some time.
happy old-year!!! :D
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