A2Steve
A2OC Donor
It was only a matter of time before I needed to start a new project.
About 5 weeks ago I agreed to buy a blue TDI Colourstorm that had been off the road a few years.
I knew very little about it, bought from one pixilated photo taken from 100 yards away. It looked to be in a sorry state but had the bits needed to make it a potential good purschase so I thought I’d take a punt.
It arrived on the back of a recovery truck while I was away in Bulgaria but was very pleasantly surprised when my mechanic friend Rob sent me some photos.
What appeared to be a very dirty but very straight little A2.
The best part, it has rear electric windows, double din dash, opensky and the icing on the cake (for a man with 3 kids and an A2 addiction) a bench seat with 3 full seatbelts.
I know most members would rather I just leave it well alone and don’t modify it, but that’s simply not me, I like to get creative.
It went for its MOT with no prior mechanical work done just to see how it got on. Needs offside top mount and rear brakes looking at.
Well now seeing as it was going to need the suspension leg taking out on the drivers side it made sense to change both shocks.
I’d initially gone for my normal MO and actually ordered a set of JOM blueline coilovers and shorter drop links.
At last minute yesterday I changed plans because with a family of 5 occasionally using the car and me not being very light (17 stone) I thought it best to go for my other favoured approach and decided to make the car Dune 3.
If anyone is curious as to what I mean by an A2 Dune, here’s Dune 1 and 2
About 5 weeks ago I agreed to buy a blue TDI Colourstorm that had been off the road a few years.
I knew very little about it, bought from one pixilated photo taken from 100 yards away. It looked to be in a sorry state but had the bits needed to make it a potential good purschase so I thought I’d take a punt.
It arrived on the back of a recovery truck while I was away in Bulgaria but was very pleasantly surprised when my mechanic friend Rob sent me some photos.
What appeared to be a very dirty but very straight little A2.
The best part, it has rear electric windows, double din dash, opensky and the icing on the cake (for a man with 3 kids and an A2 addiction) a bench seat with 3 full seatbelts.
I know most members would rather I just leave it well alone and don’t modify it, but that’s simply not me, I like to get creative.
It went for its MOT with no prior mechanical work done just to see how it got on. Needs offside top mount and rear brakes looking at.
Well now seeing as it was going to need the suspension leg taking out on the drivers side it made sense to change both shocks.
I’d initially gone for my normal MO and actually ordered a set of JOM blueline coilovers and shorter drop links.
At last minute yesterday I changed plans because with a family of 5 occasionally using the car and me not being very light (17 stone) I thought it best to go for my other favoured approach and decided to make the car Dune 3.
If anyone is curious as to what I mean by an A2 Dune, here’s Dune 1 and 2
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