RobDon's Leon -

[t0m]

Rob, loving the car mate. Just read some pages of this and the feature in Redline.

Awesome stuff. If I was you I don't think I could ever part with this car!

Hats off to you

 

[RobDon]

The black leather/red stitching OMP WRC steering wheel really compliments the LCR interior - perfect if you can't get hold of an OE LCR wheel, especially the 225 version which everyone wants! At £120 it's not too expensive either.

I am aiming to give the car a major clean this weekend.

 

[MarkWales]

shame you have to loose the airbag though - did this affect your insurance?

 

[RobDon]

Just a one-off payment of £25 for the steering wheel and sports seats, both without airbags. ********** are very good for modifications. Obviously now I have refitted seats with airbags.

 

[GMH23]

Hey Rob, just to let you know, your old Recaros are now fitted in my Leon, thanks again!

Also just realised that the redline feature I read a while back was yours! thought I recognised the car!

 

[RobDon]

Glad you like them, they are very nice seats, I'm happy with my LCR interior too!

Today I took one of my 18" Team Dynamics Pro Race 1.2 alloy wheels out to East Kilbride to 'Wheel Specialists' to be refurbished (bit of kerb damage/peeling). I forgot to take any before pics but will do some afters. Seems like a good place, looked like a professional setup inside and they take the tyres off, refurb the wheel then refit the tyre and balance it. Much better than trying to send a wheel away to be done. They can do wheels in a day too.

http://www.thewheelspecialist.co.uk/

I collect it tomorrow morning. Even better is that they're opening a place in Edinburgh in the spring so will be very handy then.

 

[RobDon]

Got my wheel back this morning, looks just like new again, they've done a great job. Sorry no pics as my camera is out of charge, but all the kerbing and peeling is gone now.

 

[Willie]

Good news, how's the colour match?
Are.they competitively priced?

 

[james-deane]

Sexy motor!

JD

 

[RobDon]

Colour match is good, hard to tell really which one has been refurbished. Cost-wise it was £84. This included removing and refitting the tyre, plus balancing. Fixing the kerb damage, powdercoating, etc. Would have cost me much the same to send the wheel to somewhere cheaper (£15 postage each way), but this way I handed the wheel over then collected it the next day (so no courier damage!). 12 month warranty on the finish too.

 

[Hartosh1]

Thats good you get a 12 month warranty on the finish. My mate used them when he got his alloys refurbed and highly rated them.

 

[Murdered LCR]

Rob when you had the cobra seats in did you use a solid fixed runner or Sliding runners

 

[RobDon]

Sliding runners.

 

[Murdered LCR]

Do the sliding runners bolt to the floor then the seats bolt to the runners nothing else needed ,

 

[RobDon]

Nope, you need an entirely new subframe. The subframe bolts into the floor, then the sliding runners bolt to the subframe, then the seat bolts to the sliding runner.

 

[Murdered LCR]

Oh ok thanks mate will have a look

 

[Murdered LCR]

Hi mate sorry for all the questions rob where did you get the bottom strut brace in the boot ,? I have the top one

 

[RobDon]

The bottom one is an OMP strut brace for a 98 Honda Integra, part number MA1834, found a pic here:

I think I got mine from Strutbracer a long time ago.

 

[Murdered LCR]

Thanks mate is it pretty easy to fit or do you have to make your own holes etc

 

[J@mes]

i did a guide/thread on that omp brace (do a search) mounted it slightly differently to rob too (more neatly imo! no offence rob lol)