Fantastic video James astra looks brill.I wish I was handy but I was born brain injured with bad sight.you are very good James and very nice person.thanks David from stirling

From what the astra was like when you got it too what its like now, turns out to now being my favourite of your fleet

The 'i' on the grill is Irmscher - German mod company that all Vauxhalls used to rock

Loving the new look on the Astra. I love that you show old cars can be fun to.

Another awesome helpful video bud, keep up the amazing content. Love your channel 👊🏻💪🏻

You do drive me mad sometimes "Lets open these brand new lights and check there are no scratches" then roll them round on the block paving path. :-)

@paddrivers

5 жыл бұрын

I was waiting for him to scratch the new lights too🤐

Hi James,the Astra is now looking nice with grille,lights and the splitter,it seems alot cleaner, awesome video.

Great video mate. Lovely astra. Really nice with the mods you have done 👍

Lovely Jubbly, looks really good, great video Mr Savage Garage.

I love DEOE. You really restored it well.

Another belter of a vid James, good work fella

Sick video man, not normally a fan of the Astras but that is gorgeous😍👍🏻

bank holiday Monday sitting in garden what better way to have pint enjoy and watch the Savage garage great work James

Nice, good splitter! Always loved the corsa

Great video, very informative, as always. if it was me doing this I think I would have waited until I had time to restore the bumper whilst doing this other work, it would just save the time of re assembling it only to have to remove it again, remove the newly installed splitter, to paint it.

Neat work and thanks for sharing.

Absolutely ace mate, astra looks sweeet 😍✌👌

Being able to see properly on winter nights - now there's a plan :-) .

cool video man.. really looking forward to you making a video of painting the arches on mondeo and astra, will really finish them off, especially before winter kicks in and makes them worse

Very nice work. I had the bumper off my Astra today to fix the air con. Great little upgrades, the shiny black inserts in the headlights are the standard GSI look. Maybe a potential video could be doing a Z20LET engine upgrade or GSI interior upgrade. 😉 Keep up the good work bud.

@brownstar9037

5 жыл бұрын

I think the smoked lights was fitted to the face-lift astra sports models eg sport Sri gsi, 03 reg on. Rear lights wear smoked too!!! If I remember correctly

i would say OEM + looks really good keep up with the vids great work

Saw those spanners when I went in to look at offset spanners, didnt think they had a deep enough neck for my shock absorber. They do have some nice offers though. I like their tool section since the refurb too, all nicely laid out. B&Q do have some discounts down the centre of the electrical aisle.

Looks smart that fella I might have to get a splitter for my prodrive bumper :D My bumper needs spraying aswell

Finally I have waited so long in those parts 😅 after you mentioned them back in the days 😂

Looks great. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

So great man

Hi James liking the face lift on your astra those spanners were a good find iam looking for a tool box for my snap on tools ive got i will find one some point keep up the good work james 😁👍

Looks Great!

Good lot better. You just need that bumper sorted and will look brilliant

Gota love a good length double ender!😜✌🏼

Well it look likes you found another one to help you out.🤣🤣 Great video.

Just a thought... but when bolting the splitter to bumper on the underside the bolt heads that were visible perhaps you could of put some plastic fixing caps over them - the ones similar that industrial roofers/cladders use to prevent corrosion

Hi, Great video. I am a new subscriber and really enjoy your videos. I do most things car wise myself too and it’s nice to see others do it too. You have a few cars on the go at any one time. How do you insure them or whom do you use as a multi car policy? Chris.

Great looking I love it I have an Astra mk4 all in good shape all I need is a second hand hornet back box let me know if you come across one cheers

Looks wonderful👍🏼 Greets from Germany, very nice Opel Astra G 😉😉xD

Would interesting if you done a before and after of the astra. When you first got it, to what it's like now

Hi james depending on how bad the old headlights are scratched you can use toothpaste to clean them up. I used it on my astra headlights and worked well probably sounds stupid but just what i used

nice lights they look good

very good video ,look forward to see your daughter helping you again

I bought the same light's 4 years ago and fitted them with 120% brighter ultra xenon bulbs and are good. Next stop for your Astra. Gsi bonnet vents and rear spats? How about an Ashley exhaust manifold?

Loving the videos. You’re far too eager to point things out before others do though. Most would blink and miss it but you worry a great deal about what others think and say when you shouldn’t. Don’t anticipate people’s reactions my friend, it’s a slippery slope and one you will not get back up from.

Looks great tbh

Another great video. Whats happening with the focus?

Looks much better mate

Looks very nice

Looks great now just needs a tuned gsi turbo engine & all the gubbins under the bonnet to finish it off.

nice work chap

so nice man be cruising

Your logo on the grill is the I from Irmscher. This looks like a genuine part from them. You should have a marking on the outer edge saying Irmscher Typ 2001050 or something like that.

Lowered SRi that bumper came off, versus kerb in front of parking space up Tesco = scuffs ;)

Hey nice vid. Man but does you Astra consume any oil after you have rebuilt the engine.

another couple of mods for front end are bonnet extension and insignia washer jets done these mods on friends car same front end but angel lights

Love the video, as usual, being an ex pat living in Ontario Canada, noticed the SMA sticker on your bench

@TheSavageGarage

5 жыл бұрын

Rob Phillips yep yep supporting my man Eric!

Great video mate! Bit of a weird one but can you show how you take the bumpers off? It doesn't look hard from your videos but obviously that's because of the editing but if you could show how hard or easy it is I would appreciate it! Thanks man

Can you do a video improving the interior of the astra? Need some ideas for mine

Can you do a tutorial how to mount and install a turbo on it , i would like it on the astra . i got a 1.6 16v sport myself from Opel . I am from holland !

car boot for tools, endless goodys.. teng tools / britool / ks tools / halfords pro ect, and my recent buy was a set of FACOM spanners for £7 :-)

Mad 💥

As a community nurse, I have scuffs like that on my Mondeo, it is coming down a really steep drive, or a steep junction, you hear it catch the tarmac!

@wenstafarni

4 жыл бұрын

Or rallying over a speed bump like you're colin macrae

Nice work cous :)

should do a z20let conversion mate and gsi interior aswell would finish the car right off

These modern headlamp units that incorporate the indicator light I think are dangerous because the front headlamp is usually angled so light from the sky is reflecting on the front making the indicators far less clear.

You need the gsi badges for the side of the doors the littlest touches make the biggest difference

@6rash

5 жыл бұрын

@Mark Singleton my bad

The only thing we do with mk4 Astras is smash them to bits on the banger racing track

'Back in the day' i remember rather than drilling etc with that bonnet tab you could actually buy a shorter tab to work around this problem. I'm going back the best part of 10 years but you could probably find this?

The grill you have is an irmscher one. There a tuning company for Vauxhall and Opel

I wonder about the fate of Corsa C 1.8. It could be yet modified on and be quite a quick little dragon. I have a Corsa B with a swaped 1.8 x18xe1 engine and keep modifying it. Mine is a quick little dragon.

Just a thought, Any chance of making a new series Like tutorials that teaches us to be a home mechanic? Nothing too difficult but things like changing Brakes, Exhaust's, Plug's or Radiators Or even how to fit a Towbar. I know it would be of great use to me so someone else would surely need the info too

looks great James. nice one! I reckon yellow fogs would add to its improved look

Next time mate can you finish with a before and after comparison of your work? Cheers.

Another good video 👌🏻 Are you going to sell this car?

I've got a 1.8 sxi going to scrap LV 52AAJ you can save it if u want it

Can somebody enlighten me? I've only watched the videos about the Astra project, and I skipped over a couple so it's possible that I missed something, but what happened to the Angel Eyes he built in in the beginning? Did he get rid of them for some reason? Thanks in advance, cheers.

Stanley is part of Mac Tools, could you do a video of going on the Mac Truck and snap on truck? And your reaction and experience?

@TheSavageGarage

5 жыл бұрын

aplina97 if I could find one yea! I have seen them around my way

@aplina97

5 жыл бұрын

I know if you ring snap on up they will give you the dealer in your areas phone number so you ring them up for them to come to you

You can put you're car on youre neighbours driveway. You don't need Jack's.. The opel astra looks amazing. If i was living close to you. Than I wil trust my twintop to you.. Keep it up man

iRMSCHER is a company back in his days, this company did a lot of body kits, its something like OPC but not from the factory. U can check Vectra B2 to see iRMSCHER and Zender products, looks so awesome

Should put a vxr lump in the astra dude 👍

Got a link to the splitter please?

Looks really fresh ... I think she deservers an engine swap z20let 👍

The steinmetz grill is better The lever is also at an angle and will need shaving down as well as drilling

Hey man ! Where´d you buy this grill ?

What happened to the 'Angel eye' headlights?

thought it was up for sale

Is the parkside impact any good keep looking at them every lidi have them in

@tonyl1984

5 жыл бұрын

Not so sure about the torque tightening specs compared to makita, bosch etc but James seems to rate it

Um what happened to the projector angel eyes????

Swear the fiesta was on the drive in the last video where the Astra is now, how did you move it with no wheels or suspension 🤔

@johnroberts6251

5 жыл бұрын

At 1:21 you can still see the fiesta in front of the Astra..

@pgtnpt2245

5 жыл бұрын

john roberts 5:57

Right so, we've got to fix the rusty Mondeo arch, paint the Astra bumper, get the trike on the road before winter and then the fiesta repairs and work fulltime during the day....

@joshjack6127

5 жыл бұрын

terry atkinson Sounds like you have a problem with that?

@terryatkinson3182

5 жыл бұрын

@@joshjack6127 not at all, just don't know where he gets the energy.

Where did the angel eyes disappear too?

Dude that Astra looks the part if you listen to her she is crying out for a 2.0l engine to be fitted at the minute she looks the show but with out the go

@TheSavageGarage

5 жыл бұрын

South London I know I know :( I’m considering it for sure it’s just finding a good donor car

The I on the grill is Irmscher is a styling company that do styling parts for Vauxhall & Opel

@DriverExtraordinaire-qn6gt

5 жыл бұрын

william walker never ?!

@billywhizz98

5 жыл бұрын

Google it

@DriverExtraordinaire-qn6gt

5 жыл бұрын

william walker 😂

@andyboardman7428

5 жыл бұрын

@@DriverExtraordinaire-qn6gt in William 's defence, James did say he didn't know what it was.

Mate you've got a few clean standard cars should make the Astra a toy/track car z20leh make a mk4 vxr that would be mint lol

@TheSavageGarage

5 жыл бұрын

gaz 1982 I am seriously considering a engine conversion in it, the 1.6 is boooooring

Are you still doing the Astra give away at 60k?

Why don’t you get the bumper painted first before putting all the fancy stuff on? It would look 100% better if the bumper was perfect 👌

@TheSavageGarage

5 жыл бұрын

Bob Willis ahhh it’s on the list of jobs

@BobWilliscorgi

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah I know, you said that but I think you’d had done a better video if you did the renovation of your bumper first 😉

Is there some chance to see new film with the Focus Mk2 for example drl light :)

18:03 did you put lipstick on

I have to agree with a comment by another subscriber,how did you move the fiesta with no engine or front suspension ? Poor continuety? Apart from that good video 🇬🇧

@johnroberts6251

5 жыл бұрын

At 1:21 you can still see the fiesta in front of the Astra...

@pgtnpt2245

5 жыл бұрын

Old content with new into filmed, simples

@pgtnpt2245

5 жыл бұрын

john roberts 5:57

I have same fog lights, they are quite ugly, my idea was to find OPC Grills or create 3D printed grills and fit in OPC Circle fog lights. Much cleaner and nicer

I thought you put angel eyes on this ?

Stanley and DeWalt are the same manufacturer, James.

@tonyl1984

5 жыл бұрын

Black & decker too? There's a big office based in Slough UK

Remind me why did you take the Fiesta engine out.?????

@Adamwarren27

5 жыл бұрын

Refurbishment

@Adamwarren27

5 жыл бұрын

Repaint and stuff

@adriandukes7690

5 жыл бұрын

A full restoration job