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Hi So I am back after a couple years out of the 205 scene, I have purchased a Miami Blue 205 Gti with a Gti6 engine from Silky from here and was previously TheOilBurner’s. The car is in good condition, the bodywork being the biggest issue and I will be tackling that at some stage but for the foreseeable future the plan is to make sure it will last for the next 5-10 years. I will let the pics do most of the talking but this is what is not pictured. Fitted Bluetooth stereo to bring it up to the 21st century Replaced the 6x9 speakers with working set and wired them in Fixed the dash front panel as one of the bits broke while I was driving. Applied 10mm sound proofing to the inside of the doors and applied U-Pol Gravi-Guard to the bottom of the door skin to protect it from the water that enters the door. Applying it to the door skin makes a MASSIVE difference to how the car feels and makes it feel much more solid and modern, very much recommend and only costs £13 http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/112190988942?_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT Stuck some of the sound proofing to the back of the standard thin carpet in the boot which also made a big difference to road noise Unscrewed the dash parts and door speaks to fit slightly oversized screws to stop rattles. Which now I only have two rattles one in the head lining and one in the sunroof fixture. Generally tidied up the carpet and washed the entire interior as I made a mess sanding back the boot. Waxoly’d the entire chassis tubes Started with the dreaded boot rust. Had the same issue on my last pug :@ for anyone who thinks the have a good boot I would strongly recommend re painting it so it stays that way. This didn’t look like a massive job but I found about 10x more than I was expecting. Found the rear bumper supports completely rotted and surprised the rear bumper was even still on the car. Ordered replacements for SkyQuake. Another job ive done on my last pug. Started the rust treatment. I did this about 3 times overall as I was sanding and every time I had to go out I would apply a good coating of Bilt Hamber Hydrate 80 Rust Killer. Then completely went to town on the boot and sanded nearly the entire thing back to bear metal. Then made a start on patching up the holes in the boot, sadly no pics of the finished welds as it was pissing down with rain we were doing this outside. L Also found this! Will require me to take the rear bumper off but its a lot bigger than the pic as I have already chiselled away at it and its about the size of my hand. Once the welding was complete I applied primer while I was to grind the welds back and apply fiberglass, sand back and then paint in the original blue. I cleaned up the car and orders some new mats which really set the car off. Things left to do: Drill the driver’s door hinges out and fit oversized 8mm roll pins as the driver’s door hinges are completely worn which makes the door drops a good few CM’s Fix the two remaining rattles in the car Fit a duel VSS sensor to stop the car hesitating below 1k RPM Take rear bumper off and replace the rear bumper mounts and hole at the rear of the boot. Completely under seal the underneath of the car. Find a set of original seats and interior as I don’t like the grey and want the red back Replace the snapped bolt in the rear ARB Fix central locking fix interior light wire up driving lights wire up rear wiper and rear screen heater. Start on the body work……… I do have 1 question though, the car had this damaged when I got it, think its from the rear wheel but its an odd direction of the wheel to travel. Any ideas how this happened and how exactly people have tackled replacing this part of the body as its now rusted and beyond repairable.

Hi all, I've had my Feb '89 Miami blue GTi since 2010, and a mate has had it since ~2001. I'm a bit unsure of the car's history before then, as the VIN number on the bulkhead has rusted off, and miami blue was a special edition in 1989 and this car lacks the special edition features like power steering and leather interior. The taxbook shows that it's a 1.9 GTi in 'blue', I did a mycarcheck and it shows that the car was imported at some stage. The VIN code seems to match a 1.9 GTi description - VF320CD6201845319 The shell isn't that straight and the car has been in a few scrapes, the paint on the boot and rear bumper flakes off to reveal red. The paint on the roof is terrible, showing deep scrape marks which could have been during sanding. The boot doesn't line up correctly and the metalwork around the radiator has been bent back a bit. Rust is starting along the roof line and at the B-pillar top and bottoms. Quite bad in places with holes. Any ideas or concerns? :-S

Hello everyone! I have a question that I'm sure has been covered before, but I am looking at buying a GTi to restore over the summer with my dad - not a full restoration, just a car needing a bit of TLC really. I've seen one advertised locally to home but the paint is pretty bad. It is Sorrento Green but I really like the Miami Blue colour, could anybody give me a ballpark figure of how much it would cost to have the exterior only resprayed in Miami Blue? The inside will be sprayed white further down the road, so it's only an exterior and possibly engine bay job. We would do much of the prep work ourselves, if not all of it, so that would bring the cost down somewhat. Thanks!

Hi all, Here goes on the my 1st proper post, introducing the latest purchase, how it's came about, and what the plans are for it. I'd been looking out for a GTi for quite a while. I was mainly interested in the later Ph2 cars but wasnt worried whether it was a 1.6, 1.9 or Mi16/GTi6 converted , just wanted somthing in reasonable shape, that hadnt been butchered or chavved out. Although 205 GTi's are relatively common (well, relative to the old, rain soluble Fords that I’m used to) being located in N.Ireland seemed to limit my choice a little. After viewing a few, I did eventually come across a 93 sorrento green 1.9 advertised in Dublin, so after a quick run over the border, a look around and a nights pondering, I rang the guy, agreed a price and went back down with the trailer to get it. I’ll start another thread for ‘Miss Sorrento’ later. So, now that I had got my 1st GTi, how the hell did I end up with another one? I think it’s mainly down to this ‘bug’ I’ve heard people talk about. I swear, I only went on to look for a steel water pipe, yet found myself watching loads of other parts and 205’s. Then one Saturday night, the inevitable happened and I now had a road trip to Gloucester to plan. It had been advertised as dry stored since 05, solid, but hadn’t been running. The pictures weren’t great but the interior seemed pretty good (which for a cloth interior is impressive) and there was a set of genuine mud flaps on it (which seem to be worth a lot to some folk out there!) I didn’t remember / realize until after, that the words “sold as a restoration project” and “would make good project or rally car” were in there too! So, a 33 hour / 860 mile non-stop trip via Stockport (had a friend who needed a trailer load of belongings brought over to mainland) and myself and the girlfriend were back home. Our plans for a relaxing trundle through the lake district on the way back up were scuppered by the motorway rush hour traffic. Instead we ended up grabbing a KFC in Kendal, getting slightly lost and doing a few laps of the one way system before getting back on track but having to race to make the boat. A bit of a shame because it really would have been a beautiful drive from what I could see out of the corner of my eye! As for the GTi, I think I got off quite lucky (open to honest opinions here by the way), There’s the usual small car park dents, the passengers door will need fixing and the near side inner wing has just about rotted trough in the usual spot. A few marks around the petrol cap along with a different key for the ignition suggests a theft (or at least attempted theft) at some point but apart from that the little car seems very solid and very complete. It has parts still there that I never seen before, or realized ever existed like the plastic cover for the hole in the gear box, and even a little heat shield on the gear linkage joint closest to the exhaust! ..Right, apologies for the speech, less words, more pictures..

Hi all - thought I'd bite the bullet and start my own (re)build thread as I've now accumulated enough parts & equipment that I've run out of excuses for not touching the car The first part of this will be retrospective as catch up with the small amount of work & preparation that I have done over the last 4 years of ownership , finally catching up with what I got up to this weekend. The inspiration to start my own car was a mates (Oli) Nova (no groans please) that I helped to build in 2007 iirc: This was its completed state, after various iterations of tuning and development, resulting in a very impressive car. Ubiquitous 'Red Top' but this came with a Kent cam and tbs, producing just under 200bhp on a 150k+ mile engine. I've always liked 205s and currently have a little 106 as a daily so I thought I'd stay French and an MI'd 205 sounded like a good stable mate and sufficient competition to Oli's Nova I bought the car in March '08 as a £350 eBay special with no T&T, but as it was local I went to check the car over before bidding and it 'looked' ok to me. The auction was won and the car trailered back home where it got a quick clean up to get rid of the crud that had accumulated while it was off the road. Before: After: The paint work came up really well and there isn't any of the usual lacquer peel the 205 tends to suffer from. The car is pretty standard and genuine other than the TSW Stealth / Escort(?) alloys, but these wouldn't be staying as they look to be quite square and I don't really like them! There were a few bits that looked a little rough, mainly the arch trims and valances as they were held on with self-tappers in places, but nothing that couldn't be sorted easily. The interior has the usual seat collapsed / ripped bolster on both the passenger and driver side, but again - these wouldn't be staying so I wasn't really bothered. Next job was to sort somewhere suitable for the upcoming fun! I fortunately have a single garage, with the house so that was cleaned, painted, new strip lights and an old set of Ikea wardrobes found a new life as my work bench. Before: During: Finished: