S60 2001 T5 into facelift 05 project

[T5REU]

Almost finished the project. Car was gold now it's red.

[T5RatherAmusin]

sweet ride phil! cant wait to see the finnished article!!
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[Biff]

Agreed we need more pics of that bad boy!
Nice looking ph2, welcome to the club.

[M-R-P]

Welcome aboard

Howsabout filling us in with the rest of the story? Clearly there's been a fair bit of work gone into it.

[WOODY T5]

Yeah welcome lol

[T5frankie]

welcome to da club

[T5REU]

Thanks guys. Far better on her then T5d5 no one ever replies on there. Just on way home and will begin the story from the start with pic

[Nealevo]

Welcome along, car looks good

[graemewelch]

looking good but need more pics. how did you get the rs rims to fit

[T5RatherAmusin]

They do reps in 5x108 grae...
http://item.mobileweb.ebay.co.uk/vie...d=271222848727

[T5REU]

Yeh most Ford rims fit volvo. I just had to replace the alloy inner sprockets, only £4 off eBay. Hot the car 4 years ago and didn't do much with it until this time last year. This was the car when I had it
And this was the interior

[graemewelch]

They do reps in 5x108 grae...
http://item.mobileweb.ebay.co.uk/vie...d=271222848727

i know they do but the centre bore is smaller. im just wondering how he got around it. ive got rs rims on mine now but they are going up for sale soon. i dont like them

[T5RatherAmusin]

On reps the bore will be bout 73mm so just need spigots

[graemewelch]

im are reps and the bore is standard ford size

[T5REU]

The first thing I needed to do was colour code the exterior door and sill trims. Then I saw a R Front Bumper on ebay for £400 with new grill, lights and new inserts. Was surprised how easy it was to fit using my original hangers. Then I upgraded the front and rear lights with 05 versions rear lights just needed the plastic guide trimmed off then they fitted fine . The front lights I had to wire in the 05 wiring loom and plug was easy took an hour to fit both with bumper off and back on.
Then someone reversed into my car and damaged rear nearside door and bumper my car was packet outside my house . their insurance paid me out £1500 so that was it . My mate,who has a garage said get a door off a scrapper and we got a R 06 rear bumper of a lad from t5d5. Could find anyone who had swapped over the rear bumper from pre to post facelift. So came across a few issues. I needed new rear near and off side hangers as pre 05 cars just had tgw one hanger across the rear and that's it. The post has 5 hangers in total. Cost me £50 from scrap year of 05 car. The two hangers that fit under the rear lights don't need to be fitted I found. I fitted thrn to the bumper only but not the body as there is no fixing holes in my body work. Post has new reworked panel just there. The other 3 hangers were plug and play.

[T5REU]

They I got the R 18 alloys. Fitted them but never liked the look so sold and got the RS ones just had to fit the Volvo size centre sprigets I think they are called.

[V70 Graham]

Lovely looking car, welcome to the club.

[T5REU]

Exhaust was cleaned off after with thinners lol. We forgot to cover it. Have new two weeks exit anyway fitted next month. Has the bsr on at the minute
Car in cold just before the spray job and rear bump
Car in spray booth

[T5REU]

Old dull interior coming out

[T5REU]

From this
To this, just got to install the centre console, new black steering stalks with chrome wheel dials on and fit back new hu850 stereo
2 new stereo's above hu650 and 850 using latter and new bumper below