Getting my hands dirty

Now i've been into cars since i was knee high to a grasshopper, and regulary got my hands dirty doing my own work etc, but slowly got a sidetracked away from it all and got other people to do it for me etc -until today...

See my sisters boyfriend has had a few problems with his alarm on his MK4 astra, and with a little digging we found out it was a common problem with the powersounder batteries failing.

So off he went to his local dealer to grab the part, and i headed down the shed to dig out my tools.

First up we jacked the car up with the factory supplied "widowmaker" and took the wheel off:

then proceeded to move half the inner wheel arch liner to gain access to the panel:

A quick man break:

And the powersounder was switched over:

I was on a roll now, so decided to sort a few other bits that he wanted done including insignia washer jets and led number plate bulbs:

Now once i had finished we thought it would be rude not to take some pictures of two evolving astras together:

Safe to say it was a productive saturday...