My S2 coupe bit of a rebuild and repair thread.

[Tractor Dave]

Woolies sell good underlay for a reasonable price.
The carpet responds well to a jet wash. Soak in carpet shampoo first then power wash out. I normally do this in the summer mind as it takes a good while to dry out.
I'm not an expert on Coupe leaks but have you blown out the sunroof drains? The seal is just to stop wind noise really. Check the drip tray is correctly positioned as well.

[B5NUT]

Thanks for the information on the foot rest would have spent a large amount of time trying to figure that one out!

Had a productive morning, carpet is out
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So it would appear the car had a few leaks
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Now the outer corner door seals are missing and new ones have been ordered and the inner ones are in a bad way so again new ones have been ordered. Other than the sunroof, which also waiting on a new seal. Should I be looking anywhere else for leaks. Or just sit in the car and get some with a hose pipe to spray the car and see what comes in?
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So the underlay has gone a bit rotten in one area. Could I just use normal carpet underlay of a similar material or would I be best trying to find special Automotive underlay?
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Carpet is ready to be cleaned
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Will give it a good hover first then hit it with an array of cleaning products and machines.
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[newsh]

Yes, footrest has a couple of almost invisible plastic pins which you need to push through. It will then come loose and you can retrieve the pins to fix it back later. I think it’s two, maybe 3?

[Mikes2]

A piece of laminated A4 card between the carpet and the heater ducts helps - you just pull it forwards. You'll need to remove the footrest.

[Nuvo]

Yes it's possible, I'd recommend you remove the heater ducting at the base of the heater box too.

[B5NUT]

Got this far today
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Does anyone know if it's possible to remove the carpet without removing the dash. If I remove the airbag module could the carpet slide out?
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[B5NUT]

Stripped back the tape this morning. These two wires are easy enough to sort out
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This wire was going to the fuse holder
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This is what I don't understand. So the red/black wire looks factory as it goes into the harness tape, so why cut it then put a different colour wire on
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Desoldered the the addon wires and soldered the connection block wires together, then placed heat shrink over the damaged sheath.
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Finished with a bit of Tesa tape. That's the wiring done on the car, it's the only place I have found where someone has been hacking around.
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[B5NUT]

Yes that would be useful, would prefer that than having the ignition being on just so I can listen to the radio. The S2 battery is quite small so would rather have most things switched off if possible.

[newsh]

Thanks. I'll get the seat out and start removing the tape and remove all traces of the electrical tape and whatever that fuse holder is.



It should be dry as it's been under a car cover for the last 5 months. Will hopefully find out tomorrow.

Good move, coupes can be leaky.

[newsh]

There’s a very useful dodge that a lot of people do which is to take the radio switched power feed from a thin red wire on the ignition switch, this means the radio stays on when you switch off the engine until you pull the key out. Nice if you want to park up and listen to the cricket ;-)

[B5NUT]

Thanks. I'll get the seat out and start removing the tape and remove all traces of the electrical tape and whatever that fuse holder is.

Same story with the hidden screws pulled out too!
Hope it’s dry under your carpet!

It should be dry as it's been under a car cover for the last 5 months. Will hopefully find out tomorrow.

[newsh]

Same story with the hidden screws pulled out too!
Hope it’s dry under your carpet!

[newsh]

Ignition switch is where stereo and alarm muppets go to get power and interrupt ignition feed for immob purposes. I had similar on a couple of my cars, in fact both my coupe and the Nothelle had two alarm/immobs and dead trackers to remove plus the Coupe had a dreadful stereo with extra amps shoved up behind the dash which all fell out if you unbolted the glove box
Oh yes and extra wires going to all the centre console switches for some reason.. somewhere on here there’s pics of the piles of wire and random boxes of electronics I pulled out, literally kilos of it.
Anyway, carefully un peel the leccy tape and you should be able to see what’s going on, I always remove all that stuff and put it back to standard as best I can.

[B5NUT]

Well today was good day for me, sun was out it was warmish and I finally have 4 wheels on the car.

Amazon order arrived with replacement bulbs. The B5 uses some of the same bulbs so ordered bulk packs where I could. The old bulbs were a mixture of ring & osram, so just replaced the lot. The third day I got the car one of the headlight bulbs failed so already replaced all the front bulbs
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Sorted or the ABS sensors, converted some front sensors into rear sensors
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Found that the front sensors use the same colour coding of wires so hopefully they are not wired the other way around at the sensor end.

Cut the cable at the plug end, swapped over the grommet and then solder the cables together and protected with heat shrink & harness tape.
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Got the wheels on the car and fitted the ARB, not fully secured it yet as I'm waiting on the bushed from tradition which should arrive mid week
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Removed the plastic trim I was struggling with, what a place to hide a screw.
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With that removed the top strut nut was tightened up. So apart from the ARB nuts & bolts the suspension is complete.

Now onto the interior. I hoped no one had touched the interior, but the hand of bodge had been in there.

Screw in as hard as you can..
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If it won't budge then jut rip it out.. They had no idea you remove the plastic cap to remove the screw!
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On a side note. I know you should grease the door hinges, but you must get to the point where you have applied enough.

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Took the lower trim off and found this. It's the only bit of bodged wiring I have found on the car and it goes to the ignition barrel, anyone have idea on this?
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Found the inner top seal had failed so a replacement have been ordered from tradition for both sides + the boot seal.
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So the rear is just about stripped, the seats will be out tomorrow and the centre console. So hopefully the carpet will also be out tomorrow.

[Tractor Dave]

Looking good.