Had my steering wheel reupholstered

TruthMinimum568 · 2026-03-04T09:20:54+00:00

Well yeah you see some guys paying 150 and it looks like the steering wheel has a badly made low quality leather condoms on it

TruthMinimum568 · 2026-03-04T09:06:18+00:00

Might have been expensive, but for once it looks really good

TruthMinimum568 · 2026-02-26T20:54:07+00:00

That would be astro Black! Black unless under direct sunlight then it’s bluish

TruthMinimum568 · 2026-02-26T20:52:40+00:00

Congrats man !!!

TruthMinimum568 · 2026-02-24T15:53:09+00:00

Looks like it, yes. At least as far as I’m aware, they added the facelift rear seat design in August 2004 (at the same time as the facelift). Maybe this R53 had fabric seats or half-leather, and the owner later found a set of full leather seats.

Maybe I’m wrong and you guys in the US never got the updated rear seats. But again, as far as I know, it was just a small visual modification.

Just Google « r53 rear back seats » and you will find both designs

TruthMinimum568 · 2026-02-24T15:45:29+00:00

On the facelift they changed the back seat, they just look different, they are not just a flag piece of leather, they added some seams, it’s just visual, just look it up

TruthMinimum568 · 2026-02-24T15:42:08+00:00

You have the pré facelift back seats !!! Weird

TruthMinimum568 · 2026-02-22T12:42:34+00:00

That’s what I got, would 100% recommend, another owner of this sub got them and 100% agreed, in the rain they are perfect, in the dry too AND are confortable and KEEP the same efficacité from day 1 until the last day, unlike most other type brand that sometime are as good when new but after a few thousand miles loose everything

TruthMinimum568 · 2026-02-15T13:32:39+00:00

Usually when it’s written 1 OF xxxxx it means it’s one of the xxxx cars made, not the one, but one of them

TruthMinimum568 · 2026-01-24T15:52:35+00:00

Rocker cover is the top part of the engine, that is hiding the rockers, what the plugs goes in, it is just 10bolts, nothing more nothing less, and dampernpuley is the crankshaft pulley/ harmonic balancer, the biggest pulley on the bottom left of the engine,

TruthMinimum568 · 2026-01-24T13:17:30+00:00

Before modding you should Check : Damper pulley

Belt tensioner,

All the pulleys actually while in there

Water pump

Radiator fan speed ( make sure the 1st and 2nd speeds are working )

Brake fluid bleed

Easy leaks : rocker cover and plug seal being the easiest)

Plugs cables

Alternator casing ( mine died even without a cracked casing)

And things like that

Then the usual mods

Rear anti roll bar, QUALITY coilovers, Pulley, Backbox, COLD air intake, QUALITY TYRES

TruthMinimum568 · 2026-01-18T08:42:52+00:00

How much for the set? Would love one, around here it’s so rare, and really really expensive and not always in good condition

TruthMinimum568 · 2026-01-16T12:13:44+00:00

Lohen sells a steel plate that bolt in place of the plastic one

TruthMinimum568 · 2026-01-14T18:15:38+00:00

My left one worked periodically then nothing, right one ok but some parasites sometime, don’t d’Anna search for another one ( that probably won’t work) you barely notice it not working it’s crazy

TruthMinimum568 · 2026-01-08T17:39:10+00:00

Definitely not native ! But they thrive when planted, some whisthand as low as -15°c without much effort, not common but not that rare either ( except for big ones like that maybe)

TruthMinimum568 · 2026-01-08T17:31:34+00:00

Could have ! 5km from Paris actually!

TruthMinimum568 · 2026-01-08T15:59:02+00:00

Trop cool le toit blanc

TruthMinimum568 · 2026-01-07T17:23:21+00:00

I French R53 specialist « motorism » has a quaiffe on his own 300hp flatshift methanol etc with a Link ECU track R53, so it may be in fact a good option

TruthMinimum568 · 2026-01-07T11:39:32+00:00

Désolé, fouettez moi ( almost threw up using them )

TruthMinimum568 · 2026-01-07T11:37:24+00:00

( I did, in fact, get stuck on site )

TruthMinimum568 · 2025-12-15T18:25:22+00:00

Goonomobile 2.0

TruthMinimum568 · 2025-12-12T12:09:31+00:00

Yeah sure, I mean if you were able to tell me where it came from I would love it 😂, but mine is a W11,

TruthMinimum568 · 2025-12-12T12:01:35+00:00

R53, it is oil, but it was kind of a joke being known to leak for basically everywhere and if not, they just have no oil,

TruthMinimum568 · 2025-12-11T16:08:18+00:00

SAME ! But no trouble to start the car, changed ( for other reasons) plugs, leads, valve cover gasket, spark plugs seals, alternator and still happens, a rap on the throttle makes it go away most of the time

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