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formerly PURSUIT-250
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: MELBOURNE
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Gday guy's and girls, We have put down our order for a 09 built and plated LV XR5 focus, Frozen white/ blue stripes, sunroof. ( Wife's new Taxi )
Delivery date is expected sometime April. We wanted leather but the problem is that it becomes a 4 seater with the option. ![]() We cant wait for it to arrive, it's got to be one of the best looking hot hatches around. Cheers Mick. |
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EuroFordClub
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: SE Melbourne
Posts: 727
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Congrats on the purchase mate. You're gonna love the car, even coming from a Pursuit!
Head over to www.fordxr5turbo.com. They've got a mad following after the XR5T and there's a lot of cruises organised over there, if you're interested in that. Otherwise the whole forum is a wealth of information on everything possibly imaginable about that car! Congrats again! Can't wait to see photos!!
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Old enough to know better
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Melbourne
Posts: 2,311
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Do you still own all of the cars in your sig Mick?
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Manual 2003 Machine Silver 5 Door LR Focus Zetec. Mods: Ford Racing CNC'd cylinder head milled .040", 3 angle valve grind. Ford Racing Stage II camshafts. Ford Racing cam gears. Ford Racing long tube header. Random Technology hi flow cat. Herrod 2.25" stainless cat-back. Pipercross Viper intake. CFM 65mm throttle body. 2000 ported intake manifold. Herrod Custom SCT tune. Eibach suspension. Quaife ATB diff. Wilwood 13" brakes. Custom ST170 leather interior. www.cardomain.com/ride/2773918
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WRC Fanatic
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Perth, Western Australia
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Good choice, the white with blue OTT stripes is the best combo.
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Zoom Zoom
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Melbourne, VIC
Posts: 4,352
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You can always do an aftermarket leather fit to make it look identical to factory while retaining the 5 seats...
Look at http://www.doylesleather.com.au/ in Sydney as a guide, there would surely be one similar in Melbourne. Doyles do an INSANELY good job and can even do a custom interior if you wish, maybe even charcoal leather but with subtle blue stitching to match the stripes, for roughly the same price as factory leather.
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Melbourne
Posts: 2,035
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I 2nd that. Welcome to small Ford family. You will have a ball with it.
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fordxr5turbo.com
Join Date: Mar 2005
Posts: 206
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Look deep enough on the XR5T site and you'll find some nice piccys of aftermarket leather done at essentially the same cost as purchasing leather stock (albeit you miss out on heated seats).
Cheers, Miyagi |
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: ACT
Posts: 11,647
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Lets hope yours doesn't turn out to be a lemon like mine. German engineered Pfttttt
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Knows nothing. Apparently
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: On the front steps, Brown-baggin' it.
Posts: 517
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that's awesome news dude. I pick mine up soon (22days, 20hrs, 35 mins roughly... but who's counting, right?)
I think i actually need to stop reading the xr5forums. it's giving me too many ideas before i even own the car. Things like the $50 ecu spacer, de-resonating which isn't worth much more, dreamscience..... oooo damnit! I can't help myself.
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2008 Electric Orange LV XR5. With dreamscience strategem SCT, K&N 57i Gen2 cold air intake for more fun and demonic vaccum cleaner noise!! ![]() 1975 Mitsubishi/Chrysler GC Galant 2-door Hardtop. 4G63 DOHC heart transplant nearly complete!
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formerly PURSUIT-250
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: MELBOURNE
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Thanx guy's, cant wait.
![]() Xr5 turbo site is awesome great cars and people. Yeh still have them all, one is going to have to make way (WRX impreza). Cheers Mick. |
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Eat my Brake Dust
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: In the back with Miss Alba
Posts: 985
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How I envy the XR5 owners..... nice buy, well done. Seems my zetec has the colours inversed! LOL
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Ford Focus LX
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Auburn
Posts: 5
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New '09 XR5T owner here...pick up the car on Friday...Performance Blue with White Racing stripe & leather...cant wait!
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Knows nothing. Apparently
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: On the front steps, Brown-baggin' it.
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I pick mine up tomorrow morning.
I feel like a kid before christmas.
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2008 Electric Orange LV XR5. With dreamscience strategem SCT, K&N 57i Gen2 cold air intake for more fun and demonic vaccum cleaner noise!! ![]() 1975 Mitsubishi/Chrysler GC Galant 2-door Hardtop. 4G63 DOHC heart transplant nearly complete!
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formerly PURSUIT-250
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: MELBOURNE
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Hey Congrats to both of you.
Tj-zetec, is it a XR5 and what colour/ options ? seaQuest_AMD, you will find that it's a 09 plated, 08 build car ? We had our paper work sighned late november, specificaly to be 09 plated 09 build and still no Sido number. ![]() ![]() Cheers Mick |
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Motorsport Guru
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: The Blue Mountains, N.S.W.
Posts: 1,677
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How's the wait times on the Focus XR5 Turbo's in Metro Sydney/Melbourne/Brisbane? I seem to recall a while ago it was fairly lengthy?
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: On the front steps, Brown-baggin' it.
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Mine was quick.
I wasn't fussed about getting an 09 plate, infact an 08 made it cheaper, and i could have picked it up a week after talking to cumberland ford about it but i needed another 4 weeks to organise finance and to finish saving for my deposit. pursuit: It's Electric Orange, even in Sydney's crappy overcast rainy weather that we've got at the moment, the colour just jumps up and sucker punches you. I also got the leather and the sunroof. It's seriously an amazing car!. Goes like absolute stink, and even in the water-logged conditions (it hasn't stopped raining for nearly a week) it's sure-footed, smooth and quiet... well, at least until you jump on the loud pedal. The sound is something else!. Now I've just just got to keep my urges under control and try not to start modding it. Although i think i'm gonna work out the submarine lights soon. I have become rather fond of them in my old car. ![]() BTW, are you sure you ordered the overhead stripes AND the sunroof?? because you can't have both from the factory. I know some guys on the XR5 forums have had it done aftermarket, but i know for a fact you can't get it factory with both.
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2008 Electric Orange LV XR5. With dreamscience strategem SCT, K&N 57i Gen2 cold air intake for more fun and demonic vaccum cleaner noise!! ![]() 1975 Mitsubishi/Chrysler GC Galant 2-door Hardtop. 4G63 DOHC heart transplant nearly complete!
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: ACT
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The focus is stunning in Orange and in the LV shape. Well done. I hope she brings you many years of enjoyment.
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Knows nothing. Apparently
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: On the front steps, Brown-baggin' it.
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update
Just put the submarine lights in. Wow, that was stupidly easy. I didn't even have to rummage around the wiring loom to find the plugs, they're already in place. I've put left over blue bulbs in, but i think i want red. Then i've just got to rig up a switch so they run constantly when i want.
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2008 Electric Orange LV XR5. With dreamscience strategem SCT, K&N 57i Gen2 cold air intake for more fun and demonic vaccum cleaner noise!! ![]() 1975 Mitsubishi/Chrysler GC Galant 2-door Hardtop. 4G63 DOHC heart transplant nearly complete!
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SUMPA's sedan
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Mandurah WA
Posts: 190
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Mate! awsome car, my dreams are based around this so enjoy. just a quick note that'll make the orange stand out even further.. dark tint.. and the overcast conditions will only emphasise the glory!
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formerly PURSUIT-250
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: MELBOURNE
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You lucky bugger, CONGRATS what a hot hatch they are.
VERY SEXY LOOKING. Again congrats Cheers Mick. |
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Perth XR5'er
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Perth
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Knows nothing. Apparently
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: On the front steps, Brown-baggin' it.
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I'm under strict instructions from the Minister of War and Finance not to mod it for a while. I'm weak, I'll cave in to temptation eventually.
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2008 Electric Orange LV XR5. With dreamscience strategem SCT, K&N 57i Gen2 cold air intake for more fun and demonic vaccum cleaner noise!! ![]() 1975 Mitsubishi/Chrysler GC Galant 2-door Hardtop. 4G63 DOHC heart transplant nearly complete!
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Old enough to know better
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Melbourne
Posts: 2,311
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mmmmmmm. Orange calipers. It's only paint.
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Manual 2003 Machine Silver 5 Door LR Focus Zetec. Mods: Ford Racing CNC'd cylinder head milled .040", 3 angle valve grind. Ford Racing Stage II camshafts. Ford Racing cam gears. Ford Racing long tube header. Random Technology hi flow cat. Herrod 2.25" stainless cat-back. Pipercross Viper intake. CFM 65mm throttle body. 2000 ported intake manifold. Herrod Custom SCT tune. Eibach suspension. Quaife ATB diff. Wilwood 13" brakes. Custom ST170 leather interior. www.cardomain.com/ride/2773918
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Knows nothing. Apparently
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: On the front steps, Brown-baggin' it.
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HAH!, no. If I change the rotors over (which i WILL do when these ones are shagged) I'll probly do em silver like i did on the LR.
It's subtle and tidy, and less ****y. Damnit steve, stop making me think about these things! it's your fault i threw all that money at my last car by planting the ideas in my mind!
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2008 Electric Orange LV XR5. With dreamscience strategem SCT, K&N 57i Gen2 cold air intake for more fun and demonic vaccum cleaner noise!! ![]() 1975 Mitsubishi/Chrysler GC Galant 2-door Hardtop. 4G63 DOHC heart transplant nearly complete!
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Regular Member
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Western Sydney
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Congratz on the new car mate. Looks awesome!
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