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 Elf eating dog breeder Posts: 10531    Location: Guildford | Well, having run myself into stupid amounts of debt ive decided that cars can stop rinsing me of all my money and go on the back burner for a while, cutting my car collection down big time and going to focus on just getting out of debt, this coupled with the metro insurance going fooking spastic (admiral insured it, then called me a week later to tell me the advisor that spoke to me was wrong and they dont cover engine swaps, so parked that up and bought this) History of the car, ive known it for a while, done a fair bit of work on it, previous owner wanted brand new genuine top mounts and new coilovers, so did all that for him, he then wanted a new company car and this had a slight misfire so I bought it off him for alot less than even I expected to pay  Its a very clean 97 5 door black GTi, he was OCD about cleaning cars and it shows, very very clean everywhere ive looked so far. Misfire was fixed by replacing the coil, also did the dizzy cap, rotor arm, leads, plugs and a quick oil service. Opened the airbox, found a K&N panel, winner. Fitted my JVC headunit in it, front speakers didnt work, noticed they were upgraded focal components with seperate tweeters, opened the back doors, same again but they were working fine, ripped the dash apart found out it was previously amped front speakers and they had just cabletied the wiring up, so re-wired it so they are running off the headunit but can always change that again  now the sound system is actually suprisingly good. Drives buetifully, doesnt need money spunking on it left right and centre and stops the BS at work (starting a new job tomorrow and want to set a good impression instead of having to explain why I drive a metro...) Few hours after I got it -  Headunit in -  Blacked out badges -  Parked up at the flat, have since fitted the black GTi badge but might ditch it again -  Debadged back and blacked out VW -  Only real plans are some wheel spacers and do the wheels in anthracite or black... Edited by FreddieS 13/5/2012 5:24 PM | ||
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Elf eating dog breeder Posts: 10531 Location: Guildford | |||
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 MP Admin Posts: 8747 Location: Greater London \ Essex | Very clean considering it's nigh on 15 years old  Could do with some nicer alloys though | ||
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 drive it like its hired | lets face it, for the money you cant go wrong also lol at wanting the golf for work, I dont take mine to work either, pretty much the same reason I wouldnt want anything to posh or new either, cant have them thinking I dont need that bonus Edited by petrol_head 14/5/2012 12:24 PM | ||
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Elf eating dog breeder Posts: 10531 Location: Guildford | gshaw - 14/5/2012 5:35 PM Very clean considering it's nigh on 15 years old Could do with some nicer alloys though Aye, when/if money allows i'll get some BBS rep's, but for now they will do, genuine borbets, might do them in black for now to make them stand out less. Whole idea is not to spend money on this, first thing I did when I got home was went on wheel whores and edition38 to see if there were any BBS's for sale, then remembered what the car is there for, to be cheap. 1275 hoppy - 14/5/2012 4:42 AM I quite like mk3's and that is a nice example. Cheers petrol_head - 14/5/2012 6:22 PM lets face it, for the money you cant go wrong also lol at wanting the golf for work, I dont take mine to work either, pretty much the same reason I wouldnt want anything to posh or new either, cant have them thinking I dont need that bonus Precisely, if I got a posh spanky new car then they'd think im loaded and wouldnt give me as much overtime! | ||
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Elf eating dog breeder Posts: 10531 Location: Guildford | Got some bits thru the post so decided to fit 'em tonight First of all legal UK pressed metal plates, fit them to all of my cars, standard procedure really. Before -  After -   Then fitted my smoked side repeaters -  And then this happened -  Resulting in this -  Next, black wheels and joey mod headlights | ||
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Elf eating dog breeder Posts: 10531 Location: Guildford | Had 2 front tyres and tracking done (ballache as the tyre place tracking machine had to go on the tyre not the rim, so had to goto my old work (jap tuning specialist) who had the proper on the rim tracking kit. drives alot nicer now, also painted the wheels black -  | ||
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Elf eating dog breeder Posts: 10531 Location: Guildford | Fitted the spacers, makes it look a bit nicer. Before -  After -   Need to take the plastic arches off and trim them and roll the metal archs so I can wind the coilovers down a bit... | ||
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