Nigel's GTI - The tale of the jumpy throttle continues...

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Also dude, why are you wearing nail varnish...?! :?
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Godderz23 wrote:Also dude, why are you wearing nail varnish...?! :?
To be fair it doesnt really look like a blokes hand...maybe Nigel is secretly a girl :shock:
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It's Nigela,im also running these Indicators.I know what Alex means they are by no means OE quality and i would prefer OE ones but for £14 i thought they would do me fine.
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They look really good in fairness :)

Bargain for £14
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£14? i just checked out the listing and they were like 18.99 plus p&P..?
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Cheers for the comments guys :)

Yeah they come to around 21 or 22 pounds in total but still absolutely worth it IMO.
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They look good!
My sidelights look awful next to my headlights! The comparison in condition is massive!
Deffinatly worth the money!!
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Nothing a good go at with a machine polisher shouldn't fix :)
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The probelm with the sidelights is they become very mouldy & dirty inside after a couple of years.
Mine always steam up and the damp creates mould & grime which is unavoidable.
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The mould is grim. On mine It looks like a little world is growing along the inside edges :shock:
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Despite what the seller says, I'm gonna assume this ISN'T genuine?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/VW-Golf-Jetta-Bor ... 528wt_1141
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Verity wrote:The mould is grim. On mine It looks like a little world is growing along the inside edges :shock:

Ha, mine are exactly the same.
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Gave the rear wheels a good clean this evening, applied some poorboys wheel sealant (much easier applied by hand). While that was curing i tried to give the arches a bit of a clean but because I don't have a pressure washer it wasn't so successful so instead I tried to give the callipers a bit of a clean.

They look much neater now but could ideally do with a few coats of paint as they're rather faded.

Put the wheels back on with some brand new bolts I bought a while back after one of them snapped off in the hub.
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Look clean dude, I sealed the Ronals the other day, how many coats did you put on? It's so much easier when the wheels are off the car.

Where I cleaned them on the grass at home is now a big patch of dead grass and mud. My dad was piiiiised!!
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Cheers Chris :)

2 coats per wheel. I'd imagine my grass is going to end up the same. Clean wheels (acid) doesn't go well with grass... And in fact, as I type this, to my right my dad is standing at the back window exclaiming how there's two big dark circles on the grass. Oops.
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