A tale of 2 swaps, a GTI story!

[6N2 GTI 00]

Cheers, are they? What makes em rare?

Yeah the black headlining makes the interior a 100x better, like the GTI should of been! It's a fair bit of work with the retrimming and spraying the plastics and door seals black but it's well worth it!

As Emma mentioned the V plate GTI's were the very first GTI's out of the factory, not many of them knocking about.

Most of the V Plate GTI's didnt come with "GTI" badges on them thats both the front and back, no idea why it just happened with the early cars.

[steviedubs]

I'm not sure how much it's lowered by I just trial and errored it till it sat right.

Ahh I see, mine had front and rear all red GTI badges!
I've not seen many with the all red badges, I've heard some of the early GTI's didn't have climatronic either but mine has.

[Verity]

Beaut GTI
Looks in great condition
Can't wait to see more updates

[6N2 GTI 00]

Those red badges are after market badges mate

Standard OEM GTI badges are chrome with a red "I"

Those Red ones do look pretty good though

[steviedubs]

I'm sure there original to the vehicle coz the front and rear ones are exactly the same...
Anyhooo theyre a break from the norm I spose!

Just bought myself a .99 relay to do programmable wipers, so I'll fit that tomorrow after I retrieve from ze post office!

[joe2612]

Very Smart!

[6N2 GTI 00]

I'm sure there original to the vehicle coz the front and rear ones are exactly the same...
Anyhooo theyre a break from the norm I spose!

Just bought myself a .99 relay to do programmable wipers, so I'll fit that tomorrow after I retrieve from ze post office!

Yeah they do look smart and suit it but they are from a MK4 Golf GTI and not original to the Polo

Alot of people change the front and back these days, usually its the badges from the later Polo GTI

99 relay

[benmkiv]

Yeah the all red gti badges indicated the top power spec gti I think the 180 annis? Like if it had just the red I it was a 130 red t and I was a 150 and all red for the anni I believe something along those lines anyway

[nigelelliott394]

99 relay you say? Excellent choice my friend, excellent choice.

[steviedubs]

Ah right I see, I always thought it was coz it was an early GTI coz when I went to get a key coded by a mate who works at vw he couldn't get it to code straight away so the registered tech came over To help and said "bloody ell this is an early one" coz of the badges! Ah well there's me thinking it was special! Haha

Got the .99 relay for the bargain price of £2 from fleabay! A little job for the weekend!

[6N2 GTI 00]

Yeah the all red gti badges indicated the top power spec gti I think the 180 annis? Like if it had just the red I it was a 130 red t and I was a 150 and all red for the anni I believe something along those lines anyway

Yeah thats right mate, these look like they are off the Anniversary MK4 Golf GTI

Ah right I see, I always thought it was coz it was an early GTI coz when I went to get a key coded by a mate who works at vw he couldn't get it to code straight away so the registered tech came over To help and said "bloody ell this is an early one" coz of the badges! Ah well there's me thinking it was special! Haha

Got the .99 relay for the bargain price of £2 from fleabay! A little job for the weekend!

Yours would have been like my old GTI originally with no badges on a V plate lol no idea why VW did that though
Bargain for the relay at £2

[steviedubs]

A quick couple of pics of before and after I did a real quick refurb on the wheels when I first got the car!

Before;



After;

[6N2 GTI 00]

Nice Job mate Polished lips look great on the RXII's

[steviedubs]

Couple of little updates....

Shaved the door pins down so they sit flush



Carbon wrapped climate surround



BBS centre caps

[6N2 GTI 00]

Nice update mate, BBS Centre caps look far better

Liking the carbon wrap too, are you going to do the centre console too?