Re: Jimmy's Gti **Progress Thread**WHEELS/SEATS/DILEMMA :(**

[HD9POLOGTi]

Looking good so far, you smooth them yourself? You smoothing your body trims aswell??

Yeh mate but only smoothing front this month and going to search for a donor boot and rear bumper to be smoothed next month saw you bargain on ebay as well with your boot.

Also got a hold of a couple of little sneaky oem mods but they will be revealed in due course lol

[HD9POLOGTi]

Well finally got the bumper smoothed and put on took ages all the little fiddly screws but here she is

All painted and smoothed.....



Next was taken the old one off........


Ended up with three screws extra?!?

And the final product.........







Excuse the s**t iphone pics

Next steps....

Us spec front bumper - so i can have two styles of front end

Fabricate porche seats- (duno what colour yet red/purple/blue/white)

Dare rs wheels - still doing research wether to go 9/8 x 16 or 7/8 x 15

Smooth boot

Jap rear bumper - still trying to figure out shipping costs

Light smoke tints

Gloss black b pillars and wing mirrors

What this space.........

[r12nuts]

Looks tidy mate, the gloss splitter is a nice touch.

[Trottagti]

You can get the jap bumper from vw mate, no import to pay then....

I like the gloss splitter, jap front bumper for me though, not a fan off the smooth bumpers.... Good effort though.

[HD9POLOGTi]

Cheers lads

Gona see on monday if the can get a hold of one from vw then i can finish it off. Im jusy being greedy wanting both front ends wanting to throw in some side lights into strip aswell just ordered em from us ebay 15 delivered.

[HD9POLOGTi]

Better pics

[Verity]

Great stuff! Love the fact that you want 2 bumpers to swap beteeen
I'm not a fan of smoothed bumpers, but you've done a great job!!
And I love gloss splitters!

[Ashcroft]

Well done mate, you've done an awesome job!! Makes me wanna crack on and smooth my spare bumper as I've not had it in the garage like 4 months doing nothin lol

[HD9POLOGTi]

Well done mate, you've done an awesome job!! Makes me wanna crack on and smooth my spare bumper as I've not had it in the garage like 4 months doing nothin lol

Lol cheers mate i kno how you feel my spare was in garage for over a year got mate to help me with it GET IT DONE well worth it

Only downside was the day i finally put it on...........it started snowing

[Ashcroft]

Unlucky! We've had none down this way yet but I'll be keeping all my old bumpers to keep on over winter and just keep the smoothed for summer time

[HD9POLOGTi]

Hi All

Great beginning to the week someone has broken into me mums house and stolen her car, keys to me polo shame on the little fucks cause they couldnt take her as i was working on her yesterday and batterie wasnt connected was in my room ha wont bore you with details

How do i go about changing locks??
Whats the cheapest was about going at it???
And also any methods of torture for when i find the scrots lol

Any help would be much appreciated

[daz16v]

Gutted to hear about them stealing your keys mate!thieving scum!hope u get it all sorted asap!1

looks like you have done a great job on that bumper!

[Godderz23]

Polo looks great bud.

[HD9POLOGTi]

Update: took apart the car last night so they couldnt start my car and the little fuckers STILL tried rolling it found it gone this morning and drove down road to were they have dumped it. To top it off they have locked it and f****d off with the keys (or dumped em)

Spoke to vw
1. £115 for a key just to get into it
2. £75 to program it in to start it
3. If they still have the key they can just jump in whenever they want cause the key vw will give me is the same!!!!!!!!

What options do i have???? Anyone??

1. Get keys made from vw the pay even to have the locks and ignition barrel changed

2. Get vw keys then fork out for another alarm

3. (if this is an option) buy a ignition barrel, keys, ecu etc from a scrapper and install

[Trottagti]

I would swap the door locks over from a scrapper and perhaps get a new key for your ignition and use 2 keys. One for the doors and one for the ignition. That way no ecu business... If your tight on funds it may work out. Tbh I would ring your insurance and see what they say as they will replace barrels and that for sure.... My mate got onto his insurance, surly house insurance should cover some part of it aswell???