any cheap and cheerful mods?

[greypolo9n3]

Soo im done with spending thousands on my car....

still want to do stuff to it without spending alot....i bought black badge wraps for £8

wondering if anyone has any ideas for cheap and quick mods?

[buzzmotorsport]

If car is gti they do a nice gti footrest on ebay! that looks the part!

If not could make one yourself!

[Ben90]

I've got a few of these, I'm good at the cheap mods

wrapped the steering wheel inserts, £8
Replaced the gear gaiter with a thicker leather one, £7
as above, ebay metal dead pedal, £15
6R aerial £8
Wheel arch vents for the SMIC, £0
'Elephant hose' mod to vent the crankcase to atmosphere, £11

It's all on my build thread

[greypolo9n3]

nice one lads!!

its a wee 1.4 tdi se with millions of extras lol

im like my steering as it is

i already have a gti gear gator/knob

whats this elephant mod thingy?...sounds interesting lol

[MODDED9N]

Black front and rear badges

Debadged rear

Smoked Puddle lights (no actual puddle lights inside)

Carbon wrapped Centre console

Tints (£20 a window)

Rear wiper delete (£1.00 25mm grommet)

Lower honeycomb grilles

Ermmm yeah

[Ben90]

nice one lads!!
whats this elephant mod thingy?...sounds interesting lol

It reduces the amount of crap that lines your intercooler, pipework, EGR inlet manifold and even turbo. Many talk of the EGR being the culprit when really it's the work of both the crankcase vent (CCV) recirculating oil vapour and the EGR chucking in carbon creating that sticky black tar that clogs up EGRs etc. It's usually made worse if the owner drives sedately everywhere.

This mod involves a 1m length of 19mm ID hose and a 25mm ID blanking cover, most use the rubber end caps for a walking stick or even bottle caps! It's a 5 minute job, you just unclip the existing 90 degree pipe, blank off the end near the TIP, fit the pipe to the other end on top of the engine and route it down the side and back behind the firewall to allow the vapours to vent to atmosphere. A ton of people have done it on Briskoda (practically the same engine) and had no problems.

borrowed photo for illustration

The two jubilee clips show where the blanking point is and the fitting of the new vent hose.