On occasion of Disney Pixar Cars3 release today, let me all introduce you all to my Lightning McQueen
I have been follower of this forum for few years now. Only recently I became a member and thought of introducing my LM95 and sharing some of beautification I have done with you all.
Though writing all names here would not be possible but C,C,B,I are some of members on this forum, G,G,F,R from Indian and many from Russian forums are special inspiration for me. And others as well.
Here is some background --
VW Launched Polo back in India sometime in 2009. It was 1.2 lit 3 cylinder Petrol and Diesel manual options. All the excitement disappeared as soon as I started both engines as part of test drive.
Only good part was both vehicles had many parts from VW Worldwide suppliers. And fit and finish was a step above from rest of cars offered by other manufactures’.
Here is how that polo looked.
https://goo.gl/photos/JNjqUz1UpsJiyEZp6
Fast forward to 2012 and finally VW launched Polo GT TSi (1.2 TSi, 105BHP, 7DSG) and GT TDI (1.5 Diesel, 105BHP, 5 Manual). Being in UK and driving 1.2 TSi, I was hooked onto it for quite some time. But VW did not make too many facial changes to distinguish between its cheaper siblings.
https://goo.gl/photos/D34LN4KiJFbtgsfU8
Still I went to check the vehicle once back home. I won’t write anything about dealer experience but car was FUN!!!
Work kept me busy and traveling so could not fulfill my wish to buy 1st GT in my city or from dealer.
Two odd years passed by and VW decided to facelift it again.
https://goo.gl/photos/dpMttg1QbAyg7Uhq8
And finally my dream car was there. It was just matter of doing paperwork.
I was very demanding and managed to get my car in 15 odd days delivered after making a payment. (Some of you may know how people are taken for ride)
https://goo.gl/photos/enmnqfxGEwcTgxCP6
Very frankly I was so excited that I hardly did any checks on allocated car in details.
My only condition for delivery was to have a delivery early morning and in broad day light so I can admire every millimeter of it and drive whole day
https://goo.gl/photos/SNFoUquGFADU6As3A
As part of cost cutting VW ditched many but here are which would have been good to have:
- Option of music system
- Reverse camera
- 5th allow wheel
- Only 1 flip key (1 normal key)
- Single tone horn
- No light in boot
Or charged exorbitant price for some of the things.
One thing to note is dealers absolutely have very less powers to do anything. Or they are simply not willing to.
So you ask and they would say "warranty would be void", "this is not possible". If ever any of these service advisers reads this forum, I am sure they would like to hide their faces.