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Endi_GTI wrote:Looking good mate, Like the wheels a lot.

I wasn't sure if it was gonna be a horrible error but they turned out good - I think

Endi_GTI wrote:However looking a bit high up on them

Height adjustment not far away

Not Slammed just not quite so scared of the road

Glad to here it

I have just done mine and it looks so much better. Im not into the slammed look either but a slight drop makes a huge difference and the handling is awesome

Was a Pistonheads local run out today

Thread here

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topi ... unday+30th

Couple of Polo pics

BC in car clean shocker













Rest of the pics are here

http://s108.photobucket.com/albums/n19/ ... an%202011/

Looking Good Mate

Your GTI is crying out for some lowering springs though, either that or coilovers.

deffo needs slamming, would make it look a lot better IMO

Still any GTI is a good looker in my eyes

No coilovers and no slamming - been there done that and not impressed........

but I have a set of lowering springs lined up So height correction will be carried out before the summer

What springs have you got line up? The Eibach Sportlines give it a nice drop and only cost just over £100

The "slammed" look does look awesome though just its not very practical for everyday driving

6N2 GTI 00 wrote:What springs have you got line up? The Eibach Sportlines give it a nice drop and only cost just over £100

I'll find a picture of them on the donor car

6N2 GTI 00 wrote:The "slammed" look does look awesome though just its not very practical for everyday driving

Roads aren't getting better - it's pothole city round here and where there aren't potholes there are speed bumps etc

Forget slamming it dude,a nice 40-50mm drop will have it looking comfortably low and keep practicality up.If you go too low you end up looking like a prat when you can't get into your local Tesco over the speed humps and it also makes less drivable.

6N2 GTI 00 wrote:What springs have you got line up? The Eibach Sportlines give it a nice drop and only cost just over £100

Bradley wrote:Forget slamming it dude,a nice 40-50mm drop will have it looking comfortably low and keep practicality up.If you go too low you end up looking like a prat when you can't get into your local Tesco over the speed humps and it also makes less drivable.

Springs are off this one



40-50mm suits me just fine

Anyway couple more pics from the Pistonheads run - not ones I took





I'm really pleased with how the wheels turned out

Ew Saxo Wheels look spot on though, will look perfect when lowered

Those springs should give it a nice drop, that other GTI is running 16" RXII's though which makes the car look lower than it actually is

6N2 GTI 00 wrote:Those springs should give it a nice drop, that other GTI is running 16" RXII's though which makes the car look lower than it actually is

Same rolling radius on the wheel so I can't see how that's the case - when I went from 13's to 15's on my old 6N Polo 1.4 CL - the arch gap looked bigger on 15's than it did on 13's - same rolling radius on the tyres - so I would have expected the reverse to be true when comparing same car on 16's v 15's RX2's

The 16" RXII's work out 1.1% larger overall which is nothing but when I'm running 16" rims my car does look lower.
I'm not saying it is lower it just looks lower with the bigger wheels, the larger rims visually fill the arches better.

bstardchild! Long time no see! I was quite surprised (and pleased) to see that you've popped back up on uk-polos

Car looks good - just as you've bought your black GTi, I'm about to sell mine