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New member, a few questions
Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 6:24 pm
by Robbieben
Hi everyone, this is actually my wife's car, she wants it looking smart and I'm prepared to do a few mods to make it that way as I'm car daft myself.
I currently own an Astra VXR running around 300Bhp at present
Car is a Polo 1.9TDi Sport
I have just recently fitted a digital tuning box from
www.dieseltuninguk.com, the box has given a fantastic increase in power so:
1 what uprated brakes can be fitted to the car?
2 will larger Golf wheels fit straight on?
3 uprating suspension and lowering, suggestions please.
Thanks
The wife's Polo
And my VXR
Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 6:38 pm
by carmadaaron
nice cars
i can give you an answer to the 2nd question.
Yes, golf mk4 wheels will fit straight on... all the way up to 19" if you are brave.... the current style golf wheels wont however.
Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 6:42 pm
by dino
Welcome to the forum, nice cars esp the VXR
Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 6:53 pm
by yorks GT TDI
i have golf 233 mm brakes on my polo
Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 7:52 pm
by samil87
the VXR is nice
Re: New member, a few questions
Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2007 12:00 pm
by jmv
Robbieben wrote:Hi everyone, this is actually my wife's car, she wants it looking smart and I'm prepared to do a few mods to make it that way as I'm car daft myself.
I currently own an Astra VXR running around 300Bhp at present
Car is a Polo 1.9TDi Sport
I have just recently fitted a digital tuning box from
www.dieseltuninguk.com, the box has given a fantastic increase in power so:
1 what uprated brakes can be fitted to the car?
2 will larger Golf wheels fit straight on?
3 uprating suspension and lowering, suggestions please.
Thanks
The wife's Polo
And my VXR
Welcome to the site!
awesome-gti.co.uk have porsche uprated brakes (look under golf mk4) which are fairly cheap. If not a decent set of discs/pads and brake fluid should do.
As previously said golf mk4 wheels fit, just make sure you have the right offset and tyre size.
Suspension wise any damper/spring set from a good manufacturer should do. just match the drop to you wheel size really
Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2007 12:29 pm
by dhastings1986
love the orange on polo
Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2007 3:06 pm
by vwclub.gr
yorks GT TDI wrote:i have golf 233 mm brakes on my polo
This is smaller than original 256.
Did you mean something bigger?
Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2007 3:13 pm
by jmv
i thought the gt-tdi had 256 or 288?
Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2007 8:48 pm
by dino
dhastings1986 wrote:love the orange on polo
It's red...
Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2007 9:20 pm
by Robbieben
Thanks for the prompt reply's
I'll look into things further and keep you informed as I go
Are Golf wheel's not the same offset as the Polo?
Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2007 9:21 pm
by Robbieben
dino wrote:dhastings1986 wrote:love the orange on polo
It's red...
Yes it's Red just a bad phone picture
Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2007 9:43 pm
by carmadaaron
Robbieben wrote:Thanks for the prompt reply's
I'll look into things further and keep you informed as I go
Are Golf wheel's not the same offset as the Polo?
yes they should be . ET35-38
Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 10:55 am
by dhastings1986
RED!!!!!!
Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 1:23 am
by emzino
Think I saw that on autotrader. Did you find it off there?
That aside, beautiful car(s). Hard to avoid the VXR, what a monster hehe
Had any VXR Smiles? (as in totally whooped any other cars in a small *SAFE* race).