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hi,

Thought i'd start a progress thread since my car has been thorough quite a few changes, and still has a lot to go through before i believe i'll be finished

Here is what my car looked like when i bought it in feb 2006, standard grandad polo




My god look how high up it is

Anyway now this is what it looked like before i starting working on my car this summer





here's some of the stuff that's been going on to the car over the past month or two...


Quality Hid Kit at a superb price thanks to alexperkins, and various leds and black side indicators thanks to maxZ Remote central locking kit was from ebay, plates from groupbuy on clubpolo and plate holders from dubmeister


Hids


Lights tinted professionally by someone on ebay


boot solenoid from ebay which i still can't get to work properly


delocked handles which just need spraying now


We'll see how this turns out once it's been at the bodyshop


And finally dewipered + newly tinted lights

Plans for the next month, Coilovers to get the stance right, completely smoothing the car and a full respray and eventually some streched rubber but still have no idea what size i need

nice mate, can i ask, where did you get your delocked handles from?

james

Delocked handles are off 5 door polos, can buy them in any dealership Nice work Haris! Keep it up

cant wait to see how it looks by the end of the summer. Has been the inspiration for my car

Bepe wrote:nice mate, can i ask, where did you get your delocked handles from?

james

I got mine from vagparts their about £26 for the set

do you no if you can buy them ready primed haris?

Nice job so far mate! Where did you source the rear wiper blank? I need one of those too

The lights look great, I reckon that, judging by the quality of the finish, its the same eBayer that did my standard 6n2 lights. It seems to suit the LED ones better though

Keep up the good work

Bepe wrote:do you no if you can buy them ready primed haris?

I got mine of ebay for about £16 for the set. You can request black plastic or pre-primed ones. - that was for my 9n tho. Would be surprised if you coudn't get mk5 ones on there for a similar price.

thanks mate

I was expecting them to be primed, i've had a look everywhere to find them cheaper but couldn't find them anywhere except for at dealers and vagparts

Si_GTi wrote:Nice job so far mate! Where did you source the rear wiper blank? I need one of those too
Keep up the good work

Thanks, got the rubber blank from halfords for about a £1 for a pack of 3, biggest size they got is the one you need, easily the cheapest mod i've done and cleans the rear end up nicely

CymruPolo wrote:I was thinking about doing it the other day, but wasn't sure if it was possible. How long until it's done?

Should have it looking smooth by the end of the second week of august hopefully

Thanks for all the positive comments guys

Si_GTi wrote:Nice job so far mate! Where did you source the rear wiper blank? I need one of those too

I've got about 9 rubber blanks sitting in the shed, I'll bring a couple to ED38 on Sunday and you can have one for FREE

CymruPolo wrote:Good work, mate

I'm looking forward to seeing how this turns out:



I was thinking about doing it the other day, but wasn't sure if it was possible. How long until it's done?

get going on this! im watching with interest think this could look realy good!

*Updates*

Got my coilovers fitted


Before


Coilovers set to the lowest setting at the front, stupid amounts of lowerage




After




My mud flaps still scrape on everything and my steering wheel alignment is way out, that should get sorted through tracking and camber right? And will adjusting coilovers mess up the camber and tracking after it has been done?

Other bits that still need painting or just need to be stuck on, Engine cover, getting colour coded, door led, black mk4 golf tweeter trim, inside of badge getting colour coded, stubby euro mirror and finally mk4 black mirror which Alex is sourcing me (Thanks!) Btw does it matter which way i stick the brown and white wire on the mirror.



Cleaning stuff i've bought to keep the car looking shiny and new once i get it back from the bodyshop. I'm new to all this cleaning your car properly so to say, so i'm supposed use soap-rinse-clay-polish-then use sealant or the vice versa with polish and sealant



My car has hit a 100k


Car is going into the bodyshop tommorrow morning Can't wait

Thanks, Hope you like,

Haris