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what shall i do to it.....

Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 2:16 pm
by manny88
right like i said in another post i think its time to start doing stuff to my polo. its a 1.4 tdi very very very standard and pretty boring looking and im kinda stuck for ideas on wot to do to it and how to do things.

First thing i want to do is get the whole car colour coded, the bumper, the side mouldings, wing mirror, door handles. What i want to know is exactly how to do this....the guy from volkswagen told me to go to a body shop and they use plastic primer so the paint will stick, sounds simple lol. Does any1 know of any good body shops in and around west midlands......

next thing i wana ask is, at the moment my car has 14inch wheels and there is a HUMUNGOUS gap in the wheel arch lol....i wana reduce this the obvious answer would be to get bigger wheels but i know if i get bigger wheels then it will take more diesel and i cant really afford this. therefore i dont want to go for 16's, will 15's make much of a difference with fuel consumption or not.....and do u guys think i should get it lowered so it doesn't look so high from the back aswell......im jst really stuck on what to do and how to go about it....

Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 2:53 pm
by VDub_9N
if you put bigger wheels on you will still hav a big arch gap AND your car will sit higher overall so i would definitely lower it!

Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 5:29 pm
by pip_polo
get it fully colour coded and then lower it. like said before if you put bigger alloys on you only put smaller profile tire so keeping the roling radius of the whole wheel the same .'. keeping the same ride height ish.