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I have been using the site for a few months now for ideas and advice decided to upload a few pics of the car so far.

now i feel silly cos i dont know how to upload photos... can anyone help me out?

Alright mate, hows it going? I'm pretty new too, got a TDI myself great little engine. don't worry loads of people don't know how to start with. Have you got a photobucket account, thats how most people do it. Basically if you've got the photos on a webpage somewhere you take the URL, that is http://mypolo.co.uk for example and put that in between the two words that appear when you press the Img button above the comment box as you write a reply, if you leave your mouse over the Img button it tells you. To make sure your not going to post something that just says image, press the preview button, if the photo loads you've nailed it

Hope that helps mate and you get some pictures up soon

Chris

cheers buddy got it goin!

So heres the car just after i got it, swopped the alloys over from my previous car (a 6n2 which i drove into a big wall).


Stuck in the JVC head unit.


Replaced the old scuffed front grab handles.



I stuck in the GTI grille and the red trim a while ago, trims a bit faded now, i could do with replacing it.
I did the fogs testerday, which is why i havent got the covers on yet.


Few other photos here.



Here's my nice shiny bonnet.


Let me know what you think of the car and suggestions of whats next. Im already plannin coilovers in the next few months.

looking great mate though if I were you I d spray the drum break black

Alright mate, glad you got the pics working. It just wants lowering now, maybe GTI spoiler and spliter.

What model is it, I thought all polos had cloth in the middle section of the door.

Oh by the way the grab handles look good, I should do that with mine at some point, they're all peeled and crap

Thanks guys. Yea im lookin into gettin a set of coilovers once i get the money up. GTI Spliier is def on the to do list, but they're pretty hard to come by. I mite bite the bullet and give VW a ring to price a new one. Nt sure about the fitting though, does anyone know if you have to take the bumper off or whats the best way to change the splitters?

Looks good mate. get it remapped! I got mine done from Angel Tuning.The result would put a huge smile on ur face lol.. Really a great company and their support is terrific. I highly reccommend them.

i've been thinkin about the remap for a while now. What HP is your mapped to? I was plannin on doing something with the brakes before the map because they r pure s**t! i dono how i'd feel about lettin myself loose with over 100hp and awful brakes...

d_austin974 wrote:i've been thinkin about the remap for a while now. What HP is your mapped to? I was plannin on doing something with the brakes before the map because they r pure s**t! i dono how i'd feel about lettin myself loose with over 100hp and awful brakes...

Mine is pushing between 105 and 110.

Get EBC GREENSTUFF brakes. Ive had mine on for a year and a half with some ATE performance brake discs. I jus bought a new set of EBC pads today from eurocarparts for 35 quid.. Getting them changed tommorrow.

have you ordered fog light grills ?

110 bhp raz? Thats awesome! If you dont mind me askin how much did the map cost you? do the greenstuff pads and ate disks make much of a difference? Brakes are one thing i wont cut corners on. Especially as mine doesnt have ABS.

Yea red i put the fog surrounds on today, just need to get the middle grill and that'll be the front all honeycombs!

do they not ?... how about converting the rear drums to discs ?

Most of them did have the abs. I always knew mine never had it but i just assumed that the TDI's didnt have it or whatever, but the other day i was looking at them on autotrader to see how mine is holding its value and noticed that they all had ABS. I started to panic in case the car was dodgy, a write off that was fixed up cheap and sold or something. So i phoned VW and gave them my chasis number they told me that my car is an import from the Republic of Ireland and doesnt have abs. Pretty weird but not a big problem. How much work is involved in converting the drums to disks? Do you know if anyone has done it?

d_austin974 wrote:110 bhp raz? Thats awesome! If you dont mind me askin how much did the map cost you? do the greenstuff pads and ate disks make much of a difference? Brakes are one thing i wont cut corners on. Especially as mine doesnt have ABS.

Remap was 290 from Angel Tuning. THey come to you.

EBC definetely is the brakes to get, ATE discs are ok, if u wanna spend more, then go over to venom motorsport website and get some Drilled and Grooved ones.. They will keep the brakes cool.. I bought some off ebay once and they didnt fit so get them from eiter europerformance or venom motorsport

Hope that helps, Anything else, giv us a shout!