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any cheap and cheerful mods?
Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2013 6:57 pm
by greypolo9n3
Soo im done with spending thousands on my car....
still want to do stuff to it without spending alot....i bought black badge wraps for £8
wondering if anyone has any ideas for cheap and quick mods?
Re: any cheap and cheerful mods?
Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2013 7:50 pm
by buzzmotorsport
If car is gti they do a nice gti footrest on ebay! that looks the part!
If not could make one yourself!
Re: any cheap and cheerful mods?
Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2013 11:23 am
by Ben90
I've got a few of these, I'm good at the cheap mods
wrapped the steering wheel inserts, £8
Replaced the gear gaiter with a thicker leather one, £7
as above, ebay metal dead pedal, £15
6R aerial £8
Wheel arch vents for the SMIC, £0
'Elephant hose' mod to vent the crankcase to atmosphere, £11
It's all on my build thread
Re: any cheap and cheerful mods?
Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2013 12:10 am
by greypolo9n3
nice one lads!!
its a wee 1.4 tdi se
with millions of extras lol
im like my steering as it is
i already have a gti gear gator/knob
whats this elephant mod thingy?...sounds interesting lol
Re: any cheap and cheerful mods?
Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2013 12:45 am
by MODDED9N
Black front and rear badges
Debadged rear
Smoked Puddle lights (no actual puddle lights inside)
Carbon wrapped Centre console
Tints (£20 a window)
Rear wiper delete (£1.00 25mm grommet)
Lower honeycomb grilles
Ermmm yeah
Re: any cheap and cheerful mods?
Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2013 10:26 am
by Ben90
greypolo9n3 wrote:nice one lads!!
whats this elephant mod thingy?...sounds interesting lol
It reduces the amount of crap that lines your intercooler, pipework, EGR inlet manifold and even turbo. Many talk of the EGR being the culprit when really it's the work of both the crankcase vent (CCV) recirculating oil vapour
and the EGR chucking in carbon creating that sticky black tar that clogs up EGRs etc. It's usually made worse if the owner drives sedately everywhere.
This mod involves a 1m length of 19mm ID hose and a 25mm ID blanking cover, most use the rubber end caps for a walking stick or even bottle caps! It's a 5 minute job, you just unclip the existing 90 degree pipe, blank off the end near the TIP, fit the pipe to the other end on top of the engine and route it down the side and back behind the firewall to allow the vapours to vent to atmosphere. A ton of people have done it on Briskoda (practically the same engine) and had no problems.
borrowed photo for illustration
The two jubilee clips show where the blanking point is and the fitting of the new vent hose.