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The previous car had to be sold due to starting my own insurance policy and the price hit the roof!

so i decided to sell up and buy a small engined veedub




After alot of browseing the internet for a desent looked after car i saw this



85,000 on the clock, It had only 1 previous owner(lady) and had full service history from new, Serveced by VW themselves every 8 thousand miles.

Its only a 1.2 but its cheap to insure till i get 1 or 2 years no claims, Then ill go back to a big diesel engine.



The paint work wasnt bad at all to be honest just 3 or 4 very minor little stone dents that you wouldnt notice inless you got down and actally full on looked for them witch made me want it even more. The First thing i wanted to do was give it a full on valet to restore the paint work and get it looking its best. And also another 5 minute mod i did was remove the rear wiper and colour code the rear badge







Then i had a trip to halfords to purcase a roof bar fitting kit to go on my aero bars and chucked them on after work.



The next week i brought a set of coilovers and had them fitted by my mate sam trigg, We found that the anti roll bar drop links were siting on the driveshaft so removed it intill i purcased some shortened ones. I wound them down all the way and just wasnt happy with the result as they only went to 100mm






next on my mind was the wheels i couldnt stand driveng round on steelies, I was looking for weeks for a nice desent set, After nearly buying a rough set of BBS RCs i decieded not to and saw B2OCO selling an amazing fresh set of BBS RXII s 17x17.5" that had all new 185/35s on, 5x100 so just bolted straight on so were perfect really.

Anyway as the weather was carp and snow comeing soon i didnt bother putting them on for a couple of weeks, wanted to wait for the weather to clear.



So after work one day i decided to put them on andwhen i took my front wheels off the tyres were f'ed and i dint even no about it, I belive it was due to going low witch camberd the front wheels slightly.




But yeahh i test fitted the RXIIs and in my opinion they suited the car well! just needed more lows




At this point i had it moted and needed the rollbar putting back in so i purcased the shortened droplinks and put it back in.
Couple of days later had the coilovers back out and sold them to a friend, So it was back to standard height and steelies for a week :/



Ordered a new set hopeing they would be more comftable and go lower and when the weekend came got to it putting them back in!



Also cut the bumstrips down.




DROP LINKS



FRONT STRUTS



REAR STRUNTS/SPRINGS




Got them all in, Was happy with the rears but still not happy with the fronts :/






Got Bored one day so i sprayed my front badge satin black and put a set of lockin wheel nuts in with some covers






Today i wrapped the door handels and a few other bits in carbon wrap, Also trimmed the dash board ends in black suede.

DRIVERS DOORCARD




PASSENGERS DOORCARD




DASHBOARD AIR VENTS




DASHBOARD ENDS



Also decied to make a custom Iphone 5 holder under the cd player:



So this is as it stands






Future plans:
More lows on the front - maybe some small top mounts or somert got to find away to get lower!
votex front and back splitters and skirts
Front DRLS
Tint front lights

Looks tidy that mate, liking the RXII's in 17s never thought about looking for some of those, I better not let my missus know or she'll want some

Look's great! I've carbon wrapped a few interior things but you've given me a few new ideas and I like the wheel nut covers

Also ive got drl's but having problems getting them working
Here's my interior mods and DRL'S:

I was wondering what alloys are on the polo above?

They are vw exors

How'd you do the seude on the inside of the door dude ? Done my headliner in seude so got some left over. Did you remove the dash or what ?

Loving this build bro! I'm looking to sell up my Micra in September and upgrade to the 1.2 9n once I get my one years no claims what are the engines like with miles on the clock, I don't really know what is a healthy amount.

Sick build! I'm looking to get one of these soon, what is a good amount of miles for it to still last me at its age?

Where'd you get the wheel nut covers?
Got a link ? And how much were they ??



Cars looks well BTW

What were the TA coilovers like to drive with? Been thinking of getting them myself and also where did you get them?