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capoot - "Ryder ReConstruction"
« on: 13 January 2006, 12:50 »
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Re: capoot - "Ryder ReConstruction"
« Reply #1 on: 13 January 2006, 21:02 »
Firstly Thanks To Jv for setting this up!  :smiley:

April 2005
Right My Golfs story started last easter, when my then car a ford fiesta decided enough was enough and decided to pack up and leave me, Shame (Not Really)

Anyway there was a guy who always sold cars at the end of my street and it just so happend that he was sleeing a White Golf Ryder 1.6 for £400 and 102,000 miles on the clock, without a scracth on her! i fell in love with her. One day later she was mine and the guy even agreed to chuck some alloys he had in his Garage!!  :grin:

This is how she looked!!!!


1991 Golf Ryder 1.6
102,000
FVWSH!!! - All recepits including the purchase (£8,000 - VW)
Minter!!
£400

She Was The refered to as GLOF the golf

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Re: capoot - "Ryder ReConstruction"
« Reply #2 on: 13 January 2006, 21:05 »
The Very next day

I took glof with the sunroof open down to halfords and argued about an ISO harness, after a little while i got one and installed my Sony CDX 2200 from my ford fiesta, just becuase the golf didnt come with a CD player  :sad:

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Re: capoot - "Ryder ReConstruction"
« Reply #3 on: 13 January 2006, 21:14 »
May 2005

Bad news on the way to the school cup game, my friend crashed into the behind of my PERFECT 14 year old car  :angry: luckly i was held back, and i enjoyed the look on his face when the first thing he said to me was "Dan Please Don't Knock Me Out" anyway it was basically structal to the bumper, nothing else athough it wasnt fixed  :cry:

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Re: capoot - "Ryder ReConstruction"
« Reply #4 on: 13 January 2006, 21:21 »
June 2005
Next came my very favourite mod, and it was BY FAR a great fleebay bargin!!!

Clear rear lights!!

a total of 3.54!!! I do not no how i won the auction but i did!!  :laugh:
It makes such a difference in my opioion and they were REALLY CHEAP!!!

Also note rear right hand side of my bumper  :cry:
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Re: capoot - "Ryder ReConstruction"
« Reply #5 on: 13 January 2006, 21:31 »
August

I am a quilfied football coach and was coaching for fun weeks for school kids on summer holidays, i'd worked for the total 3 weeks and got paid a pretty hefty amount, so i thought i'd treat myself and finaly put those alloys on and get rid of the steelies. i got sum brand new tyres and got them fitted by my very good friends a National Tyres. :grin:

Before

Pretty much standard!!

After

the best of it all was i didnt pay a penny for the alloys they were chucked in free!!  :grin: :laugh:

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Re: capoot - "Ryder ReConstruction"
« Reply #6 on: 13 January 2006, 21:44 »
September
As my final A2 year started at 6th form the mods and near enough full time money went out and i went back to being a satruday kid. Anyway this month i got 2 mods!!! one was free  :cool: and the other was around a tenner!

The first was some chrome handle inserts that accidentally fell into my pocket at a scrappy!! as my originals where the plastic type which had faded badly

The second mod was some crystal side repeaters with the silver bulbs, god they were hard work, i dropped it into the WING!! after about an hour i got it out and after a clean it looked like this


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Re: capoot - "Ryder ReConstruction"
« Reply #7 on: 13 January 2006, 21:48 »
Late september - Before Uni

I got bored one night and went out and treated myself to some 6x9's

And i washed the car, the car stayed like this as i wasnt at home to care for glof  :cry:


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Re: capoot - "Ryder ReConstruction"
« Reply #8 on: 13 January 2006, 21:50 »
November - Tax AND MOT - Lovely

Well that hurt the wallet, i could only afford 6months tax due to the fact that glof failed her MOT, cracked windscreen, hazard warning light switch faulty, CV joint (i think) anyway it set me back a good £200 after we called in some favours.

Needless to say she passed!


I was also keeping my eye out on ebay, and planned to go mad at xmas! :evil:

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Re: capoot - "Ryder ReConstruction"
« Reply #9 on: 13 January 2006, 21:55 »
December!! Whooooooooo Hooo Ho Hooo

basically santa had brought me some Big Bumpers and clear indictators!  :smug:
then i went out on the 27th and put them in for spraying, it cost me £150 and they did a good job.

I also ordered; Clear Headlights, Debadged grill and some front fogs
I had won a white 4 light grille eyebrow too!!!!