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Offline JoeGTI

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Re: What have you done to your MK 7 today ?
« Reply #580 on: 03 February 2014, 17:26 »
I dinged my driver's door on saturday... Grrrrrrrrr! So annoyed with myself, the irony being I'm so paranoid when parking it.
The door slipped out of my hand in the wind and swung out and hit the window sill of the house. The paint is totally unmarked but the leading edge of the door is slightly bent in beneath the handle. I've been onto my PDR guy and he reckons it's an easy-ish fix... he actually fixed a similar one for me in my last car. Bloody miracle worker. Here's hoping he does his magic again...

I have to say the metal in the panels is so so thin and very easy to ding. The paint on the other hand seems very resilient.
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Re: What have you done to your MK 7 today ?
« Reply #581 on: 03 February 2014, 20:46 »
Looks a good job, I'd of been tempted to go with black though to compliment the black in the bumper.

I had thought about gloss black, but so many cars have these.
Then on route to Infinity Wraps a Red RS4 past me and liked the contrast with the red and aluminium.
The pics don't do it justice, though for £40 it's easy changed, might look at gun metal or anthracite next.

Looks good to me, got that Golf R feel  :smiley:

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Re: What have you done to your MK 7 today ?
« Reply #582 on: 03 February 2014, 21:01 »
Gave it quick snow foam (hand held sprayer) and a jet wash so I can see my GTI badge mod in full effect  :smiley:



What hand held sprayer have you got mate? Does it foam up well?


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Re: What have you done to your MK 7 today ?
« Reply #583 on: 03 February 2014, 21:24 »


What hand held sprayer have you got mate? Does it foam up well?

I've got a Marolex Master 1500, I modified it using some instructions from this polish forum;

http://forum.kosmetykaaut.pl/viewtopic.php?t=8293

It's not bad, nowhere near as good as the pressure washer but probably as good as you can expect from a hand held.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jb4uiEFA0Go

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Re: What have you done to your MK 7 today ?
« Reply #584 on: 04 February 2014, 15:23 »
Fitted the lights from the rear of the Golf R  :cool:

Old on the left, new on the right  :smiley:


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Re: What have you done to your MK 7 today ?
« Reply #585 on: 04 February 2014, 15:36 »
Fitted the lights from the rear of the Golf R  :cool:

Old on the left, new on the right  :smiley:



They look identical yet with a darker tint almost, would it not have been cheaper to have a SPi vision light kit instead?
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Re: What have you done to your MK 7 today ?
« Reply #586 on: 04 February 2014, 15:37 »
Nice  :smiley:
Are the clusters costly? I'm assuming they are!
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Re: What have you done to your MK 7 today ?
« Reply #587 on: 04 February 2014, 15:38 »
They look identical yet with a darker tint almost, would it not have been cheaper to have a SPi vision light kit instead?

They are the same just darker... Sold my set to a Golf owner with "normal" lights so cost next to nothing...

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Re: What have you done to your MK 7 today ?
« Reply #588 on: 04 February 2014, 15:39 »
Nice  :smiley:
Are the clusters costly? I'm assuming they are!

Yep, but if you sell your original LED ones you don't have to fork out much  :smiley:

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Re: What have you done to your MK 7 today ?
« Reply #589 on: 04 February 2014, 15:51 »
Not today but Saturday, spent the morning at Shark lowering and then mapping the shark-in-the-box for a sweet 300bhp.
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