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Model specific boards => Golf mk2 => Golf mk2 gallery => Topic started by: jv on 13 January 2006, 12:50
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here you go :)
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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!!!!
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/capoot/front.jpg)
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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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:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/capoot/Interior.jpg)
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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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June 2005
Next came my very favourite mod, and it was BY FAR a great fleebay bargin!!!
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/capoot/Picture7.jpg)
Clear rear lights!!
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/capoot/Picture8.jpg)
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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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
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/capoot/GolfSide1.jpg)
Pretty much standard!!
After
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/capoot/P1010014.jpg)
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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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
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/capoot/Handle.jpg)
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
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/capoot/P1010017.jpg)
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Late september - Before Uni
I got bored one night and went out and treated myself to some 6x9's
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/capoot/69.jpg)
And i washed the car, the car stayed like this as i wasnt at home to care for glof :cry:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/capoot/P1010006.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/capoot/P1010019.jpg)
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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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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.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/capoot/Photo-0084.jpg)
I also ordered; Clear Headlights, Debadged grill and some front fogs
I had won a white 4 light grille eyebrow too!!!!
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The bumpers were picked up on the 31st of December right before the close of business, and me and my dad had argeed to fit them on the 3rd as my parts where SUPPOSED TO BE HERE!
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/capoot/P1010032.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/capoot/P1010018.jpg)
The parts didnt arrive, but we put the bumpers on without fogs first so we knew how to do it!!
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The 4th of Jan
My Clear Headlights and grille arrive but no sign of the fogs :angry: anyway we took the grill off and got the others in after a trip down to VW for some headlight adjusters (x6) for the spots and £11 later the front end looked like this
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/capoot/P1010002.jpg)
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I had also brought a sub, spare sub box and an amp from the excellent FOR SALE part of this website! abousloute baragain! and it packs a punch!
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/capoot/sub.jpg)
Also it snowed in before i did the big bumpers and my car was VERY dirty thats why it looks cream! :rolleyes:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/capoot/Photo-0071.jpg)
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The fog lights arrived on the 5th of jan at 8.30 and by 9.30 they were on!!
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/capoot/Photo-0110.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/capoot/Photo-0109.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/capoot/Photo-0107.jpg)
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13th of Jan!
Its my birthday in 2 days so there SHOULD be alot of new progress:
On the list are
GTI/G60 Arches
Sideskirts
Lowering
New Exhaust
German Or Black Plates!
I'll Keep You Guys Posted! :grin:
Dan
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17th January
I got loads of birthday money, i brought some german plates! :grin: and saved some for a rainy day (When im at home) and just in case i find a VW related Bargin! :laugh:
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20th Jan Got Bored and decided to go home!
21st Jan Didnt really do much, expect a MASSIVE essay!!
22nd Jan The Fun Began; i got the car washed by the local hand car washers, because it was 2 cold!! :rolleyes:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/capoot/P1010001.jpg)
Bit Bored of just getting the car washed i decided to pop down to halfords and buy some RCA to Jack and an in car Ipod holder to hold the nano i got for my birthday. I decided to run it thru my amp for a quik fix. It works thru the amp playing the 6x9 and the Sub, sounds good enough i think
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/capoot/Ipod.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/capoot/Incaripod.jpg)
And then i tiyded the boot up a little!
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/capoot/Boot.jpg)
i Also decided to the invauble quick cheap mod! :laugh:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/capoot/LayFlat.jpg)
:grin:
So i had such a gd day, but at the end of the sunday night i had to put her undercover, while go back to uni :sad:
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26th January
Mum calls me from home to tell me my german plates had come courtsey of www.germanplates.com (http://www.germanplates.com) these guys are great, and they send you a photo after there made!!! Excellent service and communication!!
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/capoot/Myplates.jpg)
My feet are itching now thou i wanna get them on, but i should be goin home next week to put them on! :evil: :smug:
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Alrite Guys, I went home last weekend and my abousolute LEGEND of a dad helped me out do some chores that i had!!
Since the last time i posted ive gained:
A vw bora flip key - ebay! (bargin!)
Gti Side Skirts - Sassyminx! cheers!! :grin:
Gti Rear Arches
G60 Front Arches, i travelled about 45 mins down the M1 to collect the arches!
We firstly got done to business with the key, after an almost PERFECT guide by Dizzie!! (Cheers Mate) a angle grinder and about 30 mins all went well and it now looks like this:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/capoot/Key2.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/capoot/Keys.jpg)
We then got onto FINALLY fitting my german plates, didnt take long! looks so much better sorry i havent got one of the back?
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/capoot/Plateson.jpg)
Next Task was to start fitting the arches and hopefully the side skirts, we had just managed to get the fronts on we rain stopped play, for the rest of the day! :cry: so ive gotta wait untill the next time i go home, which should be 2 weeks!!
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/capoot/Plateson.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/capoot/FrontArche2.jpg)
When im at uni, i cover my car up just to protect it a little, so here she is when she went to sleep :sad:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/capoot/Cover.jpg)
Sum more updates to come, any questions ask away!
Dan