dom069 - 'My Mk4 1.8T'

[jv]

[dom]

Cheers JV

First update to come tomorrow evening, i'm going to make an effort to actually update this regularly unlike my Mk3 one :embarassed:

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Right then, I made the jump from my Mk3 up to a 52 plate 1.8T Mk4 about a month ago now. The specs of the Mk4 are as follows:

- 150bhp AUM
- 2 Previous Owners
- Only 51k miles on the clock with an extremely comprehensive service history to support this
- A full years MOT
- 6 Months Tax etc.

A pic of it at the garage & when I got it home:

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The first mod was a very important one



Following this was a pretty brief clean to see what was lurking under the dirt picked up on the way home, the paint is in pretty good condition:



I also added the red dice caps from my Mk3:

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The number plate surrounds were also swapped over from the Mk3

A week later and the car was treated to a full machine polish & detail, process:

- Snowfoamed with Magifoam
- Washed with 2 bucket method & chemical guys citrus gloss shampoo
- Clayed with Megs clay
- Machine polished with a variety of Mezerna polishes depending on the panel & imperfections on it.
- Followed by Poorboys blackhole glaze
- Finished with Collinite 476s wax

The bodywork is now absolutely gleaming and most of the marks/swirl marks have been removed:





It looked that clean for approximately 10 minutes until it was taken out

I then added a black front badge:

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Another vital addition was then made to the car by the way of forum stickers:



Also swapped the smoked side repeaters over from the Mk3:



And got a quick snap of them side by side:

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I bought a brand new, genuine anni rear valance sprayed up in the right colour from eBay and set about fitting it. I had to remove the wheels in order to remove the mudflaps so I could get the old valance off, so decided to paint the rear brake calipers whilst I was there:



Valance fitted:





I also decided to remove the rear wiper:

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Next I bought a pipercross panel filter and decided to smooth the inside of the airbox whilst I was fitting it:



Filter in:

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Nothing much happened for a couple of weeks but then I made a trip to Carbon Chiptuning for a remap!

After sorting a few small niggles Nick went ahead and fitted a Forge 007p from Awesome:





A baseline power run was then done and the car produced the following:



The new map was loaded and after a few more dyno runs the results were:



It completely transformed the car but it soon became apparent that the N75 valve will need to be replaced soon

Before I left Carbon a rear window sticker was added:



And that brings it up to date so far

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Had a few days enjoying the new map

Took the car for a trip to Ikea to see how much crap I could fit into the back of it:



Also replaced the standard aerial with a shorter version from a Polo:

Before:



After: