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Offline willni

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Re: What have you done to your MK 7 today ?
« Reply #12840 on: 17 March 2023, 14:14 »
Mine's 4 years old on 22k, and the mk5 is 16 years old on 27k miles.

Otherwise today, I washed mine as I was up early forgetting it was a bank holiday, and gave it a spray coat of wax on top of the ceramic, followed by painting the wheel arch bolts as the road salt had either stripped them to bare metal or rusted them.

R32 in the background for some ceramic coating following a front end respray.






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Re: What have you done to your MK 7 today ?
« Reply #12841 on: 18 March 2023, 19:06 »
Screwed up my rear caliper

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Re: What have you done to your MK 7 today ?
« Reply #12842 on: 23 March 2023, 16:48 »
Fitted my wheel spacers:








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Re: What have you done to your MK 7 today ?
« Reply #12843 on: 23 March 2023, 17:44 »
My paddle extensions from the doc arrived today, so have just put them on, defo a much more natural position for me now…. One more heavy traffic commute tomorrow, then Saturday is much more free flowing, should get a chance to use them as intended



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Re: What have you done to your MK 7 today ?
« Reply #12844 on: 23 March 2023, 19:18 »
Looking great, takes me back.
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Re: What have you done to your MK 7 today ?
« Reply #12845 on: 23 March 2023, 20:19 »
Bought another set of alloys...just need to decide on what tyres to put on them now
« Last Edit: 25 March 2023, 09:19 by willni »
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Re: What have you done to your MK 7 today ?
« Reply #12846 on: 23 March 2023, 20:58 »
Bought another set of alloys...just need to decent on what tyres to put on them now

Ohhhh, more new wheels!
What have you gone for this time Will?
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Re: What have you done to your MK 7 today ?
« Reply #12847 on: 23 March 2023, 22:04 »
Bought another set of alloys...just need to decent on what tyres to put on them now

Ohhhh, more new wheels!
What have you gone for this time Will?

Another set of BBS CI-R but will refurb them to Porsche EP8, luckily the belvederes should cover all the costs for refurb & tyres but not the rim protectors at £69 a pop or £99 if you want black...
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Re: What have you done to your MK 7 today ?
« Reply #12848 on: 23 March 2023, 23:36 »
Nice choice, that’ll look  :cool: :cool:
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Re: What have you done to your MK 7 today ?
« Reply #12849 on: 24 March 2023, 12:32 »
Update to the BBS CI-R's ordered a set of 235/35R19 Pilot Sport 5's, new centre caps, valves and dust caps for the refurb.

They come with new Kumho Escta's in 225/35R19 but they have no rim protection so better off with new tyres, and I'll sell them on to pay further for the refurb process.
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