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Title: Hello from Switzerland
Post by: StingyCH on 22 May 2010, 10:14

Hi guys, i'm Chris, from Switzerland. I found this forum by searching on google about other countries clubs about Golf GTI's! You got a very nice forum here, hope to know some of you in international meets (GTI Treffen..anyone was there?). I have an Mk IV GTI 1.8T, in Indigoblue "pearleffect" from 1999, 3 doors. Here's a couple of pics:

(http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/246/foto2iw.jpg)
(http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/3203/foto3lt.jpg)
(http://img696.imageshack.us/img696/5112/foto5tr.jpg)
(http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/9081/009tq.jpg)
(http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/6522/fotodlh.jpg)

I still have to finish it, respray the whole car (in order to remove some scratch and signs of time :smiley:) and finish some job on the interior!

see ya

Title: Re: Hello from Switzerland
Post by: Dahmich on 22 May 2010, 10:17

nice project there :wink:

Title: Re: Hello from Switzerland
Post by: adzgti3 on 22 May 2010, 10:40

welcome!! nice mk4 :cool:

Title: Re: Hello from Switzerland
Post by: jonnyturbo on 22 May 2010, 18:07

Welcome. Hope you enjoy the site.

Title: Re: Hello from Switzerland
Post by: StingyCH on 23 May 2010, 23:38

Thx ya'll guys!  :kiss: today i started to respraying the wooden bits on the dash  :grin: i choose to make them silver like the R32/Jubi 25 years..i'll post some pic when they are finished :tongue:

Title: Re: Hello from Switzerland
Post by: luvmygti on 24 May 2010, 13:17

Hello,

NICE LOOKING CAR

Title: Re: Hello from Switzerland
Post by: VR6_Wherry on 24 May 2010, 13:50

Welcome to the forum :cool:

Title: Re: Hello from Switzerland
Post by: IBD4vid on 24 May 2010, 15:50

Hello and welcome :cool:

Title: Re: Hello from Switzerland
Post by: GOLF_STU on 25 May 2010, 22:21

evening  :cool:

Title: Re: Hello from Switzerland
Post by: StingyCH on 26 May 2010, 22:02

Hello GTI guys and girls :laugh:

some new update to my car..at the moment she's on the bodyshop, new paint (always original colour, i love it :smug:). Before i took my baby out, i did some new touch on the interior: painted the wooden parts in silver, R32 style! :cool:

(http://img257.imageshack.us/img257/5858/028ft.jpg)
(http://img295.imageshack.us/img295/6440/026s.jpg)
(http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/769/foto3qz.jpg)

Tomorrow i'll go taking the new gearknob, like mine but in black leather. Friday she's probably come back to my home  :kiss:

Cya guys with the next updates  :cool:

Title: Re: Hello from Switzerland
Post by: StingyCH on 26 May 2010, 23:53

I almost forgot a couple of very important things:

1st: Thx to ya'll for the warm welcome :kiss:

2nd: A brief list of the jobs on my car  :grin:

It's a GTI 1.8T from 99, with 150k kilometers on the clock (dunno how to convert in miles sorry :huh:)

When i bought it..she was like this:

(http://img688.imageshack.us/img688/5862/golf1w.jpg)
Note the t**d coloured wooden parts :grin: they were horrible..i can't understand why they put wood on the GTI versions.. :sick:
(http://img693.imageshack.us/img693/3575/golf2n.jpg)

The day after i start to do some shopping..

I just ordered the wheels and the Weitec coilovers

Here's a pic of one of my rims, fresh out of the box:

(http://img192.imageshack.us/img192/6299/002iqq.jpg)

The rims are Barracuda VR5's, in two different width: 8.5 x 18 for the front and 9.5 x 18 for the back
I have Falken tyres, 215/40 R18 on the front and 235/35 R18 for the back. The /35 for the back is in order to match the diameter of the front wheels, due to the difference in size.

one of the rear wheels
(http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/1222/foto4sp.jpg)

then i did a big service, belts, engine and gearbox oil, filters, spark plugs etc etc.. :rolleyes:
I had also a 2 din Alpine car stereo..but i was very unlucky  :cry: this stereo is full of troubles, it get stucked many times, when i tried to swap songs form my iPod..and the multifunction wheel doesn't work properly  :angry:

(http://img63.imageshack.us/img63/7506/foto2cay.jpg)

For my luck, i still had my X305, that works just fine..so i sent on repair the new W404R and fitted back my X305..both of them they just work with external devices, they haven't any player inside..but i like so since i use only my iPod in car..and on those Alpine's looks great! The interface is cool, you can dial with the same functions you get on your ipod/iphone, such playlists, artists, audiobooks..on the W404 even the videos! :cool:

Now i dunno what i'll do when the 404 come back..i think i'll left in on the shop, on sale..and using the 2nd DIN space to fit 3 gauges (boost, oil temp and oil press..)..since i'm not happy of this stereo..it sounds great but..i never came across in many years of using Alpine's..in a row of bad working things like in this one :cry:

Any suggestion for some gauges that they match the instruments lights of our car? I wonder if there's any with the numbers in blue and red gauges.. :rolleyes:

Now you have some more detail about my little baby..that's my 5th Golf, and i just love them..i had two Mk 1 GTI's (one of 79 and one 81), an Mk III VR6, an Mk IV V5 GTI 5 doors (until here they were all in black) and now this baby in blue and 3 doors.. :laugh: :smug:

Title: Re: Hello from Switzerland
Post by: richw911 on 29 May 2010, 21:03

Welcome  :cool:

Title: Re: Hello from Switzerland
Post by: StingyCH on 02 June 2010, 17:46

Paint job done!  :smiley:

(http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/1062/chrisgolf1.jpg)
(http://img708.imageshack.us/img708/7763/chrisgolf2.jpg)

Plus, i resprayed the silver parts inside..this time in gloss black, i like it more..

(http://img189.imageshack.us/img189/1081/interno1b.jpg)
(http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/9694/interno2.jpg)

Title: Re: Hello from Switzerland
Post by: jonnyturbo on 05 June 2010, 17:23

Welcome and enjoy the site  :smiley: