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Model specific boards => Golf mk4 => Golf mk4 gallery => Topic started by: CheshireSport on 23 June 2011, 22:04
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Starting this thread now and will add all the pics over the next couple of days to show how the car got to where it is now over the last 2.5 years.
The car is an Indigo Blue 4 door 115bhp diesel, bought as a family car when our son was born to replace out then Ford Puma which wouldnt fit the baby seat in the back.
Sensible family car you say??????????? :grin:
Got it looking like this in August 2008
(http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a319/cheshiresport/Golf%20TDi/DSCF1569.jpg)
And now its looking more like this
(http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a319/cheshiresport/Golf%20TDi/DSC_5823.jpg)
Over the next couple of days i will update this to show the journey its been through to get to this point :cool:
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Looks awesome :smiley:
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Looks awesome :smiley:
apart from that thing on the bonnet :cool:
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Some smoked side repeaters and it'd be perfect :cool:
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:grin: :grin: :grin: :grin: That thing on the bonnet is there for a specific reason.
Being that when i filled the bonnet notch the paint doesnt match the original so when i go shows i put that on to hide it :sad:
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Supa dupa nice car. Liking the front bumper. :cool:
Where do you put the number plate?
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Some smoked side repeaters and it'd be perfect :cool:
Yep would finish it nicely :cool:
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Supa dupa nice car. Liking the front bumper. :cool:
Where do you put the number plate?
Number plate goes right about........ There :wink:
(http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a319/cheshiresport/Golf%20TDi/DSC_5832.jpg)
I actually like the contrast of the orange with the blue, failing that i will just delete them altogether
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Looks very smooth, love those wheels on it, really suit it. :cool:
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I actually like the contrast of the orange with the blue, failing that i will just delete them altogether
They are a legal requirement plus you will fail the mot without them :smiley:
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Yeh i know. Going for us rubstrip and have a friendly mot'er
Plenty of people do actually delete them so im sure i will be fine :rolleyes:
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Not a lot been happening recently with this. But couple of weeks ago went to take some pics by my local VW dealers :blink: :lol:
(http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a319/cheshiresport/Golf%20TDi/DSC_6137.jpg)
(http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a319/cheshiresport/Golf%20TDi/DSC_6139.jpg)
(http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a319/cheshiresport/Golf%20TDi/DSC_6144.jpg)
(http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a319/cheshiresport/Golf%20TDi/DSC_6147.jpg)
(http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a319/cheshiresport/Golf%20TDi/DSC_6150.jpg)
Been derelict for quite a few years
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So proud of my wife!!!!
Got home from work before and my wife came to the door and told me she had been pulled on the way home. First thoughts were oh sh*t fixed penalty etc etc...
Got in the door and she told me the story.
The traffic on the motorway had all slowed to 40mph as they went past a traffic cop parked on the hard shoulder :rolleyes:
As Nicky drove past she saw him pull out and thought here we go. Lo and behold he came behind her and flashed her to pull over.
He came over to the car looking at the wheels as he did. Nicky got out and he said ive pulled you over because your wheels protrude out of the arches too much. Straight away Nicky said how can they protrude too much when you have vans and wagons with wheels and wheels nuts that protrude a lot further?
The copper couldnt answer the question and said he actually agreed. Nicky told him that she works in the motor trade and has done for 19 years and has checked the legalities on VOSA. She said he was welcome to go away and check it.
She told he he had wasted her time as she was now late to pick our son up from school and she would now struggle to get back onto the motorway as it was now nose to tail.
:grin: :grin: :grin: :grin:
She proper told him.
Ive learnt not to mess with her when shes in a mood.
The copper got into his car and escorted her back into the inside lane. :huh:
I wouldnt mind but the wheels now only stick out by the width of the outer lip only and the full tyre is under the arch
(http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a319/cheshiresport/Golf%20TDi/DSC_4436.jpg)
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I cannot see a problem with them tbh.
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nope looks like he was hoping to catch a young guy driving it and just have him on a whim.
thought poke was alright as long as no tread was visible / 30mm of poke allowed
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nope looks like he was hoping to catch a young guy driving it and just have him on a whim.
thought poke was alright as long as no tread was visible / 30mm of poke allowed
As far as i know this is exactly true. I think he was after a young boy racer as well but got much more than he bargained for :grin: :grin:
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Little bit of an update.
Couple of weeks ago (last minute as is usual) i needed to get this car ready for the stand at All Types which meant a full going over with the clay/polish etc. It had been ages since i last did it.
Spent an entire day washing, claying then polishing it and found time to rip off the front bumper and re secured the LCR splitter and also re attached a few magnets to the back of the bumper to put the front plate back in its normal place.
Actually didnt get any pics of it at All Types myself but did find these (thanks to the people that took them)
(http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a319/cheshiresport/Golf%20TDi/7240954120_dd4e6f8977_o.jpg)
(http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a319/cheshiresport/Golf%20TDi/7234711006_6cf7524171_z.jpg)
(http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a319/cheshiresport/Golf%20TDi/7234727006_aff42e8e3a_z.jpg)
The week after All Types as the weather was fantastic we decided to take a trip out to North Wales again to the beach and it would have been rude not to snap a few pics while it was still looking clean.
(http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a319/cheshiresport/Golf%20TDi/DSC_6779.jpg)
(http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a319/cheshiresport/Golf%20TDi/DSC_6789.jpg)
(http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a319/cheshiresport/Golf%20TDi/DSC_6792.jpg)
(http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a319/cheshiresport/Golf%20TDi/DSC_6961.jpg)
(http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a319/cheshiresport/Golf%20TDi/DSC_6963.jpg)
(http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a319/cheshiresport/Golf%20TDi/DSC_6965.jpg)
And then today i relieved it of its copy sideskirts.
(http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a319/cheshiresport/Golf%20TDi/DSC_6994.jpg)
(http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a319/cheshiresport/Golf%20TDi/DSC_6996.jpg)
Painted up the genuine replacements just need to get them fitted now.
Whats best to secure them to the car? I used sikaflex to secure the replicas and they didnt stick too well even though sikaflex is good stuff, ive used it a lot.
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Heres a couple of pics i took at Detailed
(http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a319/cheshiresport/Golf%20TDi/DSC_7585.jpg)
(http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a319/cheshiresport/Golf%20TDi/DSC_7587.jpg)
(http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a319/cheshiresport/Golf%20TDi/DSC_7588.jpg)
(http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a319/cheshiresport/Golf%20TDi/DSC_7632.jpg)
Don't think it looked too bad if I'm honest, and yesterday ordered some parts I've needed for this and today they arrived. Got a new handbrake cable as the current ones stretched beyond belief. Also got this
(http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a319/cheshiresport/Golf%20TDi/DSC_7633.jpg)
Took the car up the road for a spin and :D :D :D best money I've spent on this car to date. It feels like a whole new car so quick straight through the rev range. We have lived with it being sluggish for so long that i had forgotten just how nippy it is.
I was going to sort these couple of problems and then put the car up for sale in favour of an A4 Avant but after speaking to Nicky we have decided we are going to keep it. Seems silly to sell a car thats been so good for us.
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Whats the deal with the boot lid? Its all curved at the bottom?
Presume its not standard but either way :cool:
Car looks ace man!
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Its a boot blend mate. Pretty hard to find now :cool:
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Is it aftermarket standard?... aka something that would of been bought from venom or whatever?
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Im not 100% certain on the origins of the original ones (which this one is), wether they were VW or not, but more recently i have seen some cheaper replica ones, but these have now become unavailable from where i saw them.
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Not added to this for a while.
In reality not much has happened with it though. One of the ballasts has packed in on the HID's so i was forced to fit my R32 headlights onto this car for now.
I also picked up a set of BBS RS reps for this so that i could get the lips on the Merc wheels re polished up and the small bits of kerbing taken out.
(http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a319/cheshiresport/Golf%20TDi/IMG_3330_zpse9b71814.jpg)
(http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a319/cheshiresport/Golf%20TDi/IMG_5525_zps22c49836.jpg)