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Model specific boards => Golf mk4 => Golf mk4 gallery => Topic started by: W3Z on 30 September 2011, 22:53
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alrite fellas, thought i'd put up a few pics of me car... its nothing compared to some of the other golfs ive seen on these and other forums but anyway, its mine and i love it (when its running fine) lol
anyway like the title says its a '99 1.8t AGU, picked it up in mid 2008 looking like this...
(http://img717.imageshack.us/img717/5436/17173056.jpg)
(http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/8360/99166925.jpg)
(http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/7834/11517123.jpg)
its stayed like that for about 2 months, and to be honest the only thing i really ever wanted to get done to it was lower it. So i brought some 40mm lowering springs which my brother in law fitted for me.
(http://img851.imageshack.us/img851/1638/35980631.jpg)
(http://img695.imageshack.us/img695/1359/48045797.jpg)
(http://img838.imageshack.us/img838/4158/63671111.jpg)
and thats pretty much how it stayed for a couple of years...
(http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/4016/78446223.jpg)
(http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/7111/41594135.jpg)
(http://img696.imageshack.us/img696/4859/61542836.jpg)
(http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/8526/14337143.jpg)
(http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/1619/24473084.jpg)
(http://img594.imageshack.us/img594/6544/122tu.jpg)
then i joined this forum..... :evil:
started looking around and seeing what some of you guys were doing to ur cars and i started thinking about giving mine just a little make over!
so i started by buying some carbon fibre wrap from ebay and get rid of the horrible wood effect i had going on
(http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/915/123kmgs.jpg)
and because i still had so much left over i started wrapping everything in the stuff ... including my iphone!!! i decided to take my grill ove and have a go at wrapping the chrome VW
(http://img856.imageshack.us/img856/8481/39850672.jpg)
(http://img192.imageshack.us/img192/4636/58538903.jpg)
whilst doing this i had recieved my r32 front bumper and had given it a test fitting...
before
(http://img571.imageshack.us/img571/7659/34534929.jpg)
during
(http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/8692/41244923.jpg)
after
(http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/4185/97605376.jpg)
(http://img827.imageshack.us/img827/8324/88979162.jpg)
(http://img829.imageshack.us/img829/4596/47417313.jpg)
i kept it on whilst i waited to get it sprayed...
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next i wanted new wheels but seeing as i didnt have the money for a new set i decided to temporarily spray my current wheels, so i brought 4 cans of Plasti-Dip and got spraying! i wasnt fussed if the wheels got damaged in anyway as they are pretty much on there last legs anyway!
(http://img560.imageshack.us/img560/2002/58372967.jpg)
(http://img809.imageshack.us/img809/8338/92270576.jpg)
(http://img607.imageshack.us/img607/6843/76312543.jpg)
yes i drove around for a couple of days with 1 black wheel...
(http://img819.imageshack.us/img819/6624/44924961.jpg)
(http://img838.imageshack.us/img838/4061/36463791.jpg)
(http://img833.imageshack.us/img833/2381/42041884.jpg)
i was pretty pleased with how the wheels turned out and will keep them like that throughout winter and look into new wheels for next summer!
whilst doing this i was buying little things that the car needed, nothing major, silly little things like a new side indicator lense, rear wiper cover, new bee sting arial and grommit seal for the arial plus a few other bits. Then i was searching in the classifieds and noticed that Patch was stripping his gorgeous car and had his rear bumper up for sale! as soon as i see it, i wanted it... so over the next few days and annoying the hell out of my girlfriend by constantly looking at it i decided that i just couldnt afford it! but then on the saturday i won £195 on my footy bet and the first thing i thought of was the bloody bumper.... so i pretty much immediately got in touch with patch and later on that week it had arrived!!!!
(http://img64.imageshack.us/img64/8459/85514001.jpg)
within 10 mintues i was outside fitting it...
before
(http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/4361/51716172.jpg)
(http://during)
(http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/3493/58736095.jpg)
after
(http://img846.imageshack.us/img846/3261/68704584.jpg)
(http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/5172/31734759.jpg)
it makes such a difference and without doubt its my favorite part of the car!
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and finally...
here are a few more pics taken over the last week
(http://img838.imageshack.us/img838/7383/53535772.jpg)
(http://img593.imageshack.us/img593/1725/39097938.jpg)
(http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/1584/78844700.jpg)
(http://img703.imageshack.us/img703/4099/87562385.jpg)
(http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/4031/28911797.jpg)
(http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/8210/14023649.jpg)
(http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/6599/37285216.jpg)
(http://img64.imageshack.us/img64/1820/86271832.jpg)
on wednesday i finally got the front bumper sprayed, but we aint happy with the final result and are planning on re-doing it sumtime over the next week. once done the genuine r32 bottom grills will be going on and ive also got a cupra r splitter currently at the seat dealers waiting for me to pic up sumtime!
(http://img830.imageshack.us/img830/5964/21199243.jpg)
and thats pretty much as it stands, im very pleased with it! i only started doin the mods to it at the beggining of August so its been a pretty hectic month or so...
finally here are a few pics that ive done in photoshop
(http://img825.imageshack.us/img825/5789/nebumperedit2.jpg)
(http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/2037/nebumper.jpg)
(http://img52.imageshack.us/img52/4400/34547384.jpg)
(http://img710.imageshack.us/img710/3086/editedit.jpg)
soz for the extremely long post... :rolleyes:
Wez
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As I was scrolling through the pics I thought yeah looks nice apart from apart from all that mesh, then you painted it and now it all looks :cool:
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cheers fellas
yeh the mesh is awful to be honest, it looks slightly better now ive sprayed it black! it will have to stay on until i get the bumper resprayed then i'll put the proper grills on!
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Nice! Another black MK4 :cool: :cool:
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good work there mate looking smooth and cool
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Hi mate, noticed your from ipswich!! which springs are you using?
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top work fella :cool:
i see your dog takes an intrest :laugh:
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glad im not the only one who noticed! he never leaves me or the missus alone
springs are 40mm drop, not sure where i got them from, my brother in law ordered them for me :undecided:
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the drop looks spot on with whatever brand they are.
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As I was scrolling through the pics I thought yeah looks nice apart from apart from all that mesh, then you painted it and now it all looks :cool:
i was gonna say, but looks waaaaay better then that original mesh grill.
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mesh grills have long gone :tongue:
(http://img580.imageshack.us/img580/9679/48076440.jpg)
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Looks tidy!!
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Very nice mk4, looks tidy :afro:
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cheers fella's
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look's good mate! :cool:
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Very nice and tidy Mk4 there mate :cool:
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love that rear bumper, got a smooth rear bumper and want to get anni valance smoothed in but cant afford it atm :sad:
but looks sweet as :cool:
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That is looking sweet!! :cool:
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Nice effort mate, looks spot on
oh and nice name :afro: :laugh: