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Offline GolfGL

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Re: Back to a Mk3 GTi
« Reply #10 on: 20 June 2012, 22:31 »
Thats a cracking deal and the best colour. Good luck with it.
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Re: Back to a Mk3 GTi
« Reply #11 on: 21 June 2012, 13:30 »
Well, picked up a genuine VR6 splitter today - thanks 'Mush' - and got that stuck straight on in the rain. Bit of a difference (i think I might have to start a project page - I've a feeling its going to head that way)

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Offline DUBboi12

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Re: Back to a Mk3 GTi
« Reply #12 on: 21 June 2012, 20:47 »
looking good mate :smiley: you picked the wright colour too!!!! lol
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Offline stainesy

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Re: Back to a Mk3 GTi
« Reply #13 on: 21 June 2012, 20:49 »
cant beat a real VR splitter mate . looks better already.
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Re: Back to a Mk3 GTi
« Reply #14 on: 23 June 2012, 09:01 »
Quote from: stainesy on 20 June 2012, 22:19
yeah wait till you take off the arches and side skirts. i thought i had a wicked deal till i took mine off  :sick: :grin:

Same here with my Cabrio, took off N/S/F arch to find two dents inline across the wheel arch, one at the front and the other at the rear of the arch. No marks what so ever on the moulding strangely enough, luckily no rust!!!

Your right about the prices too as I picked my '95 2.0i Cabrio up with at the time no marks on the bodywork and 78k on the clock for £590 and it flew through the MOT with just advisories on slight corrosion on all four brake lines. Not bad since I brought it from Penzance and i would have thought the sea air would have started to make a meal of her :shocked:

Great look GTi BTW :cool:
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Offline arran.concept

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Re: Back to a Mk3 GTi
« Reply #15 on: 29 June 2012, 16:26 »
looks like a very clean car :smiley: is there many miles on the clock ?
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Offline bigun

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Re: Back to a Mk3 GTi
« Reply #16 on: 30 June 2012, 21:21 »
Quote from: arran.concept on 29 June 2012, 16:26
looks like a very clean car :smiley: is there many miles on the clock ?

Thanks, its seems to be anyway - MOT next month will really tell if anything is hidden (doesn't seem to be tho). Its just clicked over 147k.

Finally got the niggly little bits sorted that were irritating me so assuming all is ok with MOT, we can start putting the nice stuff on. Anyway, couple of better photos below after a quick wash today.

So far I've done:

Rebadged - I prefer the OEM look so new grille badge and rear badge (there's going to be a tweak to that soon tho!)
Stainless steel cat back exhaust - looks better
Drivers side headlight - old one had a hole where a stone must have hit it
Drivers side front fog blanks - as per headlight
Replaced ABS/Airbag panel as ABS light wasn't working - all sorted and light goes on and off as it should
Missus private reg put on.






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