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Offline Adam

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Re: Hello and quick question...
« Reply #10 on: 14 February 2011, 13:38 »
Welcome!

Remember that putting Xenons onto a car without Xenons as standard can be classed as an MOT failure in 2011/2012 :afro:

You need the necessary additional equipment like auto levellers and headlight washers to get away with it :)

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Re: Hello and quick question...
« Reply #11 on: 14 February 2011, 14:15 »
Thanks for the warm welcome.  Appreciate the advice and link.

Only a Cardinal at the weekends, so it shouldn't get in the way!

Car is a Mk6 GTI DSG with SC Stage 1 (Bluefin) and Pipercross panel filter.  Totally transformed the car, much smoother - would most definitely recommend.  Great service from SC.

Headlights are non-Xenon.  Would you advise replacing with Xenons or not (I've no idea of relative prices of Xenons versus conventionals)?  And what of the speedo - it's only in kms - would I need a mph replacement?

Thanks again.

Thats just brilliant to have a cardinal on the forum , have a look for the thread what do GTi owners do for living?

A big wellcome to the forum too :grin:

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Offline Exonian

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Re: Hello and quick question...
« Reply #12 on: 14 February 2011, 17:02 »
Are you sure you could live with lhd in the uk as you might better to sell up and buy in the uk, reselling a lhd car in gb will not be easy.

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‘25 8.5R, ‘23 8R, ‘20 8CS, ‘19 135iX, ‘19 TCR, ‘17 Ed40, ‘17 GTD, ‘15 7R, ‘13 GTI PP, ‘11 GTI, ‘09 GTI, ‘98 Ibiza Cupra, ‘05 GTI, ‘06 Polo GTI, ‘04 GT TDI, ‘05 Fabia vRS, ‘02 GTI T, ‘03 Ibiza TDI 130, ‘01 Leon 180, ‘89 mk2 16v, ‘99 Ibiza TDI, ‘96 VR6, ‘98 Ibiza TDI, ‘92 VR6, ‘88 mk2 8v, ‘92 Polo G40, ‘91 mk2 8v, ‘89 mk2 8v, 205 GTI 1.9, ‘83 mk1 GTI, ‘80 Scirocco GTI, plus some others I’ve forgotten 

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Re: Hello and quick question...
« Reply #13 on: 14 February 2011, 17:09 »
LHD cars very useful for kerb crawling Wayne.



Off topic (but we're on the second page now so it must be okay!!  :laugh: ), a few years ago when the pound vs the Euro was at extremely good exchange rates and everyone was shooting off abroad to buy their brand new cars (this was when all these discount brokers appeared), it also became popular to import mint low mileage original shape M3s and Golf G60s, I know of a guy who bought a Golf G60 from Germany to sell on for a profit.
He got the car back into his home town late at night after driving it back from Germany, so last port of call was for some food before bed. He pulled into our local Maccy Ds and immediately realised that the intercom was then on the passenger side, he had no passenger, and the windows were manual winders. He was stuck, couldn't order so had to drive round the building and then reverse through the drive through section to make his order.  :smiley:
‘25 8.5R, ‘23 8R, ‘20 8CS, ‘19 135iX, ‘19 TCR, ‘17 Ed40, ‘17 GTD, ‘15 7R, ‘13 GTI PP, ‘11 GTI, ‘09 GTI, ‘98 Ibiza Cupra, ‘05 GTI, ‘06 Polo GTI, ‘04 GT TDI, ‘05 Fabia vRS, ‘02 GTI T, ‘03 Ibiza TDI 130, ‘01 Leon 180, ‘89 mk2 16v, ‘99 Ibiza TDI, ‘96 VR6, ‘98 Ibiza TDI, ‘92 VR6, ‘88 mk2 8v, ‘92 Polo G40, ‘91 mk2 8v, ‘89 mk2 8v, 205 GTI 1.9, ‘83 mk1 GTI, ‘80 Scirocco GTI, plus some others I’ve forgotten 

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Re: Hello and quick question...
« Reply #14 on: 14 February 2011, 17:26 »
Thanks Doc – I may take you up on your kind offer should I decide to bring her back.

am1w – it’s never too late to repent and there’s no better soul cleanser than charity.  Of course it doesn’t have to start with your home, we could begin with your perfect halogens and bulbs.  You can leave them by the donation box on your way out if you wish!  :rolleyes:

Wayne – thought of that but my 10k km 2010 car is worth less than two thirds of what it would be worth in the UK (in keeping with the comparatively low initial purchase price).  I’d run it for four or five years then trade it in once the gap between RHD and LHD prices has narrowed.  Only issue I’ve found with LHDs in the UK is with car park payments.  Just need to make sure you have a passenger on those trips.  So the decision is really made on the costs to import and ‘convert’ for UK roads.

Steve30 and Exonian – many thanks for the welcome.

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Re: Hello and quick question...
« Reply #15 on: 14 February 2011, 17:56 »
am1w – it’s never too late to repent and there’s no better soul cleanser than charity.  Of course it doesn’t have to start with your home, we could begin with your perfect halogens and bulbs.  You can leave them by the donation box on your way out if you wish!  :rolleyes:

You'll have to convert me first before you lay your hands on my Halogems for free.  :lipsrsealed:
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Re: Hello and quick question...
« Reply #16 on: 15 February 2011, 04:57 »
Thanks Doc – I may take you up on your kind offer should I decide to bring her back.

Watch out your worship, once Der Doc gets hold of you he'll be persuading you to do a full LHD to RHD conversion, steering column, dash, door cards, wiring loom, the works!!! :grin:
‘25 8.5R, ‘23 8R, ‘20 8CS, ‘19 135iX, ‘19 TCR, ‘17 Ed40, ‘17 GTD, ‘15 7R, ‘13 GTI PP, ‘11 GTI, ‘09 GTI, ‘98 Ibiza Cupra, ‘05 GTI, ‘06 Polo GTI, ‘04 GT TDI, ‘05 Fabia vRS, ‘02 GTI T, ‘03 Ibiza TDI 130, ‘01 Leon 180, ‘89 mk2 16v, ‘99 Ibiza TDI, ‘96 VR6, ‘98 Ibiza TDI, ‘92 VR6, ‘88 mk2 8v, ‘92 Polo G40, ‘91 mk2 8v, ‘89 mk2 8v, 205 GTI 1.9, ‘83 mk1 GTI, ‘80 Scirocco GTI, plus some others I’ve forgotten 

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Re: Hello and quick question...
« Reply #17 on: 15 February 2011, 09:11 »
Thanks Doc – I may take you up on your kind offer should I decide to bring her back.

Watch out your worship, once Der Doc gets hold of you he'll be persuading you to do a full LHD to RHD conversion, steering column, dash, door cards, wiring loom, the works!!! :grin:

Ha ha ha ha ha you ville come to see zee doc's vile vays  :laugh: