A bellends MK3 1.6 Golf. Mystic Blue 3door - Recaro's or BBS RX-II's?

[Bellend]

Blimey! Insurance job if they're near correct! Cheers mate!

[Bellend]

Stupid bloke at TPS kept telling me Vento's were the same as a Golf but has a boot and I'm getting confused with a Corrado. Then said the headlights were the same part numbers. 

Didn't believe him but the Golf headlights were £102 quid each inc. VAT.

Vento grill obsolete  but the stock grill is £107 quid. 

Works final invoice came to £663 quid and I was ready to ask the  guy if I could just have cash and sort it myself or pray insurance wouldn't write it off.

Boss phoned with the invoice and he was well happy.  Cheques in the post.

Result.

[Jack3559]

Stupid bloke at TPS kept telling me Vento's were the same as a Golf but has a boot and I'm getting confused with a Corrado. Then said the headlights were the same part numbers. 

Didn't believe him but the Golf headlights were £102 quid each inc. VAT.

Vento grill obsolete  but the stock grill is £107 quid. 

Works final invoice came to £663 quid and I was ready to ask the  guy if I could just have cash and sort it myself or pray insurance wouldn't write it off.

Boss phoned with the invoice and he was well happy.  Cheques in the post.

Result.

FÜCK THAT.

[Bellend]

Yup. 

Hello payrise, 16v is 400 a year more to insure.

Hmm.......

[Bellend]

Followed from here.

So the bonnet was looking all swirly and annoying. Tried the new G3 Scratch remover and a white pad on a rotary:

Before:


After:




Then after Simoniz hard wax. Kept leaving waxy/polishy marrs all over though because I didn't remove the polish properly. But when done:



Car has the wrong throttle body on it, TPS told me they were the same as the 1.4 MPI that I got off a Polo. He's a lying Jew. The kids at Club Polo sorted it, so I've got to get a 1.6 one (idles too low).

Hopefully will be ordering a new grill this week and insurance on an ABF is £200 with the upgraded brakes per year extra.

Trouble is if I lose my NCB or get any points then obviously a 2l is gonna hurt badly. So tempting though.

[Jack3559]

Don't crash or speed then!

Seriously good work on the paint.

[Bellend]

That's what I said. 

Thank you. Takes AGEEEEEESSSSSSSS but well worth it IMO.

[Bellend]

Average of 31 real life MPG which has been 30MPH town roads, 40/50 "Kent" roads and some country roads plus some late night "I've got to be back before midnight" "enthusiastic", triple figure driving. 

100 miles from £20 at 136p/l and still got enough to get to work and back. 12 miles each way.

Oh and put uprated headlight bulbs in it, orange sidelights (meh) and then the reflector dropped as I was adjusting the headlight so will be visiting VW for adjusters.

Also, headlights refused to work last night, highbeams wouldn't stay on either, wiggling key didn't help, headlight switch fine AFAIK but some swift, panicking kicks to the fuse box area had them working.

Loose connection or relay do we think?

[Bellend]

 

Also:


And lets see the MPG:

 

Also put my lower grills in, orange running lights plus indicator. Will DEFFO need revising though, too low and can't see the indicator properly.

Bumper is in primer though! 

[Bellend]