Author Topic: A bellends MK3 1.6 Golf. Mystic Blue 3door - Recaro's or BBS RX-II's?  (Read 91411 times)

Offline Bellend

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Bumper being painted as I type. Will pop into work tomorrow and polish it then get it on.  :cool:

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Offline Bellend

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40mm 2m long flexi exhaust pipe plus twin tip back box =  :cool:.

Ran out of time and bodged the back box on but will get it sitting right but am just gonna buy a MK3 specific one.

Was dirty but Autoglym Metal polish:




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Go to work tomorrow, give it a flat and polish and get it on.  :cool:

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Bumper looks good  :cool:

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Im a big fan of the front bumper, Im planning on doing this to mine in a few months time once Ive moved and got myself all settled in etc.

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Thank you!  :smiley:

Was a bit dissapointed when it was in primer but a few bits of sanding and filler sorted it.

Tip for you mate, do not push things together by putting pressure on things, it messes up the lines and looks ropey.Let it sit naturally and plastic weld it.

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I assume you cut 3 sections from an old rear bumper and used them to infill it? How fiddly was the grooved section at the top to get right?
When I do mine Im going to plastic weld in my lower bumper air vents rather than just re-clip them back in I think. I just can't decide what to do with the indicators yet.  :undecided:

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I assume you cut 3 sections from an old rear bumper and used them to infill it? How fiddly was the grooved section at the top to get right?
When I do mine Im going to plastic weld in my lower bumper air vents rather than just re-clip them back in I think. I just can't decide what to do with the indicators yet.  :undecided:

Just cut one big section out.

But I cut it a bit offset so the angle was a bit different by mistake.

Then I just lined it up, superglued it in place, got a clamp on, plastic welded then fed molten plastic into the joins with a mini blow torch.

The lines I just took an angle grinder to on one where it wasn't flush then filled. Came out OK though, they line up perfectly.  :smiley:

Indicators are in the lower vents but I can see this being too low so probs put LEDs in the headlights if I can do it descreet enough. Probably spend some cash on decent bright ones and tint them with window tint then stick them in.

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Bumper look ace :cool:

Fancy doing me one? :grin:

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Bumper looks sweet man, can't wait to see it on the car  :cool:
Not low enough mk5
Not on the road enough mk3

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