Golf Gti Mk3 - Work Horse

[eamonnism]

Hmm, I swear I saw you on the motorway the other day! No idea which one mind... 

Friday? M25? Have you got yellow headlights and reflectors? and low?

Yeah that was me! Since then I've taken off the headlights for standard ones and changed the wheels.
Nice car man.  Always wanted to matt black my golf.

[stow1985]

Hmm, I swear I saw you on the motorway the other day! No idea which one mind... 

Friday? M25? Have you got yellow headlights and reflectors? and low?

Yeah that was me! Since then I've taken off the headlights for standard ones and changed the wheels.
Nice car man.  Always wanted to matt black my golf.

Thanks mate appreciate that...

Full yellow tinted lights don't work on Golfs, headlights are to big really...not to keen on the yellow fogs/reflectors either mate, sorry 

I love Matt black, this is my second matt black car, and my missus drives a matt black car too...

[eamonnism]

I'm not too keen on the reflectors either, just had them done that day. Probably gonna take the lamin-x off.

Haha awesome, plan on doing mine at some point. 

[stow1985]

I'm not too keen on the reflectors either, just had them done that day. Probably gonna take the lamin-x off.

Haha awesome, plan on doing mine at some point. 

If I remember right, your low, rolling on steelies yes?

If so...Id matt black it, paint the wheels with red-oxide primer and then clear coat them, with white walls....hello golf-rod

but that's just me 

[stow1985]

Nothing exciting to mention at the mo, apart from I love the way this thing handles now..amazing what a set of tyres can do

Bilstein shocks on the rear is a defo now...just a matter of when now...

other than that gave the glass a clean, polish and protection...looking forward to Elemintal on Saturday now 

[stow1985]

An unexpected update this evening...

whilst at work I looked at my car from a far and thought..

"that looks good" ..."apart from the Desmo rack"

so after dinner the Desmo rack was removed and then thought it'd be rude not to continue for a few hours...

after removing the rear VW badge, number plate, Golf badge gave it a rub down with a 3M pad, masked up the rear screen and tail lights and got rolling...one thing I love about weathershield paint is it dry's so fast, so by the time I rolled over where the hazard tape used to be on the front/rear bumpers the bootlid was dry so was able to get plate back on, badges will be sprayed before re-fitting...

now..."that looks good" 

[stow1985]

Elemental came up Trumps again....

Great event and managed to pick up a set of what look like brand new...Hella Rear CL light clusters...these are going to make a nice contrast against the matt black...

oh did I mention I have a leak in my rad FFS 

[Seanl]

CL rears should look good, I too had a duff rad on the golf mate, Pretty simple to change if you dont have A/C, otherwise its a PITA getting it in behind the A/C rad!

[stow1985]

Seems simple enough, how long do you think it will take?? and no I don't have AC thank f***, want to change the Coolant bottle to as its looking a bit sad for itself...

I'm hoping they will look as good as I imagine they will...

[Seanl]

Shouldnt take longer than a couple of hours or so including filling back up and bleeding the system. if you drain it the night before, and give the expansion a good scrub with a kiddies bottle brush, then stick it in a bowl of boiling water with loads of bleach over night, making sure its submerged, give it a good scrub again and rinse in the morning, and it comes out very well! Obviously not like new as you cant get the brush to the edges, but you will be able to see what coloour your coolant is again!