New to the road. New to mod's. What should I do/get?

[AshRobinson]

New to the fourm, new to the road and have a bit of back pocket money to spend on a car and that money has to be spent on a VW with out doubt. So give me a helping hand on what to pick car wise and what to do to it first. As its driving me nuts on what to jump into.

If I gave you the same budget as im on, what car would you buy and what would you do to it?.......£3500

Im currently looking at 1.4/1.6 Petrol MK4 Golf's also 1.9 Diesel MK4 Golf's. At around the £2000 mark.

So I would have roughly £1500 to play with to stop it looking like a standard boring person car. What could I do with this kind of money and what could/should I buy for my buck?

So the first thing I would deffinatly need to do would be sorting out the lows. This is like the biggest must as seeing an arch gap on people who call themself's 'dubbers' makes me want to stamp on their face. And I dont think I could stamp on my own face.
So what make of coilovers could I buy to get the car as low as possible and for some form of quality? Im presuming im looking to part with around £500.
I would buy bags just so as I could be touching the floor with my sill but there too rich and if I wanted the handling of a barge, I could buy one when im smelly, old and just plainly the standard moody old fart. Just joking obviously.

Then would be the wheels. Obviously this is a case of how much I have spent on the lows.

Also what kind of size I should get im presuming between 16-18's.
But im looking at the original BBS RS Split rims. But they seem so hard to find a good clean set. Screw being a fake. 
Also looking at Mercedes Alphards but they seem so expensive. ££££
Or is there anything else I could trick my heart into loving before buying? And would I have to be buying any addaptors with any of these?
So Im guessing thats another £700 ish.
Also I asume getting a good bit of rubber is going to cost me a bit. £300 ish. So what should I be looking at getting make wise?

So then im running on fumes. What else can I do/get to make it look that little bit better.
Splitter.
HID kits.
Wipper convision kits.
Interior.
Ect....

Im not to bothered about making the engine any quicker as it seems pointless unless you have a RS3 or something that makes your ass wiggle when planting the throttle.
Im not to bothered about subs or sterios as I will only annoy the neighbours more. 

[Chris#101]

When you say New to the road and the car models your looking at Im presuming your pretty young!?

If so Before you buy any modifications you want to be notifying your insurance company 

[AshRobinson]

Basicly im a racing driver, so the company I want to go with already knows most of the things I would like to do with the car.
So compared with most teens my insurance wont be as much + or - the mods.

[asboGTI]

Basicly im a racing driver, so the company I want to go with already knows most of the things I would like to do with the car.
So compared with most teens my insurance wont be as much + or - the mods.

right so you tell your insurance company that they quote you what?

your better off sticking to making it look good until you start spending stupid money on alloys and coilovers

[dom]

Your a racing driver and are asking questions about brands of coilovers, makes of tyres and wheel sizes?

Assuming that your insurance company do know about all the mods then this would be my advice:

Don't buy a MK4, buy a Mk2

However if you are set on a getting a Mk4 then for the love of god don't buy a 1.4 or 1.6 petrol. A PD engined diesel would outperform either of those in every way.

Coilovers: Weitec Hicon GT's - £440.36

Wheel must be 17's or 18's, preferably 18's. As for the wheel itself it completely depends on the style of wheel you are after? Something with a lot of dish?

I'd budget more than £300 for tyres, I would have thought as a racing driver you would appreciate the importance of decent rubber. I'd be looking at doubling that amount.

So then im running on fumes. What else can I do/get to make it look that little bit better.
Splitter.
HID kits.
Wipper convision kits.
Interior.
Ect....

Splitter - Get yourself an Anni or Votex kit
HID's - Unless you have self levelling suspension, headlight washers and projector lenses they are illegal and won't pass an MOT.
'Wipper' conversion kits - Not too sure what you mean? Single wiper conversion?
Interior - Quite a broad category there, recaro seats, bora vents and Anni trim etc are always a good start.

[mcgee9t2]

welcome.

as said ide be looking at alot more than £300 for tyres, im buying some tonight and spending £500 on them, and tbh ide rather spend another 100 more on them but i cant afford it.


as for what car, the 1.4s and 1.6s are slow. so if its between a 1.4/1.6/pd110/pd130/pd150/pd90(i think it is, the deisel below gttdi) id be picking on of the deisels.

as for what to do with the car Clicky knock your self out with them and you decide, we cant tell you how to mod your car cause at the end of the day its your car we all have personal preferance.

as for coilovers depends what your wanting to do. if your going to track the car (which im assuming not as your looking at 1.4 and 1.6 which are slow, and also your a new driver so most likely wownt be able to insure a pd150 with out getting raped) then something like wietec, eibach, the higher end moddels of fk coilovers ect. if not then fk aks will suffice.


but you dont even sound like you have the car yet, so go out look for a car buy it, sort out all the problems it had (trust me, its a mk4 it will have problems) get it running sweet THEN think about modding it. took me a year  before i started modding mine because i wanted everything sorted on it first, no point in having a good looking car but then not being able to drive it cause it doesent run properly and pisses you off then you end up falling out of love with the car

[Dalo Harkin]

Everyone who owns a Golf MK4 is a racing driver 

[wretch20vt]

Everyone who owns a Golf MK4 is a racing driver 

im really Lewis Hamilton.

Racing driver + racing driver wages = better car than a mk4

[luhu2012]

Awesome.

[cullygti]

f**k me we writing novels on here now are we