About a year ago, a Monday saw a trip to Helston VW to visit Mark and take out an EOS for a spin for the mrs. After a go in a DSG diesel to experience the shifting we headed out for 30 minutes. The car feels pretty solid and holds the road very well considering the weight. With the top dropped and the wind deflector in place we hit 80mph and suffered no wind or sound inside the cockpit so in all very pleased with the car. The styling just needs sorting, but we'll get to that.
After agreeing that we want one we pawed over a 2.0 fsi. now theres alot of confusion with these little letters. The 2.0 turbo as found in the gti was labeled an fsi with the i being red and non turbo cars being silver. this caused confusion so they then badged it the tfsi, and have now finally settled for tsi. its the most responsive engine in the range so is the natural choice for the project. I chose the turbo rather than the V6 as the weight of this thing is immence and so tuning was needed and its cheaper and easier to tune a turbo car.
Just in px they had a reflex silver 2.0 tfsi, with nappa leather. yet to be advertised it was suffering with 2 rear scratched quarters and a scratched door and scuffed alloys but other than that, with 13K on the clock they had it up for £22995.00. so with some haggling, were getting the car sprayed and repaired, 18 months warranty and a free wind deflector for the princely sum of £20750.00. The car was ready for collection on the friday....but we were not collecting it....oh no...there were plans afoot
First the small things, with the interior staying stock as it's lush as it is, the addition of one of these was deemed necessary as we dont want the tax disk going walkies when the tops dropped:
Rhe plan was a full caractere bodykit in total coming to £1590.90 inc delivery and VAT which consisted of front bumper with grills, rear bumper, 2x sideskirts and rear spoiler. onto that there is also a stainless twin exit catback zorst to finish the rear off, and fingers crossed the plan for it was to turn out something like this:
the rear badge to be replaced with one of these costing £8:
Not normally a fan of these but to help loose that weird EOS stare i planned calming it down with a pair of headlight spoilers from JE Design at just under £70:
The dealership sent the car straight to a paintshop without the mrs even seeing it yet let alone drive it....this is all for her so was very cloak and dagger
Next spend as a private plate EO55 *** the stars being the mrs's name and set me back just over £300 onto the car.
....and the deliveries began:
Zorst:
Front spoiler:
Carbon plates:
The skirts with vented scoops:
Rear diffuser and boot spoiler:
The eyebrows:
Carbonio CF induction:
And then the rims:
19" RIVIERA BLACK WHEELS+TYRES
FITMENT
PCD OF 5 X 112 OFFSET ET42
FITTED WITH 235/35/19 PERFORMANCE FALCON SPORTS TYRES
JWL VIA APPROVED ENSURES TOP QUALITY ALLOY CASTING AND DURABLE BLACK PAINT FINISH WITH A HIGHLY POLISHED STAINLESS STEEL 2.5" LIP!
1 PIECE LOW PRESSURE CASTING MADE FROM THE HIGHEST QUALITY ALUMINIUM
INCLUDES
WHEELS & TYRES MOUNTED AND ELECTRONICALLY BALANCED
FREE RUBBER VALVES WITH CHROME SLEEVES AND CAPS
FREE CENTRE CAPS
FREE WHEEL BOLTS AND LOCKS
£930.00 delivered
next....off to the paint shop
