Hi all, newbie to the forum. but far from new to VW!
I've owned far too many to mention, mostly mk4's.
Having had my fill of mk4 Golfs and not seeing much else for sale I liked, I started looking at Mk5's.
I've always fancied one but the ones worth having were always a little out of budget.
Until I spotted a really poor advert for a GT 140 advertised locally at a decent price.
I went for a look, not expecting it to be up to much but apart from the odd little job needing done, it turned out to be a pretty decent car with full service history and a lot of the usual mk5 issues sorted already.
I made an offer and picked it up a few days later.
That was about 2 weeks ago.
The first thing I did was to give it a major cleaning session!
The bodywork was a bit flat looking so I machine polished it followed by a wax with AG HD wax then sealed with Williams Ceramic Coat.
The headlights were dull and yellow looking as well so they were refurbished at the same time.
The rear badges have also been removed.
Next up was the head unit, the standard unit is terrible and there's no AUX or USB so it needed to go.
I looked at the usual stuff but this ex display pioneer head unit with DAB, Spotify, DVD etc came up very cheap at my local Halfords so I had to have it.
Next, it was time to get it a bit closer to the road.
The coilovers from my Leon would fit but it was only a 1.6 and had the 50mm hubs.
The Golf is 55mm so I had a local metalwork company make up a couple of sleeves for me and I refurbished the coilovers before they went on...
And fitted...
Had some issues with shortened drop links causing the ARB to rub on the driveshafts so I bought a new pair of standard links which are working fine.
Next up, my Exeo wheels which were also on the Leon went on.
I refurbished these last year and they still look great.
I swapped the Seat badges for a new set of VW items.
I managed to pick up a set of Edition 30 leather door cards cheaply as well so they're on with the stainless trims swapped for the GT spec ones and I've got mk6 style window buttons and light control switch on route.
And the last mod I've done so far is the lower front bumper spoiler, it's the standard GT item which I colour coded.
It's in one of the pics above.
Plans are to fit a rear GTI lower bumper asap and hunt out a standard GTI rear silencer.
I'll convert the front bumper to GTI spec as well and a set of GTI skirts at some point.
Still undecided whether I want to paint the black section into the front bumper, I quite like it all silver.
That's all for now, more to come soon!
