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Offline Matty!

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Re: Alex's Edition 30 :)
« Reply #255 on: January 17, 2012, 11:01:03 pm »
Them S3 braking plates neaten up the caliper dramatically.
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Re: Alex's Edition 30 :)
« Reply #256 on: January 18, 2012, 07:14:30 pm »
hasn't your dad tweaked why your car needs bigger bottle tops for a "standard car" yet mate?  :signLOL:
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Re: Alex's Edition 30 :)
« Reply #257 on: January 19, 2012, 12:58:01 am »
Quote from: Saintsteve on January 18, 2012, 07:14:30 pm
hasn't your dad tweaked why your car needs bigger bottle tops for a "standard car" yet mate?  :signLOL:

So that's why your run sucked polo mints up front Steve?? Don't want the misses to cotton on to the fury of turbo'd power that lays beneath?


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Re: Alex's Edition 30 :)
« Reply #258 on: January 19, 2012, 09:12:47 am »
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Re: Alex's Edition 30 :)
« Reply #259 on: January 19, 2012, 09:13:54 am »
Lol no, however he does now know about the brakes as I couldn't really hide them!
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Re: Alex's Edition 30 :)
« Reply #260 on: January 19, 2012, 09:59:15 am »
How are they alex? Have they settled in?
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Re: Alex's Edition 30 :)
« Reply #261 on: January 19, 2012, 12:27:06 pm »
Looks good
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Re: Alex's Edition 30 :)
« Reply #262 on: January 22, 2012, 08:02:54 pm »
How do you find the RNS510 for music quality? Is it hard to add music to the hdd and is it accessable like it is on an ipod?
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Re: Alex's Edition 30 :)
« Reply #263 on: January 22, 2012, 08:51:59 pm »
I think its brill for quality mate

Not hard to add music if you go down that route, and yes its easy to access
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Re: Alex's Edition 30 :)
« Reply #264 on: February 25, 2013, 04:56:25 pm »
Well, I dont seem to have updated this for a while!!

So alot has happened in the last few months...

I sold the Mk2 Golf GTI  :sad1:
I bought a Mk5 Polo GTI  :driver:

The remap completely messed up and had to be reloaded
A spark plug failed
The PCV system failed
I fitted the headlight washers for the xenons to OEM spec
I fitted the auto levellers for the xenons to OEM spec
My milltek downpipe bracket sheared in half just before where the cat is

All in all its been pretty busy on the Eddy!

I have been working on my Polo 6N2 GTI project which has been taking time and money away from the golf, but thats pretty much finished for now at least.

Last weekend was spend doing the levellers, which I must say is the biggest pain in the ass of a job imaginable. Let alone the fact you have to extend the loom, but the fact Kufatecs instructions are piss poor telling you to connect the wrong wires onto the wrong pins, use fuses that dont exist, and code modules that this car doesnt even have!! But I got there in the end.

I recommend nobody buy wiring from Maplin - its rubbish, and the tinned copper they use makes can bus communication very unreliable. I had to rip it out, and replace it with good quality copper wiring instead.

I havent driven her on the road since November as I have been too busy to get the levellers done, then the MOT lapsed so it wasnt a good period! Needless to say it sailed through the MOT today with no advisories :D It does however look like 4 new tyres are on the cards as they are starting to get low, so thats a purchase once the weather warms up a little

Oh, and it needs a bloody good clean, an oil change, and a DSG oil change in the summer  :signLOL:

Now to go and reload the remap.... :laugh:
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Re: Alex's Edition 30 :)
« Reply #265 on: February 25, 2013, 05:26:14 pm »
Thats an arguable point  :signLOL:

Plastic often ends up a different shade when it comes to red especially, but I believe at some point it may have had that section resprayed, though I see no signs of any spray work being done so who knows!
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Re: Alex's Edition 30 :)
« Reply #266 on: February 25, 2013, 05:27:51 pm »
Only asking because mine is/was the same.  It is being resprayed today to match up as it was bugging me.  After seen your picture I might have been wrong to respray it as it is a tad different.
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Re: Alex's Edition 30 :)
« Reply #267 on: February 25, 2013, 05:29:42 pm »
Its quite possible its the same on yours then.

I do find it a little irritating, but not enough to warrant the dollar for getting it resprayed, and even then, theres no true guarantee itll match

To support the argument, my brother is getting a new candy white polo, and from factory the bumpers and other plastics like mirror, petrol cap etc are all a very slightly different tone of white - odd isnt it.
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Re: Alex's Edition 30 :)
« Reply #268 on: March 04, 2013, 02:23:21 pm »
Definitely not. Thats a pretty good price for that! Wish I had a mate that did cheap spray work :signLOL:

One of of my headlight bulbs failed last week, but it was replaced under warranty so im happy now. Auto levelling works a treat so its all good.

Did the oil change on the weekend too so thats good for another year.

In other news, gonna get the Pescaras refurbished but am struggling to decide on the colour. It stands somewhere between original BBS silver and more of an audi dolphin grey (grey metallic)

Thoughts anyone?
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Re: Alex's Edition 30 :)
« Reply #269 on: March 04, 2013, 04:05:32 pm »
The dolphin grey is nice... how I had mine done, and if the paint finish was better would have kept... Don't get that guy in Salisbury to do them!

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