Sideshowfreds GTI - Stereo Upgrade :-)

[sideshowfred]

Yeah, something like that!! It's annoying as it means i'm going to have to pay someone to do a proper paint job. If mine was a flat colour i'd have happily had a go myself haha

[Little_Dave]

Shouldn't be too bad getting that done, your paint code should be in your manual or in the boot on a sticker by the spare wheel, not sure how many different black magic metallics there are but my paint code is LC9Z and matched my car perfectly 

Nice to see a different take on the front and rear looks good 

Dave

[sideshowfred]

Cheers, and yeah, my paint codes lc9z aswell. It's just my past attempts at painting metallics have never gone well. Mind you, one was a beige/gold metallic pearl and the other was a bluey green metallic pearl haha

[shane mk5]

cars looking good ive just got a us rear for mine cant wait to get it on just needs spraying 

[DanBoy]

Looking good, local car too I see 

[swedishfireball]

Looking good, local car too I see 

Local to where? Did I spot Weston Favell shopping centre in the first few pics or am I going 

[Greeners]

Like what you've done there! 

Did the seller on Ebay have anymore of the US front No Plate holders?

[sideshowfred]

Looking good, local car too I see 

If by local you mean Northampton then yes 

Local to where? Did I spot Weston Favell shopping centre in the first few pics or am I going 

Yes you did see Weston Favell shopping centre. It's only 5 mins from me and the old Focus car park was a good place to take some pics

Did the seller on Ebay have anymore of the US front No Plate holders?

I think i bought the only one they had. But they've got this one http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VW-Rabbit-06-09-License-Plate-mount-base-Bracket-Front-/230632524408?pt=Motors_Car_Truck_Parts_Accessories&hash=item35b2c50a78 which seems to be the same part number so might fit.

[vRS_Pagey]

If you are getting the top half re-sprayed I would get the valance coded as well. 

[Greeners]

Cheers pal! 

[sideshowfred]

Well today I thought i'd have a go at making my rear lights a bit more like the edition 30 ones. So I whipped them off and set about tinting them. First things first though, I thought i'd spray up the reverse light red so it matched the other side.



then onto the tinting

before



after 2 coats



I decided to give it a 3rd coat as I didn't want to go overboard and they were looking good. After the third coat was dry to touch I moved them upto the front bedroom which is currently empty and has the sun on the bay windows from roughly 10am through to sunset. So a nice warm place to let the spray set.




I was really pleased with them at this point, and thought i'd noticed a difference in the colour. So gave them 4 hours then waxed them and stuck them back on the car






I was still really happy until i compared them to some before pics with the lights on the car and I can't tell the difference   So a day seemingly wasted, never mind. I also did some more carbon wrapping on the interior a few weeks back




Definitely need to give the interior a clean now the weathers cheered up a bit!

[sideshowfred]

Well after I went to GTI Spring Festival last weekend I decided it was about time I did some other little touches to the car whilst I save up for some proper stuff. First off I swapped the standard filter for a Pipercross item. It's probably made bugger all difference but at least I feel like i've now done something. Whilst doing this job I thought it's be a nice touch to paint the centre bit of the engine cover. So I whipped it off and this is the result




The colour is Bugatti 4EU which i've had kicking around for a couple of years. It's not very well done but it'll do for now.

[JoeDarKa]

The wrapping looks smart! How did you get it so neat? Iv had a go with mine and its a right mess!!

[mvb12]

It may be the camera angle but your pipes look to be on the extreme side of protuding? 

[sideshowfred]

I just took plenty of time with the wrapping to make sure i got it as perfect as i could.

It may be the camera angle but your pipes look to be on the extreme side of protuding? 

I take it you mean the exhaust? It's because the lower half isn't from a GTI but from a 'Rabbit'. So it's not quite as low or wide as the normal GTI version. I will get the proper lower half sorted at some point but there quite hard to find it'd seem.