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Re: Greeners New MK5, Back in the Game!! *Update 27/04/2012*
« Reply #270 on: April 27, 2012, 02:39:01 pm »
He's not stuck them on yet. He's obviously too busy posting pics and plying passersby with maoams rather than get on with his work!

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Re: Greeners New MK5, Back in the Game!! *Update 27/04/2012*
« Reply #271 on: April 27, 2012, 09:24:26 pm »
i think pirelli have let the quality drop over the last few years as they go out of shape to easy on a different varient of cars--






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Re: Greeners New MK5, Back in the Game!! *Update 27/04/2012*
« Reply #272 on: April 28, 2012, 10:53:10 am »
As the sweetie monster has said they won't be on the car until I get the wheels done in the next few weeks!  :wink:

Will report back then, but to be honest anything will be better than these crappy Goodyears!!

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Re: Greeners New MK5, Back in the Game!! *Update 27/04/2012*
« Reply #273 on: April 28, 2012, 10:54:52 am »
As the sweetie monster has said they won't be on the car until I get the wheels done in the next few weeks!  :wink:

Will report back then, but to be honest anything will be better than these crappy Goodyears!!

Which ones?

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Re: Greeners New MK5, Back in the Game!! *Update 27/04/2012*
« Reply #274 on: April 28, 2012, 10:56:46 am »
As the sweetie monster has said they won't be on the car until I get the wheels done in the next few weeks!  :wink:

Will report back then, but to be honest anything will be better than these crappy Goodyears!!

Which ones?

They call themselves........ Efficient Grip!!

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Re: Greeners New MK5, Back in the Game!! *Update 27/04/2012*
« Reply #275 on: April 28, 2012, 10:58:18 am »
As the sweetie monster has said they won't be on the car until I get the wheels done in the next few weeks!  :wink:

Will report back then, but to be honest anything will be better than these crappy Goodyears!!

Which ones?

They call themselves........ Efficient Grip!!


aka no grip?  :signLOL:

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Re: Greeners New MK5, Back in the Game!! *Update 27/04/2012*
« Reply #276 on: April 28, 2012, 11:00:44 am »
As the sweetie monster has said they won't be on the car until I get the wheels done in the next few weeks!  :wink:

Will report back then, but to be honest anything will be better than these crappy Goodyears!!

Which ones?

They call themselves........ Efficient Grip!!


aka no grip?  :signLOL:


I think they are more of an 'eco' tyre than one designed to reign in 300+ bhp!!  :grin:

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Re: Greeners New MK5, Back in the Game!! *Update 27/04/2012*
« Reply #277 on: April 28, 2012, 11:04:53 am »
Not many road tyres can contain 300bhp to the front wheels...  :driver:

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Re: Greeners New MK5, Back in the Game!! *Update 27/04/2012*
« Reply #278 on: April 28, 2012, 11:10:58 am »
Not many road tyres can contain 300bhp to the front wheels...  :driver:


True, but would still be nice to be able to use the throttle pedal slightly more than 5%!  :laugh:

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Re: Greeners New MK5, Back in the Game!! *Update 27/04/2012*
« Reply #279 on: April 28, 2012, 11:18:36 am »
Did you manage to get the other car sorted in time?

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Re: Greeners New MK5, Back in the Game!! *Update 27/04/2012*
« Reply #280 on: April 28, 2012, 11:19:32 am »
Not many road tyres can contain 300bhp to the front wheels...  :driver:


True, but would still be nice to be able to use the throttle pedal slightly more than 5%!  :laugh:

 :signLOL:  Yeah that might be a good start

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Re: Greeners New MK5, Back in the Game!! *Update 27/04/2012*
« Reply #281 on: April 28, 2012, 11:44:06 am »
Did you manage to get the other car sorted in time?

Just about, being collected today and it looks awesome!!  :party:

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Re: Greeners New MK5, Back in the Game!! *Update 27/04/2012*
« Reply #282 on: April 28, 2012, 11:54:32 am »
I forgot to give you the tyre gel to try out. Would have noticed any sling off on a white car!

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Re: Greeners New MK5, Back in the Game!! *Update 27/04/2012*
« Reply #283 on: April 28, 2012, 12:24:55 pm »
I forgot to give you the tyre gel to try out. Would have noticed any sling off on a white car!

Probably best to try it out on mine!  :wink:


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Re: Greeners New MK5, Back in the Game!! *Update 18/05/2012*
« Reply #284 on: May 18, 2012, 09:41:57 pm »
So finally got round to getting the wheels refurbed and the new boots fitted!  :jumpmove:

Decided on a 'Brilliant Silver' as I wanted to keep it looking as OEM as possible. As you can probably see from the pics the inner Barrell had been painted in a dark anthracite colour to hopefully give the design of the wheel more of a 3D look.

While the wheels were away I thought I'd clean the brakes and calipers up a bit until I can afford some S3 upgrades!  :wink:

Before:


After:


Before:


After:


And one more:


So the wheels, will hopefully get some pics of the wheels on the car and the finished detail over the weekend.



Darker Barrell's:






More soon!  :wink: