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Offline Hawk

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Tornado Red Three door GTI Bbs vz on
« on: October 27, 2013, 05:33:13 pm »
Hi, new member here but certainly not new to Volkswagens. In my time I've had 8 mk2 Golf GTIs 2 mk3 GTIs and a mk4 GT Tdi with a few Audis thrown in too most recently an A8 which I've just sold to buy this car.

Right, after the wee intro, onto the car in question. It's a 2007 GTI with fsh and a few mods which include, cat back custom stainless exhaust, panel filter, eibachs, carbon mirror covers, carbon grill, laminexed fogs, gloss back skirts and rear bumper, an alpine head unit that controls iPod/phone through the steering wheel controls, and a 12" sub n amp in the boot. It pulls very well and has a rolling road print out of 235bhp and 239lbft of torque. I'll be looking to remap it in the near future and may well just jump to stage 2

As with nearly any 6 year old car it isn't perfect but it's clean and tidy and drives absolutely spot on.

There's a few styling modifications that aren't to my taste but that gives me the opportunity to put my own stamp on the car. These being the gloss black parts that I'll be colour coding tornado red and the front plate possition which I've already rectified.

Anyway enough talk, here's some pics.

As I got the car, it's a bit dirty as I'd been out in the rain last night and not washed it yet.






I wasn't keen in the slightest on the possition of the numberplate so done the sensible thing and removed it  :laugh:


Took it out for a run and snapped a few better pics









Plans are to sort out the gloss black bit as I'm not keen on them, change the wheels for a set of 18s replace the drivers seat back material as the bolsters a bit worn and then remap it.

Must admit I'm happy with it tho. The guy I bought it from is a vw mechanic it wants for nothing mechanicaly and it's had oil changes every 7k miles under his ownership.

That's it for now although I'm not usually one for hanging about with doing bits n bobs to my cars so I'll keep this updated as I go.

Cheers

Gregor



« Last Edit: January 09, 2014, 03:12:59 pm by Hawk »

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Re: Tornado Red Three door GTI
« Reply #1 on: October 27, 2013, 05:40:25 pm »
welcome the forum :happy2:Nice history of cars you have had in the past and be good to see pics.Your new golf looks nicely spec wise but what was the previous owner thinking on the colour coding on rear valance

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Re: Tornado Red Three door GTI
« Reply #2 on: October 27, 2013, 06:33:08 pm »
welcome the forum :happy2:Nice history of cars you have had in the past and be good to see pics.Your new golf looks nicely spec wise but what was the previous owner thinking on the colour coding on rear valance


Who knows, he told me that he was the only person who he'd talked to about it that thought it looked nice, I promptly agreed haha. Each to their own I suppose but I'll certainly be changing it, that's for sure. The way he's treated the car and knowing a very good mate of his is what made me go for the car.

Here's a some of my old cars. It'd take me forever to dig out pics of them all.

Bright blue mettalic mk2 golf converted to a vr6 engine, I've had two of these although the other was black.




Atlas Grey mk2 GTI with bbs rm and Recaro interior, second pic is on Borbet A wheels




Ltd edition mk2 GTI 16v (Golf in 10 million edition) should never have sold this one




Mk3 Golf GTI 16v with vento front end, Porsche wheels and black leather recaros.


Black mk2 golf GTI with vr6 engine


And last for now Audi A8 Quattro sport 2.8 with 20" s8 alloys and full S8 interior




I really need to clear out some crap on my photobucket. Took me ages to find those. Hope you like.


« Last Edit: October 27, 2013, 06:36:45 pm by Hawk »

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Re: Tornado Red Three door GTI
« Reply #3 on: October 27, 2013, 06:52:35 pm »
Nice car, although also not keen on colour coded rear, unless you do whole lot.

That atlas grey mk2 on bbs tho  :laugh:

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Re: Tornado Red Three door GTI
« Reply #4 on: October 27, 2013, 07:13:11 pm »
Nice car, although also not keen on colour coded rear, unless you do whole lot.

Have to agree on that as well.

Your car collection is awesome. Always had a soft spot for mk2's

Any other plans on the mk5?
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Re: Tornado Red Three door GTI
« Reply #5 on: October 27, 2013, 07:47:43 pm »
Nice car, although also not keen on colour coded rear, unless you do whole lot.

Have to agree on that as well.

Your car collection is awesome. Always had a soft spot for mk2's

Any other plans on the mk5?

Cheers lads, just got the car yesterday so it'll take me a wee while to get it into paint. Plans are Just what I posted in the op, sort out the gloss bits to colour coding, new wheels and then onto more power.

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Re: Tornado Red Three door GTI
« Reply #6 on: October 27, 2013, 07:54:23 pm »
some beaut mk2 you have had..love the blue one..Be intetesting to see what plans you have with Mk5

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Re: Tornado Red Three door GTI
« Reply #7 on: October 28, 2013, 04:22:10 pm »
Got a new front plate and snapped a pic with my phone.


Much better imo.

Collecting my new wheels tmrw night all being well and I'll drop them into the powdercoaters and go see a bodyshop about sorting out the colour coding.

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Re: Tornado Red Three door GTI
« Reply #8 on: October 28, 2013, 04:59:12 pm »
Welcome to the forum mate, & nice car in the best colour  :happy2: How have you put the number plate on?

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Re: Tornado Red Three door GTI
« Reply #9 on: October 28, 2013, 05:03:51 pm »
Looks good dude :)

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Re: Tornado Red Three door GTI
« Reply #10 on: October 28, 2013, 05:21:22 pm »
Welcome to the forum mate, & nice car in the best colour  :happy2: How have you put the number plate on?

Thanks for the welcome. I'm certainly enjoying driving the car in the few days I've had it.

I used the 1mm thick double sided stickers you get for plates buddy.

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Re: Tornado Red Three door GTI
« Reply #11 on: October 28, 2013, 05:22:47 pm »

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Re: Tornado Red Three door GTI
« Reply #12 on: October 28, 2013, 07:10:42 pm »
Welcome along, liking your pictures of your mk2's. I believe a lot of the guys on here use magnets to hold on their number plates.
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Re: Tornado Red Three door GTI
« Reply #13 on: October 28, 2013, 07:19:55 pm »
that rear bumper make it look like a right fat ass!!!! - Original ill give you that  :happy2:
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Re: Tornado Red Three door GTI
« Reply #14 on: October 28, 2013, 07:39:53 pm »
I like the carbon mirror covers any more info on those please? Where can I find them and how much are they? Do they fit well ?