Author Topic: My GTi Progress Thread - Ring Trip (Read 65170 times)

liver · « **Reply #225 on:** December 12, 2011, 10:08:30 am »

if the snow comes, i would much rather damage the wheels that i have on now rather than my red ones which would be alot more expensive to repair than these

keano · « **Reply #226 on:** December 12, 2011, 11:14:30 am »

Love the black monzas!

liver · « **Reply #227 on:** December 14, 2011, 09:26:36 am »

also got my bluefin handset up for sale in the for sale section

S800BRN · « **Reply #228 on:** December 14, 2011, 12:24:03 pm »

Looks well sat on those black monzas!

liver · « **Reply #229 on:** March 27, 2012, 09:27:10 am »

few pics from the fast show at the weekend,

it was a terrible show with some terrible cars

if it wasnt for the night out the night before i would have been gutted

heres some pics, the car had a big detail last week but the pics have caused me to exceed my photobucket limit so when its back i'll update this then

ktlstar · « **Reply #230 on:** March 27, 2012, 09:38:49 am »

Nice meeting you Mark, car looks clean as ever!

liver · « **Reply #231 on:** March 27, 2012, 09:43:54 am »

same eric

always nice to put a face to a name

liver · « **Reply #232 on:** April 16, 2012, 05:33:40 pm »

these are the pictures from my detail the other month

Detail day again

The last time the car had a wash mitt touch it was back in November. I’ve jet washed and snow foamed it two or three times during that time but that is all so I was hoping for good paint under the grime that was on top.

Before pics

Wouldn’t be a detail without the snow foam shot

2bucket method was used

Once it was washed and cleaned it looked like this, not too bad

Iron – x doing it thing on the paint work

Then onto claying, the car wasn’t as bad as I expected to be honest, although I was not a massive fan of this clay, I will be returning to megs clay bar.

Worst part of the car was the lower part of the rear bumper

I had a large number of tar spots, autoglym intensive bug and tar remover made light work of the spots, unfortunately I did not take any pics
Here was the paintwork after decontamination

Here are some pics after the first stage, using a yellow lake country pad and Megs 83

Here are a few pics after a second pass using an orange lake country pad and Megs 80

Moved onto the engine bay

Exhaust 50/50

Arches

Summer wheels back on

And car back on the ground

Here are a few finished pics, rubbish photos on the iphone though im afraid

One after at the petrol station chilling

liver · « **Reply #233 on:** April 16, 2012, 05:35:36 pm »

Cleaned the car this weekend and the miss'

Foamed

Cleaned

stuartDLK · « **Reply #234 on:** April 16, 2012, 06:06:56 pm »

Awesome

Many hours did you have to put into the car doing this all? All the hard work has paid off coming into the spring/summer months

bushypad · « **Reply #235 on:** April 16, 2012, 08:09:22 pm »

Amazing looking car hats off

Creatz · « **Reply #236 on:** April 16, 2012, 09:33:58 pm »

You got 2 number plates on top of each other on the rear ?

liver · « **Reply #237 on:** April 17, 2012, 10:44:52 am »

Quote from: stuartDLK on April 16, 2012, 06:06:56 pm

Awesome Many hours did you have to put into the car doing this all? All the hard work has paid off coming into the spring/summer months

thank you very much, i started about 8 and was finished by about 6 with very little breaks

Quote from: bushypad on April 16, 2012, 08:09:22 pm

Amazing looking car hats off

thank you very much

Quote from: Creatz on April 16, 2012, 09:33:58 pm

You got 2 number plates on top of each other on the rear ?

no its just one plate on sticky pads; the plate is a pressed metal plate

3 weeks tomorrow me and the car are making a trip the the ring

got a few things to do before then; one thing mainly is my dissertation but others include

fitting my uprated fuel pump; changing the stage 2 map for stage 2+ and hopefully getting cruise control fitted

liver · « **Reply #238 on:** May 07, 2012, 06:02:13 pm »

car cleaned and ruined powder coated alloys lol

dont use an autoglym wheel bush on wheels u like, id never used it on mine before and wont be again lol

the outcome