My GTi Progress Thread - Ring Trip

[liver]

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]

Love the black monzas! 

[liver]

 

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

[S800BRN]

Looks well sat on those black monzas!

[liver]

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]

Nice meeting you Mark, car looks clean as ever!

[liver]

same eric

always nice to put a face to a name 

[liver]

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]

Cleaned the car this weekend and the miss'

Foamed


Cleaned

[stuartDLK]

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]

Amazing looking car hats off

[Creatz]

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

[liver]

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

Amazing looking car hats off

thank you very much

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]

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



after a very quick da polish
top pic is just the one spoke done




also had 4 wheel alignment done, new windscreen wipers and test fitted the old GB badge




car cleaned pics of course








ring practice

[greygti]

Are you staying with the bluefin for the stage 2+ or are you going with a revo map ?