right bit of an update to go through (with a couple of ups and downs included!)
start with the negative and get it out the way. couple of weeks ago, some idiot decided for no apparent reason just to break my passenger side mirror and smash the indicator lens in the process. i didn't catch the idiot (if only i could!
) but i was out at the time and the car was parked at home. ruined my night out when i got a call off my sister to say my mirror was broken. the passenger side was facing the pavement so can only imagine it was some kids or someone who had one too many drinks and decided to take it out on my wing mirror.
From what i imagined it wasn't as bad as the casing was broken and the indicator lens but the actual mirror itself was ok and the puddle lights and folding functions still worked. (in my panic on my way home i even found another set of candy white heated mirrors with the folding option with puddle lights for £120 on eBay - the things we do!). anyway see pics below of the damage.
rang the local police and was told usual nothing can do as no CCTV or witnesses but thought i would let them know anyway. found an indicator lens on eBay and had it delivered a couple of days later. as for the crack in the casing i glued it back and touched in the crack with some touch up paint from VW.
old lens:
new lens fitted:
while this was going on i picked up these from VW as they needed doing. i didn't get a shot of my DV when i took it off but it was quite worn with one tear. The PCV also removed my idling issue that was ongoing:
as some of you may have noticed in my previous post my rear badge was quite worn. although i love the soft close of the MK5 rear badge the white worm really annoyed me. so i decided to upgrade the old badge to the MK6 badge and i think it looks quite nice (even though it comes close to trapping your finger!)
old badge:
new badge:
along with this i managed to get a free polo ariel and replaced the mk5 ariel (even though my mrs says it looks like a tellytubby...what does she know!) - excuse the polish marks on the ariel base!
also sourced a gti insert from china for a nice price of £5. can only use the passenger side one however as my drivers side has an electric seat! (drivers side is available if anyone wants one!)
at the same time i ordered some LED rear number plate lights. they have a slight blue hint to them but i don't think they look too bad. when i get some more cash together i will probably by the entire replacement unit:
now as a 30th birthday present to myself (if anyone wants to send belated birthday contributions your more than welcome - paypal accepted!
) i decided to take the plunge and buy myself a ED30 rear bumper and front splitter and get it all colour coded up. i managed to find a OEM ED30 from eBay for a decent price of £130 delivered. it came in red and the seller had used some fibreglass to repair some of the cracks that were in the bumper. with others going for around the £200 mark that i could find i decided to go for this:
the ED30 front splitter was more difficult to find and after going through a few avenues and checking the breakers, i went for a non OEM one off eBay. it came from poland was packaged fine.
Dropped the car off to the bodyshop on monday and collected the car yesterday PM. I'm not sure if the guy at the bodyshop was having a bad week or what but he completely refused to fit the front splitter because the clips wouldn't sit right in the grooves of the old gti splitter and advised me to return it. so i told him to leave it in the car and would return it when i picked the car up (to be honest i was surprised he was open on bank holiday monday and was happy to take the car in in the first place). to my surprise when i picked up the car yesterday he had fitted the front splitter on and it looked great in my opinion (i think he then realised that he just needed to unscrew a few screws and unclip the old splitter to fit the new on one - but the moody git didn't eat humble pie!). in total he charged £450 to paint the rear bumper and rear valance, smooth and paint the side skirts and paint the front splitter (not sure if thats over the odds but he does a good job to be fair). anyway i have taken a couple of quick snaps with my iPhone of the end result below. will update more pics once the weather opens up (looks like its raining all day today in leicester
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