small update been busy with a couple of things since my last post on my build thread. the biggest thing was a couple of months back managed to get my front two arches, sills and boot handle all replaced for free under VW warranty! it was bugging me that i noticed the rust appearing and i was going to get it all done at the same time i did my bumpers but i came across the thread on here about warranty success on this and thought whats the worst that could happen?
So popped into Leicester VW (after my initial phone call to them to say i had rust appearing) and had spoke to the bodyshop manager. He noticed that the bubbling was appearing on the drivers arch as well as the passenger (i had only noticed the passengers side) and the rust on the boot was the worst. i tried my own attempt to touch it in with the touch up pen from VW but was still bugging me. Initially i was offered two front wings for free and 50% contribution on the rear boot which was going to work out about £300 for me to pay. Just i was about to pass on the boot and accept the wings, he looked at my service history and said seeing as you have had the car serviced with us all its life well cover the boot too. RESULT!
so dropped my car off to VW a couple of weeks later and had a polo to drive for the week (so glad i didn't get a up!)
Picked my car up a week later and they did a fantastic job and i must admit i was beginning to loose faith in the dealership but i can't praise them enough for this. Unfortunately i didn't get a picture of the wings but i managed to get some before and after of the rust.
Before (boot looks a different shade of white here - most probably the lighting!):
After:
They gave it a basic clean so i gave it another wash once it stopped raining and for me that was the last i was going to tamper with the car....
Now I'm sure many of you can relate just when you think enough is enough, you end up finding one or two bits and then carrying on tampering. Well yes thats happened to me too...
I loved my monzas and i really loved the way they looked on my Golf. But the kerbing was beginning to bug me. and although i could live with it i just knew eventually i would want to change. Well that happened sooner rather than later and after speaking with
@rashg60 about wheels, he managed to (somehow) persuade me to part with my monzas a little earlier than i wanted!
So with the monzas ready to go i needed to find some new wheels. and thought well I've got the ED30 look going on why not get some pescaras to go with. and managed to bag some unmarked beauties for a decent price and when they were delivered although i was still upset at letting the monzas go, i was warming more to the Pescaras.
Delivery:
Fitted:
took me a few days to warm to them but although i do partially still miss my monzas i have taken a liking to the pescaras.
The devil often makes works for idle hands, and my hands get twitching when i see something i like on this forum. and on a road trip up north, i somehow managed to bag a highland cluster from
@v4rley (top service and very helpful guy). Couple of days later i also ended up buying an MFD2 as i had gotten a bit bored of the RCD300 (non-mp3) head unit (ideally would love to go down the RNS route but i couldn't justify spending the extra on a canbus change and for a sat nav i won't use as much - and the MFD2 would just do the job in looking pretty!)
So fitted the head unit and got in touch with
@RetroRaz in the process of when i bought the highline cluster and raz true to his word turned up a couple of weeks later on his travels and fitted and coded up the highline cluster to my car along with a couple of other bits like his flash to pass mod. (again brilliant service from raz and cannot recommend highly enough!)
MFD2:
Highline:
i must admit i am very impressed with the highline mod and would recommend it as an upgrade to everyone. I'm probably not even using it to its full potential but from what i need it definitely delivers.
As usual comments welcome!
