The Wifey-Mobile: The GTi She Didn't Want...

[FJ1000]

I'd been thinking about a MK5 GTi DSG for a while, but made my mind up after this:

Wife: "You're going to kill me...I'm so sorry"
Me (senses danger to my RS4's wheels): You didn't, not again...
Wifey: I was turning left into our road, and there was another car...and and
Me: 3 times in a month!!! Aggghghhhg!!!!!!!!!!!!

So I bought her a GTi.

A good one too.

5dr DSG in good nick, well looked after, with loads of options: leather, factory wingback seats, xenons, cruise, nav, MFSW, sunroof, rear parking sensors. A few pics from the autotrader advert, from when I bought it in August 2015:







Her reaction: why did you buy that?? I was fine driving your car!

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Treated it to a thorough clean once home and took these. Shiny 

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Then the modifications began...

First off, swapped the xenon bulbs for some 6000K ones from EM Tuning, and some LED sidelights (shown next to the standard ones):

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Next, plasti-dipped the front and rear VW badges, the red grill stripe, and the front GTI logo:

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Then, lowered it on VW Raccing springs. The ride height is just where I want it, and has barely affected the ride quality. Highly recommended:

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And finally, for now, picked these up on ebay.de, just waiting for them to arrive:



Things that I should be doing soon:
- Bluefin (already got the bluefin handset, just need to reset)
- Fit interior LED kit I've bought
- Tint front windows
- Lamin x headlights and spray tint tail lights

[Andy]

Good find and we'll specked golf,bet you drive it more than your wife 

[FJ1000]

Such a great looking and spec'd car , i think u should leave the aesthetic stuff except ride height and it looks fantastic .not a fan of the wheels or stuff with the the front grill.

Sorry just being honest.

 

Thanks for your honesty! That's fair enough, not everyone has the same taste! The great thing about plastidip is I can reverse the grill mods in seconds if I choose to.

I'm such a big fan of the speedlines, I've got another (19") set sat in the garage for my RS!! Well I actually bought them for the golf, then I saw how stretched the tyres would be on a 9" wide rim, and the tyres on them were already the perfect size for the RS and brand new. So, had them refurbed and powder coated in a gun metal grey...




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[Imwithstupid]

colour of the wheel looks really nice, cant wait see them on the GTi 

[FJ1000]

Good find and we'll specked golf,bet you drive it more than your wife 

At the moment, yeah I probably do! It really is a hoot to drive especially with the DSG box.

I'm glad to report she quite likes it now (apart from the monzas).


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[M9xxr]

lovely spec car mate! never seen one with that much spec and the seats! my gf drives my gti and has killed a few sets of wheels! Mine did have speed lines on it too

[FJ1000]

lovely spec car mate! never seen one with that much spec and the seats! my gf drives my gti and has killed a few sets of wheels! Mine did have speed lines on it too

That looks great! Are those speedlines 18s or 19s? What suspension?


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[Lyons]

Very nice. I'm a big fan of the Speedlines on the Mk5. Are they 18's?

The gunmetal centres look fantastic m9xxr, that's how I'd do them too. Are yours 19's?

[M9xxr]

lovely spec car mate! never seen one with that much spec and the seats! my gf drives my gti and has killed a few sets of wheels! Mine did have speed lines on it too

That looks great! Are those speedlines 18s or 19s? What suspension?


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lovely spec car mate! never seen one with that much spec and the seats! my gf drives my gti and has killed a few sets of wheels! Mine did have speed lines on it too

That looks great! Are those speedlines 18s or 19s? What suspension?


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There 19s withs 225 35 tyres the cars on h&r springs atm.

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Got the speedlines on (ET54, so 8mm H&R hubcentric spacers front, 10mm rear)

Also smoked the rear lights - took the clusters out then 4 coats of hycote lens spray