Oem + steely

[Washout]

Righto a small update to keep things up to date. I have been splurging slightly.

Bought these from Mandy on here;



And fitted, forgive the crumbs etc I have yet to clean the interior;



Thankyou Mandy arrived really quickly and are exceptional quality and fit, why vw didn't fit these as standard who knows.

Also purchased and fitted surrounds and pressed plates front and rear, love these;



If you look on the right of the plate you can see some lacquer peel on the bumper, this is partly why the front will be going for a respray soon.

Bought this from creation Motorsport on the bay, in my opinion the quality isn't quite there, this will be for sale soon and I hope to fit the osir version at an eyewateringly expensive price.



Got some new genuine mats, not sure of the price of these from tps, I got mine from vw beadles delivered I think they were slightly cheaper than other places.



No piccies of these fitted as I left mud all over the inside of my car yesterday.

Been collecting bits in perpetration for my alloy recon, I've decided to go down the diamond cut route with black inserts, so purchased some genuine caps from ebay, they were very cheap so hope there real.



I had been after a set of these for a while now, a pair appeared on the forum and I snapped them up;



Genuine open fogs.

So all pulled of 



All cleaned up;



And fitted;



Loving these as well, I think they make the front end look more aggressive.

So the fruits of my drunk late night splurging turned up, 1 large white box. I don't think the missus could understand how a box so light could cost so much.



She was even more unimpressed when she spotted the contents of the box.



But look I excitedly said, wheel brushes and wax a mammoth drying towel and even even iron x, this makes your car go purple. Mmmmnnnn. Silence.



That's it for now more later.

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So with the long weekend I decided to give the outside of the car a tidy up, test out the bits and bobs I'd bought. First off I don't have a snow foam lance so I tried a product from halfauds called demon foam I think, it has a built in head. It wasn't bad it went on quite thick but had no real dwell time. This was about 5 mins in.



Unfortunately I didn't take any before piccies of the car, it was pretty filthy. Rinsed off I cleaned using the 2bm with a lambs wool wash mit and megs gold.

Not sure if the car had ever been iron x ed before, I was expecting lots of purple streaking some areas were worse than others. Man does this stuff stink though I was literally ruining my neighbours weekends with noxious emissions, kills grass as well. 





Over the past few weeks I had noticed the large amount of tar deposits on the paintwork, I've never used a product like this before and had my reservations but I was pleasantly surprised.

Tar removal with auto finesse obli tar ate. Play on words you see. 





You can see the amount of tar on the wings, dissolved quickly and wiped excess with mf.

All washed off after decontamination etc.



Clayed all down, washed off and then patted dry I cracked on with the hand polishing I new I would never achieve massive results and was happy with what I got. I didn't take into account I would lose the will to live about halfway through.

The wax applicator was ace though and I loved the wax went for petes 53 I think  . It went on really easily smelt lovely I think it's aimed more for darker cars but I read somewhere it makes the fleck in lighter cars pop.









Didn't manage to get everything done still got the interior and engine bay to do. I have bought this to have a go at the faded trim hate the colour it goes over time makes the car look really tired.

C4



After my cleaning session I was going over just checking my work and noticed rust on both front sills behind where the door opens and a small bubble on one of the wings, I'm aware of the issues on the mk 5 platform. Can anyone give me any advice about how to get what i want from vw I.e full cost covered ways of wording things etc. has anyone had any experience of inchape chester.

Anyway Im cheering myself up by buying new tyres, going to wait on the recon of alloys until bodywork has been carried out by vw as they would probably use my freshly diamond cut alloys as curling stones when they get bored of not blending my wings. 

I opting for vredestein sessanta as I love the tred pattern, there a good price for 4 and I have read some really good reviews on them.

Still have some small jobs to attend to from previous list and I need to replace my third brake light hopefully have one on order by next week. I do find that the list just keeps growing you never seem to get on top of it.

Anyway that's all for now folks.

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Ah one big ass box. 

[JimmyC92]

Hello mate do you have a link to the polo aerial?

[Washout]

Hello mate do you have a link to the polo aerial?

Hey matey the chap I bought off looks to have sold out of the aerials. Here's a link to the cheapest one I can find on the bay, hope this helps.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Genuine-VW-Polo-2010-Aerial-Rod-6R0-035-849D-/171528897642?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item27efeb446a

Or you could try sending him a message through eBay to see if he has any knocking around there is a link to him in on previous page matey.

[Andy]

Excellent car..loved the write up..you just need that rear valance colour coding now

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Cheers matey. Yeh its on the ever expanding list. 

[Andy]

 been on this forum that list wil get longer 

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You havent seen whats in the box yet. 

[Andy]

ooh do tell

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Genuine brand spanking new, edition 30 splitter.

[Andy]

oooh very nice 

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Yeh just needs some paint now to further the crippling of my finances. Thought id get the walk kit as well. 

[Andy]

I did the up rated bushs and it made a lot of difference

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So a bit of house keeping. Should really re read the thread and see what I said I was going to do versus what I actually do, man I get waylaid. Anyway I must address the big ass box lastly posted on the thread, it contained amongst other things but mainly a new front splitter.

Now I looked at the options carefully, weighing up the cheaper ones on the bay but I just wasn't happy with the fit so in the end I had to go Oem and that's good cause it's in my members ride title and a bit of continuity always helps.







Tasty, very happy with this. Hopefully this will be painted soon as having it sat around the house is driving my missus nuts and me insane because it's not on the car. Not sure wether to have the centre done in gloss back what do you guys/girls think.

Right so a small change to the car was a pair of Oem tinted rear lights, they appeared on here and I lept on them, man you have to be quick on here  .



Who wouldn't be happy with these. Looking at the pic though my plate has slid slightly down to one side I will have to reattach this.

Previously I said I was opting for verdstein sessenta tyres, well after weighing up the mpg rating of e I decided I couldn't stomach it for the small difference in price compared to eagle f1's, plus the fact well you know there f1's so enough said  . I know by the way the wheels are filthy.



Will eventually get another two of these on the front so matching all round. The reason for replacement, camber had destroyed the inside edge of my tyres, really hoping this won't happen quickly on the f1's otherwise I will cry. Bought and booked through black circles very happy with service I received quick and painless. Have to say as well road noise significantly reduced imo.

Onto the diverter valve, having read a lot on the subject I felt confident and prepared to crack on with this. I also decided it was appropriate to go out the night before so my small job would be accompanied with a stinking hangover. However I was spurred on by all your tales of DV change and you will be all pleased to know I suffered all the way through.

Jacked up, wheel off, jack stands in and liners out many, many, many tiny screws, I was greeted by this, a 90 acre field secreted inside the arch liner. Good little jacks with these cars as well, I was impressed.



So cleaned that out moved onto the DV.



The badger is in there somewhere you just have to use the force and believe. Or this little contraption I created which was in all honesty a hand, arm and shoulder saviour. Just a 1/4 inch socket with a few extensions for length, haldfords advanced I'll have you know none of your silver line crap round here  .



In all honesty very easy to do hardest part was getting the arch liners back, in very fiddly. Before they went back in I gave everything a nice clean.



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