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Re: Matt's Steel Grey 5door GTI
« Reply #15 on: December 04, 2015, 06:43:26 pm »
Nothing major but another slight improvement came in the post today:






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Re: Matt's Steel Grey 5door GTI
« Reply #16 on: December 05, 2015, 12:26:47 am »
What mileage is yours? I see the amd keyring, are you.local to them?

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Re: Matt's Steel Grey 5door GTI
« Reply #17 on: December 05, 2015, 05:25:58 pm »

What mileage is yours? I see the amd keyring, are you.local to them?
She's almost on 110,000 so still under average!

I got that keyring when I had my tdi mapped there. I'm about 45 mins from AMD


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Re: Matt's Steel Grey 5door GTI
« Reply #18 on: December 05, 2015, 10:02:56 pm »

Mines on 106000. Im hertfordshire/essex way
Plenty left! I'm pretty much central Essex. Got more goodies put on the car today, will upload pictures tomorrow!


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Re: Matt's Steel Grey 5door GTI
« Reply #19 on: December 06, 2015, 11:36:05 am »
Another little update for this weekend. Managed to grab a full set of genuine ed30 rear lights from the breakers! Fitted them last night :)




And an IG picture of my dads cousins and my steel greys!


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Re: Matt's Steel Grey 5door GTI
« Reply #20 on: December 06, 2015, 12:38:56 pm »
The ed30 lights make such a difference on the steel grey coloured golfs I think!

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Re: Matt's Steel Grey 5door GTI
« Reply #21 on: December 07, 2015, 10:36:18 am »
Very nice. Agreed on the lights, they make a massive difference.

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Re: Matt's Steel Grey 5door GTI
« Reply #22 on: December 13, 2015, 10:49:50 am »
Got a few more goodies in the post this week :) led plate lights, carpet floor mats, pressed plates and plate holders! I'm yet to put the front plate on, half tempted to go down the magnetic route. Excuse the state of the car, i did wash it last weekend  :confused:




The lights are seriously bright too! I also clocked her over to 110k whilst out for a drive!



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Re: Matt's Steel Grey 5door GTI
« Reply #23 on: December 13, 2015, 11:33:44 am »
That last picture is a good shot mate! I've got a flickery number plate light and was considering the led replacements, where did you get yours from?

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Matt's Steel Grey 5door GTI
« Reply #24 on: December 13, 2015, 12:10:30 pm »
That last picture is a good shot mate! I've got a flickery number plate light and was considering the led replacements, where did you get yours from?
I had the same trouble with replacement led bulbs on my tdi so opted for these which are whole light units, just plug and play: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/381197538468?_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT
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And cheers, shame I didn't take my dslr!

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Re: Matt's Steel Grey 5door GTI
« Reply #25 on: December 13, 2015, 02:16:31 pm »
Some nice photos in there. How is that only a week since last washing  :surprised:

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Re: Matt's Steel Grey 5door GTI
« Reply #26 on: December 13, 2015, 02:17:27 pm »

Some nice photos in there. How is that only a week since last washing  :surprised:
Cheers! It's a downside of living on a farm!


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Re: Matt's Steel Grey 5door GTI
« Reply #27 on: December 17, 2015, 06:16:58 pm »
Car went off to have the door lock issue fixed today (drivers door wouldn't lock or unlock on the button). All solved and they even fixed my wing mirror as there was no electrics going to it which meant no heat and no adjustment :( all fixed now! Also gave it a well deserved clean before hand. And to top it all off, easily averaged 30 mpg to and from the garage!!



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Re: Matt's Steel Grey 5door GTI
« Reply #28 on: December 30, 2015, 02:38:43 pm »
Small post Christmas update.

Got this for free so set about cleaning it up.

It has been outside for a while and was covered in hay so I had my doubts it would work!
One cone has a hole and crack in it so I'm running it with just one working for the mean time.

So got that installed in the boot yesterday with the help of a friend. Also bought a mfd2 off my brother so we put that in at the same time!




Really tidies up the dash, looks much better!
However, one question... Where should I put the satnav antenna? It's magnetic so I've just stuck it on the back of the headunit, but won't this play havoc with the radio? I've not properly tested it yet but it's where I was told to put it on another forum!

Between the rain I've also managed to clean and treat the front seats. They're a little more matte now and nice to know they're protected!

I'll have another go when it's a little warmer!

And finally, the one negative! Was driving along the other evening when this happened:

The trip screen just went blank. It's since been fine but I've since read about it and it seems the lcd's go bad. However most say it's when they've been in heat or the sun. Neither of which are about at the moment!
Anyway, it has only happened the once so fingers crossed!

Thanks for looking!

Matt.


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Re: Matt's Steel Grey 5door GTI
« Reply #29 on: January 01, 2016, 08:18:29 pm »
I recently fitted the Kenwood DNX and I was also thinking about the magnetic sat nav antenna, ended up leading it to the dash as I assume magnets and electrics inside the head unit wouldnt mix well, used a bit of M3 double sided tape instead