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Sideshowfreds GTI - Stereo Upgrade :-)
sideshowfred:
cheers fr the comment guys.
SUB39H, i'd have them if i had the money but buying this means i gonna have to wait for wheels :sad1:
I decided to have a look at the broken foglight today, i'd assumed the bulb had gone so didn't think the much of it. Took the grill off to find that there was no bulb in the foglight unit, infact, there was no holder or anything. I also noticed that one of the foglight brackets had snapped so it was wobbling a little bit. So I whipped the light out and rummaged around behind it to find the bulb and holder and the horn were both loose. After a quick inspection the bits that hold the bulb/holder into the light unit were snapped. So i need a whole new fog light unit :fighting:
TBH i wasn't too fussed at this point, i could live without it for the moment. So i went to put the grill back on and couldn't screw it back in. After much confusion (and checking the other side), i found that the bracket that the screw goes into has snapped off the bumper. As if this now wasn't enough to annoy me, i found that the bumper was beggining to crack heading towards the number plate. :fighting: :fighting: :fighting:
So basically, i need a new foglight AND bumper. And i've had to bodge the grill around the foglight to hold it in place. Other than that though i'm still really enjoying the car. Just want to get these little bits sorted as there always going to annoy me!
sideshowfred:
I decided that as it's payday tomorrow, and I wanted to do something useful to the car, i'd buy some carbon look vinyl so I can wrap my front grill and make it easier to get the smooth look as I can't be bothered to do it properly!! This then bit me in the usual way and I thought about the other thing I could wrap. Needless to say looking at some other people's cars on here made me do the most obvious thing. I had some terrible effect stuff already in the garage so out it came and this is the result.
It took me about 30 mins and tbh it's a rubbish job. But at least I can decide if I like it enough to do it properly. Roll on tomorrow so I can start sorting the grill out :)
sideshowfred:
not a very exciting update, unless your me haha. To go with the US spec rear bumper i bought, and am still awaiting delivery of, I decided the front needed to match. As much as I like the smoothed front look so many run, a previous encounter with the police for no front plate has put me off the idea.
Cue a long search for on a US spec front plate holder. 2 months after searching Ebay.com came up good. So i ordered this on Monday (30th Jan), and it arrived at my front door yesterday (2nd Feb). I'm astonished it's got here so quickly tbh, but it has.
tomorrow i will test fit it and order some US size plates :smiley:
Also my proper carbon wrap turned up on tuesday so I re-did the steering wheel to better results, and also did the ashtray and surround
i lost the clips for the ESP button though hence it's sticking out :(
So just waiting on the rear bumper at the minute and then I can actually get cracking :driver:
big al:
Look forward to seeing the front, nice to see something done differently with the US front plynth.
sideshowfred:
Yeah, i was just looking for something better to run a US spec plate on rather than screwing it straight onto the grill which just looks stupid in my eyes. So i though i'd go down the oem route. I got impatient last night so whipped the grill of and got the drill out.
I just used the holes that were already marked so it was nice and easy for once :smiley: The grill went back on last nigt but it was too dark to take pics so i've had to brave -6 this morning to get these :stupid:
About an hour after i'd pm'd the guy I bought my bumper off, sods law happened and I almost missed it being delivered. I had my music turned up too loud so couldn't hear the doorbell. Anyway, managed to grab the driver resulting in this being given to me
It's a bit scratched up but what can I expect for £85 lol. Gonna give it a good clean and polish and see if I can get some of the scratches out and weather permitting will test fit it next weekend.
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