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Garth:
Right then, since I've had the car just over a month, I thought I'd start my own build thread.
Don't be expecting massive changes as I'm all about subtle modding and try to keep things looking OEM.

I bought the car as a bog standard 2005 GTI in pretty shabby condition after haggling quite a bit off the asking price and this is what it looked like:





It was complete with dent in the boot, and damaged rear badge with plenty of corrosion, dents in the doors, scratched rear quarter light, ripped leather and corroded wheel centre caps.

The first thing I did was buy it some new mats and a Parrot bluetooth handsfree kit with a steering wheel interface. Here is that lot going in  :grin:


Then the next job was to replace the quarter light and get dent wizard to knock out all the dents. I bought a full set of centre caps for the wheels from VW and repaired the torn leather seat.

I then set about sorting out the rear badge by removing the corroded part:

sanding down the handle and filling the small hole:

I then bought a mk4 rear badge (as you can't buy one to fit the original mk5 handle  :confused: ). I split this down to it's parts:

I removed the complete handle assembly and sprayed it steel grey to match the car

and then fixed the chrome part of the mk4 badge to it

which then left me with this (this was before the dent was removed!):


More to follow.....

Garth:
You can all flame me if you want, but I don't like the red stripe on the grille (except on a red car) so I wrapped it in light grey vinyl, taking the front of the car from this:

to this:


I then decided to spray the front badge satin black so the front ended up like this:

But I'm not convinced it works, so I may go back to a chrome one soon ???

I've replaced all bulbs inside and out with white ones as I hate the standard yellow.

Yesterday I fitted these little beauties taking the seat from this:

to this:


I also removed the side repeaters from the wing mirrors last night to smoke them as they are too light on a dark grey car. The photos of this will follow in a few hours when I've put it all back together!

My new wheels arrive on Tuesday so I'll post up some pics of the car once they're on. It needs a good clean and polish so hopefully that'll get done this weekend. Then the next thing will be to fit some Eibach sportlines.
If anyone has these springs only on stock shocks can give me an HONEST opinion of what the ride is like with these please let me know. Too many people lower their car and have it turn in to a hard, crashy dog but they still claim it's "only slightly harder than standard" because they're unwilling to admit they ruined the ride. I drive over 100 miles a day and need a little comfort!
 :happy2:

WhiteGTI:
Nice progress so far  :happy2:

Aparoon:
Looking good there, kinda like the grey strip too  :happy2:

Re the sportlines, I have them fitted to standard dampers and they are great, little bit firmer than standard but all round hardly noticeable! I had coilovers on my last car and that did ruin it for me as it was way too harsh but these are perfect imo couldnt be happier  :happy2:

Gti Jal:
Like your style, subtle mods wins for me!

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