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My Mk5 2.0 GT
boardyuk:
Sooo after me saying that my Mk6 climate mod was the last one of the year, I found something at such a good price I couldn't pass them up. I've already been chatting with Ed and planning some mods for next year so that could be a pretty good year if it all comes off :party:
Roll on a day and a delivery from Skoda arrived today :jumping:
Wonder if anyone can guess what's in these boxes :happy2:
More to come...(maybe this weekend)
DamoP:
--- Quote from: boardyuk on December 12, 2014, 02:17:25 pm ---Sooo after me saying that my Mk6 climate mod was the last one of the year, I found something at such a good price I couldn't pass them up. I've already been chatting with Ed and planning some mods for next year so that could be a pretty good year if it all comes off :party:
Roll on a day and a delivery from Skoda arrived today :jumping:
Wonder if anyone can guess what's in these boxes :happy2:
More to come...(maybe this weekend)
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skoda LED DRL's in the foglights
boardyuk:
--- Quote from: DamoP on December 12, 2014, 06:03:43 pm ---skoda LED DRL's in the foglights
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10 points, was a bit of an easy one I suppose :signLOL:
I've been down at my parents place in Reading for a while (back home tomorrow though) but while I've been here and after talking to my dad I've decided to spend a bit more time on keeping my car clean, he's always maintaining his in some way shape or form and they always look really good when he's done.
While I can't really do anything major to the car until the weather gets a bit warmer (and I get some more ££ for the bits I need), I decided to get myself some Rain-X to make it a little safer for the rainy days and nights driving. I was originally going to get some Gtechniq G1 ClearVision Smart Glass stuff but my dad convinced me to try Rain-X first as it's cheaper and also the stuff they recommend on his Porsche forum, so I figured why not!
A few goodies from Halfords
In my parents garage applying the Rain-X
I put 2 layers of Rain-X on the outside and when I tested with a spray bottle the water just runs straight off, very impressive! As I had the anti-fog stuff too I put 1 layer of that on inside to see if it will actually work, I'm a little dubious but we shall see.
Anyway, some pretty big mods coming up soon hopefully, parts are starting to stack up :jumping: :jumping:
boardyuk:
Well after the drive back from my parents place I can safely say I will not be putting any more of the Rain-X Anti Fog rubbish on again, it didn't fog on the windscreen but caused a film of liquid to slowly run down which then blurred the entire window, which was fun! Luckily I wasn't far from my normal service station stop so I could wipe it off but need to get this rubbish off my window!
The exterior Rain Repellent on the other hand is absolutely fantastic. Driving along at 70mph with no wipers on in the rain and still being about to see out of the window is a new one for me, and I found it's also great fun seeing the sheer look of horror on peoples faces as you pass them with no wipers going when there's on on full whack :signLOL: (Obviously I wouldn't exactly recommend not using your wipers...but it is funny).
Anyway, I've been ordering bits left right and center recently and a few of them turned up today.
New rear AC vent as the one in the car is broken and although I can't see it I know it's broken and has bugged me right from day one, nice cherry hazard button to replace the horrible standard one, a set of trim removal tools I kept on putting off getting, and last but not least got myself a VCDS cable to play around with :fighting2:, luckily had an old laptop sitting around so that has now become my 'car' laptop :happy2:
boardyuk:
Wow haven't updated this for a while. Done a fair amount to the car in the last month. Once I got hold of my VCDS cable I was able to start tinkering.
The first thing I did was upgrade my CECM to a 30 byte highline to get all the features (nearly) of that. I mainly wanted fogs as DRLs, cornering fogs and also keeping the functionality of the standard fogs, also coded in a few other little bits while I was at it. While I as doing that I also fixed my rear AC vent and installed the new cherry hazard switch.
Back in December I got myself some of the Fabia VRS LED fog DRL units to replace the standard fogs. Unknown to me was that the Fabia (and newer Mk5) has a completely different shape of lens on the fog light and even has a different mounting so a little modding was needed. I ended up grabbing some cheap GTI fogs off eBay and then swapping out the fronts for the Fabia ones, once that was done I needed to cut of one of the mounting clips leaving the 2 on one side holding the unit in. Works nicely enough and makes it look better I think (if I hadn't cracked one of the lenses in a 'you WILL come apart' moment anyway). Ed was a great help supplying the looms I needed to convert the standard VW 2pin plugs to Skoda 3pin ones and giving me a hand getting things in. The only issue I have with these is that the load on the LEDs isn't high enough to stop the bulb out light triggering so I've got that on the dash constantly at the moment, any ideas would be great!
I also had a moment of weakness and bought myself some Depo Projector head lights and a 5000k H7 Xenon conversion kit for them. I've always preferred the look of the projector lights to the standard reflectors but the cost has always put me off doing the mod. After a lot of reading up on the Depo units I decided to just go for it, at the price they were including the conversion kit I just couldn't say no. Ed came over to give me a hand with this as I wasn't 100% with removing the bumper myself and we also had a few load resistors to put on my fog lights to see if it could get rid of the bulb out warning. The swap out was pretty painless really. Everything tested out ok, I'd already coded the Xenons with no shutters while I was waiting for Ed to arrive to stop them flickering. The fog light load resistors while they did get rid of the bulb out warning, they got so hot you could put your hand 2-3cm away from the resistor and feel the heat. While it was nice to be able to do that on that windy day, it wouldn't have been so good in summer while constantly running so I decided I'd just live with the warning light for the time being and work on a plan B.
I've probably forgotten a load of stuff and will post pics up once I've sorted them out. My list of mods to do is decreasing pretty rapidly :signLOL:
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