MK5 Golf GTI

All Things Mk5 => Members Rides => Topic started by: robhamill94 on October 06, 2015, 01:50:12 pm

Title: Rob's Black GTI
Post by: robhamill94 on October 06, 2015, 01:50:12 pm: Hi all, been on the forum for a whilst. Been meaning to write a build thread but haven't got round to doing it till now.

First VW was a MK4 Golf 1.6 which lasted about 8 months -

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Bought some cheap 17" alloys of fleabay

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Then on my birthday the gear box blew up,

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After a new gearbox and clutch sold it for a profit (y)

Then saved up the pennies and bought this little beauty for £6k with 51k miles on the clock 1 owner and full dealership history !

17" monza alloys
cloth interior
everything stock

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After a few days ownership she was looking neglected with the 100 mile a day round trip to work

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Bought a D/A polisher, a ton of polishes, glazes, pads, quick detailers from chemical guys (well worth getting a few things from) a karcher snow foam lance and gave her some much needed tlc.

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Soon got used to the 200 ponies, so booked her in down at AMD tuning essex for stage 1 map, miltek catback (non resonated), DV+, and panel filter. This resulted in a complete change in the feel of the car much more responsive and goes like s**t of a shovel. Dyno print out "claims" 250bhp ! after having a couple of runs against my mates stock focus st 230bhp i wouldn't say it was far off.

(Excuse the awful photography)

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Bit of beading,

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Open fog vents,

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Got the windows tinted

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Thought about getting the R32 tinted rear lights but for the price i decided to try tinting the original red ones. (Didnt think about taking the light housing out :confused:)

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PCV delete plate from the guys at forge

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Latest purchase some RS4 reps

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Wasn't 100% sure about them, but they're growing on me, next to get some lowered springs on, R32 projectors, R32 brake kit, Twintake, Twintercooler, HPFP internals, Miltec 200 cell sports cat downpipe, stage 2+, clutch, sm flywheel + much, much more.

Another project in the household - VW beetle hot rod

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Title: Re: Rob's Black GTI
Post by: GibboVR on October 07, 2015, 08:16:23 am: Nice car!
Title: Re: Rob's Black GTI
Post by: white91 on October 07, 2015, 09:14:57 am: How much did it cost to tint your windows?

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Title: Re: Rob's Black GTI
Post by: robhamill94 on October 07, 2015, 09:22:42 am: Quote from: white91 on October 07, 2015, 09:14:57 am
How much did it cost to tint your windows?

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£210.00 by a mobile fitting company, the bloke really took his time making sure it was spot on. http://www.tintacar.co.uk/
Title: Re: Rob's Black GTI
Post by: white91 on October 07, 2015, 09:53:31 am: Cheers mate, great car by the way, think I need remap first tho!

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Title: Re: Rob's Black GTI
Post by: robhamill94 on October 07, 2015, 01:08:57 pm: Cheers Pal, yeah well worth doing.

A couple of things I missed out,

Had a full service, cambelt and waterpump done using oem parts @ 60k miles by my mechanic for £500 (y).

Checked the cam follower, bought a spare (will change that over in the next few weeks).

Headlights had tarnished, seems to happen to a lot of these golfs. So went over it with different grades of wet and dry then machine polished with a scratch remover compound. After a couple of months they went back to being all misty, not as bad but still not how i want it. So will be buying the depo projectors next month.

With the new alloys on, there was a bit of arch rubbing when going over big dips in the road, so bought an arch roller hopefully that comes tomorrow, setting up for the springs/coils to go on.
Title: Re: Rob's Black GTI
Post by: ashbignall on October 11, 2015, 09:06:45 pm: Looking good mate! Looks like you did a good job tinting the lights too! Something I might look into.