MK5 Golf GTI
All Things Mk5 => Members Rides => Topic started by: ello on November 02, 2017, 12:50:40 am
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So I've recently bought a candy white edition 30!
121K on the clock, Me and my mum has only put 500 miles since I got her home, my mum doesn't like auto too much and I'm trying to convince her it's ok and better!! Don't have much time to drive it myself as extremely busy with work and time I finish too tired but after crimbo hopefully that will change!!
Current spec:
5DR DSG, sunroof, MFSW, highline clocks, Candy White, xenons, and the usual standard edition 30 bits
Couple pics when I bought the car:
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welcome to the site--nice spec
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Shameless plug .... but these might be good as well to ad to your list :happy2:
http://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,114933.0.html
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beauty :driver:
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5 grand on seats :surprised: :surprised: :surprised: :surprised: :surprised: :surprised:
i love those rear lights, where did you get them from?
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That ed30 is lovely but I nearly threw up at the fact that you spent 5K on seats
You could have bought another gti for that and not have to share with your mother?
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Surely the cars not worth much more than 5k? Why not put that 5k onto the price off the car and buy something better? :thinking:
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Yeah was mad doing that, oh well, you only live once..
I bought the valeos off a guy on Facebook he's name is Ric Broadwith profile pic of him smoking, they were £350 delivered, plug and play . He also owns a page called Mk5 golf veyron modded lights so you can contact him on there.
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Surely the cars not worth much more than 5k? Why not put that 5k onto the price off the car and buy something better? :thinking:
It's worth at least 8+9k at its currrnt condition and spec, you only live once, I want to enjoy it, my aim is to enjoy it for a year and make it one of the best if not the best mk5 in the country.
Mk5's are still popular and will be for a very long time next year I can easily make my money back from the mods if I don't achieve what I want for the car selling it as a whole.
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Nice motor. Like the seats :happy2: not the price though. But as you said you only live once.......
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Looks lovely in white :happy2:
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My wife would have loved that my Ed. 30 had 5 doors like yours! :grin:
Your future plans sound awesome and you've started really strong with those lavish bucket seats. :evilgrin:
I'll be following your work. :drinking:
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My wife would have loved that my Ed. 30 had 5 doors like yours! :grin:
Your future plans sound awesome and you've started really strong with those lavish bucket seats. :evilgrin:
I'll be following your work. :drinking:
Thanks!
I've come across your build and you've done an terrific job, certainly right up there
with the very best, you should be proud!!
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Thanks!
I've come across your build and you've done an terrific job, certainly right up there
with the very best, you should be proud!!
Thanks again for the kind words! :drinking:
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Surely the cars not worth much more than 5k? Why not put that 5k onto the price off the car and buy something better? :thinking:
It's worth at least 8+9k at its currrnt condition and spec, you only live once, I want to enjoy it, my aim is to enjoy it for a year and make it one of the best if not the best mk5 in the country.
Mk5's are still popular and will be for a very long time next year I can easily make my money back from the mods if I don't achieve what I want for the car selling it as a whole.
You don't have to justify your purchases to anyone mate :happy2: It's your money, what ever makes you happy :smiley: People think I'm mad for spending £2.2K on coilovers :grin:
Thing is though, I'm surprised VW sold you complete seats. I was prepared to buy a pair of Edition 30 front seats from them for mine, but they told me they don't sell complete seats.......only bits of them which you have to assemble yourself!
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Good to see another Ed30 in the midlands. Few going around Coventry, mine included!
Plans sound good for it too bro, similar to what I have planned for mine. Don't forget to maintain it though, check the common issues on it before you push more power through it!
By the sounds off it you'll have it ready by the time the weekly VAG meet starts back up on these sides - Not that I go often, cus my car needs some loving cosmetically.
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Surely the cars not worth much more than 5k? Why not put that 5k onto the price off the car and buy something better? :thinking:
It's worth at least 8+9k at its currrnt condition and spec, you only live once, I want to enjoy it, my aim is to enjoy it for a year and make it one of the best if not the best mk5 in the country.
Mk5's are still popular and will be for a very long time next year I can easily make my money back from the mods if I don't achieve what I want for the car selling it as a whole.
You don't have to justify your purchases to anyone mate :happy2: It's your money, what ever makes you happy :smiley: People think I'm mad for spending £2.2K on coilovers :grin:
Thing is though, I'm surprised VW sold you complete seats. I was prepared to buy a pair of Edition 30 front seats from them for mine, but they told me they don't sell complete seats.......only bits of them which you have to assemble yourself!
I know mate nice one! I had the KW DDC Coilovers on my mind but I feel they are bit of an overkill and whilst I want the very best for the car I'm only
going to get the performance parts that I feel I will get the best value out of so relentless Coilovers will do for me.
Not offended by anyones comments to simply spend 5k on seats is bonkers anyway but you only live once and the car may well go next year so I want to enjoy it and make as many memories as possible..I don't drink or smoke, hardly go out so my car is my entertainment :P
And yeah, I believe it's the case with main manufacturers I know with Audi back in the days when the old rs4 seats were like hotcakes to order them in and for them to assemble you were looking at about 18k!!! Surprised they don't have seats already assembled, at least a couple dozen pairs you would of thought.
That's a shame about you wanting front edition 30 seats as I sold my absolutely mint ones for about £250, looking back I think I sold them way to cheap!
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Good to see another Ed30 in the midlands. Few going around Coventry, mine included!
Plans sound good for it too bro, similar to what I have planned for mine. Don't forget to maintain it though, check the common issues on it before you push more power through it!
By the sounds off it you'll have it ready by the time the weekly VAG meet starts back up on these sides - Not that I go often, cus my car needs some loving cosmetically.
Hey mate, bang on the money there with the amount of edition 30's I have seen kicking about the Midlands, quite common around the area where I live actually.
I'm not going to do anything to the car until the new year, just regularly maintenance, she's in good health but not in the prestine condition I want her to be, little things like wheels need refurbing and sorting out the body work, so I can get her ceramic coated.
Yes I will love to attend as many meets as possible in the new year indeed but I will only feel happy to bring her when she's at her finest lol.
Hope to catch you at meet in the new year sometimes perhaps, do you have a build thread for yours mate?!
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tbe ceramic coating is worth every penny as mine was done with igl coating
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tbe ceramic coating is worth every penny as mine was done with igl coating
Yeah can't wait when it's applied will look mint, just searching for the very best in the Midlands to do it. I would of gone to miglior detailing if it wasn't so far away :P
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Looks like your local to me I'll keep a eye out for you !
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Good to see another Ed30 in the midlands. Few going around Coventry, mine included!
Plans sound good for it too bro, similar to what I have planned for mine. Don't forget to maintain it though, check the common issues on it before you push more power through it!
By the sounds off it you'll have it ready by the time the weekly VAG meet starts back up on these sides - Not that I go often, cus my car needs some loving cosmetically.
Hey mate, bang on the money there with the amount of edition 30's I have seen kicking about the Midlands, quite common around the area where I live actually.
I'm not going to do anything to the car until the new year, just regularly maintenance, she's in good health but not in the prestine condition I want her to be, little things like wheels need refurbing and sorting out the body work, so I can get her ceramic coated.
Yes I will love to attend as many meets as possible in the new year indeed but I will only feel happy to bring her when she's at her finest lol.
Hope to catch you at meet in the new year sometimes perhaps, do you have a build thread for yours mate?!
Yeah, I've seen a few in Birmingham when I've been up them ways!
Yeah exactly, there are a few places that do tyre off refurb at a really good price, based in the midlands.. you might wanna search for them?
Sounds good, the meet down in cov isn't all bad although it was better a few years back...but the turn out gets better each week as the weather improves over the summer. No build thread unfortunately, like yours mine has the S3 brakes!
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Good to see another Ed30 in the midlands. Few going around Coventry, mine included!
Plans sound good for it too bro, similar to what I have planned for mine. Don't forget to maintain it though, check the common issues on it before you push more power through it!
By the sounds off it you'll have it ready by the time the weekly VAG meet starts back up on these sides - Not that I go often, cus my car needs some loving cosmetically.
Hey mate, bang on the money there with the amount of edition 30's I have seen kicking about the Midlands, quite common around the area where I live actually.
I'm not going to do anything to the car until the new year, just regularly maintenance, she's in good health but not in the prestine condition I want her to be, little things like wheels need refurbing and sorting out the body work, so I can get her ceramic coated.
Yes I will love to attend as many meets as possible in the new year indeed but I will only feel happy to bring her when she's at her finest lol.
Hope to catch you at meet in the new year sometimes perhaps, do you have a build thread for yours mate?!
Yeah, I've seen a few in Birmingham when I've been up them ways!
Yeah exactly, there are a few places that do tyre off refurb at a really good price, based in the midlands.. you might wanna search for them?
Sounds good, the meet down in cov isn't all bad although it was better a few years back...but the turn out gets better each week as the weather improves over the summer. No build thread unfortunately, like yours mine has the S3 brakes!
Yeah I've got a refurb place lined up, it's called City Powder Coaters who are based in Digbeth, they do a good job tbf!
The aim is to go to a few meets but tbh I'm not really into car meets imo and it's simply due to the asbo/chavness that goes on in a lot of them but I certainly will attend a few! Not sure if you heard of Motorheadz, that was popular with a lot of cov car folks before the police clamped down big time.
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Not much of an update but the put the ball rolling in regards to the car.
Scirocco r20 clocks
GTI clubsport seatbelts
BCS WRC exhaust
Carbon interior installed
Doorcards retrimmed
Arm rest, gear shift knob and handbreak retrimmed
Revo Intake with r-tech head shield
Here's some of the pics of the items that should be installed in the next two weeks
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Probably try and get booked into r-tec in Jan for stage 2+ map and over run.
Need to source my intercooler to complete stage 2+
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Ohhh man those clocks are amazing :laugh:
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Recently changed my inlays, they look the bits!
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I've just added the retrimmed doorcards.
Loving the new look. Heard the bcs wrc exhaust also today. JUST WOW!
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Stunning mate :happy2:
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Wow. What a spec. So jealous of your seats :happy2: loving the interior.