Quote from jibber :

You might want to change your driving style maybe and visit some safety trainings / do some lessons / do a few trackdays.

It seems you have a real problem not crashing your car once in a while.

To be fair, crashed twice since i passed my driving test 3 years ago, so it could be worse. But agree, need to change my driving style.
There is no extra safety training here, or any trackdays.

This is true, happy i avoided the rabbit now haha

Quote from Braien93 :

A bunny's life is worth more then this pile of scrap.
10/10, would like to see that.

Is a bunny's life worth more then a human life though?

Note To Self: If you see a rabbit in the road, just run it over next time.

Quote from Sobis :

My first thoughts:

Haha, it does look alot worse in the second photo. But the entire front end had to come off so i could see the extent of the damage. Luckily not TOOOO bad. Just waiting for a new wing to come down and all sorted.

Angry driving down a green lane at night time, never ends well. 100% my fault.

Haha, loving the replies.
Yeah not really fond of these, they came on my car when i bought it and were promptly replaced. And now they're just sat around taking space so thought id put em up for sale. But definitely helps now that i know what they are, cheers

Wut?

Anybody have any clue what alloys these are?


Trying to sell them but have absolutely no clue what make they are.

Quote from Rappa Z :

Semi related:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEPHThVvgzI

SEMI related?
Coincidence? I think not! Haha

My job is IT Support at AIB Bank, pretty awesome if im honest, and to go from not having ever had a proper job so having no money every week to like £450 a week is just mad. Shame the job is only until the business closes down

Oh haha, i did the same to my last Golf aswell just to see what it looked like, i quite like the look so been on the lookout for a decent bonrath single wiper kit.

I'm not actually too sure on what i'm doing just yet.
First things first is to get the few problems with it sorted and get it serviced, main problem on my mind is getting the heated seats to work and the central locking to stop locking randomly.

But once thats all sorted i've got a full jetex exhaust system to go on, panel filter for the air filter and dremel out the inside of the airbox to smooth out the airflow, get some coilovers for it but not gonna drop it quite as much as you do haha, we've got s**t load of speed bumps here so it'd just be a nuisance.

Besides that nothings set in stone just yet, concentrating on making sure shes running as best she can before i start doing anything to her.

But planning on going for as OEM a look as possible, subtle little modifications that don't stick out too much.

Gorgeous!

Is that a proper single wiper conversion? i,e bonrath/storm conversion kit? Or is it just the ghetto "one wiper blade removed and put the other one half way up" jobby?

New car
VW Golf Mk3 Colour Concept GTI.
Only the 8v but jeez does it go well for what it is! Bearing in mind im used to a 1.4 golf which only had 60bhp (when it was brand spanking new).
Will try and get better photos once i've cleaned her, this was just a stop and take a quick photo to put on fb.

Quote from Tomba(FIN) :

Had it laying around, old owner (my friend) bought it from ebay from some chip tuning guy..
I don't know if it's worth it, if you have done lots of soldering and really know how to solder, I mean really.. then it is worth.
But if I hadn't had much experience I wouldn't of done it. Too much hassle if had to replace ecu..

This seems legit... if you really want power, for the love of god buy something else than 8v gti.. or any gti this age for that matter.

Oh fair enough, nah i cant do soldering for shit so if it turns out to be soldered i think i might leave it, or maybe ask around for somebody who is experienced in it. I was reading online though and apparently some ECU's are already socketed, so if it is then that would be perfect.

Cheers for the link, will watch it just incase.
I'm not really after power, you know where i live, its ****ing tiny, the island is like 4 miles by 7 so theres not much space to actually bomb it without killing someone. I just need something with a bit more go then my 1.4 which struggles up hills or with a full car ffs. Thanks for the advice about the chip though.

Quote from Tomba(FIN) :

~4hours with taking the old one off, eating and facebooking and doing some other stuff too. it's very hard to solder...
you can see here how much space there is.. http://i.imgur.com/2JP9i.jpg no soldering done in the pic

did noticeable difference, more torque on lower rpms, and I think it did like +10hp and +20nm.. feels good now. do you have 1.8 or 2litre?

oh yea, you can solder the chip there only so it won't be so hard.. but I recommend soldering a socket for it..

Ah I see, bit of a pain in the ass, but seems it would be worth it. Neither ATM, I've only got a 1.4, but I have my eye on a 2.0 GTI 8v, should hopefully be getting it next week. Did you buy the chip online or?

Tomba how long did it take you to solder that chip? Did it make a noticible difference?

Not a happy bunny today. Windy as f**k here, opened my door but the wind caught it and ripped it out my hand slamming it open. Messed up my hinge now, so the door at the end is about an half an inch lower then it should be, so to close my door either i have to lift it up and close it, or slam it closed. It's also managed to rip some of my trim out the door and bend it, so new trim and hinge is needed.


And then about half an hour after id finished raging over that, started going around a corner to find half a tree in the road, swerved it but mounted the edge of it slightly, ripped some of that plastic below the engine. So then all i could hear was it scraping on the road, had to get out and just rip it off.

Not a good day for me.

Really? It's not actually that common here, only other time i've seen it done was on the back window of a van and it looked quite good. Although i have seen it alot on the interwebz, and half the time it is pretty gash.

Haha! Hadn't even noticed that tbh!

Was supposed to match this

As i was going to stickerbomb all my wheels. But realised stickerbombed wheels would be over the top.

....
You can't get much cooler then my baby

Possibly paid someone else to do part/all of it who ripped him off a beaut. Seen an enclosure on eBay for sale with a 12" sub and two speakers in the same box carpeted in pink. Apparently cost the owner £450 just for the box as it was done by a "professional". Whereas it looks to me like it would only cost about £100 tops to do.

Im not saying it wouldn't be. But to say he doesn't know what he's talking about is a bit harsh. Some of what he said can turn out pretty expensive. Like i said a few times, 10k? I doubt it. But shit can end up pretty expensive.

Edit:
Somebody who truly has no clue wouldn't even know about big 3 or 0awg at all(Big 3? Whats that, maybe it means i need a 3000w peak amp, oh yeah).
Or know that you do need extra batteries for a several thousand watt install(My car has a battery, that should be fine).
Or know about sound deadening(Sound deadening? Huh, why wouldn't i want everyone outside the car to be able to hear my music with me)

But still, god knows what digital wiring is haha.

Last edited by Migz, Mon, 19 Nov 2012 00:41.

Quote from Jakg :

Things like "digital wiring" & the big three (a few small runs of 0AWG costs virtually nothing!)

I had no clue wtf digital wiring was so i just ignored that. But he also mentioned other 0 awg needed. So i assumed adding a few runs from front to back is what he meant.

Quote from Homeless_Drunk :

you have no idea what you are talking about...zero

How so? He's got a point, those things can add up to quite a bit. I don't think its anywhere near 10k, but what he mentions can end up pretty expensive.