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My Car - Then && Now! ***new Wheels 22/12/08***

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what splitter is that mike? doesnt look like an 8v one

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its from one of them seat vans, found it in a scrappers and thought it would be different to the norm, works really well with the shape of the 8v bumper :D

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Updatee timeee! new wheels, 16v lights, smoked side repeaters & festive ariel :)

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referbing them over winter, fully polished with red inners.

starting all the bodywork soon too and retrimin and tidying up some interior bits :D

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I'm likin it, plans sound good too

plus black and white photo FTW!!

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looks alrite that mate!

only when you look at it, do you start to notice the small mods :)

looking good, though i cant help but notice the colour of your drivers side door :oops:

good effort mate and nice wheels

I've got some lotus elan wheels I'm polishing up over winter aswell

keep us updated!

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looking good, though i cant help but notice the colour of your drivers side door :oops:

yeah its not as noticeable in the flesh but it stands out like a sore thumb in photos :( its had a respray in the past at some point before i got it.

will all be geting resprayed anyway once I've done the smoothing :)

retrimming the headlinin and some interior pillars tomorrow so will keep updated :D

sounds good . get them updates sorted :thumbsup:

looking good, though i cant help but notice the colour of your drivers side door :oops:

what a cheeky comment! :o:lol:

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Car looks pretty gd mate!!

I am just starting to mod mine and I'm thinkin of gettin the hawk remote central locking kit would you recommend it?

Also what paint did u use to spray parts of your interior?

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would defo recomend the central locking kit, had it on a year now, no problems, cant fault it.

and the interior bits are just sprayed in bmw alpine white, rattle can job from halfrauds! x

would defo recomend the central locking kit, had it on a year now, no problems, cant fault it.

and the interior bits are just sprayed in bmw alpine white, rattle can job from halfrauds! x

Yer everyone seems to recommend the hawks kit so I'm guna fit that and spary some of the interior as well!

Thanks for the advice hope to see some more updates of the car soon :-)

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not updated this for a while but its bad news... the engine decided to clonk out about 2 weeks back, but she should be back on the road before long with a bigger engine :D

was absolutly gutted as my new plates turned up the morning after breaking down!!

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looking good mate. liking the plates. :thumbsup:

need to sort out some little manchester meet lol, its been to long haha. rollon 2009 8-)

hope you get the engine sorted

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yeah its been a while since I've seen any of the local lot, once I've sorted an engine will defo have to meet up :)

me to mate. i hate winter lol.

il see u at UD in march if your going.

I'm starting my beetle in to week when iv got time off :unibrow:

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was the central locking easy to fit mate

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peice of piss mate

cheers dude gonna order one this weekend

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Todays progress :)

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ohhhhh looks good.

nice progresss dude..gd luck with it :)

About time, its only been about 2 months haha.

Give me a ring if you need any help mate, I'm off work for a week after tommorow :).

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