what a weekend!

I'm pretty chuffed with my place on the track attack. i came 4th! (well 3rd) lol

your mate toke some pictures of my polo aswel..

Edited 10 August, 201016 yr by Darrell Hx

That's what I like to see.. polos on track.. :)

what a weekend!

I'm pretty chuffed with my place on the track attack. i came 4th! (well 3rd) lol

your mate toke some pictures of my polo aswel..

Yeah i saw those, they came out well. Some good ones of Spyke too

Legendary weekend, you deffo need to check out the museum next year

That's what I like to see.. polos on track.. :)

Awww yeah me an Daz reppin for The Polo Massive

innit blud

New Compomotive centre caps came yesterday, they make the wheels look much better and the car looks more "finished" with them on. I didn't realise how much the lack of centre caps was really bugging me.

I'll try to get some better shots of the car with them on over the next week or so.

Looking really good. Good to see the mods being used properly!!!

Wheels look great, wish i had got them off Phil now think they would suit a red mk2 better

TBH I completely forgot Phil had these, otherwise i would have nabbed them of him, when it turned out my Revo's were shit....

If you are ever thinking of selling these, let me know please

wow just realised how out of date this thread is, it's been a while!

I'll attempt to give 3-4 months of updates at once, most of it is boring stuff so it should be like one good update instead of a load of shitty ones.

In errrr October? my NEW Powerflex bushes looked like this:

Nice eh? Apparently the cuff around the edge is not used on other makes of bushes so even though Powerflex offered me new ones I thought the same thing would happen again so I got some different ones. No pics of those I'm afraid but they're not very pretty anyway. Big thanks to PhilJ for finding me some decent bushes and even fitting them for me.

The next thing I did was finally after months of peer pressure sort out the pinstriping - which looked like this:

and now looks like this:

Since I had been using my stock alloys during the winter I decided to give the centre caps a bit of a refurb. As you can see they needed it!

This is them after some nitromors, some scrubbing and some primer:

I dont have a finished pic of them after the silver, the clear coat and on the car.

So next I bought a new spoiler off ebay:

Which made this happen:

then last week I loaded the compos on my roofrack and set off

And i made the return trip today with the car looking a bit better.

Well chuffed with how they turned out - I'll try and get some pics with the rack off and after a bit of a wash.

Blimey...

Looks amazing.

Very tidy mate

Looking good as always.... Compo's looking very good, wish i got these off Phil now

What happened to those bushes? and which ones were they? the TCA? What did you replace them with?

<3 this so much. One of my earliest memories is being in my mum's helios blue mk2 parade . If you ever want to sell this, give me a shout! I'd kill to have this on my driveway

thanks for all the kind comments, glad you guys like the wheels.

dekerf, yes they were the TCA ones, i have no idea what kind phil replaced them with (he couldn't find the superpro ones he was gonna use) other than they were black, kind of rounded off looking and really hard compound!

I've lost track of all the people wanting to buy this tez but you've got like 5th or 6th refusal!

What size A539's are they?

You have got me looking for some TH's now.. but whats worse is, that Compomotive are about 15-20 mins away from me in Wolverhampton city center haha!

What size A539's are they?

You have got me looking for some TH's now.. but whats worse is, that Compomotive are about 15-20 mins away from me in Wolverhampton city center haha!

185/50/14s mate, not sure if Compo still make 6J 14 et35s anymore though, at least they're not on their website - may have to be special order?

So I thought I'd give this a little update since I gave the car a wash on Thursday before heading out to the 8ball Diner for the RR East meet.

Yes, that's right, I washed the car. Well not me, some foreign folks at the car wash. Definitely worthy of an update.

I've also put the old square AA badge on and fitted a new headunit which the missus got me for my birthday (very generous of her). It's an Alpine and you can put USB sticks in it, brilliant when you drive a car with a not-so-smooth ride since it doesn't skip. I don't want to sound like a tart but the green fascia matches the rest of the interior too.

In addition to this I decided to paint the writing on my tyres white. Bit of a marmite decision probably but I think it looks cool because I'm a big child.

So I took some pictures today, here's how she looks:

So next up I'm ordering some new Parade stickers because I'm missing the one off the passenger side and I'm toying with the idea of getting a mate of mine to give it a proper detailing. We will see how far the funds stretch. I also need to replace the rubber seal on the bottom of the carb as it's perished.

Edited 6 March, 201115 yr by EmDee

amazing! wish compomotive still sold these in this size - no fair!

Minor update from two weeks ago:

My carb flange (hehe) gasket was completely shot and was letting air in quite badly. I thought it was going to be a 30 min job but was proven wrong on several counts. I had a brand new part but for some reason there were bolts needing cut down, original parts that had been bonded together and just the general PITA that is access to the nuts (hehe) under the inlet manifold. Anyway, got this done after a while but since my phone went dead I only have a pic of the old one next to the new one. You cant really tell how bad the old one was from the pic. It was poo.

Once that was done I managed to fix an exhaust rattle - it was getting pretty bad so that was nice to sort.

Picked up a custom fabbed brace bar which just fits next to the ARB blocks (not a great pic and the underside of my car looks a bit tatty but you get the idea).

Also got a new cam cover, my standard one needs sandblasting and powdercoating and the chrome one I picked up has rusted in spots during the winter so for the price of a refurb on either one I figure I'd pick up a new (old) aluminium one. [/justification]

moar pics to follow

Edited 24 March, 201115 yr by EmDee

AH MAN this looks soo much better than last time i saw you (no rice a while back i was in the 6n with the yellow cookies at dubcroydon) i only live down bottom of wallington so once i get my new olop tomorrow ill have to get back to dubcroydon and see this beaut lol

cheers bud, I'm in Wallington too but since theres no more NoRice I don't go to any local meets. Might go to Prept at Brands next Wed though?

LOL fair do's showes how long i been out of a polo lol i thought you were wallytown i see what i thought was this up a street that shall remain nameless now i know I'm right lol ill be sure to give you a sup when i see you driving ill be in a purple bready

and i dunno if ill go prept not yet anyway gonna make some progress on the car first lol

lol sorry bud i forget bout the whole public knowing thing lol I'm the same

Edited 25 March, 201115 yr by dub loon

Fair enough mate, PM me if you want to go.

Cheers for changing that street name

Edited 27 March, 201115 yr by EmDee

Any progress bud?

Any progress bud?

err yeah a little bit actually.

Failed to start a while ago after I'd been in Birmingham for a week - it was a dead battery. It looked like the battery in there was the original one, but I seriously doubt it after 21 years, the previous owner (Audrey) must have picked one up from the dealership. Anyway I managed to bump start her on my own (legend I know) and headed down to Halfrauds (trade card FTMFW).

So I was a bit skeptical about this because the battery tray on these is a known rust hotspot and after owning it for a year I'd still never made time to look under the battery (pathetic effort). Even if the rest of the car is solid there is a bloody good chance it's rotten under the battery.

Well happy when I saw this! Not even any surface rot, just a bit of random organic mank, pine needles, dirt and leaves etc. Big relief.

Here's my new Bosch badboy:

I thought I could justify posting this because it was expensive (£65) and I'm well chuffed about my battery tray. ;D

I've also recently picked up a rather nice rocker cover from a local Polo chum. It was a bit shoddy to begin with but patience and paint seems to have sorted that.

before:

bit of filing down the rough spots

Wet and dry action followed by some polishing

maskage

paintage

The end result:

The phone pictures aren't great but you get the idea. I will get some of it in situ one it's fitted but I'm going to polish it a bit more before it goes on.

Chuffed, thanks to Rich for selling the rocker cover and also my mate Darren who helped me polish it, he is the polishing king and my feeble effort was truly shown up by his patience and bottomless polishing resources!

Actually I'm not sure if anyone reading this can help but I'm after a part number for a rocker cover bolt that has some sort of built in breather facility - not sure if anyone knows what I'm on about? Worth a try :)

More to come soon with the long awaited replacement of my ghetto air feed!

teaser:

rocker cover looks the tits mate.

Nice example makes me wanna get one keep the the good work

Much love for this, looks absolutely spot on.

Result on the battery tray, and the rocker looks awesome.

Rob.