Model: 6n

Engine: 1.6

After i passed my driving test, I had seen quite a few polos but the right 1 had not come my way yet. Initially I was after a 16v but that fell through. My brother's mechanic had a polo sitting in his drive way for over a year. The polo was a write off as well as being automatic transmission, so I went have a look at it anyway. Then a few days later, the mechanic was given a 1.0 manual 6n by another friend mechanic who no longer needed it! From there, he said he would convert the written off automatic 6n to a manual and get this car back to life and fix all other damage to the car.

The colour of the car is Blue Anthrazit Pearl, not sure if this is a rare standard colour that the 6n can come in, then again i myt be wrong

YES this meant I had to wait a quite a while, as he was quite heavily booked in by other cars

But as the car was a total wreck - this was an ideal project!!!

I visited my mechanic every week to see the progress...

When the car was dead!

Conversion

During the conversion, i bought some clear side repeaters, german pressed plates and new windscreen :-)

I got the car on the Monday 6th october 2009.

Although as the car was a write off, it had to undergo a DVLA car test check. It took 2 weeks to book due to failure of their systems and 3 weeks

for the nearest date available. After it passed, i got the car on road on the 8th december 2009.

Very soon after, I got a Clifford Concept 650 alarm installed

Then it was time to install a whole new load of sound - as there wasn't a headunit or even any door speakers LOL, only the tweeters

So I got the following;

Alpine 9812RB (headunit)

Hertz DSK 165 (speakers and tweeters)

Kicker L7 15" (sub)

JBL GTO 14001e (amp)

JBL GTO 752e (amp)

Optima Yellow Top (battery)

Momo 280mm & boss kit :-D

Got some L.E.D lights for the back bumper ^ ^ ^

Then I started to dynamat the boot & tailgate, to stop the rattling of the sub

With the new speakers, my doorcards would rattle abit. As I can't stand any rattle , I then decided to dynamat around the speakers

The amount of dynamat actually did the job, although it was quite annoying put it on due to shape of the plastic speaker surround.

Then installed the momo after the sound was complete

Bought a pair of 16v rears off ebay

My brother teasing me with his BBS RS's as I was hoovering the inside of my car

Managed to get hold of the 16v carpet

Removal of the old carpet

Got hold of some 16v seats, doorcards, 6n2 gearknob and sprayed the centre console black

When another payday came, so did the 6n2 rears as well as removing the side strips

Soon after, I bought a set of BBS RZs 15inch, 40mm springs, a standard new exhaust and a nice clean to the car.

Managed to get a slight poke on the car too

I felt that the steering wheel had to be replaced as well as the centre console. Going for OEM look in the car is what I had in mind.

So i went to the scrappy and picked up a 6n2 steering wheel, handbrake and a Golf mk3 centre console.

The centre console was quite fiddly to get in, required quite a bit of trimming.

FK Badgeless grill

SOON FUTURE PLANS:

1) 16v back bumper on ASAP and resprayed

2) HIDs 6000k

3) remove back wiper

4) smooth front 16v bumper

and more to come....

let me know what you guys think... :-)

Edited 2 October, 201015 yr by Amit_6n

Looks nice and clean,

Did you smooth your original steering wheel, Looks smart :)

and you could go a tad lower :p

Sik one amit

No mention of me :(

Joke joke, looking good man!

How much you pay for the standard exhaust?

Looks nice and clean,

Did you smooth your original steering wheel, Looks smart :)

and you could go a tad lower :p

thanks :-) yeah it was smoothed, the mechanic did it randomly lol. yeah I'm going to go lower, when i get new rims later on this year and i want to insure mods too

Sik one amit

No mention of me :(

Joke joke, looking good man!

How much you pay for the standard exhaust?

lol, i paid £46.50 from german and swedish.

and a thanks to knight0989 for help on this project

Nice one! Has come a long way Fair play :) Keep Going Buddy Have a feeling about this one :)

Looks nice and clean,

Did you smooth your original steering wheel, Looks smart :)

and you could go a tad lower :p

thanks :-) yeah it was smoothed, the mechanic did it randomly lol. yeah I'm going to go lower, when i get new rims later on this year and i want to insure mods too

Sweet,Has potential too be very very nice!

I really want my wheel smoothed now ;)

This morning I received my glass wiper blank :-)

I then went to halfords and bought a pack of rubber grommits

With the wiper

Glass wiper blank

Then I washed the car..

cheers PooksPolo, yeah its going good so far and is a lot of fun :-D

Edited 29 July, 201016 yr by Amit_6n

Thats looking wicked mate! :) nice work

Thats looking wicked mate! :) nice work

Thanks mate , should be gettin my 16v back bumper on this week hoopefully :-D

Loving this so far.

Where did you get the wiper blank from ?

Loving this so far.

Where did you get the wiper blank from ?

cheers man. Sponsored Forums > DubStyle its like the 3rd post there. think theres a few glass 6n wiper blanks left

This is looking really good mate

May try some Dynamat myself, i know what you mean about rattle...

Needs lowering.

A lot.

Edited 29 July, 201016 yr by Foxie

This is looking really good mate

May try some Dynamat myself, i know what you mean about rattle...

thanks stevemk3, yeah i recommend dynamating, it makes a big improvement

yeah the springs are temporary, going to buy some coilovers when i get some more £ together

C'mon Singh lower the car to the deck.

C'mon Singh lower the car to the deck.

lol - yeah that should be happening next month if everything goes to plan

C'mon Singh lower the car to the deck.

lol - yeah that should be happening next month if everything goes to plan

Cool man, gd gd

I managed to get hold of some 6n2 seats, had to drive to portsmouth to get these

this was the interior when I first got the car, so from that...

..

to this....

to now...

yeah i know the seats still need bit more of a scrub lol

Will keep this updated :-)

Edited 20 August, 201016 yr by Amit_6n

Looking good, is the steering wheel a straight swap?

Looking good, is the steering wheel a straight swap?

Thanks man!

yeah the steering wheel is a straight swap, my m8 did it for me

Initially I was supposed to get bodywork done but other things have had to come first, so its been put on hold.

I ordered some HIDs (6000K - flex kit) and some blue side lights from xenonsonline.com

Not the greatest pic, but will upload more soon tomorrow hopefully!

In addition, my Kicker L7 15" unfortunately died on me the b*stard! This really did sidetrack my initial plans!

So I had had to find a better replacement.

Bought an Ascendant Audio 15" Havok

Currently waiting on a custom made ported box! :-D

Looking to SLAM the car on a new set of rims after the box is made, going slower than I expected but sometimes you just gotta wait lol

S'always worth the wait mate, looking good!

so last night i was driving back from heathrow T4 and all of a sudden there was a horrid noise from the engine!!!

called the AA and was told that:

the driveshaft had come off and smashed my gearbox casing in and potentially ruined my gearbox too!!!!

there was even fluid spills the on the road too and had to wait 1hr for the AA to arrive and an extra 1hr 30mins for a truck to retreive my polo

not a good friday night at all!

this happened at around 10:10pm

as of now, the car is parked outside a car garage repair shop until i get there early morning to talk the garage guys.

plans for the car that i had next week are now ruined and put further back!!!

and to top if all off i had spent a long time cleaning the car after work !!!

will keep this posted and will get this polo back on road, or if not - perhaps a new polo!!!

last night's drama!!!

this is where my car broke down:

arrival of the truck and guy looking under the car:

on the truck:

Edited 16 October, 201015 yr by Amit_6n

Thought you'd run over that guy in the middle picture - until I read the post. Unlucky man - hope you can get it sorted cheaply.