1999 1.4 16v 100bhp Open Air

I have owned my polo for about a year and a half now and i thought that i may as well start a build thread as i might be planning some big modifications in the new year.

When i brought the car is had a few small modifications done already including 40mm lowering springs, k&n panel filter and tsw alloys.

When i got the car i had the bonnet resprayed as it was in a bad way. I then had to have a new starter motor and battery fitted as it hadn't been used for a while. Now that it was running properly i started to add a few more mods of my own including a badgeless grill, removed the polo and 16v badges off the rear, resprayed the wheels in a darker gray (as they needed a refurb anyway) and upgraded the sound system a bit with a kenwood stereo, 6x9's in the parcel shelf and upgraded the door speakers with jbl ones.

after owning the car for about 3 months, the car decided to get an oil leak which i found out to be the rocker cover gasket, this meant a very expensive replacement gasket and rocker cover due to the stupid design of the original one.

now that the oil leak was fixed i decided to polish up the rocker cover gasket and give the whole engine bay a clean up.

Before

After

last week I brought a set of mk3 golf vr6 leathers off of ebay for £150 and i fitted these in place of the original seats. i have just managed to source the heater loom and switches and other parts from here as a Christmas present to myself. these should hopefully be arriving soon along with my Hid kit that i am getting for Christmas.

a Picture of my car in the snow

my future plans for the car will include

-some coilovers

-new exhaust

-some smoothing

-New wheels

Edited 3 April, 201313 yr by rozza92

nice car m8, good job on engine that my next mission for my valver also love the wheels there quite smart :-D

nice car m8, good job on engine that my next mission for my valver also love the wheels there quite smart :-D

Thanks

Got these for christmas.

there h4 6000k Hid's. Going to have a go at fitting them tomorrow if the weather clears up a bit

Edited 30 December, 201015 yr by rozza92

i fitted the Hid's today, wasnt too hard to do just took a while to figure out where to put the ballasts but after that it was all just plug and play.

the kit came with everything that was needed and is quite good quality as well for a £50 ebay kit.

here are were the ballasts were fitted to. had to take apart the air intake to connect it

i will get some more pictures in the dark later

The heated seat loom and switches haven't shown up yet but i will update when they do

here's a picture of them in the dark

I hope you got them aligned as they are not in projectors

I hope you got them aligned as they are not in projectors

I haven't done that yet. I didn't know I needed to do that thanks for letting me know

Edit: Just Done this, they werent out too much

Edited 31 December, 201015 yr by rozza92

love the number plate, get some wide wheels, slam it and get some tuck on them, will go well with the plate

love the number plate, get some wide wheels, slam it and get some tuck on them, will go well with the plate

Yeah that is the plan hopefully :). The tuc bit on the plate is actually part of my last name, i didnt really think about it like lol

Win win lol

Bit annoyed with the car today, came off the motorway on the way back to uni and couldn't change gear. i managed to just limp back the last 10 miles of the trip in 2nd.

i think it is the clutch, hopefully it isnt the gearbox.

dropped off at the garage sounding very sorry for its self. hopefully wont be too bad news

just picked up the car today with a new uprated clutch and a new uprated gearbox fitted. The clutch is so light now compared to the old one.

still waiting for the loom and switches to arrive for the heated seats

washed the car for the first time in about a month today so i thought i would put some new pictures up

also i finally got round to getting some pictures of the new mk3 leathers i put in the car in november as well

and the loom for the heaters in the seats have finally turned up so i will be fitting these on sunday if i get a chance

Edited 28 January, 201115 yr by rozza92

That roof is amazing!!

Wow lol

lookin nice mate, i like the 16v badge on grille , if i was u id take off side mouldings on door n quarter colour code handles n get coilovers, coilovers r worth every penny, yeah its a bumpy ride but handling is awesome and slammked cars look betta

That roof is amazing!!

Wow lol

lookin nice mate, i like the 16v badge on grille , if i was u id take off side mouldings on door n quarter colour code handles n get coilovers, coilovers r worth every penny, yeah its a bumpy ride but handling is awesome and slammked cars look betta

thanks for the comments, coilovers are next on my list of things to do, but it might have to wait a while now that i have had to pay £600 for the recon gearbox and clutch

nice car and colour :) i'm after a Polo as a runaround and the 16v and open seems very rare

nice car and colour :) i'm after a Polo as a runaround and the 16v and open seems very rare

yeh apart from on here i haven't really seen another one on the road near me.

I had a go at wiring in the heated seats today but I am not to sure I have done it right so if anyone could give some details in how to do it that could be helpful

did you have to modify the rear seat to get them to fit?

did you have to modify the rear seat to get them to fit?

just had to take the backing off from the golf and put the polo backing on, only took about 10mins, quite easy to do

Some new pictures of the car after the first clean in about a month.

Also Going to get some coilovers at the end of the month so it will be getting slammed to the ground

Edited 26 March, 201115 yr by rozza92

I got a bit bored today so i decided to paint the VW badge on the back black

Edited 26 March, 201115 yr by rozza92

Well, i was going to buy some coilovers this month, but after a call to the insurance i found out that it will be too much to declare them so i will have to wait till the summer when i have more no claims.

anyway, i wanted to do something to the car over the easter break and my wheels needed a good refurb due to me not being able to judge where the curb is properly lol

i sanded them down almost to the metal at some points the marks were so bad

Then the masking up

and the final product. I used Rover gunmetal grey if anyone is interested