So i bought a mk3 polo almost a year ago and it has sat in my garage ever since, cant get insurance on it at all (being 17, they just laugh at you)

so i figured i might aswell buy a newer polo and try insure it under my dads name, (which will be sorted in a week or so)

picked this polo up cheap as the owner was moving to Australia, got it for £600, which i thought was reasonable,

needs a good service and front pads and discs replaced,

only one tiny spot of rust on the driver side sill,

after i got it home got the heat gun and tar and glue remover out and got those hideous bump strips off,

then got on to ebay and ordered up a set of coilovers and put them in at the weekend, then it got a good wash and polish,

wasnt turning up clean enough so called my friend and he came down with hiss buff and gave the car the cleaning off a life time, looks like new and feels so smooth,

so now the next plans are to get these 6n2 parts at the weekend and get them on :)

Model: 1999 6N 5 Door

Engine:1.4 8v

Suspension: Tech Art Coilover's 120mm All Round

Brakes: Standard

Wheels and Tyres: 12 superlites off my mk3 polo,

Exterior Styling: De bump stripped, 16v bumpers, metal 6n2 roof strips

Interior Styling: standard 8v interior, gti mk2 golf interior( needs a bit of tampering about with to fit properly)

Future Plans : got a quote for the rear handles to be smoothed off, £120 and £180 to get the doors painted,

haven't updated this in a while, so thought id let yous know what I've been up too recently,

got both my bumpers fitted and the cracked fixed on the front one by my friend who is an apprentice body worker, handy to know people in the trade :),

had the car sitting mint ready to go to dubshed and then the bombshell hit, first i couldnt get insurance to cover me to drive it up to the show,

so i then got my friends dad who has trade plates to take it up for me on the day,

was cleaning it on the thursday night and then the car pressurised itself and blew coolant all over the place on me,

i near shit myself!,

so i figured out from all the technical pages that it was most likely the thermostat was gone, fitted new thermostat on the friday night and did a coolant change as well, all was good so i left the car in the garage,

came back out on the saturday to find a slight puddle under the car and thought it was just all dripping off from when it had spilt everywere,

so we had just finished off polishing it all and i started up the car and coolant started running out of my car all over my garage, apperentyl i hadnt tightened up one of the thermostat bolts fully,

all was sorted and i was able to relax,

got the car packed up on the sunday morning and ready to leave for dubshed,

meet a few friends and headed up in a convoy to seacat to meet the rest of the guys from Belfast Car Scene, on the way up my temp gauge wasnt working, forgot to plug the sensor back in :/

got to dubshed and had a greatday, got alot of people looking at the car and surprised how much work had been done to it within the space of a month,

but mostly everyone loved the 12",

the car hasnt moved since dubshed and I've been trying to get insurance ever since,

I'm 18 on the 29th and i get insurance under my dads name for £1400, were going 50% each, which is pretty decent of him, considering he sold his car so i can get mine insured :) on one exception..... it has to be legal! so he wants the 13" steels back on and a reasonable height, so the steels went on 2nite and i told him i raised it 20mm, i told him 100mm is legal under standard insurance

so I'm going to either by my mates 13" banded steels (the guy on here with the wide arch 6n2) or else a set of G60's 15"

also got a slight feature for ILoveBass, they took a random snap of my mk3 polo one day when we were just chilling out my backgarden and had the sofa on the roofbars for a laugh,

and then Mark McGuinness' Mk5 golf came all the way from Derry to get his feature in my back garden, so i had to sneak the 6n in to some of the pictures :)

Edited 26 April, 201214 yr by mk3_po_low

when i loooked at insurance, mk3's always came up a lot cheaper than most polo's for me (I'm 17) :S well confused!

when i loooked at insurance, mk3's always came up a lot cheaper than most polo's for me (I'm 17) :S well confused!

what price were your quotes?

welll a grand cheaper than what it would be on my 6N... but comparisson sites are a load of wank mate! your gonna get much cheaper quotes on the phone! but your plans sounds goood for the 6N

welll a grand cheaper than what it would be on my 6N... but comparisson sites are a load of wank mate! your gonna get much cheaper quotes on the phone! but your plans sounds goood for the 6N

yeah ino, most places just said no when i said I'm 17, thanks, ill make sure to keep posted on updates

hmm insurance is a joke! well get some pics up anyways dude

ooop never mind, i can see the pics now

I'm 17 too, what quotes are you getting? Ridiculous ones i presume?

Yeah like 7000? Got one under dads name at 1900 so gonna do that

Bloody hell, the most ridiculous one i've recieved was £3000 - I've got 1400 on my mothers, but I could get 1900 under my name! On a 1.4 6n polo

What is that insurance company called!?

going to get a 6n2 rear boot lid this weekend aswell as 6n2 tail lights, apparently they are a direct fit according to guys on here,

They are a direct fit but they will sit proud at the bottom, you will also need to mad a bumper to include lights for the reg plate, fair bit of work but deffo worth it

Ino I'm going to try get a set if 16v bumpers, then smooth them out and not bother about number plate lights, are they a legal requirement,?

i think soo, as my polo failed the MOT on one of the number plate bulbs not working

But what if you remove them and don't have any bulbs for them to fail you on?

i wouldnt know mate... ask on the technical threads.

i wouldnt know mate... ask on the technical threads.

Car will fail without rear numberplate lights :)

How you fit 12s over your brakes?

How you fit 12s over your brakes?

With about 3mm of space, look well though, not a very common thing to do :)

i wouldnt know mate... ask on the technical threads.

Car will fail without rear numberplate lights :)

i thought it would! as mine failed on a bulb not working...

12's.. Like it on the steels though!

12's.. Like it on the steels though!

yeah they kinda suit it dont they? when i get the 12's on 2moro ill do a comparison and yous can share your thoughts

Well my opioion i hate 13's on 6n's. Soo..

Will be hard to run and make it look right, Will always be arch gap.

The helper springs will be removed and lowered wight down onto the wheels :)

Picked up tail lights, roof rails and clear side repeaters, the scrap yard sold the red boot lid on me to someone else yesturday! Was so dissapointed :(