Hi guys, owned the Polo about 3 weeks now and I love it! Sitting pretty standard at the moment as haven't really had a chance to get started with Uni deadlines and that. Here she is:

All i've got round to adding is the red grill strip and the bonnet bra, also treated the paint with a deep black finishing wax which worked better than expected :)

hello and welcome :)

slightly odd, but i recently came into owning a GTi aswell (see here ) only owned it for about a week

it's also a black 3 door

and i'm also at uni meeting deadlines

what uni are you at mate?

its a very nice looking GTi i must say

i have also ordered some red pipping for the grills :-D

but what did you use to bring the paint up?

hand polish or machine polish?

edit*

and i have no idea why i posted a link to my thread, because i just realised you commented on it the other day haha

and as you said; red grill trim ftw

Edited 12 May, 201214 yr by woolley456

Ahhh yeahh i've seen your thread that was a proper bargain!

I'm at Birmingham City, you? These deadlines are killing me lol! Thank God i don't have exams though :-D

Ahah thanks! Yeah got mine off eBay too came well quick, next day I think

Used this Turtle wax kit i picked up from Halfords, paid around £20 for it i think, to be honest i wasn't expecting that much from it but it really did make a big difference! Brought the metallic element of the paint out more too :)

Just by hand took me a while but it was worth it :)

Edited 12 May, 201214 yr by aajr

Ahhh yeahh i've seen your thread that was a proper bargain!

I'm at Birmingham City, you? These deadlines are killing me lol! Thank God i don't have exams though :-D

Ahah thanks! Yeah got mine off eBay too came well quick, next day I think

Used this Turtle wax kit i picked up from Halfords, paid around £20 for it i think, to be honest i wasn't expecting that much from it but it really did make a big difference! Brought the metallic element of the paint out more too :)

Just by hand took me a while but it was worth it :)

innit aha

sweet :) i'm at plymouth. i've got one exam left; marketing, shouldn't be too hard. but come next tuesday, i won't be a fresher any more aha

the red pipping makes all the difference it's a shame they didnt do that on the mk3 and mk4 golfs...

wow! i might have to get some of that! i'm not bothered how long it takes me, just as long as i get it gleaming then i'm happy

Looks well tidy

Sparkly!!

innit aha

sweet :) i'm at plymouth. i've got one exam left; marketing, shouldn't be too hard. but come next tuesday, i won't be a fresher any more aha

the red pipping makes all the difference it's a shame they didnt do that on the mk3 and mk4 golfs...

wow! i might have to get some of that! i'm not bothered how long it takes me, just as long as i get it gleaming then i'm happy

Ohhhh okayy :) do u study Business then? Aww my freshers time ended last year :'( ahha . . . Yeah totally agree it really does :) . . . It works really well in my opinion :) then the times i washed it after doing the treatment i finished with triplewax car polish and it comes up great :)

And thanks to the two Liams! haha

Ohhhh okayy :) do u study Business then? Aww my freshers time ended last year :'( ahha . . . Yeah totally agree it really does :) . . . It works really well in my opinion :) then the times i washed it after doing the treatment i finished with triplewax car polish and it comes up great :)

nope :p economics! everyone thinks i do business, but i'm an economist in disguise lol:ninja:

i was walking back from Tesco earlier, and i saw a silver 6n2 GTi 3dr, with the red pipping :( i want my car! aha

awesome :) I'm gonna buy some today from fleebay

just out of interest; what insurance do you currently have? i'm looking at double the price for the GTi :(

Edited 14 May, 201214 yr by woolley456

Ohhhhh lolll hahah! I just assumed :) . . . Awwww! You know what I never see any other GTi's around where I live, swear mines the only one lol! . . . I'm TPFT with Chaucer (Got it through Sky Insurance) paying around £1500 with 0 NCB (bearing in mind my quote for a 1.4 6n2 was £800 fully comp lol) So it did practically double mine too :( . . . I just bought a headlight restoration kit too don't know about you but my headlights look all cloudy n manky :( lol gonna sort them out when it arrives :)

I noticed it but didn't say anything :p. Tbh, I like your Gti as it is. But needs to be made mean! So when you pull up next to some chav they think *WTF!!!* XD

Liam I'm confused ahah what did you noticee? . . . Thanks :) LOL even if that happened only once, it would make my life

Ohhhhh lolll hahah! I just assumed :) . . . Awwww! You know what I never see any other GTi's around where I live, swear mines the only one lol! . . . I'm TPFT with Chaucer (Got it through Sky Insurance) paying around £1500 with 0 NCB (bearing in mind my quote for a 1.4 6n2 was £800 fully comp lol) So it did practically double mine too :( . . . I just bought a headlight restoration kit too don't know about you but my headlights look all cloudy n manky :( lol gonna sort them out when it arrives :)

no offence taken? same! where i live i seen none, a few veedubs but no 6n2 GTi's.

ah :) kl kl

I'm currently paying £800 on a 1.9 (non turbo) diesel with my mum and dad as named drivers and 1 years NCB and 1 years license (gonna be 2 years in august)

and I'm looking at paying double that for a GTi but it's a great car, and the sale of my old car with cover the insurance :-D

same, my dad used it on the red polo and he said it wasn't that good :( I'm gonna look on here for a step by step guide and apply some more elbow grease and see what happens

:) . . . haha its like no one appreciates :s thats why I was so surprised when the one I bought suddenly popped up 3 miles away from me! Had been looking round and the nearest ones were like 90miles or so away . . . No wayy I don't really get why its so much more :/ but if you can cover it it's definitely worth it :) . . . Oh really? Its arrived today but I want to wait until I've got some headlight protectors to put on first

:) . . . haha its like no one appreciates :s thats why I was so surprised when the one I bought suddenly popped up 3 miles away from me! Had been looking round and the nearest ones were like 90miles or so away . . . No wayy I don't really get why its so much more :/ but if you can cover it it's definitely worth it :) . . . Oh really? Its arrived today but I want to wait until I've got some headlight protectors to put on first

it's true :( shame really

i was looking for ages for a project car, especially on CoPart, but they were always miles away from me and they sold for £800 in the end

gumtree was my savior it was the first time i properly used at well haha

i just think its because of the badge... defo

i was thinking of getting projectors aswell

Edited 17 May, 201214 yr by woolley456

Nice looking gti

Ahhh yeahh i've seen your thread that was a proper bargain!

I'm at Birmingham City, you? These deadlines are killing me lol! Thank God i don't have exams though :-D

Ahah thanks! Yeah got mine off eBay too came well quick, next day I think

Used this Turtle wax kit i picked up from Halfords, paid around £20 for it i think, to be honest i wasn't expecting that much from it but it really did make a big difference! Brought the metallic element of the paint out more too :)

Just by hand took me a while but it was worth it :)

Yuk.

Try this instead...

Nice car though!

Nice looking gti

Cheers :)

Ahhh yeahh i've seen your thread that was a proper bargain!

I'm at Birmingham City, you? These deadlines are killing me lol! Thank God i don't have exams though :-D

Ahah thanks! Yeah got mine off eBay too came well quick, next day I think

Used this Turtle wax kit i picked up from Halfords, paid around £20 for it i think, to be honest i wasn't expecting that much from it but it really did make a big difference! Brought the metallic element of the paint out more too :)

Just by hand took me a while but it was worth it :)

Yuk.

Try this instead...

Nice car though!

Yeahhh I know just bought it as a quick fix couldn't be bothered to wait for ordered stuff to come lol and it didnt work too bad tbh . . . and thanks :)

it's true :( shame really

i was looking for ages for a project car, especially on CoPart, but they were always miles away from me and they sold for £800 in the end

gumtree was my savior it was the first time i properly used at well haha

i just think its because of the badge... defo

i was thinking of getting projectors aswell

I knoww I knoww loll . . . Ahhh I see :) well you got really lucky with this one as it seems! hah I'd had a look on there but couldn't find anything, was looking for a few month too before this one came up . . . LOL! Yeah must be the badge I'm with you on this one haha! . . . Theyr deffo worth it with the cost of replacing the xenons lol!

nice clean 6n2 that!!!

and shiny.. thats what i like to see

just refurb them wheels drop it abit and get the headlights polished up.

dont be a fool and buy new just do this

but looks like you have a winner there

Cheers :) . . . Hahah :) not so shiny at the moment she needs a good clean! Weekend job that one lol . . . Yeah wheels really need doing just getting the funds together and they'll be off for a nice refurb, not sure what colour though, any thoughts? . . . Got the stuff to do the headlights with just waiting for some protectors to come before I bother doing them, should be looking at weekend job aswell :) Cheers for the advice!

With this good weather, finally got round to cleaning up those headlights :)

So much better:

And added my headlight protectors!

Edited 25 May, 201214 yr by aajr

Looks clean .

Cheers it had just had a wash and polish hahah

Can you tell me exactly what you did to get the headlights like that? Mine are godawful lol

Also, how did you affix the red pipping? Glue? Lol

Basically just cut them back, wet sanded them different grades, and then plastic polish :) (I cheated and bought a turtle wax kit for it off amazon, I was just too lazy to order everything separately haha) Every 6n2 I see has the same problem lol! . . . For the piping I used insulation tape :) I found it was just the right width to attach :)