Just sold my 8v 6n2, the progress was going great but the car didnt go anywhere:

I've decided to get a GTI, Spent weeks searching and finally found one that ticked all the boxes..

Full 12 months MOT

Tax

89k miles

Few subtle mods

Service history

At a great price.

To start with It looked a bit crap, stickers everywhere, Red VW badges, Discoloured grills, a misty headlight and the desperate need for a service.

To kick off the cleaning up I removed all the stickers, one revealed a nasty scuff on the bump strip!

Sanded back my headlight to then polish out that horrible weathering

Gave it a big polish and wax

Resprayed the badges

Refurbished the wheels

Cleaned up the Air filter

So far its come along some way with no real money spent.

Coilovers are on the way.

I'm planning on getting some BBS RS Reps (Dare's) Or banded Steelies, depending on how things go.

Watch this space..

Edited 24 December, 201213 yr by KieranYeh

Looks so much better without red badges and stickers, less is more as they say!

Looks so much better without red badges and stickers, less is more as they say!

Cheers bro! Amen to that.

Also forgot to mention above, it has pressed plates ;D

Looks a very nice job on those headlights mate. Looking forward to your progress. what plans you got?

The previous owner didn't do the car any service by the looks of things. Need to get those headlight washers colour coded again imo, ruins the front end.

Edited 13 May, 201214 yr by apeks

Looks a very nice job on those headlights mate. Looking forward to your progress. what plans you got?

The previous owner didn't do the car any service by the looks of things. Need to get those headlight washers colour coded again imo, ruins the front end.

Yeah, he said he did, but the filters look pretty old, so I'm going to get it all sorted anyway.

Plans are to slam on BBS reps or banded steelies mate, get some decent stretch in the tyres..

Things to do:

Fit coilovers

Find and buy a set of wheels

Stretch tyres on to the wheels

Fix scratch on bump strip

vinyl wrap the roof potentially

stereo / sub

Service

Respray Honeycomb grills back to dark black

All the rest are just potential ideas, not sure what else to really do!

Coilovers will arrive today, i will start fitting them Thursday!

Already got it looking 100x better! Looking forward to seeing your progress :)

I decided to have a quick go at photoshopping my car quickly, Just wanted to see how good it would look with moar lows and no plate..

I instantly became a big fan, and with the arrival of my suspension it's a choice of two things..

Uni work for deadline tomorrow..

Or

Fit coilovers..

I'll let you know how the fitting went at some point tomorrow ..

Edited 15 May, 201214 yr by KieranYeh

Got the rear coilies on, The rake is brilliant haha!

Bet my car handles worse than yours

ooo nice motor?? hey didn't u use to have those Cromish banded wheels on the blue 6n2?? why did you sell it with the car?? as they would have been ace with this one..

ooo nice motor?? hey didn't u use to have those Cromish banded wheels on the blue 6n2?? why did you sell it with the car?? as they would have been ace with this one..

Yeah man, sold that for something quicker with lower miles, I'm looking to get some bandies for this one!

fingers crossed..

Nice Car dude cant believe your on here I'm the guy from ebay 'xprdz'

Nice Car dude cant believe your on here I'm the guy from ebay 'xprdz'

Aha hello mate

Yeah they sold now mate! you missed a good deal!

Sold for £286 posted :(

Getting some ronal turbos soon!

Update:

Just fitted the front coilovers, the suspension fitted was a set of sports yellow and red springs and shocks..

the front coilovers were a bitch to do, snapping one of the bolts holding the strut to the car was a pain!

As it stands currrently on its arse:

Decided to buy some Ronal Turbo R10's for the car!

They look so fucking sweet! I'm going to be fitting spacers to the rear for a bit of rub n poke!

heres a photoshop (bad one) that i did of the wheels on the car, Loving life. 6N2 with Ronal Turbo's you say..

Nice Car dude cant believe your on here I'm the guy from ebay 'xprdz'

Aha hello mate

Yeah they sold now mate! you missed a good deal!

Sold for £286 posted :(

Getting some ronal turbos soon!

Oh damn :( oh well hope there at a good home :) i think I'm getting some white cades dunno yet :)

Finally perfected the coilovers, Fitted now, all on and it appears the front ones didnt come with adjusters!

No worries though, rides fine.

I slammed it to near enough lowest without adjusters front, and about 7 threads up at back.

The outcome is scary.

Dont look if you dont like moar than mental lows.

This didnt go down well.. Hit everything on the road, arches were making terrible noises from the wheels.

Raised it a tadd now, and will upload pictures later

Grills have been sprayed gloss black, so much better..

Two Fog light grills come out with screws,

The Lower GTI Honeycomb grill doesn't come out without snapping clips, so i masked it of and sprayed it.

Here are the results

After > Before

Outcome

Going to give tracking the car myself a go, also going to perfect the camber.

Will update on monday with pictures of the new wheels fitted..

New look Photo shoot will be uploaded Tuesday

Keep watching!

Don't think enough people are following this thread!

Anywho, Got my new wheels today, Sorted all the tyre pressures, adjusted the camber and alaigned the wheels!

Heres the car as a sneak preview before the photo shoot tonight

This is looking sweet! Nice lows man! Grills look so much better now you sprayed em too!

Looking good man! Loved your old 6n2

Good progress so far, liking the ronal's too! I reckon some tweaking and it will be spot on!

Looking good man! Loved your old 6n2

Good progress so far, liking the ronal's too! I reckon some tweaking and it will be spot on!

Tweaking, how?

all comments and criticisms welcome!

:)

Some sneaky photos from the little photo shoot earlier!

Enjoy ;D

Looking good man! Loved your old 6n2

Good progress so far, liking the ronal's too! I reckon some tweaking and it will be spot on!

Tweaking, how?

all comments and criticisms welcome!

:)

To lower your front about 15mm in the picture above my post :p

However it's looking sick in the pictures above ^^ haha - not a criticism btw ;d

That is looking fooking sweet. really fancy a set of ronals myself! hmmm

Aha, don't worry, I was just playing with them until I got them right!

I'm almost there, I think the back up 5mm and the front down 5mm on the more recent photos..

Also, lower profile / stretched tyres and spacers... Just saying ;D

That is looking fooking sweet. really fancy a set of ronals myself! hmmm

Aha, I hadnt seen this done on many 6n2's. not sure why! looks mint!

As i said, few spacers and we are on to a winner set of wheels!