So bought my first car 6-7 months back just before passing my test, decided on a polo as cheap on insurance and look pretty good! She was on 72,000 miles and payed just under £1700 as it was in pretty good nick!

few photos from when i bought it

Left it standard for a few months as wasn't quite sure on which wheels or what route i wanted to take, but after playing around on photo-shop i decided on bbs rims! Picked them up for a fair price of a bloke in Cheltenham and they had just had a full respray, unfortunately no center caps though!

Thought it was about time for a few stickers and some new bbs center caps to finish the wheels off! have to say they look ten times better with them!

After a few weeks of saving some money i decided it was time i got some lows so purchased some JOM coilovers, for the price they are amazing! have no complaints!

So spent the next few weeks just cleaning and polishing after college and getting her looking good. After doing some maintenance on the wheels (had a nasty incident of curb rash) i realised my two tires were nearly illegal, it was also festival season and the lows only enabled me to carry two people as it rubbed like hell on the rear! After looking into stretched tires i really liked the look so bought some 165/50/15 nankang tires and stretched them myself. Really liked the look and this allowed me to carry more passengers int the back! However i didn't realize how much less rubber i would have and had this huge arch gap! so had to slam her down abit more, unfortunately this means its a bit lower at the back then the front so yes it does look pretty weird! However this is only temporary and i will soon be purchasing some 185/50/15s to go on the rear and will then move these to the front, which should give it a better 'stance'

Went round my mates for a few beers, and they decided it would be funny to do some modelling on my car! however woke up the next morning to find out some C++t had crashed into my rear arch and dented it pretty bad!pushed the majority of it out but its still pretty noticeable so when i have some spare cash it will be repaired!

Did abit of OEM shopping and bought a gti grill as i really like the look of them, wont be long till i get the lower grills and fogs and a splitter if anyone has one for sale??

also decided to give my lights a slight tint to go along with the black and blue theme

However i have seen a few polos now driving round with black rims so think its time for something fresh! After a few words with a mate I'm considering to respray the wheels in a hot pink with the lips being polished, or even a neon glow yellow, Also booked the car in at the repair shop so will finally be getting rid of that horrible dent! also ordered my new tires so the stance will be sorted out very soon! still looking for a gti splitter so if anyone has one drop us a message, Stuck on what colour to respray my wheels any opinions??

Update! DEcided to give the polo a bit of a clean today and also took of the bbs's and sprayed my steels (only temporary) Has anyone ever polished lips on alloys before? just after a few tips as I'm looking to polish the lips and then spray the middles a hot pink or black with a blue flake!

BBS looking a bit worn!

Been a while since shes had a clean!

steels primed!

sprayed pearl white!

fitting them at 11 at night because i leave everything to the last minute! (better photos to come!)

Few shots on the steels!

started my refurb today! sanded down the lips with a dremel! unsure if to polish the lips first or get them sprayed!

My mate had his camera out tonight so heres a few more shots

so started to polish my wheels today with a few mates! bit of a struggle to get the car on the drive as the sump always scrapes on the drive but with a few pieces of wood we got there in the end!

jacked the car up and propped it up so it wasn't going anywhere, then bolted my bbs on and started the car up

put her into third gear and this gave us the perfect speed to work at, started with 6o grit then 80 and then 120 but then we ran out of time! so heres some photos, will be carrying on with her tomorrow!

so carried on with the polishing tonight! moved my way up through 400,600,800,1200 and 2500 wet sandpaper and it came out pretty good! managed to get three done and will finnish off the fourth tomorrow as well as shove some polish on the others. getting them powder coated on monday, white, black gold or pink....... decisions

update 19/10/2012

so finally finnished the lips on my bbs! amazed at how well they came out! glad i gave it a try after getting quoted £20 a wheel! dropped them off with a powdercoater tonight so will hopefully have them back monday! have to wait to see what colour i went with! Also ordered my splitter from vw today! £64,95 so should be hear by tuesday! anyone give me any help on how to fit it on? is it literally just a job of taking the other one off and bolting this on or will i have to drill new holes?

Edited 29 October, 201213 yr by jackVDUBstevens

that stretch on the rear mmmm mmmm mmm yum nice progress dude

that stretch on the rear mmmm mmmm mmm yum nice progress dude

cheers! wasnt to keen on it to start but now i love them! gunna get the others done when I've resprayed them!

that stretch on the rear mmmm mmmm mmm yum nice progress dude

cheers! wasnt to keen on it to start but now i love them! gunna get the others done when I've resprayed them!

What colour you going for?

Nice start man ! Really like the look of it :)

that stretch on the rear mmmm mmmm mmm yum nice progress dude

cheers! wasnt to keen on it to start but now i love them! gunna get the others done when I've resprayed them!

What colour you going for?

Thinking a hot pink, try something different, if that looks shite then they will be going black with a blue flake!

Haha sounds good cant wait to see it

was just thinking fuck i reconise this car! seen your from hereford and remembered i see it in the tec coll car park (y) shes sweet mate like her. LOVE the wheels <3

Good work for your first car buddy :) how did u tint your headlights?

was just thinking fuck i reconise this car! seen your from hereford and remembered i see it in the tec coll car park (y) shes sweet mate like her. LOVE the wheels <3

haha yea thats me! cheers mate! should look alot better when I've finnished the wheels!

Good work for your first car buddy :) how did u tint your headlights?

Bought some tint film from china! cost like £3 but came out pretty good! just make sure you use a hairdryer it makes stretching and pulling the film alot easier

caar looks sick i wanna get one of these soon!

White steelies, this reminds me of my old surfblau 6n2!

Keep it up mate!

White steelies, this reminds me of my old surfblau 6n2!

Keep it up mate!

cheers mate! :) love that polo! what wheels are they?

photo with my old wheels but it shows the camber on the rear! probably going to have to add abit more as i cant afford to get my arches flared just yet :(

Edited 23 October, 201213 yr by jackVDUBstevens

Picked up the wheels from the powdercoater! polished up 2 of the lips again will finnish up the others tomorrow! went with a gunmetal grey! will be fitting them wednesday/thursday

Edited 23 October, 201213 yr by jackVDUBstevens

Looking mint dude. What centres are they?

Looking mint dude. What centres are they?

just bbs rzs centres i think, found them on ebay pretty cheap :)

update! 23/10/2012


wheels are all finished! getting tyres on tomorrow! vw phoned to say the splitter had arrived! reckon it will go with the car well! anyone give me any pointers on removing the other one? had trouble trying to pop the clips out??


also on the way home, turned into a side road doing about 15 and came to a dead stop as my subframe hit a raised drain cover! shook me up abit as i didnt no what the F*** had happened! anyway think its wrecked it pretty good as its took out a whole chunk of metal from under the wishbone bushing! will upload pictures tomorrow! will it be an mot failure? if so how hard is it to fit a new subframe?

Edited 23 October, 201213 yr by jackVDUBstevens

that center cap looks too small

They the 14's or 15's? as they look a little small. Got some rz centres for mine see mate but they don't seem to fit very snuggly. Any chance you could forward me a part number?

They look a little small but they look cool I think.

Edited 23 October, 201213 yr by Monkey-man

that center cap looks too small

they are! waiting on the other ones to come back from powdercoaters

They the 14's or 15's? as they look a little small. Got some rz centres for mine see mate but they don't seem to fit very snuggly. Any chance you could forward me a part number?

They look a little small but they look cool I think.

the part number for the plate itself is 09.24.038 and the part number for the locking centres is 09.23.113

car looked real nice from a distance earlier buddy :-) i drove past the skate park. Your in need of a headlight bulb too ant you

cheers mate! :) love that polo! what wheels are they?

They were OZ Racing Record wheels, 16x7