Just picked up this rare little beast to replace my daily mk3 Golf GTI last week. It's not my first polo but it is my first standard polo, and coming from a string of modified Golfs with tight, mega responsive handling it was quite a shock at first. Everything felt very vague and kind of worrying for the first few days but now I'm used to it I love it

Got it simply because I don't need a big 2 litre engine to cart me around all the short journeys I regularly do, and thought it would most likely work out cheaper to run. Despite everyone I told trying to convince me that it was a bad move, in the week that I've had it I've used a third of the fuel I would have done in the mk3 Golf! Got a refund from swapping my car insurance over too! The 1 litre is a nippy little bugger and the bodywork's got awesome patina from being used as someones workhorse for years :-D I don't plan on removing that patina whatsoever.

Got loads of other plans for it and I can now explore the rest of this forum rather than being restricted to the engine section Components to fab up some coilovers are already on the way, as is another tailgate due to the fact someone drove into the back of the current one

I am also pleased to say there will be no stickers and no intentional rusting found in this thread :-D

Hopefully the updates will come in thick and fast, and your comments and advice will be appreciated along the way!

Cheers,

Arun

size of those tyres :lol:

Sick tho Arun (fail lol, ignore what just deleted)

Gunna be an interesting one this, if you golf is anything to go by.

Edited 16 June, 201313 yr by B-shaw

size of those tyres :lol:

Sick tho Arrun (please tell me how to actually spell your name, i swear i spell it different each time aha)

Gunna be an interesting one this, if you golf is anything to go by.

See the way I spelt it at the end of my post dude, I'm pretty sure I spell my own name right

Yeah the tyres are big comfortable sofa tyres

I have loads and loads of plans which I need to talk myself out of because it's meant to be a cheap daily But a slam and wheels are a must for sure :-D

Cheers Tobes

noticed afterwards ahaha, gayness that you quoted before i edited

haha, cheap dailies never stay a cheap daily. Be some mad project before you know it

booo i want coileyssss haha. nice find!

I can now see why people can get so addicted to these things So yeah it's more than likely the other plans will come to be too Fortunately the cheapness to run should cancel out the costs of modifying it compared to my other car.

Certainly not changing the engine though because I may as well have not bought it otherwise!

Edited 16 June, 201313 yr by Phataz1

No afh on carbs then? lol

Not as long as this engine is running Can't fault it really!

Never had a 1.0 but the 1.3 was pretty sweet tbh, nippier than ud expect and ran sweet as a nut no matter what shit i gave it.

I thought you was a man!!!

Nar looks good dude all about commersh when you next over?

I thought you was a man!!!

Nar looks good dude all about commersh when you next over?

sweetness dude look forward to seeing this come along, what happened to the mk1 soft top?

Hahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahaha!!!

Did you get it for Doncaster by any chance?

Josh should be over soon lad :biggrin: Nah got the van from a guy in Clifton up your way, although he did get it from Donny. Did you come across the old advert from 2011 for it by the guy from Donny? I did and it looks really clean back then!

Olly, the cab got sold ages ago cos I attempted to repair the rear window frame and caused more damage than I fixed FUCK soft tops

Mk3 van? That's got to be rarer than a Mk2 van - good catch!

Good man if to when winston is back will come over! No I no where it used to live in Donny used to pass it going to a friend house I remember the reg! Coilovers I was talking to mate wants for his 40 and you was the main man in the conversation if your up for it!

Gold Haha

A build thead must mean you love it. try not to let it distract you to much.

I thought you was a man!!!

Nar looks good dude all about commersh when you next over?

Dodgy pic of josh

Spitting image that

And yes to the van!

Edited 25 June, 201313 yr by grungeisdead

Spitting image that

And yes to the van!

Don't think you're getting away with anything.

Would you like to explain your dance moves please?

Nice van Arun, not seen one of those before.

Hahahhahaha only just seen this. Any updates?

Only update is that it's a friggin awesome daily Never owned such a cheap and reliable car! Looks like shit though One day I'll get around to modding it but for now its saving me too much money to fiddle with

use the extra money your saving to get that mk1 golf monster finished yeah

Polo Van 4x4?