They're still on the car at the moment - and my new wheels are near Portsmouth. But if I find a buyer by the weekend I can soon rectify that. Collecting the new wheels on Friday - they're silver.

Buuttt, what are theeeyyyy?

Round things that you'll usually find between your brakes and tyres. Duhhhh!

More clues!

Steel or alloy?

Alloy

what size will they be ??????

14-inch

I have a model car with them on

14-inch

I have a model car with them on

?

I figured these would be fairly obvious:

Made a slight detour on my commute home from St Albans to Kettering - um, to Hayling Island.

Hope these ones fit! On my way back home now via a caffeine stop.

Edited 3 February, 201214 yr by Alex

Awesome :p

I sense it might be time to find another Nova model on the cheap.

Wheel scavenging is going to happen!

bit jealous! i had a set of gmds nova revo rfx wheels, but had to sell them due to lack of space, sold them for £100. granted they weren't in as nice condition as yours, still wish i had kept them as they look great on polos

They're literally my favourite wheel ever.

just seen your contribution in PVW, do you actually call it a gt g40? it is really a g40 now

just seen this actually: "Drives: Polo GT-G40" good read though

also this issues has a few mk3s in

Edited 4 February, 201214 yr by JordonVW

I haven't seen it yet!

But:

5 spoke goodness!

I must say i didnt think much of them when they were in the boot but that photo of them fitted looks lovely, really suits the car :)

Busy day!

Decided I wanted to get these fitted ASAP so I'd have the Watanabes ready to sell. So loaded up and set off for Eastcote Customs.

Got there and did a quick test fit just to make sure they clear the brakes and aren't a daft offset. Check, and check. Turns out they're also hubcentric which makes my life easier.

Then I put the car on axle stands, loaded up both sets of wheels and headed to Wheelmania to get the tyres swapped into the Revos. Thank god for practical long-termers!

It's filthy and sandwiched into the corner of the workshop but I think it looks great on these!

Meanwhile my 508 got snowed on. And FINALLY my Michelin Alpin winter tyres got some use!

please space those rears

It's happening, don't worry. :)

It's happening, don't worry. :)

Yes mate that looks dappa! Nice choice they suit the shape perfectly please keep them silver it looks bum against the pearly grey goodness

So. Productive week.

In the cafuffle of getting the wheels up for sale and so on, I did forget to pose a question to the detail-loving Mk3 owners on here.

My driver's side door handle has snapped.

The bit that's broken off is the piece that screws onto the inside of the door shut. A bit annoying as it's the second time this has happened to me.

Now it's not a genuine part, but I'm weighing up whether or not to invest in the real deal. This one lasted five years which is pretty poor, the last one thinking on it, was exactly the same (02-07) before it broke off.

Non-genuine door handles are dirt cheap on fleabay and I've heard bad things about the OE stuff breaking as well. Should I bite the bullet and buy VAG or pay less and accept it probably won't last? The only real annoyance other than it chipping into my beer money is the faff of swapping the Golf flipper for the Polo one. Fiddly and I always catch my fingers in the bloody pliers. :(

Anyone had this happen to a genuine handle?

In other news, I've had some eBay success and bought what appear to be Revolution centre caps in the right size. The seller probably had me down as a time-waster, asking loads of random measurements, but they weren't cheap so I wanted to make sure they'd fit. I've bought cone-shaped ones with the twin Revolution flags. Ummed and ahhed about Schmidt ones, then decided against it.

Also... Pete's sent me some pictures of my freshly refurbished (but as yet unpainted) G40 charger. Happy times!

And, last but not least, look what's joined the staff projects in PVW starting this month:

There's a full double-pager about the project in this month's issue - but you'll have to pick up a copy if you want to read

Very flattered to have been asked! :)

Edited 11 February, 201214 yr by Alex

Awesome about the mag dude

nice to see a polo getting into the mag :)

So. Productive week.

In the cafuffle of getting the wheels up for sale and so on, I did forget to pose a question to the detail-loving Mk3 owners on here.

My driver's side door handle has snapped.

The bit that's broken off is the piece that screws onto the inside of the door shut. A bit annoying as it's the second time this has happened to me.

Now it's not a genuine part, but I'm weighing up whether or not to invest in the real deal. This one lasted five years which is pretty poor, the last one thinking on it, was exactly the same (02-07) before it broke off.

Non-genuine door handles are dirt cheap on fleabay and I've heard bad things about the OE stuff breaking as well. Should I bite the bullet and buy VAG or pay less and accept it probably won't last? The only real annoyance other than it chipping into my beer money is the faff of swapping the Golf flipper for the Polo one. Fiddly and I always catch my fingers in the bloody pliers. :(

Anyone had this happen to a genuine handle?

happend on my mk2, for a quick fix i drilled a small hole through the plastic and the metal part, tapped the metal bit and then used a small screw to hold it back together. still going strong nearly a year later!