nathy_87
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Registered: 14th Aug 08
Location: West Mids. Drives: koda Fabia VRS 5J
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Make Volkswagon
Model Polo
Colour Reflex Silver
Thought I'd start a project thread to show my car off. 
Bought my car back in 2007 after rolling my 5dr corsa B, only 6months after passing my driving test. went to Carcraft, and this is the first car I looked at. Bought it there and then without taking it for a test drive. :S. It's a 3dr Silver 3dr Hatchback, VW Polo. W reg (2000) currently on private plates.
When I got it i decided to debadge it and spray the alloys matt black so it wern't all silver, In August 2008 I popped along to my local Powerflow dealer (Stafford), and asked him to do his job. £130 and few man hours later she was ready to be listend to. June that year I received a Private plate for my 21st which I was happy with. (pics below)
Left it like that for a while, as I had other problems to worry about at the time, which are more/less sorted now. Later that year I signed up to a vw only site and tagged along for a while (based in Birmingham), and got a few ideas of the guys & girls there. Later that year I went to a vinyling shop and got my roof done which cost £70, i was chuffed as a kid in a sweet shop. (pics below).
While that was going on, I had a crazy thought of turning it into a GTi Replica, so I had got my hands on some ultra rare 16" BBS RXII's and fitted them, some GTI interior seats and GTi honycombe grill with GTi badge (as you can probably tell my original grill has silver slats and my bottom grill are honycombe):
While scouting and looking at GTI's I noticed few had different things to each others so that's where things stopped. my girlfriends sisters, boyfriend (:S) sold me a sub & amp for £40 fitted and even though people slag the make off I think it's a cracking sub/amp. Things had gone quiet for a while and I decided to get something else done as i have now caught the modding bug. As i had seen jenko from another site and fell in love with his car, i asked him where he got the chequres done, and pointed me in Ian's direction so I arranged to pop up one evening and get it done. Week later and I'm still as pleased with them. (need to upload photos). Nothing else has been done but will keep this updated as I go along.
Sub/Amp:
Last few weeks i've had a fair few things done which I'm pleased with. I'll start off with getting my Mirrors and Petrol Cap chequred to match the roof:
Before:
After:
Then yesterday I received some goodies as I needed new fog lights (as one of the cases had cracked) and side repeaters:
Before:
After:
So it's all upto date at the moment. Got a few things lined up for it which are;
. Rear number plate recess smoothed. - Awaiting Date
. Lazy eye bonnet extention. - Awaiting Date.
. Debadged Honeycombe Grill for the front. - Waiting for arrival.
. Coilovers. - End of September.
Will keep you updated with future mods.
C & C welcome. 
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nathy_87
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Registered: 14th Aug 08
Location: West Mids. Drives: koda Fabia VRS 5J
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My car has been off the road the last few days due to clutch/gearbox problems, so I'm awaiting the mechanic to come round and repair it all for me
Roll on September.
[Edited on 20-08-2010 by 5dr corsa-3dr_polo]
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nathy_87
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Registered: 14th Aug 08
Location: West Mids. Drives: koda Fabia VRS 5J
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Car got repaired at a whopping £320  but it's all good now.
Managed to get a bonnet bra £35 so that should be arriving in the next few weeks so once that's on i'll have more photos.
C&C welcome please, I want to know what can be improved/where I'm going wrong. 
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Rich H
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Registered: 26th Oct 05
Location: West Sussex Drives: E46 M3
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You actually keeping it this time then? Lost count of the amount of times you've made threads about swaps / replacments / what's it worth etc 
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John
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Registered: 30th Jun 03
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Sell the bonnet bra on ebay as soon as you receive it.
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3CorsaMeal
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Registered: 11th Apr 02
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its a nice little car, dunno why you always posting up much worse cars to replace it with, like that BMW
don't really like the chequered stuff, not my thing.
what size engine is it?
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nathy_87
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Registered: 14th Aug 08
Location: West Mids. Drives: koda Fabia VRS 5J
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Rich H- Yes I am, (unless a decent VW Caddy comes my way) and I do apologise for those silly threads, I just fancied a change so bad for a retro car, no more now though.
John- How come?
3CM- It's a 1.4L thought I posted that my bad.
Hopefully getting it lowered end of September too (either coilvers or shocks & springs) aswell as getting central locking on my keyfob, (as it didn't come with that) and a dixie horn just for laughs.
[Edited on 02-09-2010 by 5dr corsa-3dr_polo]
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