Been through two already

[Brisbane's Bora]

Hey guys, my name is Dan and I live in Brisbane. I've been in and out of VWWatercooled for a while now, ever since I started looking at buying a VW for my first car about a year ago.

I found this without much problem



Drove it for about 6 months doing a bunch of small mods and became quite attached, just as this happened





Needless to say it was written off, it wasn't my fault though so I got all of what I had spent back through insurance.

It was a harder search to find a new Bora but it was exaclty what I wanted. I picked up this v5 after about two months and its awesome.



Hoping to get some tips and tricks from you all!

Thanks guys

Edit; pics should work now

[Brisbane's Bora]

Can't post pictures?

Different to VWvortex lol

Any reason?

[Corey_R]

Welcome to the forums. You sure can post pictures.... you need to use [ IMG ] tags (without spaces, as is standard for most forums) rather than HTML code.

[Brisbane's Bora]

Cheers all fixed now.

[Corey_R]

Coolies! Shame about your first VW! I had much the same luck. Had been thinking about a VW for a few years, finally went out and got a rare fully loaded MKV GTI with only 8k on the clock (and I mean, literally every option), and had it for 4 months when it was written off through no fault of my own.

I'm on my third one now though

[team_v]

Welcome mate.
Hopefully you have better luck now.

Also hope we can see you at some of the events in Brisbane/SE-QLD

[Brisbane's Bora]

Welcome mate.
Hopefully you have better luck now.

Also hope we can see you at some of the events in Brisbane/SE-QLD

I will make an effort for sure, how many people usually go? Do many stock vw's show up?

[team_v]

I will make an effort for sure, how many people usually go? Do many stock vw's show up?

normally around 30-40 cars.

Probably 50% stock, 50% modified.

[DonJuan]

welcome to the forum mate, feel for you with the previous bora... my last mkv gti ended up upside down 3m of a bridge after attempting to avoid a kangaroo around a 90 degree blind corner with single lane bridge... wasn't me either...

good luck with the new one, hope you enjoy your new one as much as i have mine!

[dylan8]

Welcome mate.
Sad to see the first one end in such a way. but good to see you in another bora!

[anthony]

Your first Bora was lovely,but I think the second one is even nicer ???

Good luck,I hope you enjoy it...

Was yout first one a repairable write off ???

[Brisbane's Bora]

Welcome mate.
Sad to see the first one end in such a way. but good to see you in another bora!

Thanks, I admire your mk4. Wish I had the money for your springs and wheels

Your first Bora was lovely,but I think the second one is even nicer ???

Good luck,I hope you enjoy it...

Was yout first one a repairable write off ???

I certainly do enjoy it, it is a bit better but I've already had a coil catch fire so that cost me $100 bucks on the first day I drove it



Yeah, it was a repairable write off. Mostly cosmetic damage.

[dylan8]

Thanks, I admire your mk4. Wish I had the money for your springs and wheels

Thanks man, wheels and springs are cheap and easy (although my collection of wheels now exceeds value of the car...), get on it

[Brisbane's Bora]

Thanks man, wheels and springs are cheap and easy (although my collection of wheels now exceeds value of the car...), get on it

oh I would gladly take some wheels off your hands, its a pain in the ass to find anything good around here thats sub $1000. Almost snagged a set of Sawblades from a guy in Vic but he jacked the price up last minute.

What coilovers are you on? Where are they from and how much?

[dylan8]

haha some might for sale again soon.
havnt seen sawblades in AUS, would have been so vortex
TA Technix, I got mine cheap from another user who decided not to go ahead with the install.
Hit up Lorenz or evorobin from Slammed, get them to find you something nice like FKs. mine are a little lower budget from what I can tell.