mk5_tdi's build

[mk5_tdi]

Haha yeah I know, was waiting for mate to get some pics of his evo and I jumped out of the car and people starting taking pics
It's actually a black TDI one, but once the Jetta grilles are on no room for it anyway

[mk5_tdi]

**** it's looking good!
How much would you be selling them for? Are they 18s?

Yeah 18x8 +35 all round, they won't be that cheap though, cost me heaps and would still be losing money
looking at around $3k for rims, tyres and the standard silver bolts

[lhennessy]

*kills self.* glws

[mk5_tdi]

Haha yeah and they cost more than that all up :S thanks anyway

[lhennessy]

No wonder I love them fml. Haha

[mk5_tdi]

No wonder I love them fml. Haha

haha yeah, can't believe how much I spent myself

Finally got my new foglights as the grille kit was missing them so on it went, looks great I reckon
foglight grilles and slim chrome trims are from ECS Tuning, rest was eBay kit




and a pic of the uberstealth sub box, took agessss to be made but fits great and have all my boot space still

[lhennessy]

Haha, how much the bar set you back and where from?

[mk5_tdi]

was from eBay, was $350 with foglights/honeycomb grille set
However when I bought the Jetta grille it came with new foglights as they are slightly different

[lhennessy]

Any chance I could get a link for bar and center+grills?? Aussie?

[mk5_tdi]

Bar is Aussie

VW GTI Style Front Bumper Bar Golf MKV Mark 5 03-09 Plastic Kit Fog Lights Mesh | eBay

But grilles are overseas, but the shipping price is a lot more now. Originally was 25 pounds but for Europe, but the seller honored it to me. Now its about 100 pound shipping :S

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However I purchased the foglight covers with slim chrome trim from ECS tuning, as the ones from the grille kit are the large style that need to be painted as well

I do have the standard jetta foglight grilles and aa all black front jetta front center lower grille here as well, so if you were thinking on buying you wouldn't need to buy whole kit, just center gille and pair of foglights

[mk5_tdi]

Well its been a few weeks since any updates

Received the 2" lips for the 8" front RS's specs will be as follow 17x9 +35 front and 17x9.5 +16 rear
Currently sanding/priming the inner barrels
Centers away for painting
Front lips and hexs are away getting polished
Waiting on new nuts and bolts
And tyres have been ordered from Ozzy Tyres - Nitto Neogen 215/40/17
Once everything arrives then the camber and guard flaring begins lol
However I may be off to Japan in the next few weeks so progress might not as quick as I would like

[mk5_tdi]

Gave Ozzy a call and my tyres won't make it in time for the show and shine I'm hoping to enter so they were changed to 205/45's now and were shipped out today
Also called the polisher and should have my front lips and hexs by the end of the week
And lastly finished priming up the inner barrel, all ready for painting now

[mk5_tdi]

Finished painting all the barrels gloss black.
Centers came back as well base coat in body colour however chucked some blue holo metal flake into the clear.
Couldn't get clear enough pics in sun wouldn't 'pop' like in person so just pics of the centers themselves.
Will be calling the metal polisher tomorrow as he said lips and hexs should be ready to pickup
Then just waiting on new nuts and bolts and tyres

[TDIdiot]

Hey mate, I really like what you've done with this TDI Golf. I have a 2006 TDI DSG Comfortline and was close to upgrading to a new GTI this week. After looking at this I'am re-thinking and maybe doing some tuning upgrades as it seems like a I may be able to get a little more performance from the old Mk5 before needing to go to a MK6 GTI. That's all I really want, I little more go as the TDI 1.9 is a little slow after owning it stock for a couple of years.

This is a great post, so thanks a lot for the inspiration!

[getjet]

Wowzers. Nice shoes. Are you going to flare the guards yourself?

Just flicked through the rest of your thread (again); Where did you get your plastic bits colour coded and where do you get your bits polished?

^ in a non sexual way...