Dylan's MK3 Golf build

[Special Air Service]

I think aus post now has a facility to have stuff sent to them & they forward it on to Australia

https://shopmate.auspost.com.au/

[DylanMK3]

So..

It's been a while since I've updated this thread. Let's see what has changed. Resprayed wheels, resprayed calipers, short antenna, Fog lights and coilovers. This is how she sits.









Coming up real soon are a few more mods. Here is my list at the moment, compiled of a whole load of things which I will be ticking off one at a time.

Interior
1.Roof Re-trim | Dark Grey/Black Suede (Spotlight)
2.Door Re-trim | Recaro Fabric – Grey ($33.50 per cm2 Ebay)
3.Seats | Bucket Seats – Black Leather/Recaro Suede (Ebay/Sales Pages)
4.Cluster LED lights/Needle paint | White/WhiteBlue LED’s (Jaycar)| Needle Paint (Supercheap)
5.Touch Screen HeadDeck/Plastics | VWVortex.com - Double Din Console build
6.Mk4 Steering Wheel/Aftermarket (Ebay/Wreckers/Sales Pages FB $30-80)
7.Upgrade Sound System/Mini Boot Install | (JB HI FI Price Unknown)
8.Genuine VW/Wolfsburg Edition Floor Mats | (Ebay)
9.Genuine Wolfsburg Edition Door Lock Pins | (Ebay $15 each)


Exterior
1.Foglight Inserts | (DIY)
2.5 Stud Conversion/Spacers | (Ebay)
3.Wheels/Tyres | 16x8” Dish Wheels w/ Low Profile Tyres
4.Tail Lights | Aftermarket (Ebay $60-80, JOM.de)
5.Braided Line Covers | (Ebay $35) – Vacuum/Fuel/Heater/Radiator Hose
6.Full Panel Wrap | (Price Unknown)
7.Front Bar/Vento Front End/Lip | (VWWatercooled Forum/Ebay $300-600)
8.Head Lights | Aftermarket Head Lights (Ebay $50-80, JOM.de)
9.New Door Handle | Passengers Door Handle (Ebay/Wreckers)

And here's a photo as a comparison of how it's come along since the day I bought her.




Quite the progress and it's not over yet! Onwards...

Thanks for viewing!

[DylanMK3]

Oh and I also fitted 6K HID's and got rear ended by an Xtrail. Lol. As you can see in the rear photo of the car, where the GL badge is. So that is also another job, to fix that because I didn't have insurance at the time ( good one lel)

[madglf3]

The car is looking nice with white paint, gunmetal wheels and a bit of a lowering. Very clean. Headlights look good as they are, I wouldn't bother getting cheapies from overseas.

I just read your thread and cannot believe how much bad luck you've had. Hopefully it's smooth sailing from here on.

[browntown42]

Looking Mint and clean as. You've done all the mods I want to do to mine, What sort of Fog Lights did you use? Cheers

[DylanMK3]

Yeah.. And to top it off I could possibly be losing my licence lol.

As for the headlights, because of the HID's to have them legal I'd need projector lenses. So that's why I'm opting to get some sort of aftermarket headlight which incorporates the lense. But I'm not sure. The light doesn't shoot off too much with the factory lenses so as for that I'm not sure. My main focus at the moment is to get the exterior sorted so I don't have to come back to it for a while. I.e foglight inserts, things like that. So it looks a little more complete. I have also tried to find the french yellow bulbs and that's proving to be an issue lol. And some form of aftermarket bucket seats for the interior. I mean, I can run VR6 seats and even that's hard to find so I'm at a dead end at the moment and just have to keep my eyes open I guess.

[DylanMK3]

Dug some photo's up off my phone lol.

As for the foglights, the ones I used were these.

LF-VWCA93-TYC-L-A TYC Fog Light - Left Assembly at Andy's Auto Sport
LF-VWCA93-TYC-R-A TYC Fog Light - Right Assembly at Andy's Auto Sport

I picked them up from a member of this forum for $70 for the pair, was a steal since I had been looking for them for a long time. They are the smoked model though. Not the exact same model (smoked) but the same brand and the same price he paid for them. They came brand new in box when I bought them and hadn't been opened yet.

[DylanMK3]

Some photos I had taken when I purchased them.




They're projectors too and take H3 bulbs. Really simple to install and was relatively quick too. Made up a custom loom for them as the factory foglight loom didn't exist. Wired it into the existing foglight switch and ran an inline fuse within the loom too for protection.