Treza360's .:R32

[fuzion]

nice hands dude, im sure next time you go order some food and pass the cash over they'll think your either an emo or druggy .. ive got that look plenty of times from the same scratches/cuts! lol

still love that blue, pitty it didnt come in 4 door.. doubt it would of looked the part in 4 door though!

[fourbtoo]

R stands for ripsnortin'

Nice car. You would buy it for the exhaust note alone. If you have the opportunity, take it out on the race track and really experience the car for what it was intended. Fellow competitors and spectators love the car. I used to have a silver one and it was very successful on the track - it does require serious commitment though!

[Treza360]

Nice car. You would buy it for the exhaust note alone. If you have the opportunity, take it out on the race track and really experience the car for what it was intended. Fellow competitors and spectators love the car. I used to have a silver one and it was very successful on the track - it does require serious commitment though!

That's kind of what happened. I was originally looking at S3s, I knew these were around but coz they're rarer and generally more expensive than the Audis' I wasn't looking to seriously at these.
Then this one came along and I took it for a test drive. Woah... The sound, the acceleration, those seats. Needless to say about a month or so later she was mine.

[Treza360]

Rear Aero Wiper

Before:



After:




Shiny aero wiper from MKV Golf and Polo.
Pretty easy mod. Spent about half an hour sanding the cap down on the bottom so it would clip in.

[Golf Houso]

Thats very nice I must say, but are you sure that the wiper will sit properly on that rear window? The angle might be wrong and the wiper might skip across the surface. I hope this isn't the case though...

[Treza360]

Thats very nice I must say, but are you sure that the wiper will sit properly on that rear window? The angle might be wrong and the wiper might skip across the surface. I hope this isn't the case though...

It sits perfectly on the rear window. It seems to be a pretty common mod by the guys on VWVortex. I backed the car out and ran the rear windscreen washer and wiper for about a minute. Cleans it easily. Because the blade bends inwards normally the spring tension in the arm pushes the blade down to sit flat on the windscreen.
As I said the cap is the only issue in terms of getting it to sit properly. It's about 4 or 5mm longer/taller than the MkIV cap and you need to sand/trim it back to get it to clip in properly.
Looking at Angeg's R32 further up, he's done the same mod as well by the looks of it. I thought about doing the rear wiper complete removal, but with all the rain we've been having lately, you really do need the rear wiper in those conditions as the spray the car kicks up makes visibility out the back pretty much impossible.
Cheers
Trent

[Golf Houso]

Haha perfect thats exactly what I wanted to hear, I know someone else who would be interested in this mod as well.

It sits perfectly on the rear window. It seems to be a pretty common mod by the guys on VWVortex. I backed the car out and ran the rear windscreen washer and wiper for about a minute. Cleans it easily. Because the blade bends inwards normally the spring tension in the arm pushes the blade down to sit flat on the windscreen.
As I said the cap is the only issue in terms of getting it to sit properly. It's about 4 or 5mm longer/taller than the MkIV cap and you need to sand/trim it back to get it to clip in properly.
Looking at Angeg's R32 further up, he's done the same mod as well by the looks of it. I thought about doing the rear wiper complete removal, but with all the rain we've been having lately, you really do need the rear wiper in those conditions as the spray the car kicks up makes visibility out the back pretty much impossible.
Cheers
Trent

[Mischa]

i cant tell the difference except that your car is cleaner does it make much wiping difference?

[Treza360]

i cant tell the difference except that your car is cleaner does it make much wiping difference?

LOL Don't knock the dirty dub.
Wiping wise it hasn't made a difference. I think I've actually lost 5mm of my wiping arc. However aesthetically it looks so much better. If you look carefully at the before and after pic, the new Aero wiper arm covers the majority of the blade and sits nearly flush with the windscreen. Makes it look cleaner as it were. :p

[Treza360]

Did the kvw100 mod this evening. Nice little unit. Big thanks to fuzion for getting me the unit.
Also got me a little wheel bling. I know they're pretty poxy but I thought why the hell not. Don't worry they don't glow in the dark, light up or anything, they're just metal. I wonder how long they'll last before some little **** steals them?



Cheers
Trent

[Golf Houso]

Those are nice

I had chrome caps on my wheels for 1 week before they got pinched... They didn't take the valve covers though thankfully.

Now I have black wheels and the 50c ones look much better.
They suit the car, but only put them on when your aware of the car's position at all times, either that or don't park in my suburb!

[Treza360]

Flapper Mod

So holidays up the coast are over. (no one stole my valve caps though, which is good)
I don't go back to work until next tuesday, which gives me time to play with the car.
So I thought I would give the old flapper mod a go. Not just removing the hose but hooking up a switch between the ecu and solenoid as per here. I can' say it went to well. I had all the gear I needed and grabbed a switch, cable and resistors etc and made up the switch.
Then it was time to find the dreaded grey and blue cable. Well buggered if I can find the right one/get to where it should come through. I traced back from the boot well where it runs with a yellow and black cable down the passenger side of the car (I think). It proved too difficult to pull the carpet up/remove the glove box and get to the cables. So I removed all the dash and unscrewed everything in sight on the drivers side. Contorting myself on my back into the foot well, I found lots of cables none of which seem to be the right one. Pinging them out, I can't seem to find the right one. Or get my damn hands into the spots I need. Obviously it would seem that this mod is much easier in the LHD cars.
In the end I gave up and rebuilt my interior and clamped the damn hose.
Lots of fun noise for me but I would like to switch it. Anyone with any ideas/experience?

[JVLR32]

I picked it up at the beginning of September last year. I'm the second owner, it was a lease car for a company GM originally so it was used mainly for business use. It's got nearly 81000kms on the clock, but according to the owner at least half was highway driving. The kms are probably close to the highest of any of the R32s in Australia.

The interior is pretty immaculate aside from where the previous owners child put the ambi-pur in upside down and the paint bubbled and peeled just below the air vent. I've touched it up as best I can but it's not that great. I keep it hidden mostly by a non-leakable air freshener.

The exterior has a few scratches around the place (fuel filler cap for starters???). The rear hatch lip has a few on it and one decent one that has appeared recently that I'm not happy about (I don't know where it came from either). The front lip has lots of stone chips on it and there's a few pin dents around the place too. Plus as I said earlier all the wheels are curbed and the original owner didn't clean them often enough so they've got some pitting on them.

Overall it's in pretty good nick but it's nowhere near perfect up close. But because of all this I did pick it up for a pretty good price (don't ask coz I'm not going to tell).

M8 congrats,a nice number 44.....Dont worrie about ks.mine has more than that and they are only highway ks.....Just keep those services up!JVL

[Treza360]

M8 congrats,a nice number 44.....Dont worrie about ks.mine has more than that and they are only highway ks.....Just keep those services up!JVL

Cheers mate. Yeah I'm not worried about the ks. It's had a full VW service history including one a week before I finalised the sale and did the hand over. Don't worry I won't be skimping on the servicing.
Are you still looking at selling yours or have you decided to keep it?
Cheers
Trent

[D3bb4]

this solenoid thing... i still can't read anywhere what it specifically is? seems to be something to do with loudness of exhaust??? please explain