Our New Jetta's Mini Build Thread

[Jarred]

ooOOOHHhhh yeah...

[adzy]

put them on.. put them on!

[GoLfMan]

enough with the teasers already!!!!

[dylan8]

"Man i dunno if that load rating is legal"
...
Cant wait to seem them on! going to blow minds in the mkv section thats for sure.

[schoona]

Carrrrrn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Get them on already lol

[Silver dub]

My other two tyres arrived today, sweeeeet.

I have a little hiccup that i need to address before they go on and that is my hubrings.

I ordered some aluminium ones and i thought it was all sweet until i went to test fit the rim tonight to find out that they hand out the back too much and prevent the rim from sitting flat on the hub.

In other words when i push the wheel on until the hub ring hits the hub i still have a 1mm or so gap around the outer edge between mu wheel and hub.

I think it's due to the hub rings having to much meat on them on the chamfer.

Sooooooo i have the wheels booked in on saturday morning to have the tyres mounted so tommorow i'm going to ring around some tyre shops to find someone that has them in the size i need.

Will be getting new ones rather than re-maching the current ones as i'm not 100% happy with the guality "they are really brittle".

So if all goes well i will have these on the car by saturday arvo!!!!!!!!!!!

[jamie88]

I have in my possesion a genuine primed jetta rear valance with exhaust cutouts, brand new in packaging still. i bought a complete jetta bodykit for my golf but all im stealing if the front lip and side skirts

if you want to buy the rear lip from me PM me

So this is the do list at the moment although I'm sure it will get bigger.

OEM 18's
H&R 35mm springs
Tinted windows
Debadge jetta badge on rear
Upgrade to rear valance with exhaust cut out
Sports exhaust system
Upgrade to Black headlights (oem hella)
Upgrade taillights (unsure what way to go yet)
Upgrade number plate globes
New stereo after she blows the speakers eventually
Euro plates
Possibly a new grille when we find one we like
Headlight eyelids

Now I just have to try and stick to the list and not go overboard,
"famous last words"

[Silver dub]

Thanks for the offer but I have changed my mind regarding the exhaust and valance. I now prefer the nice even look of the back of the car without the tips showing on one side.

Also too I'm hoping to upgrade the car in the near future so I'm not doing a lot of the small modifications that I wanted to in the beginning.

[dylan8]

Thanks for the offer but I have changed my mind regarding the exhaust and valance. I now prefer the nice even look of the back of the car without the tips showing on one side.

Also too I'm hoping to upgrade the car in the near future so I'm not doing a lot of the small modifications that I wanted to in the beginning.

... and the exhaust is a extra item to clean around...

[dom123]

cmooooooon just read up on this wanna see these wheels!!!!

[Silver dub]

Paid a visit to Bob Jane at 8AM this morning, tyres were mounted on the rims and balanced within 20min of arriving.......Thats service!

So then i packed them in the back of the car and headed home to spend some time mounting them up and adjusting coilovers to try and get it to sit right.....I was amazed how much i had to raise the rear to get clearance of the back tyres so i would have no scrubbing issues.

Took the car for a long drive to find out once i got home that it's settled a bit out of level in the rear and one tyres has been scrubbing a whilst the other has to much gap, so tomorrow morning the rears will be back off for some final tweaking.

I borrowed dads SLR camera and took some shots on the way home before i lost to much light only to find out i can load them on my computer without his software.

I will pay dad a visit tomorrow and get them put on a memory stick and upload them but in the mean time i did get some shots of the tyre stretch before they were mounted up.

Here is the front stretch


and her is a couple of the rear stretch

[GoLfMan]

COME ON!!!! Give us a real photo

[adzy]

COME ON!!!! Give us a real photo

True!!!!!!!!

[Silver dub]

Just downloaded all my shots off the camera.

I have to shhot out for an hour i will post them up once i'm back but here is a shot to keep you on your toes!

[dylan8]

so much win!!!!!!
Think the specs and offsets are right on from the pics.
Those wheels could be steelies for all i care. With fitment like that, it doesnt matter what the wheels are.