What did you do to your Mk5 today?

[Mattlock]

Yeah, it's the same on my Mk7 R. LEDs all round except the boot and the glovebox. WTF?!?!? They put 2 blue ones in each front door. I'd have settled for 1 blue one and better lights in the boot. Time for a Bold Sport order...


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[Jimbo_h]

Went for a drive up to Baw Baw national park

Installed a unibrace XB last week and was a little sceptical that it would do anything but can certainty feel the difference, car feels nicely planted

A quick pic

[jaackyy]

Installed LED strip in the boot.
Why did VW put in such a **** light in the boot ? Seriously 1 x 5w festoon bulb for the boot, but hey the number plate gets 2.

50cm strip. 36 x 7020 SMD LED, 9 watts
I am very impressed with the light output.


Hers


It lights up the driveway !


His

damn, that looks great ! any chance of a short tutorial?? Did you need a resistor or something?

[JustCruisn]

DIY complete

http://www.vwwatercooled.com/forums/f15/trunk-light-install-led-strip-110685.html

[popcorn]

Got a new battery this morning. It's a Bosch S5 575.035 with 680CCA, delivered for $198. Didn't include install but installation is an easy 5min job anyway. Its a bit bigger than stock and although it fit in the battery bay nicely, the padded cover thingy wouldn't fit around it. Never been this excited to change a battery haha

[An7on]

Time for a MASSIVE update...
MCA Blue Series coilovers


Removed the front strut covers and cut in some hatches to adjust the dampening easily.




New brakes front and rear. Rotora big brake kit for the fronts (355mm two piece rotors with 6 pot callipers and steel lines). DBA T2 rotors for the rear.



Enkei RS05RR wheels (+35 front +45 rear) with Yoko AD08 rubber (235/40 R1. New conical McGrath black wheel bolts.





Aerocatch bonnet latches




From this...


To this...



Thanks to ALE RENDA Photography for these great pics

[Mattlock]

Wow. That's a lot of work and new shiny bits. Awesome!


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[An7on]

Wow. That's a lot of work and new shiny bits. Awesome!
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Thanks mate...It's been great working on the car.

[chaddy]

New wheels are on. Thanks to Dutch77. Tyres are Goodyear Asymm 2 these are my third set. Love them.


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[JustCruisn]

Pulled apart my dash to locate an annoying sound on fast corners. Noted someone had once tried the same but must not have had correct tools and only manged to break clips etc.
Found 10 cents on top of radio and 5 cents stuck in air vent.

Also removed and refitted a front tweeter surround as it had a big gap, this was mentioned on some service papers from 5 years ago but looks like they never fixed it.

[gikku]

Last week in the 2007 GTI, I dropped into a dealer and took home a 2016 Golf Alltrack
v.nice
car play is sooo good.

[gle1234]

I don't do much, and this was spur of the moment, but swapped my stock 15"s to some 17" Classix I found on gumtree. I think I like 'em.

[jaackyy]

I don't do much, and this was spur of the moment, but swapped my stock 15"s to some 17" Classix I found on gumtree. I think I like 'em.

Did the same to mine, but plastidipped them black cause they had some light rash. They look great for OEM wheels tbh.

[Mattlock]

The dipping might be the way to go. I had these wheels on my Mk5 and I used to curse at the effort required to get the brake dust out of the spokes.


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[gle1234]

Did the same to mine, but plastidipped them black cause they had some light rash. They look great for OEM wheels tbh.

The dipping looks bloody fantastic, great work.

Brake dust was a nightmare on my 15s too so I'm hoping it's not too much more work! I've received them with some tiny black specs on there, reckon I can get them off?