What have you done with your Polo so far (and today)

[gavs]

Isn't it possible to angle it in? I go in on an angle everywhere. Barely scrape, and I'm lowered on coilovers.

Exactly. You remove it, you also remove a high proportion of the required air for cooling the brakes and diff too.

[VWplo]

Here's (the remains) of the one (that was) fitted to my sister's car. As you can see, all the clips are worn and the entire part is twisted because of it scraping on our driveway and on entrances to shops etc.
I tried to refit it but it was soon ripped off again by our bloody driveway!





Sorry for the crappy pics – iPhone 4 and dark room don't help...

Alex.

How did she do so much damage, is the car lowered.

[alexaescht]

Isn't it possible to angle it in? I go in on an angle everywhere. Barely scrape, and I'm lowered on coilovers.

Exactly. You remove it, you also remove a high proportion of the required air for cooling the brakes and diff too.

How did she do so much damage, is the car lowered.

She just isn't a careful driver and really doesn't care about her car that much.

Yes Gav I know it does many important things (hence why I re-fitted it) but it got ripped off again in a week!

The reason it gets scraped is because our driveway is made of gravel and it's really steep (and 500m long), and rain has washed heaps of the gravel away down both sides to leave what is effectively a convex curve right down the middle, which in places is high enough to scrape the front end.
We usually get the driveway graded every year but the recent rain has made it very bad and our driveway grading man is on holidays.

[tassie devil]

Would be to much red I think. I would go for painting the inner edges of the badge red like this golf front badge.

Euro Matte Black RED Front Grille Emblem Badge FOR VW Golf MK6 GTI TSI TDI | eBay

Seen them and quite liked them

[WilkensOne]

Picked up my new white on black number plates finally, look a million times better. Also ordered just about everything I need for car cleaning from carcareproducts before I give my car the first wash.. I'm a little nervous

[6RPolo]

Hi from Adelaide,
Just a thought I'd post on here my 6R VW Polo Trendline, however before I post a quick spill.

I bought my Trendline around 22 months ago - Flash Red with the DSG - great little car. However last week there was a little bingle, I wont go into details as that is not the intent of my first post.

My intent is to show you all (if some don't already know) the safety aspect of these great little cars.

However I will say this, the following was the result of being T-Boned at 60km/h - my wife and kids got out with no major injuries.

[PoloDave]

Damn, glad your family is ok! Little car did hold up good though!
The car can be replaced, thankfully it protected the wife & kids

Side note: got the 5th set of shoes in 2 years for mine.
From stock, to 17" spoke wheels to 17" anthracite Denvers, to 17" Porsche replica's, to this. 18" 8J fromt and 9J rear




Will be installed next week

[car_nut]

Love the wheels and tyres PoloDave! Look forward to seeing them on. Is your car lowered?

Can you give some more specifics ie wheel and tyre details and where you purchased them?

[readerr0r]

Hi from Adelaide,
Just a thought I'd post on here my 6R VW Polo Trendline, however before I post a quick spill.

I bought my Trendline around 22 months ago - Flash Red with the DSG - great little car. However last week there was a little bingle, I wont go into details as that is not the intent of my first post.

My intent is to show you all (if some don't already know) the safety aspect of these great little cars.

However I will say this, the following was the result of being T-Boned at 60km/h - my wife and kids got out with no major injuries.

Proof right there that every parent in this country doesn't need an SUV the size of a postcode to keep their children safe. Hat tip to you!

[Bassik]

Took the little Gti out today for a spin... damn fun car to drive, it will be missed. I feel old and grey in the Golf...lol

[Pies]

Damn, glad your family is ok! Little car did hold up good though!
The car can be replaced, thankfully it protected the wife & kids

Side note: got the 5th set of shoes in 2 years for mine.
From stock, to 17" spoke wheels to 17" anthracite Denvers, to 17" Porsche replica's, to this. 18" 8J fromt and 9J rear




Will be installed next week

Going to look good, Loving the stretch. Are they real bbs or reps + what offset?

[Lucas_R]

POG is in at Osborne Park VW for it's 10th visit in 18 months today.

- 1,000 km checkup
- Oil consumption test
- Oil consumption test
- Service (6 months)
- Oil consumption test
- Oil consumption test
- New Engine
- 12 month service
- Replacement Resonator and speaker
- Replacement Wiper mechanism and more vibration fixes


I had my wife bake a number 10 cake to take into the dealership. As you can imagine the Service Manager wasn't particularly impressed.

Would love to have seen the service managers face when you presented the "celebratory" cake!! What a classic.

That's not a great track record for a new car.....hope things get better or I would be genuinely considering moving it on. I assume your engine was replaced due to oil consumption issues (judging by how many consumption tests you have done) rather than it going bang (which is another common failure with these twin-charger motors).

[nomadx38]

What are the chances they go bang because they seize up from people not checking the oil and it compleatly running out. I know your thinking well the oil light would come on but they had failty sensors as well didn't they? Would just be a very bad set of circumstances...

[iigx]

Well my new engine has been faultless. No oil used in 4,000km.

[Lucas_R]

What are the chances they go bang because they seize up from people not checking the oil and it compleatly running out. I know your thinking well the oil light would come on but they had failty sensors as well didn't they? Would just be a very bad set of circumstances...

In theory yes it could happen - but the owner would have to be completely careless to ignore the "check oil" messages on their dash for months on end for that to happen. The more real issue is holes in pistons and subsequent loss in compression due to running too lean and hot.

Well my new engine has been faultless. No oil used in 4,000km.

Good to hear - hope it stays that way.