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Yeah kangfu I totally agree, in hindsight I should have just let it slide, but I don't take well to discourteous idiots unfortunately, haha. Regardless, his reaction was way out of proportion to my act.
I agree - maybe I'm lucky but I do this sort of thing (what you did leitch, not tossing stuff at other cars) fairly often as idiots try to harass their way around my girlie little Pod.
Today I actually washed my car - mark this event as it's not likely to reoccur. Yesterday, I reflashed my ECU to my motorsport remap.
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So today, with my Polo... I gave it a solid clean inside and out and a big hug - poor thing got attacked by a Ford driving psychopath in a road rage incident on the M1 yesterday.
Dude was tailgating me for no apparent reason, so I just lifted my foot off the accelerator and let the car slow to about 80km/h to piss him off, then dropped a gear and floored it as a bit of a cheeky "f-you, don't tailgate me" to the guy. Oldmate appears a minute or so later in my rearview mirror right up my ass, and then pulls up along side (at 100km/h), yelling out the window, giving the finger etc. My mate and I in the car figured he was just a bit of a ****, so were ignoring him... He then reached into his footwell, pulled an unknown object out and threw it into the side of my car. And then likewise a second time.
He then continued harrassing us on the road, and merged into our lane over the top of my car at 110km/h, forcing us off the road onto the shoulder and very nearly into the concrete divider. Forcing us to a stop (blocking the right hand lane of traffic), the crazy prick jumped out of his car and started on foot back towards us (obviously with no intention to initiate a friendly chat), but fortunately I was able to duck the Polo out behind his ****ty Focus, and once I could give the little GTI some juice the guy had no chance of catching back up.
Fortunately a guy in another vehicle on the road started videoing on his phone after he saw the guy throwing **** at my car, so the police are investigating.
Meanwhile I have two new dings in the side of my car. What a ****.
something eerily similar happened to me!
But the dude throwing stuff out the window at me, had his wife and two young kids in his car, whilst he was gonig ballistic. Gave police his number plate, they didn't do a thing.
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Wasn't the intake you had exactly the same as the PD150 one?
Also, which app are you running with your Kiwi WiFi?
Yep, the PD150 intake is similar to the PD100 intake, just a couple of small differences. None of us had any idea that the Aus delivered Polo didn't have the butterflies in there.
Buller: Yep still running stock SMIC atm. Not sure what I am going to do with tuning atm. I really need to get a FMIC on there but time and money have got the better of me for the moment lol.
2008 VW Polo TDi
GIAC | REMSA | PD160 | DECAT | MUFFLERECTOMY | ECS | SUPERPRO | PXL KIWI WIFI | 312mm BRAKES | OZ RACING | KUMHO V70A
To Buy: VNT 17/22 or K3 Turbo | R783 Nozzles | Intercooler | Water meth kit.
How much performance gain do you really get from a FMIC?? is it morely responsiveness from the turbo in warmer weather?
I only really notice heat soak after being in traffic for a while then going for it, feels to have a bit less grunt.
With the boost pressures a TDI makes, especially a remapped one, the little SMIC starts to battle, really quickly. Unless you're running WMI, then you can live with the SMIC, until going big turbo.
Well today i sold the last item from my Polo parts removed after sale, so thats it, i have officially ended my Polo ownership and will be saying bye now
So long all, thanks for all the help. Maybe one day i will be back.... maybe.
2016 MY17 Polo GTI with DA package. TMD fitted + Weather strip and Snow Screen removed otherwise dead standard.
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