What did you do to your Polo today?

[PeterHBne]

So recently had remsa pads put on - WAY better than standard. Saved me from an expensive little nose to tail the other day. Standard pads and I'd have been a bit unhappy. Seat Intake? Expensive bit of $1.50 worth of raw materials but worth the purchase price of $200. Boosts quicker and revs to 6600 no worries whereas standard seems to get a bit asthmatic around 5500. If revving is your thing. Front Seat control arm bushes? HIGHLY recommended. Very noticeable sharper front end at all levels. Front strut brace also noticeably effective in better turn in and steering feel. Would love Bilsteins, 312s and a chip next.......

[noone]

Few nice upgrades there Peter.

No need to rev the car beyond about 5k, but the Seat intake does help the girl breathe. Bushes and strut brace certainly help.

The Polo was loving the cold air last night, coming home from a nice meal out had second gear pulling cleanly past 100kmph (onto a freeway of course).

[vwthunder]

Got the Pedders/Whiteline control arm bushes installed

Made a huge difference, even having KW coilovers in, car felt sloppy untill these went in

They are quite hard but stiffen up the front end quite a bit

[danish]

Got the car a major service over the weekend...

Timing belt done as well as the radiator changed, and while I was at it got all the brakes pads swapped. All parts supplied by Jmac, who I must say is an absolute champion to deal with as there were some large speed bumps involved with the parts and he was a great help with it all.

Got the service done by Stephen in Abbotsford off of recommendations by forum members and he was also top notch

Next on the list is some new tyres (and potentially new rims), APR dogbone and some asthetic changes (painting the bonnet, badges etc)

[Corey_R]

Do you have the MK4 Polo GTI?
If so, was this the "120,000km service" (since the timing belt was changed) ?
Was just wondering how much it cost you all up. Cause I've seen some pretty scary quotes from VW dealers (up to $1700) for the timing belt service.

[danish]

Yeah I have an MK4...

The quote I got from a dealer was indeed ridiculous. $1200+ for the timing belt kit including labour, plus another $850 to change the brake pads (!!!), $600 for a standard service, $700 to change the radiator.... you get the picture. PLUS that was when the car still only have 90,000km on the clock (has 105,000km now)

I told them to get bent, acquired the parts from Jmac and got it serviced by Stephen in Abbotsford (both found through this forum) and got it all done including parts and labour for less than half that price.

In short, unless you are under warranty and want the log books all done at the same dealer for warranty purposes, I simply see no reason to ever set foot in a dealer's service centre.

[Gti Dave]

Not only do you pay an arm and a leg and maybe your 1st child as well, you also on the odd occasion get to walk out with the priveledge of having your car scratched too. Great service eh?

[GoLfMan]

why did you need to get your radiator changed?????

[vanllinx]

Soooooo... i took my VW Polo GTI into an inspection at Denlo Service Parramatta this morning to hopefully cure the gearbox which many know is fkd lol.

Sadly, they did not replace anything. However, the fella "Don" told me that they did a TPI on the car (no idea what that is), changed the gearbox oil and re-tuned the car to some new ECU settings. They also said that the car had a recall notice for this ECU remap. (which probably means my APR programmings are goneski but i dont care as long as the gearbox doesnt crunch)

On the way home, I drove normally of course but attempted to shift 1 to 2 at around 5000rpm doing a quick gear shift. I thought it would definitely crunch. But to my surprise it shifted beautifully. (fingers are crossed, touch wood, that it would stay like this.) Hopefully a 2000-4000rpm quick shift won't crunch...that'll be enough to keep me happy. =). The Denlo fella told me that if in a week or so and the problems return, VW Denlo will continue to investigate the case for me.

In regards to the window Seal, Denlo is ordering a new seal for me from Singapore with an ETA of 4 weeks rofl....which means for 4 weeks i cant operate the passenger electric window or else the existing seal will fall out.

[Blitzen]

So I got back from my 2 month world trip on Saturday, so to get myself reacquainted with my car, I went for a 700km drive...So worth it!!! I really don't want to go back to work tomorrow...

Oh, while I was in the USA, I got myself a boost gauge, and ordered myself a holder the other night, so I should have it fitted by the end of the week...

[danish]

why did you need to get your radiator changed?????

Damned end tank was leaking... Pretty severely upon inspecting it!

It's a fairly common problem

[GoLfMan]

changed my oil!

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Did the N249 bypass and the 42DD shift bushings today.

Shift bushings helped the shift feel a little more accurate, but the difference in fairly minute.

N249 bypass has made a big difference, the turbo is coming on boost slightly sooner and slightly harder (I'm now hitting the full 21psi of my GIAC everytime I come on boost, where as before peak would hover between 19-21psi and it wasn't consistent which peak i'd get at any given time in any given gear)

[MissVuks]

I may have done a brake upgrade

[vwthunder]

I may have done a brake upgrade

312mm ??

Tell us pleaseeeeee