Man of Honour
I must have missed that!
What have you done to your car today?
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Caporegime
Man of Honour
Lollers, nice handbag Joe T 
Washed the car and removed some small paint imperfections. I couldn't be asked to do all before and after photos, it didn't remove everything though. But, I'm more than happy with the results I got. £18 well spent if you ask me.
Before
After (First scratch remover paste and then paint renovator) p.s. Use the liquid version, think it might work a bit better. With the paste, it dries out fairly quickly. Although, I got around that and just sprayed some water halfway to keep it nice and moist.
Before
After (First scratch remover paste and then paint renovator) p.s. Use the liquid version, think it might work a bit better. With the paste, it dries out fairly quickly. Although, I got around that and just sprayed some water halfway to keep it nice and moist.
Well the only action I did was giving the garage £888, though this is what I got:
- Major service
- DSG service
- Haldex service
- RS7 spark plugs fitted (1 heat range colder)
- 4x Michelin PS4 fitted
- TT inlet/elbow fitted
All in all not bad value, just perfecting the Golf R I picked up, the tyres it came with were useless, the thing now grips, being able to launch the car in 1st gear WOT in pouring rain is simply mind boggling impressive and how quick this hatch accelerates from a standstill or any gear.
Gotta whole lot more respect for a Golf, I never knew they can do 0-60 in sub 4s and well under 10s to a tonne, a whole load of performance in a hatchback.
Shall be a similar wallet destroying action on Thursday when I pickup the BMW from its inspection 2 service, but should be around half the price thankfully and then it goes next Monday to body shop for a month or two for a full respray in the original colour.
- Major service
- DSG service
- Haldex service
- RS7 spark plugs fitted (1 heat range colder)
- 4x Michelin PS4 fitted
- TT inlet/elbow fitted
All in all not bad value, just perfecting the Golf R I picked up, the tyres it came with were useless, the thing now grips, being able to launch the car in 1st gear WOT in pouring rain is simply mind boggling impressive and how quick this hatch accelerates from a standstill or any gear.
Gotta whole lot more respect for a Golf, I never knew they can do 0-60 in sub 4s and well under 10s to a tonne, a whole load of performance in a hatchback.
Shall be a similar wallet destroying action on Thursday when I pickup the BMW from its inspection 2 service, but should be around half the price thankfully and then it goes next Monday to body shop for a month or two for a full respray in the original colour.
Man of Honour
Nearly 3 years later, it was about time for a new steering wheel retrim as the old one had started to lose a bit of colour in heavy traffic areas.
I've used Royal Steering Wheels in the past and have been extremely happy with the quality, perforated sides, smooth top and bottom, M stitching with double thickness padding. This time round, I noticed you can get a flatter bottom modification through other re-trimmers, not as flat as some cars (Audi, for example). I like the look of flat bottom wheels, yeah they serve no genuine purpose on modern road cars that a) have doors, and b) are not driven by large knee drivers But hey, I liked the look.
This time round the double padding softness is exactly how the original M3 leather is padded, so soft to the point of being almost squidgy.
I've used Royal Steering Wheels in the past and have been extremely happy with the quality, perforated sides, smooth top and bottom, M stitching with double thickness padding. This time round, I noticed you can get a flatter bottom modification through other re-trimmers, not as flat as some cars (Audi, for example). I like the look of flat bottom wheels, yeah they serve no genuine purpose on modern road cars that a) have doors, and b) are not driven by large knee drivers
But hey, I liked the look.This time round the double padding softness is exactly how the original M3 leather is padded, so soft to the point of being almost squidgy.
What car?Had some coil-overs, Super-pro ALK, front wishbone bushes, adjustable ball joints and lower engine mount fitted
Soldato
Polo init
On another note, I booked in my TTS for a service at a local Audi/VW specialist, saving £150 compared to the Audi garage I bought it from
Polo init
On another note, I booked in my TTS for a service at a local Audi/VW specialist, saving £150 compared to the Audi garage I bought it from
Midlands VW did my Golf R, really good pricing and quite competitive with online stores for tyres too and they fitted/balanced plus did alignment.
@Gibbo i see you keeping the golf too
I shall have to post up a video at somepoint, might be at POD this weekend so shall record the acceleration as the thing is mighty quick, like driving a shrunken GTR around and its a very fast car, absolute showed up some fool in a C63 AMG from the lights who looked at me like I was driving a slow POS, don't think he will try pulling alongside at the lights of any Golf again any time soon, but the C63 did sound ace.
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Caporegime
Well the only action I did was giving the garage £888, though this is what I got:
- Major service
- DSG service
- Haldex service
- RS7 spark plugs fitted (1 heat range colder)
- 4x Michelin PS4 fitted
- TT inlet/elbow fitted
All in all not bad value, just perfecting the Golf R I picked up, the tyres it came with were useless, the thing now grips, being able to launch the car in 1st gear WOT in pouring rain is simply mind boggling impressive and how quick this hatch accelerates from a standstill or any gear.
Gotta whole lot more respect for a Golf, I never knew they can do 0-60 in sub 4s and well under 10s to a tonne, a whole load of performance in a hatchback.
Is the car remapped then because I find it hard to believe a 1.5 tonne hatchback doing the 0-60 sprint with only 300bhp in under 4. Even with DSG. The evolution 9 needed 400bhp and that was about 100 kilo lighter.
Yes stage 1 map on the car, supposedly according to their website power is up too 345HP / 346lb/ft
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qr7hTdji_60
Technology has moved along way, there is a local tuner near me who tunes these and stage 1 they are doing quarter mile 11.7-11.9@114mph, 0-60 around 3.5 - 3.8s depending on launch and easily hit the tonne below 9s, rapid cars, Haldex, DSG and they are quite light, so it all helps, made even better by the fact it can return 30mpg on a trip to work or 40mpg on a run. Modern technology.
I owned an EVO X with 415HP, and this Golf R would utterly destroy it sorry to say, seems the game has moved on a long way and on the PS4 tyres the grip is mind boggling in the wet, almost as if the car is clawing into the road, I got it as an all rounder but its turning out to be pretty amazing at everything. Just looks well like a Golf and sounds junk!
NOTE: to get sub 4s to 60, you do need to use the LC function, something I have not done, I just stomp it the loud pedal, seems to get up and go fast enough which won't damage anything as it feature torque reduction on gear changes (farting sound), with LC it launches hard and torque reduction on gear changes is disabled. Though once the DSG is tuned, torque reduction on gear shifting even with LC is re-enabled to keep clutch healthy, does not seem to harm the acceleration as can be seen from the APR video.
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Caporegime
That is impressive. Really all the car you ever need.
Yep surprisingly how good it is, does not seem like an understeer mess either, its also no tail shaker, but it turns well and seems quite neutral and composed, though the PS4 transformed it, the unbranded tyres it had in the wet it was an understeer mess (fine in dry), but now with PS4 drives nice.
Soldato
So tonight I figured I'd have a look at my old/spare dizzy cap and rotor to see if there was anything obvious in terms of wear etc. in case the old one was better and figured I'd check the old leads I have too.
Leads looked ok and the test/trial VW Heritage ones I have whilst very good quality, the leads for 3 and 4 are a smidge too short so get pulled at a bit of an angle (I understand that with my feedback before that they did lengthen them so if you buy some they'll be fine).
So, this is my old rotor and cap that's been sat around for ages:
So they don't look too bad which says I might as well swap them over to check that the cap and rotor aren't an issue and then this is the rotor and cap that I just pulled off the car:
Can you spot the difference?
The whole electrode is missing! I'm sure it had one before so I'm not sure what exactly has happened here but that's quite crazy...unless it's always been like it but somehow managed to provide enough spark to run. Very odd though and so I've swapped back to the previous rotor and cap, now the car seems to want to run fine. I'll give it a test at the weekend to check it properly.