Scirocco Central

Sorry for a late reply. Scirocco has been sold to the new owner and I'm a happy owner on BMW M140i xDrive now. So have not visited the forum for a month on two. Anyway, wheels are OEM Savannah (for previous Tiguan), 19" x 9" ET33. Car was lowered by ~20 mm with OEM lowering springs (i.e. E...

Sold it.

oh failed dsg...that sounds expensive? It seems that I got away with only replacing the clutches. Had to only pay a part of the labour costs so I'm fairly satisfied with that... What comes to Bimmer, it seems that I'm going to get M140ixA instead. The are no production slots available for M135i's a...

After almost 6 years and 90 000 kms, the time has come to let her go. Have to still replace the cracked windshield and failed DSG, and then find a good home for my Scirocco. She's still a good looking car that could quite not be replaced with anything currenty on market (and on my price range) so de...

Long time no see. I still have the Scirocco, though, after almost five years. I've been trying to find a successor for it, but nothing just quite does it, at least on my price range. So I guess a I'm still holding on this for a while, at least I just bought new summer tires for it and retrofitted OE...

About the Savannahs. I bought mine from VV Center Espoo, they were obliged to say that they won't fit, but sold them anyway with a statement in receipt that they are not meant to be fit to Scirocco. I bought only the wheels from them, tyres from Camskill and got them fitted at local tyreshop. They a...

elpuercosi wrote:Hi, I'm new on the forum. Here is mine "R" Look.

Spotted you near Niittykumpu last week.

After many problems and obstacles, I finally got the speakers installed today. Had to use the crossover for tweeters after all. I thought OEM system had a crossover somewhere, but it seems there were only capacitors soldered in series with tweeters and nothing more. When I took the OEM tweeters away...

I will (try to) install the tweeters as well. Will fit them to the original spots, they are easily disassembled and I will only use the element itself. I'm not going to use the crossover, I will solder OEM connectors to the speaker elements and will use the original wiring harness. I will be then ab...

A small hifi update to come.

The new base model is just plain ugly. Looks like some hideous aftermarket Golf mk7 body kit had been installed on an old Scirocco. The only thing that gets me slightly excited are those headlights. The front of R is better, but looks too much like the long lost, not so good looking cousin of Golf R...

I can never remember the name of these bulbs and want to replace them myself :) what are they called? They are called C5W (or C10W) 41 mm Festoon, Soffitte or something like that. You can find plenty of different kinds of them in eBay. I got one with eight SMD leds and one with Cree type led. The S...

In Finland they cost around 200 euros a piece when bought from VW dealer, but are also available from Valeo catalog with a price around 120 euros. The originals with VW part number are made by Valeo so I assume they are actually the same. EDIT: It's been a while since I asked the prices so they may ...

No you don't have to remove anything with tools, the bulbs are really easy to replace in Scirocco. It's max five minute job to fit new bulbs to headlights (halogens that is). The manual has pretty good instructions with pictures and all. Just remove rubber cover, turn the handle, replace bulb (don't...

I think Mikko has Osram Nightbreaker Plus? I had. :) Replaced them with Xtec bulbs, which have natural light -like and a bit blueish tint in them. I have to admit that the output of these is quite poor, but it doesn't matter as I normally drive only on roads that have streetlight. I now have Nightb...

I bought the soundproofing mat partly from a friend that had some leftovers from his project and partly from a local car hifi store. --- Got the amp coded for Scirocco today. I actually had to purchase the coding dongle from a local VW dealer instead of letting them code the system. The dongle is on...

Just standard candy white, with a little bit of polishing and some photo editing.

Mine on the right.

Got my car hifi project finalised, at least for now. :clap: I've previously added dampening and soundproofing to the boot, the doors and rear seat area including the 1/4 trims. http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7393/10003512674_22ea28e819_o.jpg It took me two evenings to install this Volkswagen Plug &am...

Finally got the wiring sorted out for the VW / Helix Plug & Play Soundsystem I installed last thursday. Was a real pain in the ass to install (had to take half the car's interior out) and still needs to be coded for Scirocco by the dealer (comes coded for Polo from the factory). Seems to be a li...