Wadey's Scirocco GT TSI Diary.

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Wadey's Scirocco GT TSI Diary.

Post by Wadeya001 »

Here's photos of the car when I picked it up. It was a nice example of a scirocco, but although in average condition for it's age it would soon see what true TLC felt like haha.

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After owning the car for a few weeks the immoboliser gave up putting all plans on hold. £800 later and I could get in and drive it. This sounded perfect until I picked it up and was told it had a faulty manifold due to a P2015 fault (Manifold runners).

Due to this all my mods had to stay small, here's what I did while waiting for the spray work and manifold to get done.

LED bulbs throughout the interior.

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HID kit fitted. This was fun as I had to have the the DRLs turned off then I brought a canbus pro HID kit and the wired adapters to get them up and running. I also was able to fit my private plate.

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After that the exterior bulbs began to get started. The sidelights were easy and so was the chrome rear indicators. But then I had to do all the other yellow bulbs reverse fog and puddle lights here's the reverse bulbs. The fog bulbs were replaced with blue tinted bulbs.

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As for the puddle lights. They are still sat in the garage unfitted, but not for long.

After that I decided that my brakes looked like they had seen better days, so I decided to give them a little TLC.

I started by ordering some gloss heat resistant paint. Here's links.

http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.vi ... 0907974425" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I ordered a 250ml tin of pure white and a 500ml of jet black (As I needed to do my dad's drums too).

A 250ml tin is enough to do all 4 calipers and personally I feel as though brushing it on give a better finish by miles.

Here's some photos of them before and after. I'm happy with them and it took 4 hours to do the rears which I don't think is bad for the finish. I'll do the front ASAP and update.

After sanding:
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Finished:
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Here's photos of the front. Same process but the initial sand had to be done with a dremmel and sanding wheel as they were a lot more corroded. Here's photos.

Before sanding: As you you can tell the rust is pitted making if hard to sand smooth.
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Then after sanding:
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Finished painting:
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And here's a photo of the car now it's all done. Looks a million times better (might have zoom to wheels).
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At the same time I thought id take the badges off the boot. It is currently in getting smoothed but here's the photo after that.

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Next on my agenda was to start making a smooth T5 grilled bumper with other mods :D

As this was no small job the full guide is here.

http://www.sciroccocentral.co.uk/forum/ ... 37&t=20061" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

But here's the photos of the process :D

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Post by DAN180Y »

looks like the beginnings of a good build thread :yes:

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Post by Dave7692 »

Top job on the grill, I'm about to start a T5 mod (once I find a donor grill) and I'll be using your guide thread a lot!
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Post by whiteDevil_170 »

Looks great so far.
Any chance you could post a link to which bulbs you used for the rear lights e.g. reverse and indicator.
Jack

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Thanks people. I'm into modifying massively, here is photos of my last two cars :D far from standard and the scirocco will be heading the same way. Didn't want to sell either of them, but a 12" pot hole killed the mini and a baby on the way forced a bigger car than the fiesta.

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As for the bulbs I'll PM you links in a sec :) if I can I'll try put guides up for most of the big modifications I do :D currently smoothing the spare front bumper's recess today before I go pick my car up from spray shop :D I'll post pictures of that work too :D
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Got my car back today from the spray shop. Love the look but the boot has some slight orange peel on still I will see if I can DA this out myself but If not I'll take it back for them to fix.

While they had it they:

Smoothed the boot, sprayed the aerial white, sprayed a wing mirror cap which the lacquer had peeled and finally sprayed a alloy which was curbed.

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Bit unsure on the aerial, it looks better than it did white, but might end up getting the whole roof done black.
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Post by whiteDevil_170 »

I'll be honest the aerial looks odd black and white. And personally I like the vw badge on the boot so not a fan of that. But if you like it fair play.
Jack

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It looks a little weird ATM but the whole car will be smooth and euro style eventually. I think the roof may end up black with a black aerial again though :D I love the boot, took a few minutes get use to but it's grown on me now :) will look awesome when it's all the way down on air ride (just need save up haha).
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Post by amcridge »

Hi,
The painted calipers look great. I'm thinking about doing similar to cover the rusty look.
Did you disconnect & remove each caliper or paint them in situ?
Thanks
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Post by Phil »

Nice work mate very clean - now time to get rid of the mudflaps!! :)
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The mudflaps won't be on long. Tbh don't know why they are still on :D just not got around to it yet.
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Been a while since I've updated. I've been focusing on getting all the bulbs LED white and looking pretty. Here is a photo of how it stands ATM, new license plate units, new wing mirror units, new sidelights and new main beam bulbs :D next is to replace the door reflectors with white bulb units. Ow and a black front badge :) more to come offline :D

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Post by snazzy »

Your reverse light / license plate looks very bright, which are they ? :D


Also, I'm not a big fan of mudflaps :D
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I absolutely hate the mud flaps, the car came with them on and they will be going :D very useful ATM.

May as well put all the bulbs up:

License plate units:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/ulk/itm/131452819324" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Reverse bulbs:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/ulk/itm/171944941963" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Sidelight bulbs:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/ulk/itm/161818305977" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Wing mirror puddle units: (absolute pain to change as you have strip the whole wing mirrors down).

http://www.ebay.co.uk/ulk/itm/161666758688" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Loads more bulbs done as well but don't know what all of them are or links.
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Post by easyrider »

looking tidy so far wadey! [emoji108]
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Cheers, I wish I had more time to spend modding ATM, hopefully I should be able to get more done soon :) always shopping so we will see what my internet shopping brings up :)
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Post by Shaun1982 »

How are your sides & reverse lights holding up mate?


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Sweet :) no problems what so ever :D
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Cheers my friend.


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The rear is looking smooth and neat!
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