Scirocco Central

Drove 160 miles from Oxford to North Wales for Christmas.

The motorways were quite busy and the A roads were full of 'driving miss daisy's' who were out for a 40mph tootle but nothing a drop to 4th or 3rd and a prod of the right foot didn't sort out

Kev wrote:Drove 160 miles from Oxford to North Wales for Christmas.

The motorways were quite busy and the A roads were full of 'driving miss daisy's' who were out for a 40mph tootle but nothing a drop to 4th or 3rd and a prod of the right foot didn't sort out

I know the feeling, I had yesterday off and went for a drive out but was continually frustrated by lorries and people carriers on our 20 mile trip, no chance of getting by either. I only seemed to get into 6th for a few seconds before somebody else pulled out in front of me.

I ordered mine

Took a long trip to Darlington to spend chrimbo Merry and happy Christmas to you all
Dave.

Not really today but yesterday, gave mine and the wifes car a good old wash! I love using the snow foam lance! gets people stopping and asking me about it

dropped it 50mm

sparki wrote:dropped it 50mm

Pics?

Nothing today it's Christmas hooray

Deacon wrote:

sparki wrote:dropped it 50mm

Pics?

Only one I have for now I spotted another scirocco and couldn't resist

Added a lip

(sorry for the bad picture and the dirty car..)

matteeee wrote:Added a lip

(sorry for the bad picture and the dirty car..)

Is that one of the ebay splitters? How easy was it to fit? I know someone else had one and said it was easy just wondered how you found it? Quite tempted myself!

Yep, eBay! Really easy to fit. Included 11 self-drilling screws, I used 9 in the 9 pre-made holes, added 2 holes (drill) for 2 of the OEM torx-screws holding the front bumper from the underside. (Unscrew, drill hole in lip, position lip and put screw back on) 2 included screws were not used.
I didn´t bother using the glue that was included either.

matteeee wrote:Yep, eBay! Really easy to fit. Included 11 self-drilling screws, I used 9 in the 9 pre-made holes, added 2 holes (drill) for 2 of the OEM torx-screws holding the front bumper from the underside. (Unscrew, drill hole in lip, position lip and put screw back on) 2 included screws were not used.
I didn´t bother using the glue that was included either.

Thanks for the quick response!

Would you say it's do-able on the driveway or do you need the front raised on ramps or something?

My car is lowered 35mm, so I didnt even try it without raising it. I also have a huge workshop at my work (we are building machines on truck chassis so my Scirocco fits without problem ) so I did it indoors. Winter time is not nice here in Sweden.
Also, with a normal screw driver, you wouldnt have space to fit the screws in from below without raising the front end I guess.
With a tool with a 90 degree angle it might work, but then you have to be strong, pushing the screws in at the same time... I would recommend indoor space and the front lifted about the height of one screwdriver or so

matteeee wrote:My car is lowered 35mm, so I didnt even try it without raising it. I also have a huge workshop at my work (we are building machines on truck chassis so my Scirocco fits without problem ) so I did it indoors. Winter time is not nice here in Sweden.
Also, with a normal screw driver, you wouldnt have space to fit the screws in from below without raising the front end I guess.
With a tool with a 90 degree angle it might work, but then you have to be strong, pushing the screws in at the same time... I would recommend indoor space and the front lifted about the height of one screwdriver or so

Cheers!

Stayed in the house and missed having it, it's in getting the roof painted again

scott.taylor wrote:Stayed in the house and missed having it, it's in getting the roof painted again

Again?! What happened to it when you painted it the first time

Treated it to the alloy wheel care kit I got for Christmas - thorough wheel clean followed by a coat of protective sealant and then tyre dressing.
Along with snow foam pre-clean, shampoo wash and rinse, towel dry, cleaned all inside windows, cleaned and polished dash etc., cleaned sills and sill plates and chrome tail pipes and finally new application of gummi-pfledge to rubber seals.

Investigated last nights ECP Warning in the MFD with VCDS... No fault found. Cars honking at me again.... looks like the battery is giving up after 2 years & 2 months. I think the ECP warning is part of the low battery volts problem.

C.

Hannan wrote:

scott.taylor wrote:Stayed in the house and missed having it, it's in getting the roof painted again

Again?! What happened to it when you painted it the first time

I never painted it, some mongo done it cheap but it wasn't dry when I drove it away so the gloss black turned into a dreadful patchy matt black which he refused to Polish. So it's now been done again by a different guy and it's dried glossy and looks brilliant. Just gotta get a quick flatten and polish and it will look amazing.