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On 4/12/2016 at 3:28 PM, mattarosa said:

I do love Starlite wheels, one of the best oem options, the bbs will look lovely though.

I'm itching to get the BBS's on. Annoyingly it's the first thing I bought after buying the Lupo 1.5 years ago and they're still not on... Gotta love living far away from home :rolleyes:

2 hours ago, mscherryviolet said:

Gorgeous wheels ??

Thanks :)

2 hours ago, mattarosa said:

The starlites or the bbs? the starlites are pig to get a correct tyre size for!

I'm using 185/55/14. All is well!

 

I'll add just a couple other pictures, seeing as you liked the new winter wheels

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On 9/1/2017 at 10:51 PM, callmerik said:

Looks amazing!.. Love the rims :wub:

Thanks :)

When are you showing us your grey Lupo?

On 10/1/2017 at 10:49 AM, jon_273 said:

Snap

I bet you're not the only one who took a picture of both our cars together :lol:

On 10/1/2017 at 2:27 PM, Silver! said:

Looks good. I wish I'd put mine on now.

 

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Do you also have a brand new set of starlites in the attic? :lol:

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4 hours ago, Blue Loop said:

 

Do you also have a brand new set of starlites in the attic? :lol:

I did. Brand new set of 5 never seen the road. Bought them for the Arosa, but so.d it before I fitted them.

Couldn't justify spending the money on the rubber just for an "out of interest fit".

if I still had them now I would put winter tyres on, but alas I sold them on.

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On 1/11/2017 at 7:22 PM, Blue Loop said:

Thanks :)

When are you showing us your grey Lupo?

I bet you're not the only one who took a picture of both our cars together :lol:

Do you also have a brand new set of starlites in the attic? :lol:

Will do so very soon!  I only picked mine up a couple of weeks ago... Still want to properly clean it before sharing it on here :D 

From what I can tell though our cars are basically twins! :rolleyes:

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On 11/1/2017 at 11:06 PM, micp said:

Those starlites look 100x better on the Lupo than I could have ever imagined!

Thanks! :)

On 12/1/2017 at 0:08 AM, Silver! said:

I did. Brand new set of 5 never seen the road. Bought them for the Arosa, but so.d it before I fitted them.

Couldn't justify spending the money on the rubber just for an "out of interest fit".

if I still had them now I would put winter tyres on, but alas I sold them on.

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I'm surprised you don't use winter tyres where you live... You must have quite a bit of snow and ice this time of the year!

On 14/1/2017 at 2:14 PM, callmerik said:

Will do so very soon!  I only picked mine up a couple of weeks ago... Still want to properly clean it before sharing it on here :D 

From what I can tell though our cars are basically twins! :rolleyes:

So yours is also lacking a sunroof? Good, it won't make me jealous then :lol:

Showing the process is also interesting... just an idea ;)

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23 hours ago, Blue Loop said:

I'm surprised you don't use winter tyres where you live... You must have quite a bit of snow and ice this time of the year!

 

I have a set of winter wheels and tyres on the Dune, but to be honest, the Lupo tends to stay put when theres snow and as for ice, well I just go sideways...

 

:lol::lol::roflmao:

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I should update this more often, it's been nearly 6 months since last time :lol:

The 15th of May marked the 2nd year of ownership of the car, and I sometimes wonder why I didn't buy one of these earlier... So far and since my last update, the car has had a very small service, new spark plugs and cleaning of the leads alongside a new air filter. I'm waiting to do the oil service, having already bough the filter and the oil.

After having to jumpstart the car a couple of times, it turned out the old battery was dead. I tried doing a whole charging cycle on it which didn't work at all, so in the end I had to buy a new battery :rolleyes:.

As for changes, I bought and installed a Gamma radio as the plan is to fit 8 speakers this summer. And yes, I know these were standard in the UK :P

And now a couple pictures of a little drive I did this morning:

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On 6/5/2017 at 7:50 PM, Blue Loop said:

I should update this more often, it's been nearly 6 months since last time :lol:

The 15th of May marked the 2nd year of ownership of the car, and I sometimes wonder why I didn't buy one of these earlier... So far and since my last update, the car has had a very small service, new spark plugs and cleaning of the leads alongside a new air filter. I'm waiting to do the oil service, having already bough the filter and the oil.

After having to jumpstart the car a couple of times, it turned out the old battery was dead. I tried doing a whole charging cycle on it which didn't work at all, so in the end I had to buy a new battery :rolleyes:.

As for changes, I bought and installed a Gamma radio as the plan is to fit 8 speakers this summer. And yes, I know these were standard in the UK :P

And now a couple pictures of a little drive I did this morning:

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 Looking good as always! :wub:

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On 26/6/2017 at 5:08 PM, callmerik said:

 Looking good as always! :wub:

On 31/7/2017 at 0:09 PM, twisty b-road said:

 

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Lovely car in safe hands

Thanks guys!

Time for an update... A big service has been done, as well as a polish to keep it shiny... and more importantly, the BBS wheels are on! I thought I might as well show it off along the SDi, which is also on BBS wheels :lol:

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On 3/8/2017 at 10:08 PM, Rich said:

so rapey.

You love it.

On 9/8/2017 at 11:21 PM, jon_273 said:

Approaching perfection. In fact I can't really think of a way to improve it!

Apart from a sunroof (have I ever mentioned that before? :rolleyes:) it's exactly as I would have bought it had I had the money when they were on sale.

Safe to say I'm well chuffed of the way the car looks right now. Not much left to do to it now apart from enjoying and taking care of it. Speaking of which, I gave it a clean today and took some pictures so Rich can enjoy how rapey it is.

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There :)

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Thanks guys, glad you like it :)

I'm pretty happy with the way the GTi is looking at the moment. I did toy with the idea of fitting a stubby mirror, but I'd rather leave it as original as possible ;)

Might give the brake calipers a lick of paint when the winter wheels go on...

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Update time.

Winter months are usually quiet with not much happening to the Lupo. The most interesting thing that happened this winter is that the car passed it's MoT with flying colours. Gave it a good clean (mandatory over here) before and a couple of the officials commented on how good it looked.

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For a few months the car has been showing an intermittent EPC light on the dash. Turns out the brake pedal switch was toast even if the brake lights still worked. It was changed.

Apart from that, if the car was standing for a few days it would judder around 2000rpm when accelerating which really spoilt the driving. Spark plugs were changed last year, so it couldn't be that, still ignition related. A couple of HT leads and two connectors in the coilpack had corrosion. All 4 HT leads were changed along the coilpack for new OEM items.

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^ Thanks to Rich for whatsapp help and to Jon for providing the tools for the jobs :thumbsup:

 

So now it's all nice and pretty to be driven during the summer :)

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