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Hey, been on here a long time but never got round to posting up my wee Arosa S TDi.

I actually bought the car off of the forum after I joined, bought it in June 2010 and love it to bits! Done quite a few miles in her and now has 110k on the clocks but runs like new :)

I was used to tuning to and modifying cars however I wanted to keep it standard and stayed that way for over 2 years until recently. I was fitting all new suspension bushes one weekend, and the next week a front spring broke! So the car got some coilovers and this is how she looked on standard Arosa Alloys...

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So then I went on the hunt for some banded steel wheels, I had always wanted a set for my Golf VR6 which I sold to buy this, so on to eBay I went and bought some banded steel wheels, 8J fronts running 195/45/14s and 9J rears running 185/50/14s.

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And on the car...

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However I was not happy with how much "Poke" I had on the back and also did not feel comfortable driving with the rear tyres being so stretched, so ordered some standard steelies and got them banded an inch to 7J for the fronts and I would run the 8Js on the rear. So the new wheels arrived and they all got sanded down and painted in the house and cured in the oven...

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And in the mean time of them curing I removed the standard Arosa lights and fitted Lupo rear lights...

From this...

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To this...

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And also bought some MK4 Golf Recaro seats, so fitted those as well (Rears to be trimmed later)

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The with the steel wheels fitted (Fronts 7J with 185/50/14 and Rears 8J with 195/45/14)

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And cleaned...

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And that is how she is at the moment.

Cheers

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