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  6. gavinhendy's lupo

    in Member's Cars

    Posted

    thanks for the advice boys , been looking into getting a rear arb , and a front one as mine is quite rusted and looks like it could split at any time lol ,

    its getting a matt black vinyl wrap at the end of the month and the wheels are going matt white , having a bash at doing it myself after reading so many how to's lol

  7. gavinhendy's lupo

    in Member's Cars

    Posted · Edited by gavinhendy

    here is my lupo i baught 2 months ago , in verry good condition for a car with 103,000 miles on the clock , baught it as the engine in my mini packed up and its off the road for a rebuild ,

    im really happy with the lupo apart from the way it corners :( i dont know if its just because Im used to driving the mini but it under steers like a bitch and dos not feel stable , anybody tell me the best mods i can get to solve the problem ?

    it currently sits on some crappy wheels that came with the car with toyo tires , 40mm lowered springs and standard dampers so i guess they wont be helping the handling lol ,

    here it is afer i gave it a good wash

    Mobile Valeting Swansea

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    took the side strips off , need to get some tar and bug remover to get the last of the gunk off ,

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    dis some colour coding

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    And pinched this out of the mini IMAG0294.jpg, my mate had a fire in the boot of his golf so im not taking any chances

    then this happened , one truly mangled pedal box and no clutch to drive home i had to bump it and crawl home im second with the hazards going lol

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    so ive started on getting the old pedal box out and am now stuck on the shear bolts , ive tried with a hammer and chisel with no luck so ive orderd an easy out kit witch should get them out ,

    also stripped interior to find where he water leak was coming from IMAG0305.jpg, as when i went to run a power feed to my sub the underlay was soaking , the underlay is drying out now and getting a general freshening up as it was really smelly , the water must have been there for years :(

    That's it so far until my easy out arrives to i can do the pedal box .

    gav

  19. some advice plz guys

    in Volkswagen Lupo

    Posted · Edited by gavinhendy

    I've done a lot off searching and digging around on here and I have red so many stories so I have a question for u guys ,

    Last week I Baught a 2001 lupo 1.4s, 101,000 miles , dose have a bit of service history but not much , cambelt done at 50 thousand miles , I am the 5th owner .

    The thing is the pedal box has failed ,

    I can still drive it fine apart from the clutch is stiff , the clutch pedal is about 1.5 - 2 inches lower than the brake pedal ,

    Also there is some nasty rust on the roof all along one side ! No accident damage what so ever ,

    apart from that the condition of the car is great :-)

    Do I have any chance of getting it done free off Vw ,

    Thanks

    Gav

  23. Carbon fibre wing mirror cover

    in Styling

    Posted

    I'm not kidding myself or anybody ,do you actualy think I'd tell ppl it was real fiber ? Lol

    I like it and so do a lot of other ppl , when you concider a reapray is around 1500 and the vinyl costs 600 to do the full car , imo its awsome looking stuff , keeps the rust away if put on goof metal in first place ,

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