AlexS

Yeah I'd be up for that if theres a decent turn out.

Yep, im in Christchurch, I ve just noticed you are in Dorchester, I was over that way a few weeks ago for an interview at county hall.

Ordered today from Breeze VW, apparently the lense is included, it came to a few pence over £35 inc the connector.

They are quite good in there, been servicing my families cars for years. The MOT is coming up shortly, hence my reason for looking into it, I know some places will pass it with it non working and others won't. I was going to seal the spoiler to the car when I remove it with some marine spec stuff, I just want to make sure I could remove it again incase it was to fail in a year or so's time! I was half tempted to remove the light and get it smoothed and resprayed as its a complete PITA, not sure what that would do for the resale values though.

Cool, cheers for the info, when I collected the car they apologised and said they broke the outer lense and took me out and showed me it and asked what I wanted them to do about it, I said not to worry as I would be replacing the whole unit anyway, they knocked a fair chunk off the price of the service anyway -enough to pay for the new unit

Basically like every other GTi the shitty 3rd rear brake light had never worked, it was in for his 40k service. Anyway they thought they would try and be helpful and clean up the contacts on the 3rd rear brake light but didn't realise you had to remove the spoiler to access it, they put a little crack in the lense and told me about it when i collected the car. I was planning on replacing the whole unit anyway so I couldn't care less, I just wanted to check a new lense came as part of the unit. Its not iffy at all, its a local VW specialist I have used for years, a company that actually believes in customer service unlike the main dealers, they tried to do me a favour its not their fault its a **** design. Anyway back to the original question does a new lense come as part of the kit?

I took the car into the garage today for a service and they noticed the high level rear brake light wasn't working, anyway they tried to access it from the outside thereby cracking the lense. I ve found out the replacement part number for the new unit but does anybody know if that includes the lense?

I would be interested to see some pictures of this, sounds mint!

Cool, hopefully mine may be relegated to weekend toy status soon Im debating coilovers or a just set of Eibachs, it seems you get what you pay for with the coilovers from what i ve read so KW's or H&Rs would be needed, I guess around £600 before fitted..

Looks cool that, where abouts are you from, you don't see many black ones around.

Some very original mods on this, like it alot! Is it lowered at all Mike?

About half 2 today parked up

Mines a tiny bit out and has never been on coilovers as far as im aware, it doesn't pull either way, it just defaults to maybe 5 degrees off centre.

Which are the ones to buy? They range from £250ish for the PhilJ ones upto £750 for H&R's...

Having viewed it with Pepsi at the weekend I can confirm its very tidy, full main dealer service history they even bought the tyres from VW! Original invoice was circa £16k+ new. He got a bargain as well!