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If your having problems with a harsh ride poly bushing and bracing the car is only going to make it worse. Think about it, the reason its a harsh ride is because there is less give in the suspension. If you take away the give in the chassis and the bushes you will just make it a harsher ride again.
Buy some decent coilovers, thats the only real solution. Or get a decent quality shocks and springs kit.
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Its cause your mother is a girl racer.
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I'm hoping to use my Lupo for more than 2 weeks this year.
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13s just look lost on a Lupo.
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Looks so wrong without the inner lamps.
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Could always just buy mine for £50 delivered and then just sell yours.
To do it yourself you need to head them in an oven, don't over do it though or you'll melt them. Make sure you do it enough otherwise you'll break something because the glue isn't soft enough. Remove the filter, paint it, silicone the headlamp 'glass' back on to it and they are done.
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GTI wings aren't any wider. They just have a wider track through the steering/suspension components.
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Best bet is get one of the replica GTI bumpers designed for a non GTI. Otherwise it will be very expensive to get it right.
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How much power are you expecting to get? I mean anything up to 150hp should be fine with a Polo GTI setup upgraded to 280mm discs. My VR6 cabriolet uses 280mm brakes and that has 174hp and is a lot heavier and the brakes are fine on that!
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Brakes before power is the sensible option.
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I have GTI tailpipes on my Sport and it looks totally factory.
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Yeah but you could just use a sport bumper to get around that. As the tailpipes will still fit. Thats how mine is. Standard GTI tailpipes too.
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Looks the same as the ones in an Audi. Fiddly but not a tough job. Mines was just sticky from years of having fizzy drinks and what not spilt into it. Didn't work when I got the car, pull it apart, cleaned it and its as good as new.
Worth doing if yours is slow.
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I have the part numbers somewhere as I bought all the stuff new. Works out at around £1300. Then I bought GTI headlights which worked out at £500 for the pair. The GTI bonnet second hand was £100.
If you use standard headlights and a standard steel bonnet and use standard Lupo wings you will cut about £500 for the headlights and £500 for the wings.
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I normally go to the same place. Although I normally get told to **** off if its a Saturday as they are too hung over to deal with anything other than putting balloon tyres on standard wheels.
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With some big spacers the Polo GTI wheels should look good.
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Machining the centres is easily done by any machine shop.
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Maybe go for a OEM GTI back box?
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Polo GTI ones are the same. Seem to come up more often than Lupo ones too. Question is do you really need Porsche brakes on a 1.4S? I've got GTI carriers ad calipers with 280mm discs on my Sport GTI conversion and they are more than enough.
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The devil you know is better than the devil you don't. Once you've replaced those parts you know that they will last for a long time. Get into the habit of inspecting your car regularly every few months. Likeley hood then is that things will fail and you will notice them and replace. Doing more over a longer period of time means when MOT comes you won't have to fork out a lot of money in one go.
Knowing how to do simple jobs yourself always helps. Even if its an hours labour you've saved thats probably about £50 you've saved yourself. Plus next time you know you can do it yourself.
Nothing to say you won't go out and spend money on a new car and it will have its own set of faults which will need repaired. Stick with what you've got.
Could always be worse, my car costs more than that for four new tyres!
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No is a bit of a short answer. It can be done if you chop out your spare wheel well and weld in a GTI one. But I'm gonna hazard a guess your not wanting to go that far.
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Set of black interior grab handles from a Lupo GTI.
16's on non GTI Lupos?
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