Greig
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Photos and details here.
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I have a feeling both myself and Bluloop owned this car about 6 years ago.
Sold it to a young guy in Glasgow, but at that point it had a Polo 6R converted rear bootlid.
The timing belt was done in about 2015 by my pal - if you can check the service book and confirm it was done by ‘Tornaveen Engineering’ I may be tempted to buy it back.
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Price reduced to £400
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For sale are my Golf Mk4 Anniversary seats. I bought these in poor condition last year and have rebuilt them.
The fronts have had brand new genuine VW seat foam bases (which cost £220 alone). While I installed these, I also fitted heated seat pads. They are in good condition, with a cigarette burn on the passenger bolster (previous owner) which I have coloured in the a black sharpie.
The rear seats have been retrimmed to match using the mk4 anniversary rears. A slightly different black cloth has been used for trimming the sides of the seats. It’s probably more noticeable in this light than in the car.
The seats will also come with a brand new generic heated seat loom for installing in the car.
The seats are ready to go and can easily be packaged on a pallet for easy collection. I can arrange a courier at an additional cost.
I am looking for £450ono. Seats are based near Aberdeen and will be fully wet vaxxed for the new owner.
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Now £2650. I have removed the recaros and installed a standard leather interior.
Recaros will be available as a separate sale for £450.
Updated ad with some pics from today.
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I may have been a bit off with price. £2995
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2 hours ago, Davee said:
Is this still for sale?
It is indeed Dave, feel free to pm me and I’ll send you my number
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8 minutes ago, LR5V said:
Have you tried selling it to Sam?? - tell him to sell the horse! -he said he really missed his...
He has just bought a new L200 for horse duties so unfortunately a no from him at this moment!
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French Touch Upholstery are a company based in Aberdeen. Working out quite handy as they are next to work too Floor mats are just the OEM rubber VW mats.
The car hit 105k this weekend and was treated to a service, including replacing the timing belt and water pump.
I have also decided to put the car up for sale. I have got back into biking this year and have bought something larger to accommodate the bikes.
Some recent pics for memories/potential new owner:
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I am putting the Lupo up for sale. A new daily has been purchased that is better to haul the bikes about in.
I bought the car from the second owner in September time, who had owned it for a year. She bought it from her sister, who was the original owner for the previous 14 years. The history file is very thick and detailed, using the same VW specialist in Aberdeen over its life until my ownership. This is my 4th Lupo (3rd GTI) and probably the most cared for one I have had.
2004 Lupo GTI
105k
FSH - timing belt, water pump and service done at 105k.
MOT - Nov 2020 - no advisories.
There car has had some small mods as follows:
- Auto headlights
- Bluetooth headunit (will come with the original)
Driver side stubby mirror
- Smooth bootlid, with boot popper Painted and installed in October 2020
A couple of small points to note:
- Passenger side front bumper has a small scratch on it - could maybe be polished out
- Rear arches have some bubbling occurring
- Wheels could do with a refurb
- Leather interior has some age related wear
The car has been the perfect daily, and a pleasure to own for the past 6 months/3000 miles.
It has just been serviced this weekend (oil, filters, timing belt and water pump) so is all good and ready to go!
I am looking for £2650 reduced from £2995 ono for the car. If the full asking price is given, I will also include a set of weitec coilovers.
The car is located in Aberdeen, Scotland. I can collect you from the Airport, Bus or Train Station.
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Lupo GTI Cloth Seats nice and cheap
- £50.
Cloth is in good condition.
The fronts are complete bar the plastic clip and cover - this was taken off and fitted on the recaros.
The rears are cloth only (I used the foam for the retrim). Nothing has been cut on the rear cloth, but the plastic pieces that clip the cloth to the seat bases have been removed.
Ideal for spares if your cloth is tired, or could be a way of putting GTI seats into a normal lupo.
Seats are located near Aberdeen.
I am happy to put these on a pallet if you are to arrange a courier.
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So I haven't used this in about 6 weeks - Oz for 2 weeks and then have been using the mk5 since I have been back, to make sure all is ok before selling it.
One of the things I fancied getting for the car was a set of better seats - the standard ones are in good condition, but didn't like that I could feel my back through the seat and they weren't the most supportive when pushing on.
I decided to go for mk4 Anni Recaros, as the fabric is awesome and to me they 'made' the car when I owned my Anni 8 or so years ago (scary!). However I really struggled to find a set. One set came up in Portsmouth, but the seller never got back to me, even after 2/3 messages. This set came up in Ireland, however were a little worse for wear as seen below from the photos from the ad:
Filthy, buggered bolsters and missing trim pieces.
I got to work, first stripping the rear cloth and putting it in the washing machine. I then dropped the lupo rear seats and the Anni cloth as French Touch Upholstery to see what they could do. It was agreed to use the centre cloth and a similar black cloth for the side, as the existing black cloth was unable to be used due to the amount of usable material.
Picture of one half completed - they need a wash from sitting in the workshop and the light has made it look grey rather than black.. I must say that French Touch Upholstery did a great job with the materials I gave her, including getting all the little details right like the red stitching etc.
For the fronts, I stripped them and also put the cloth in the washing machine.
The seat bases were buggered, but I managed to find a brand new pair of OEM bases from Germany (not cheap!) and went for them!
While going to all this effort, I thought it would be cool to make the Recaros heated and bought a universal heated seat kit from eBay. These use carbon pads, that can be cut width ways to your required length, and also to allow the hog clips to be put back in position. The loom is pre-made and comes with 4 connections - live, earth, ignition live and lights. It comes with an inline fuse, control box and relay too.
Back heated seat pad:
New base with heated seat pad:
I took the feed for the loom off the cigarette lighter, due to having a similar thickness of the cable, while the centre console also allowing the perfect place to store the loom and control box etc. The cables were run under the carpets and came up in the OEM location:
Seats done (apologies for the damp patch on the passenger side
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Installed, with new handles etc:
Colour of the switches all looks OEM:
Couple of things left to sort:
1. Sort the rear headrests so they drop down to the seat
2. Get a cover for the passenger seat belt catch
3. Mount the switch for the heated seats properly - the plan is to cut a blank switch and install this inside (the item that comes with the loom is about 5mm too small)
I drove the car back in the road tonight and they feel perfect - look super cool, much more supportive and a nice toasty bum
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6 hours ago, Stephenmacleod said:
is the sharan badge like an arosa style where you push it in to open the boot? or is it on a popper system?
also, what did you use for removal of the glass? Ive got a knackered bootlid with tinted glass. i know they are bonded in, rather than chucking it I wanted to have a go at removing it and re-sealing it in to mine rather than using cheap tint film.
It’s a popper system. You would need a golf mk5/polo 6r handle welded in for it to be the badge. I had that on my previous lupo, but was a faff to put together.
I got a glass man to do a homer for me - things I won’t touch is windscreens, timing belts and paint haha. He charged me £60 for replacing 2 rear screens. One on the lupo and one on the mk5.
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Got the rear window changed over between the lupo bootlids and fitted it too:
The new seats arrived for the lupo. I stripped the cloth off the rears ready for retrimming the rears while I am on holiday. The fronts will slot in with no issue, once I have rebuilt them with new bases.
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Here are some pics I took of it earlier in the year with my mk2:
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On 10/20/2019 at 11:42 AM, LR5V said:
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Mk5 Gti 2.0 DSG - 86k miles, fully stamped up service book, with the DSG box serviced 5k miles ago. Really high spec, even has a sunroof that apparently is rare
Unfortunately it wasn't being used often enough, I am having some binding brake issues. Sadly the 18" monza's are reps. It has a 3" cat back stainless exhaust that is non-resonated - the pops & crackles are nice, especially with the GSG box, but its too noisy, it just drones on the motorway, so its booked in to get it changed to resonated. Only cosmetic issue is a crusty hatch - I picked up a really good replacement in the same Graphite blue - the colour is lovely...however in the rain it is the same colour as wet tarmac!
Small world - you bought my friends mk5 GTI. If I didn't have one already, I would have bought it. My dad bought one new in 2006 in Blue Graphite and its such a nice colour! I hope you enjoy it.
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Hello all, its been a while since I have been on here. This is my 4th Lupo and 3rd GTI. Some of my previous threads are here:
https://forums.clublupo.co.uk/index.php?/topic/100525-greigs-lupo-gti-no2-update-120415/
https://forums.clublupo.co.uk/index.php?/topic/81168-anthracite-gti-update-51211/
https://forums.clublupo.co.uk/index.php?/topic/48801-my-lupo-14-16v/&tab=comments#comment-609854
With the RS4 being expensive to run and wanting to keep it for special occasions (i.e I don't want to sell it after 6 months), I thought I would get a run around. Parking down by the fish markets near Aberdeen for work isn't exactly ideal either for spaces and seagulls, so something that was small and not too worried if I got it covered in **** etc was required.
I fancied another Lupo GTI, as I felt it fit the bill, and found this one. I bought it from its second owner, the first being from Aberdeen and owning it 14.5 years in Aberdeen. She sold it to her sister in Perth who used it as a daily from March to about August when I got it. I was really lucky to get to meet the original owner on the day I collected it, who had a whole host of stories about the car, and was kind enough to give me GTI badges from her late husbands mk1/2/3s.
Spec wise, it has completely basic and standard, with 103k on the clock. The first owner got everything done at a local VW specialist and I have receipts for everything that was done to the car, including its yearly change from summer to winter wheels!
On the way home from Perth:
The plan is just to run this until I get bored, but for my short commute and economy and the cars history, I am keen to keep onto it for a while. I do plan to do a few things to tidy it up and modify it slightly, all of which will be reversible for sale if required.
Fits perfectly in my space at the house:
The worst part of the car for rust was the bootlid, with crust around the handle and flaking/bubbling of the paint on the spoiler. I have therefore got a new freshly painted bootlid to go on, that has no handle, repainted spoiler, new spoiler brake light (which is interesting the same as a T5/6 spoiler brake light) and new GTI badge with sharan VW badge:
A couple of other bits and bobs done:-
Replaced the heater bulb and fitted a bluetooth headunit from the garage (a bit boy racery but does the job):
Fitted an auto light retrofit (not photo'd) - its quite cool - it looks like a mk6 switch, but has a cable and sensor attached for the light. This sensitivity can be controlled by an app on your phone. This allows for the 'take me home lights' like on a mk5 onward.
Driver side stubby (from Lithuania) and painted at the same time as the bootlid:
I also have an interior coming, which I am chuffed with for the price, and a set of Weitec coilers that I had 'in stock'
The car also passed its MOT on Saturday with no advisories which was awesome too!
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As above.
Must be willing to post as based in Aberdeen.
Cash waiting
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Folks,
My lupo sold today and I got a phonecall saying he had tried to close the sunroof (from being tilted up) and it wouldnt close. Typical an issue occurs when the car sells!
Does anyone have any suggestions? Supposedly it wont open or close at all - so doesnt seem to be the issue with it closing and fully opening like other sunroof issues people have had.
Cheers
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It actually sold today.
I had the timing belt, water pump and alternator replaced before the sale and it flew through an MOT too
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Alternator?
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£70 posted for the BMC
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Rear seats?!
in Volkswagen Lupo
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This was done years ago by Bluloop.
They required extensive modification and retrimming to pad them out. Otherwise you see through to the boot.