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166man and Ded_Zebra's VW Bi-Polo Project
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13-03-2015 10:25PM#1Recently myself and 166man bought a VW Polo together. Her name is Betsy, The guy we got it off said that the old lady that owned it before him called her that so the name lives on
So a bit of background on the car. Well it's a 1.0l with 1.1l tax and about 500cc performance. This is definitely the slowest car I've ever driven, 0-60 is a feature of this car but no one has developed a timing device capable of recording such a long time.
"What does the car need?" I hear you ask!
Well it needs:- Front passangers side tyre
- An exhaust flexi joint as it's bolwing quite badly
- A really good clean inside and out
- A service
- A Thermostat
- A knock in the front suspension sorted
- NCT
- Tax
- and it needs to become Bipolar!!!! More about that as the proect progresses;)
I don't have any pictures of it as we got it. Hopefully 166man will be along with some:) All I have is this one of the mighty engine
:D
First thing anyway was we washed it. 2BM obviously!! wouldn't want to damage that paint
Don't have any pics of it clean either! Hopefully 166man does.
Passed a big mile stone the other day
Standard ride height on these things is madness. Wouldn't see it on a tractor. Thankfully we got some 50mm lowering springs from DGT and they even came on shocks
Here is Betsy failing the shoe test miserably.
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Oh forgot to put in that we also got a new tyre on it today to replace the one with the bulge in it. Told the tyre fitter that we wanted something cheap and he very honestly described it as a black bin bag. Nice of a tyre fitter to be honest rather than tell you they're great and all the taxi drivers use them
Here is our lovely new Matador
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Our wing mirrors weren't gold and that was a big problem... So we fixed it
Then this started happening. Hope OSI does't mind!!!
Also, since lowering the car it has driven terribly. So today we had a go at changing the camber on the front. We set it for the maximum negative camber we could get and it's way better now :cool::cool:. Actually quite go-karty now:D:D. It's probably set up with a bit too much camber but we'll get it right with trial and error eventually. 0 -
It's been eventful so far but such craic, car has as much power as my dishwasher but that nearly is part of the fun.
And in case anyone thought she will be going for her test in the next few weeks and will be taxed when the logbook arrives...
Lucky NCT guy....:pac:0 -
Are ye taking a leaf out of the mighty car mods book, whit the budget street cred?
Also ye should do the same with the wing and the japanise comic. Or mabe use a simpsons comic??? lol
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Toyotafanboi wrote: »this is rapidly coming to a point where you need to cable tie stitch something. nothing says my build is budget but serious quite like cable tie stitches.
If we ever damage a bumper or something that's what we'll do 0 -
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My sister likes the flag on the roof so much that she's going to wait an Italian one on the roof of her punto:D:D
I like the stripes idea, furry dice is there just needs installation.
If anyone else has ideas keep them coming, can't promise we'll do them but the more ideas the better!0 -
If we ever damage a bumper or something that's what we'll do
no, no, you have this all wrong :pac:. there are extra marks for stitching something that didn't really need to be stitched. like the bumper to the wing for example.
you're possibly also doing it wrong if you don't put the passenger side wiper arm onto the drivers side wiper spindle for a properly good single wiper conversion.
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Loving this thread.... by chance, I got a free Polo a couple of weeks ago.
The German flag roof is brilliant, and as my one is red, only two colours to spray!
So a saving already
Some serious expenditure already, battery from scrappy, €20, Wiper motor & linkage from breaker, €40, and fan belt broke yesterday, another €12! My God, the price of motoring is staggering..........0 -
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quadrifoglio verde wrote: »Nice to see the dolly birds in the booking department still bump you up the list of you sweet talk them.
Waiting list...what waiting list
Just pop onto the site between midnight and 2am and you'll usually get a slot in good time
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