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Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2010 2:16 pm |
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Joined: Feb 26, 2010 Posts: 227
Trade Rating: 0
Location: Northern Ireland
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Car started off like this..
It's a 2003, 1.1L 206 Lx...
First thing i did was put a set of loys on it, and lower it.. also, got the windows tinted and put on a GTI Spoiler..
It then looked like this:
This was brilliant... until insurance found out my car was lowered, and wouldnt insure me because of my age.. *cry*
So got the original springs back in it unfortunately.. Then looked something like this:
So, got the modding bug soon after..
Bought a new Bumper:
for 80pd, aswell as a Sports Honeycomb grill supplied by Dabamash off here :)- painted the silver red and gave it a wee spray of Back to Black to make it shiiiiine
also bought, a new aerial, which i painted Black
Bought a 25cm sunstrip and shocker decal in Red off BayE...
Bought Red Brake Caliper paint and painted the front calipers and back drums red, which made a huge difference..
After that, painted my whole front badge and surround red, which i hated, immediately sprayed it black and did the tongue and tail red- my immaturity shining through
Also painted my Exhaust Tip Black, which looked horrible:
so carma made me loose it, so hada buy another one from ebay for £7
Next Thing was fitting the bumper, (which had to be sprayed), getting the trim colour coded, bumper mouldings colour coded and alloys Gloss Black :D- got the whole job done for £250!!! from my mates dad's work..
When it came out, looked amazing:
Bought a Cupra R Splitter from local Seat dealer for £25 round abouts, also bought Some headlight tinting film from flyeyeskit.com- was apprehensive at first but after seeing it on the car was well pleased!
Gave it a wax polish, and after a bit of volcanic ash fell, looked like this:
Future Mods- not sure, maybe a nice big sound system for the back, tint the front windows a bit and then next year get a new insurance policy and lower it to the balls :D.. but comments are appreciated thanks guys
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Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2010 2:24 pm |
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Joined: Jan 23, 2010 Posts: 899
Trade Rating: +2
Location: Leeds
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Cars looking good mate.
Was suprised how good the headlight tint film looked. Think the red / black theme is well done, but I'm not sure on the red drum brakes. Black would look better
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Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2010 2:33 pm |
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Joined: Feb 08, 2010 Posts: 222
Trade Rating: +4
Location: Leicester
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Looking good mate, but how did they find out that you had lowered the car?
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Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2010 3:21 pm |
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Joined: Feb 07, 2010 Posts: 445
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Location: West Midlands
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Looks good
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Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2010 3:27 pm |
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Joined: Feb 21, 2010 Posts: 3945
Trade Rating: +45
Location: basingstoke
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how did they find out it was lowerd but none of the other bits that you ha ddone to the car, looking good though
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| PAST -2008 Vauxhall Astra VXR / 2002 pug 206 GTI
PRESENT - VW Golf GTI Semi - Auto
Now have my 106 GTI track car
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Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2010 3:55 pm |
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Joined: Feb 07, 2010 Posts: 95
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Location: Home-Lisburn, Northern Ireland. Uni-Edinburgh
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mate, i feel your pain about the insurance especially in NI! i had mine lowered for my first year under mums name on the insurance but then couldn't afford to have it done when i changed it inot my name! but the car looks good. You got any plans to go to Ballymena car fest this weekend?
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Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2010 4:13 pm |
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Joined: Feb 08, 2010 Posts: 5113
Trade Rating: +7
Location: The car in front
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Looks mint Elmo
Good to see the old grill is getting some use. Looks pretty awesome with the red surround.
Nice job
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Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2010 4:18 pm |
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Joined: Feb 07, 2010 Posts: 840
Trade Rating: +3
Location: Durham, NE England, UK
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Love the red grille surround but i'd do the rear drums black.
how about a red 206info sticker for the sunstrip?
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| Now Driving a 1988 Volvo 360 GLT
2.0 8v RWD
Cheaper to insure than my 1.4 206 | |
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Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2010 4:29 pm |
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Joined: Feb 26, 2010 Posts: 227
Trade Rating: 0
Location: Northern Ireland
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eh i tried declaring it and then they said they wont insure me cause they wont allow any performance modifications, its so stooopid!!!!
but eh dno dude, wens the ballymena thing on? + wat insurance company were u with to get insured on a lowered 206 in N.I?
and nimminz i quite like that idea of the 206info sticker on the sunstrip! ill look into it
btw thanks guys, and thanks dabamash for that grill
more comments welcome thanks
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Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2010 4:30 pm |
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Joined: Feb 07, 2010 Posts: 1312
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Location: Aberdeen, Scotland
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I didn't think that was the tongue, just the lower part of the lions jaw?
But looks good, especially the headlights and grille surround.
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Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2010 4:37 pm |
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Joined: Feb 07, 2010 Posts: 840
Trade Rating: +3
Location: Durham, NE England, UK
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i've got peugeot stickers on mine, would have put info ones on but have them in rear side windows
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| Now Driving a 1988 Volvo 360 GLT
2.0 8v RWD
Cheaper to insure than my 1.4 206 | |
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Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2010 6:43 pm |
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Joined: Feb 08, 2010 Posts: 344
Trade Rating: +3
Location: Home: Fleet, Hampshire, Uni: Portsmouth!
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Looking good mate! I did the same with my front grille after seeing golf gti's driving around with the red stripe...mine is now pretty stonechipped after a grit lorry though
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Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2010 9:42 pm |
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Joined: Feb 07, 2010 Posts: 91
Trade Rating: 0
Location: Northern Ireland
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Endsleigh will insure lowered cars in ni
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Posted: Sat Jun 05, 2010 2:07 am |
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Joined: Feb 10, 2010 Posts: 4266
Trade Rating: +4
Location: Palestine
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car looks great,nice project,and the mods looks awesome :),love the headlight tinting,look very good,did u tinted the foglights as well?,and is't a special tinting for headlights,or just any tinting film??,anyway nice job mate,car looks so clean and shine all the time as i can see :),Black looks great on Pugs
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Posted: Sat Jun 05, 2010 11:34 am |
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Joined: Feb 26, 2010 Posts: 227
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Location: Northern Ireland
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yea but gota quote from Endsleigh for £4500? haha.
yea the headlight tint was surprisingly good! and doesnt have tooo much effect on light output, so sa'll good, nah dude its not special tinting film, its flyeyeskit, its got loooads of little holes in it.. looks quite weird. and yea thanks i love cleaning the car.. dno wat other mods to do to it tho :S
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