[Geo]

Oh right, thought your car had 17s on it.

Anyway, stretched tyres would look stupid on my car unless I bought coilovers, and that isn't going to happen. So it is staying relatively standard.

 

[Dave Red]

Looks great George

 

[The Doc]

Look's Great now George. Time to get the 8v sorted?

 

[Geo]

You will all be glad to hear that I rang Phoenix motors and ordered 2 clear side repeaters for the car. Should have them tomorrow. More pictures after they are fitted

@Eamonn the 8v is way down the list at this stage I'm afraid

 

[Glenn]

Sure t.d would have smoked your orange ones

 

[Geo]

He would have used more than €16 worth of paint and lacquer though

 

[Glenn]

Lol, very true.

 

[Ray]

Lookin good Geo!

 

[Geo]

Well I got my octavia side repeaters today. €20 for the pair including a pair of orange bulbs.

Got drenched fitting them and taking the pictures, feckin Irish summer weather

Here is a before and after shot:

What do ye think?

On another note I have to say that yer man Martin in parts in Phoenix Skoda on Prussia St is one of the best main dealer parts guys I have come across. Very helpful and friendly, I'd highly recommend him.

 

[Declan]

Top job !

Look the part IMO

 

[benkenobi]

Nice job Geo makes a great difference

 

[craig]

ordering part number 029113R from any motor factors will give you these clear repeaters for about €8.00 each including the yellow bulb!! its an OE part too re-packaged!!

 

[Razor]

martin is sound alright geo......have to say the look alot better on the car the the Orange ones did,you shoud lower her a little bit.....finnish it off.

 

[Geo]

It is already lowered Shane. It looks higher in those pictures than it does in reality because of the slope of the road it is parked on

 

[Trevor]

At last clear side repeaters !!

 

[The Doc]

Big Improvement.

 

[J-GTi]

Looking good, wheels look great.
Strange how something as small as side repeaters make such a difference.

 

[Shane]

QUOTE (J-GTi @ Jun 26 2008, 10:44 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Looking good, wheels look great.
Strange how something as small as side repeaters make such a difference.

Thats the VAG modding philosophy in a nutshell

 

[Geo]

Some of you may know that the heater matrix in the car has been leaking slightly for the past couple of months. I've been putting off doing the job because I hate doing heater rads in any car.

Well anyway I decided to stop procrastinating and tackled it today. And it turned out to be just as bad as I expected. Order of work was roughly;

Centre console out, lower dash covers off, glovebox off.
Clocks out, steering column dropped, pedal box disconnected from dash support bar
Upper dash cover removed, dash support bar unbolted.

At this point I thought all I had to do was pull out the heater box and change the matrix but I discovered that the air con pipes wouldn't allow me to do that. So I had to split the heater box in 2 along a join with clips on it. Then I pulled out the section of the heater box with the matrix in it and changed it over. The old one was in a very bad way, I don't know how it lasted so long without failing completely.

At this stage I have the heater box back together and back in place, the dash support bar bolted back in and the upper dash cover on, so I'm over the worst of it.

 

[Ray]

How many hours so far George?