My little Polo Breadder <3

I thought I'd start a new topic and go from day one up til current.

MK2 Facelift Polo Breadvan [Fox] 1l.

I bought the car about 2 and a half years ago for 450 quid, with the plan to make it rat look, so I didn't wash it for a year. It was completely standard, on steels with low mileage [56,000 when I got it, but now sits at 62,000].







But I never got round to doing anything more than lowering it [80mm all round]. And swapping the interior for a CL interior which was less in your face.













Then I decided the paintwork, bodywork etc were in too good condition to ruin them by going ratty, so I started work on going 'quirky'. The plan was to go down low, out wide, cover the windows [but not bodywork] with stickers and roll on the BBS RA's that I'm in the process of polishing the lips on, so here was my photoshop idea...



And here is how it is so far. There is actually more stickers on it now but I don't have any pictures yet... Oh and I painted the steelies gold with hammerite and paintbrushes for GTI Springfest for shiggs.











I've swapped the front seats for height adjustable and much more comfortable seats out of an old scirocco gt2 which only had 40,000 miles on it, so the seats are perfect. They look like these...



I bought these wheels on ebay, with no idea what they came off of, I've been told maybe an old rare audi or a mk1 golf. 7j, vw offset on 165 55's.





Unfortunately when we put them on the car they fitted perfect on the fronts, but the arch sat on top of the tyre at the rear. Here is how it sits at the front. Just legal, looks so good!





We tried rolling the arches but they were really solid and double skinned and there's about 10mm standing between the wheels scrubbing everywhere or fitting nicely so I'm now having them flared, and then having a respray on both sides and the bonnet [to cover stone chips].

The flaring will be happening this weekend but will have to wait a short while to get the respray done by a mate.

So watch this space!

I'm currently rolling on the new wheels on the front which have made it a lot lower so the exhaust scrapes a lot more, maccyd's in Dunstable is a killer for speedbumps. Not the mention the fact that as I left Big Bang fest at Santa Pod last weekend the bladdy exhaust fell off so it's tied on with cable ties and hangs lower haha!!!

Oh and I forgot to mention, I have no pictures but I've got clear front indicators and clear side repeaters too, to keep it all neat. And a mk2 golf front splitter on it's way to be modified, also considering making a custom rear splitter out of something as the rear bumper still sits too high for my liking.

If anyone is wondering why it isn't lower [I would love it lower] coilovers for mk2 / mk2f polo's cost 500 quid at the very bottom end of the market because they are more complicated, something to do with the hub and strut being one peice, which isn't worth it.

FUTURE PLANS involve a g40 engine conversion ;]

Looking good so far. if you had a little bit of tyre stretch then those new wheels would fit under the arches a treat

max wrote:

Looking good so far. if you had a little bit of tyre stretch then those new wheels would fit under the arches a treat

I'm not a fan of stretch! They're already at the limit of what I think looks / runs good haha, they're the same width tyres as I had on my 5.5 steelies. I like to drive like a nut and having less tyre on the road would be a bad thing haha!

If all fails with flaring the arches the plan is to go all out and fit coupe arches so they're round, only ever seen 2 or 3 breaddies like it ;]

nice car! www.unit18.co.uk do arch rolling and flaring, not a million miles away either. i'd like a bready as a daily so i could stop bankrupting myself putting fuel in the Bora

Got some more photo's after re-blacking my bumpers with some amazing stuff, Meguiars Tyre Gel, worked a treat!














I've also now got the whole set of wheels on but it still scrubs on one side so it needs a bit more arch work then a respray. Exciting!

Ahhhh i love this!! xD

This is a proper good example of how you dont need to do a whole list of things to a car to get it looking awesome and stand out from the crowd!

Cant wait to see this at a meet oneday

From one on the signs in black and white i can see the car has gone a very long way

New photo's, new plates, fully legal pressed plates with bsa mark, only ones you can get legal in the uk!















Image quality is rubbish due to facebook ruining the pictures :[

I like these cars. The wheels are perfect for it

Cool car, nice pics

Loving this polo! Looks fantastic. Wheels suit it nicely

Looking awesome

My bonnet bra came last weekend, so here are some pictures I took yesterday.







Today I decided to add some more quirkiness to my car. Took out the sun visors and studded them...

Let me know what you think :]

Before...



During...



After.

Love it! My guess would be your a art student of some sort?

geofferss wrote:

Love it! My guess would be your a art student of some sort?

Ha, uhhhhm sort of? I only did photography that's probably not the kind of art student you were thinking of! I just like customising things, it's always good to be a bit more quirky!

very true! got any more plans for it? or just doing at a you go?

geofferss wrote:

very true! got any more plans for it? or just doing at a you go?

So far, just the G40 conversion but I'm sure I'll have a lot more ideas along the way! ;]

:O damn woman! you do the work yourself?
you at any shows this year?

Ha nooo my boyfriend helps, well... I help him really haha!

And yeah, just got back from DC11

Oh :L that would explain it :p still though get some pics up .

Going gti internationals this weekend?

geofferss wrote:

Oh :L that would explain it :p still though get some pics up .

Going gti internationals this weekend?

Ahhh didn't even know that was this weekend? Hopefully if I'm not busy!!!

Doo it! Will be a good weekend + I wanna see that block in your car :p... I'm guessing it's no longer a automatic? :p

Right so I found a website [ http://www.carlsalter.com/wheel_fitments.html ] that shows a guide of all wheels fitments, except it's not completely accurate, so the maserati fitment is down at 4x108 instead of 4x98 but it may help me in finding out what my wheels are from, it hasn't got everything on there but it's still a rough guide and maybe a step closer!

If anyone can help me find out what exactly they are that would be mega awesome!

So!!!

A fair bit has happened since I last posted :] full respray baby!

Some more photo's at a cool location near Brampton before the respray...











And prepping it for respray...

















We drove it to the workshop as it was, a bit windy haha!



Oh and my poor ickle windscreen cracked when we took it out :'[ I got a new one for 70 quid on insurance, absolutely no chips, it's lovely!



Oh I have new style vw windscreen wipers now too, the flat ones, they're so good compared to my dead old ones!!! It's like crystal clear windscreen 24/7!!!

Excuse the bad quality phone photo's!

Nearly prepped...



Prepped



Wet paint



I have some more photo's in the workshop on my boyfriend's SLR, so better quality, I'll put them up soon, and get some of it since it's been put together, you may have seen it at BugJam show and shine ;] I got the number 1 ticket as we arrived so early on the Sunday tehe!

I found a few polaroids and scanned them in today, varying ages but all pre-respray!

When I had gold steelies



At the local woods



My friend's mk4 golf [and me and her]



At GTI Springfest





A little photo shoot near Brampton Hut