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Once you've fitted them, post us an image or two. I was looking around for some headlights and these look fantatsic.

I got a quote for a new clutch for my mk4 1.4 v8 last week: £230. I walked away knowing I wasn't ever setting foot in that garage again. I only got ripped off for the tracking I had done (£30, 3 minutes work).

Looking through my Haynes manual, it doesn't look easy. But if your dad knows what he ...

I don't have any tools in the car, except the standard things you get in the boot plus my wheel locking bolt plug.

I'm missing the first-aid kit too. :oops:

I reckon the most import things would be a blanket, my mobile, and my RAC card. If I break down, I want to be warm and want to get back ...

Due to the gap formation on the spacer, you can see that it simply can't go anywhere as long as all four bolts are in place. Put it this way, the spacer piece I cut off wouldn't have prevented it moving anymore than it would with it on. Yes, I know I would have a problem if the bolts fell out, but ...

The problem was that the brake pad was sticking out 1-2 mill more than the wheel face. I had brand new disks and pads just put on.
http://www.darshun.info/polo/wheel_01.jpg

Now with the alloys on, and the alloy face slightly larger than the wheel face, the alloys were sitting on the brake pad ...

Thanks for all your help guys.

After 6 hours, I got my new wheels on. I decided that I had to trim the spacers.

So they went from:
http://www.darshun.info/polo/SR10.jpg
To what's left over from them:
http://www.darshun.info/polo/spacer_sorted.jpg


The car runs great and my first impression ...

Just got some spacers. They would work if the diameter was 4mm less, as would the alloys fit if the alloy face diameter was 2mm less. Another solution would be for the brake pads to be a tad thinner.

I'll look for some smaller spacers, or else grinding down the ones I already have will probably be ...

Would spacers fix it?

http://www.darshun.info/polo/07.jpg
http://www.darshun.info/polo/01.jpg
http://www.darshun.info/polo/03.jpg
http://www.darshun.info/polo/04.jpg
As you can see, its only just touching the pad. The car moves fine except the scaping.

What would i do without my camera ...

I just got my new alloys on my Polo.
When I took it for a test drive i heard scraping, I had a look and it seems that the alloys are scaping my front brake pads, not calipers (and I have drums in the back). I only changed my brake pads and disks two weeks ago, with standard ones.

I was told these ...