My Polo Thread...UPDATE on PG3

DanDiesel · Post by **DanDiesel** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 6:27 pm

i had 17s with ET30 and they fitted fine but at 8.5 wide, they just came too far out to the arch!!
these 16s were ET35 and just didn't wanna go on, tried 3 and 5 mm spacers!!
trying to return them to Keskin as they should really have known that they wouldn't fit, but they are syaing they've never heard of this before and that i should try 10mm spacers!!

ermmmmmm no, i don't think so!!

AKs_SlickPolo · Post by **AKs_SlickPolo** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 12:22 pm

With 10mm spacers, you'd probably start fouling the arches - something you don't wanna do - unless you have them rolled as they are 8.5 wide too. Its a shame as they would have looked nice on a Ibiza

DanDiesel · Post by **DanDiesel** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 2:03 pm

well i gave up on the keskins in the end so i put the front of the car down to 70mm and the back is at 60ish so its nose down but it actually looks much better i think than it woulda looked level!
it does scrub, and on one side i've worn a hole in the arch

and that was after a week!!
but the scrubbing seems to have eased off to only when i hit BIG bumps, so that must have been the only bit that was scrubbing thank god!

AKs_SlickPolo · Post by **AKs_SlickPolo** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 5:55 pm

Well after looking for these for around 7 months after selling my old wheels I was giving up but I finally found a set of Borbet A's in the uber rare 5x100 fitment and in the rare ET30

Just got them back from the refurbers - refurbed to original spec and had the tyres fitted on. Would have loved to have 9js in the rear but unfortunetely too unpractical and have have already had enough of it being too low and unpractical. Still quite a chunky dish for 7.5js!

Not sure if it works having retro wheels or not?!

...but I think some polished flat Borbet caps (definetely on the cards), 10mm spacers for the rear and maybe getting rid of the black front lights may improve it?

dino · Post by **dino** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 5:59 pm

They look so good on the 9n

SiDaBa · Post by **SiDaBa** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 9:58 pm

They look wicked.

Kinda wished I had spent money on a set of them when I had the chance. However other things to spend more money on

samil87 · Post by **samil87** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 11:15 pm

looks gud

like u sed space the rears a lil and will look even better

M7 · Post by M7 » Fri Jun 15, 2007 3:48 am

hmmmm do i get 9j rear rims now? i think it could be done!!
defo like the borbet A look. might try it one day

AKs_SlickPolo · Post by **AKs_SlickPolo** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 5:23 pm

Thanks for all the positive comments

Sure 9Js will work in the back, but it can scrape quite a bit if you do push it around corners. But no chance of having it low and running 9 inch wide wheels without archwork me thinks. Been tried already!

They've been getting alot of attention today

...been less than 24 hours since on and someone has already helped themselves with a centre cap

At the petrol station there was some guys who came up to me and said it looked like a mini-golf and one even recommended It would look better if i had a mesh top and bottom grille and came up with a genius idea to have a V6 badge in the boot and no one will know!

think i should get myself to Halfords............

errr no!

mc_iver_9n · Post by **mc_iver_9n** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 5:56 pm

Lol what a novice. I've had the Golf comment. Wheels suit it really well.

DanDiesel · Post by **DanDiesel** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 1:11 pm

loving it as is mate! the only thing i may do is space the wheels at the back and thats it!

mini golf and v6 badge comments............how the other half live

gary87 · Post by **gary87** » Sat Jun 30, 2007 6:48 pm

looks really well man, what profile of tyres have you on?

AKs_SlickPolo · Post by **AKs_SlickPolo** » Mon Jul 02, 2007 3:25 pm

Cheers Dan. Yeah, spacers are in the to do list, along with some other mods

Gary87- tyres are 45 profiles

Few new pics after using Meguiars 3 stage deep crystal system

Got carried away with pics without closing the bootlid properly but anyway...

BTW, can anyone recommend a decent polish or scratch remover which can permanently remove a 7 inch scratch either by hand or PC?

I couldn't get a pic to show it but its a really faint scratch that is not deep. I've tried Megs Scratch-X but has only removed 75% of it

DanDiesel · Post by **DanDiesel** » Wed Jul 04, 2007 8:15 pm

looks lovely mate, really comes up nice and the alloys suit it down to the ground!

Jamo · Post by **Jamo** » Wed Jul 04, 2007 8:23 pm

Big photo's are sweet... love the Borbets!

What are the front lights??
Not come across them before - rest of the motors a beaut though!