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did you pollish the engine cover your self? Or did you buy it?

Polished it himself by the looks of this picture:



It's quite a common thing to do yourself.

i pressumed you would have to dip it into a chrome liquid which would then solidify and create that look??? i dont know why... but i thought it would have to deal with hot tempreatures so it would not be possible to do it yourself????

If im wrong??? very possible.... then... let me know what you have to do.... cos im defo doing that to my car!!!

buy a polishing kit (google it) then paint strip it, sand it down untill 800grit, then get the polishing mops out, dont know which order but i think theres white and blue, you do it with a drill, then autosol it (metal polish) labourous work. . . takes ages

Thanks for the compliments everyone!

Dee-vub wrote:Jarno, where did you get the polished rear stabiliser??

It's an FK one, advantage is that it is adjustable in stifness

And about the polishign, did it all myself, took me just couple of hours (around 4 to be exact). Clean it properly, then grind it down, starting from grid 240 up to about 1500, then start using a polishing kit (mines has 3 blocks and discs). And after some work you will have it lookin' like a mirror. And it aint that much or hard work though

And made an appointment this morning, the mk4 will be visiting the garage on Friday the 13th ( ) to get the 4-2-1 exhaustmanifold an Supersprint Rally-decat-muffler fitted. Hope to see a nice increase in BHP and Torque after that

This afternoon I decided to start on refurbing my GTI's

This is how the rims looked like at the start



After some good cleaning for about 2 hours this was the result:





Much better ey?

then started the polishing of the rims/edges:



Shines like a mirror

Below the polished edge with the heart laid in, above the only washed edge:


Close-up:


2 done, 2 to go!

Finished polishing the edges of my BBS GTI's 2day

Looking good mate. I love your car, you mentioned before you may be giving it a colour change. Any colour in mind?

Biddle wrote:Looking good mate. I love your car, you mentioned before you may be giving it a colour change. Any colour in mind?

Thanx for the compliments m8 Dunno know exactly yet, but it's gonna be darker then now, thinking of some darkgreyish or dark purple-ish kind of colour.

Or something screaming, copperbrown like, really haven't got q clue yet, but want something "original" that draws attention, but not in the negative way, if u understand what i mean

Yeah I no what you mean mate, you want something that goes with the styling of the car and people look at and think "very nice" not some colour which just makes it blend in with the crowd. Im sure whatever you chose it will look awesum.

Biddle wrote:Yeah I no what you mean mate, you want something that goes with the styling of the car and people look at and think "very nice" not some colour which just makes it blend in with the crowd. Im sure whatever you chose it will look awesum.

u understand me m8

But I need some help though, really can't seem 2 make up my mind 'bout some things:

-first of all I want to change the entire front, the bad-boy bonnet is commin' off, you can see the where the welding took place in sunlight, so back comes the original bonnet. But I want a new frontbumper with it, narrowed my choice down to two options:

1-the Lumma frontbumper:




(without all the crap on this picture, no red splitter, no headlightmask, just keep it clean and simple)

2-the DSP Audi S4-look frontbumper:





What to do!?!??! I want to get a more "oem/clean/refined" look, not to screaming anymore, away with the 2F2F-look, I really start gettin' annoyed by al those cops holding me over thinking I'm some streetracer anymore

And then the next problem: THE COLOUR!

Here's some colours I picked already:

Seat Delhired:


Seat Shadowgrey:


Toyota Ashgrey:


Toyota Aubergine Red:


(yes, I just love grey's and red's )

I'm open to ANY suggestions people, help the poor Dutch geezer out over here!

I like the second set of bumpers best, and with regards to colour I go with one of the reds, I think the toyota one would look really good on a polo.

For me personally it would be the DSP Audi S4-look bumper, and in terms of colour I'm quite liking the Toyota Ashgrey.

That aubergine colour would look really original and pretty f*cking awesome on a polo i reckon!!!