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Re: White 6R - journey to E38

Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 12:14 pm
by jamesagordon
Did a bit of research and rather than getting a popper I'm gonna swap the air struts with the ones of the scirocco (£30 off ebay for a pair) these pop the boot open and allow you to just keep your normal key and do it with the boot button on there :)

Re: White 6R - journey to E38

Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 2:33 pm
by Boyracer_2011
jamesagordon wrote:Did a bit of research and rather than getting a popper I'm gonna swap the air struts with the ones of the scirocco (£30 off ebay for a pair) these pop the boot open and allow you to just keep your normal key and do it with the boot button on there :)
Your car looks great bud, im liking the purple bits :-)
I would be interested in changing my boot struts aswell, will it be easy to do?? You'll have to take a vid if it works.

Re: White 6R - journey to E38

Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 3:06 pm
by jamesagordon
Thanks man :)

I think its just a case of undoing 4 screws on each, i tried turning the mount around 180 degrees as apparently that works on the mk6 golf but no dice unfortunately and I couldn't close my boot properly.

Here's a video of someone who's done it using it :) https://www.youtube*.com/watch?v=kvMQXRxBJa4

Re: White 6R - journey to E38

Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 3:22 pm
by mozzapologti
jamesagordon wrote:Did a bit of research and rather than getting a popper I'm gonna swap the air struts with the ones of the scirocco (£30 off ebay for a pair) these pop the boot open and allow you to just keep your normal key and do it with the boot button on there :)

thats good i seen it on mk6 golf didnt no scirocco ones worked might get my self sum just to pop mine open lol

Re: White 6R - journey to E38

Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 3:29 pm
by otto-mate
Read somewhere (on here?) that these push the rear door out and distort it?

M.

Re: White 6R - journey to E38

Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 3:34 pm
by jamesagordon
My bad, you need Toledo struts and scirocco origin stops, the struts from the Toledo are even cheaper

Re: White 6R - journey to E38

Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 4:07 pm
by mozzapologti
which bit is the stops ? what the look like

Re: White 6R - journey to E38

Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 4:25 pm
by jamesagordon
just had a google and I'm not sure :( theres a few german forums about so I'm gonna do some proper research closer to the time of getting it done

Re: White 6R - journey to E38

Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 10:23 pm
by jamesagordon
nice photo someone took at DC12 - displays the gloss blacked grills quite nicely I think :D

Image
177000_461870567174322_756007108_o by James A Gordon, on Flickr

Re: White 6R - journey to E38

Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2012 12:16 am
by joshtmorris
Looks good mate gloss black grills actually make a subtle difference. Looks cleaner :)

Re: White 6R - journey to E38

Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2012 4:36 pm
by jamesagordon
Brilliant, just got a nice letter through the post from a solicitors - the woman I hit nearly a year ago (at 7mph) has claimed injury compensation.

I hate people these days

Re: White 6R - journey to E38

Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2012 6:43 pm
by jlpolo
http://www.vwwatercooled.org.au/forums/ ... 51074.html

Found that page mate might be abit of help.

Re: White 6R - journey to E38

Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2012 9:09 pm
by jamesagordon
Already seen that and tried it - no dice :(

Re: White 6R - journey to E38

Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2012 9:22 pm
by mashmarriner
btw mate am sorry but am nicking your idea of plainting the lower grills gloss black, just thought ill let ya no before you find out and get a shock lol

Re: White 6R - journey to E38

Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2012 9:47 pm
by jamesagordon
haha not knicking my idea bud all about sharing tips! ;)

it'll look wicked against your black body work :)