1990 Polo C

Just tried my hand at refurbing some alloys that came with the car to put on while I refurb the RA's. This is my first time doing this sort of work and im quite pleased, not perfect but i think they look good. Theyve got poished faces and the lip with everything else painted BMW sparkling graphite Enjoi!

Project wheel refurb hasnt exactly gone to plan as still only done two but when a set of superlites came up on ebay for the right money I jumped at the chance. Had to raise the rear suspension by 2cm meaning its running 80/80 now and the tyres do foul the arches on bad bumps but day to day its fine.





Then had to add arch extensions to make it road legal while i decide whether to splash out and get the arches flared or make up some extensions myself to fit more flush



and I also built a new exhaust sytyem using one of my old polo and some bits of pipe lying around to get a cherry bomb on the back so its nice and loud

doing well mate,the rims looked sweet as on sunday!

there some ghetto old arch extensions yabba dabba doo's cant beat it lol

Dont think I understand the whole polished lip thing!

hehe thats kool man

Thought I better update this since its back on the road. It went off the road about three months ago as my seat cordoba gti was finally fixed but due to reliability issues its now sat back in the garden and the coupe is back.

Just before it went for a bit the superlites were repainted in a bronze colour and took to the skegvegas show


this when things went wrong as although their is loads of tread on them the sidewalls are chewed so RA's went back on.



I still have the original bonnet and as soon as I source a bonnet bra to protect it from the amount of miles I do it will go back on instead of the ratty one

Gave the engine bay bit of a clean since nature doesnt take long to get in


Only recent update since its been back on the road are all red rears which look really smart

New coupe S interior


Drifting is gay!


And finally tinted main beam lights



not sure how legal this is, thats why I havent done the main headlights although cant see a problem as usually the police stop me for my lights not being yellow enough!

Where did you find the Coupe S interior dude?

got it off a bloke on polo3, would prefer the red and black one though

Those Polo alloys that you refurbed look excellent, the first set I've seen that aren't just plain silver. They also look much nicer than the Minilites (but I'm not a minilite fan, so I'm probably bias on that score)

Lego dust caps ftw!

shame some little scrote robbed the two I did and left me with the two that arent finished really so on the look out for some more cheap to try again. And this time store them more securely!

callum33 wrote:

got it off a bloke on polo3, would prefer the red and black one though

getting rare man! nice find!

Polo is now my new project as it wont pass an mot, mechanic who looked at it thought it was too low as gaiters were rubbing on things due to the messed up geometrey of it sat to low so it can sit in the garden covered up over winter then its engine transplant and suspension change once the ice clears so I can actually use my drive way again

Its Alive!, Now the corrado is my daily and work is running out its time to play with the polo since its cheap and cheerful so will be updating regularly to keep a record as much as to show my terrible handiwork as this will be the first car Ive properly had to restore and rebuild and eventually want to go in a different direction to the rat it is now

first things first, some of the bodywork is a bit of a mess and could use a tidy so on removing the plastic arch trim I found this



And so the battle began to remove the wing, so much sealant holding the damn thing on!



and as soon as it came off I had to do it all over again on the donor breadvan

The new wing isnt so bad so had a coating of Krust to kill that




then tomorrow it'll be time to start sanding back then thinking of rebuilding the shape of the wing with body filler, as buying a complete replacement seems like quite a task

rebuilding that hole with filler is a REALLY bad idea. you'd be better off building it back up with wine gums! just weld a patch in or ring LA motors in Mablethorpe and see if they still stock new wings, I got some for a mk2 golf for £15 each!!

oh and sell me those wheels haha

cheers will give them a ring, If I can get a new one it would be preferable

They're number is on here in the traders section I think. They're pattern parts but I had no trouble with the fitment of the wings I bought for a mk2, couldn't even tell and they come in black primer so ready for paint.

Mk2 bread van in windleys looked to have good wings on it dude.

I thought windleys were closing down? Were always a bit overpriced imo, only really any good for small stuff you can use the old 5 finger discount on lol

will have a look as that other place either doesnt exist anymore or just dont want to answer their phones

A big thankyou Tom as windleys did have a wing and its the first polo wing ive had in a long time without holes in it!

Windleys wasn't too expensive imo only cost £24 for the wing two clips for mk3 golf headlights and the radiator brackets for my polo, and I managed to forget I was wearing the hi-viz jacket they gave me till I got home so got that too lol