What Accessories are you buying for your MK6 Golf?

[Candyman]

You asked for my definition from a forum perspective.. not getting into the clinical definition by twerps in the insurance industry who make it up as they go along and all different so it is not really a baseline.

A definition that actually has some significance because it has the potential for significant consequences

I like your last definition, at least if I get someone else to do it I have kept my word

If you use that definition you havent done any mods to your car as Recode did it all. You just paid the bucks

[SilvrFoxX]

A definition that actually has some significance because it has the potential for significant consequences

Not on the forum, no consequence here

If you use that definition you havent done any mods to your car as Recode did it all. You just paid the bucks

Better still .. I have an OEM car .. yay

[Ryan_R]

You two should really exchange phone numbers and leave my poor inbox alone

[SilvrFoxX]

Why .. you are never up early enough anyway.. it is all ancient history by the time you get to it

[atlas]

Are there any cheap places to get the chrome exhaust tips and rubber boot mat for a 103 TDi?

[tonymy01]

I have been busy
LED interior lighting and PODI gauge fitted this week/weekend:



The positioning of the gauge is not too bad, it only really blocks (at my height, anyone taller it might be less) the useless part of the tacho (car max power is about 6000rpm), and the odometer/cruise control speed (which can all be seen simply by moving my head a bit anyway). I would have really liked a vent gauge POD, but the only one I like is only for LHD (mind you, saw a few cars with the defi boost gauge & OSIR honeycomb grill look at the vwgolf.net.au Sydney dyno day last weekend, and they look alright, esp the sprayed piano black looking one that one of the guys had).
This was a compromise I thought I would give a shot, and if I didn't like it, move to a vent option later.

[peedman]

Nice pics tony, how was the install? Much hassle getting the column cover off, and also what about the wiring part? Did you get power and ground from the fuse box?

Im thinking of the p3 gauge atm just for ease of install and the fact its 100% reversible.

[The_Hawk]

I don't like the digital vent gauge, even the analog mount isn't my cup of tea but I do like the Podi... It does look very awesome

[tonymy01]

Nice pics tony, how was the install? Much hassle getting the column cover off, and also what about the wiring part? Did you get power and ground from the fuse box?
Im thinking of the p3 gauge atm just for ease of install and the fact its 100% reversible.

I am really not a fan of digital gauges like that, I made something similar with a kit from Jaycar to display AFR hehe... too hard to read rapidly changing digits and you don't see trending very well.
Power, I picked up the line I ran to the rear camera a couple of weeks ago (where I pulled apart the fusebox to put a new fuse circuit in which is always on) and for the +12V ignition line, I found a suitable fuse on the top row that has 12V when ignition on (and cranking... some of the others would drop the 12V during cranking and from what I can determine from the sparse instructions that came with the PODI, you should not use a line that drops during cranking). I used a stanley knife to cut the plastic away from one small part of the fuse and soldered the wire to it (bit getto, might eventually get one of those fuse extension things that can let you tap in that way, but I have a few spare fuses I bought when doing the rear camera.. and didn't realise the camera kit came with a fuse, it was kind of stuck in the bottom of the box hehe). The column cover clips off, no screws or anything. The back of the top cover has a vinyl piece that is hot melted to a section under the MFD, you can unclip that (so I found out after tearing the vinyl away from it... whoops). The PODI steering column cover comes with a VW part numbered replacement vinyl section anyway (since it looks nearly impossible to unclip it from the top of the original steering column cover).

The biggest difficulty was getting the cable from the sender into the car, it seems the only cable entry point between engine bay and cabin is behind the battery (I originally was going to take it thru there, thought the cable they provided might be slightly too short, so mounted it drivers side, then realised I couldn't get the cable into the cabin from there anyway, so back I went to mounting it down the passenger side and luckily the cable was *just* long enough to reach thru to behind near the fuse box).

I got the nice boost tap that easily clips onto the inlet manifold and then the PCV tube goes into it, fits quite well, 42DD make the same boost tap too.

[Prodigy]

Ordered these a few days ago:



and these wrapped in Goodyear Assymetric 2's