What have you done to your mk4 (golf/bora) today?

[Driven Threads]

Up on hoist...wheels of cleaned all the underbody,inside wheels,sprayed a clear coat over calipers,polished up spacers....The Grand Daddy .:R deserves it

Hey mate, what did you use to spray the calipers. Mine are looking quite dull.

[JVLR32]

Hey mate, what did you use to spray the calipers. Mine are looking quite dull.

just a can of clear.....polish them up first it works

[Gravey]

My Bilstein B8s arrived today, yay!!! Only took 2 weeks from the US, when a local distributor said it would take 6 weeks. To top it all off the good guys @ German Auto have slotted me in for the install tomorrow w00t

Sooooo.....it's been quiet in here lately, what's everyone else been doing?

[No457 Snowy]

Finally fitted my vented wheel arch liner.

Snowy

[Mr. JLT]

I also fitted my vented fender liner..

[Gravey]

Yay, just got the car back from German Auto - dropped off at 8:30am, picked up at 1:00PM

Hasnt made a huge difference in height - i think 15-20mm drop, but apparently the car was pretty uneven to begin with so it's sitting much more level now. rear and front height seems to look much more even. Havent done any real hard cornering yet but it's certainly a lot firmer (though not uncomfortable) and body roll has greatly reduced, so I'm pretty happy
Will take it for a run through the hills tonight and post some pictures later!

[fuzion]

I also fitted my vented fender liner..

oO, getting closer!

[geoff_gti]

Cupra lip arrived this week, will have a look and see how it lines up on the aftermarket bumper on the weekend

[fuzion]

geoff, keep us updated

for myself, im going to rip out the box tomorrow morning or today and send it away and hopefully it'll be 113! hopefully more so i can get car together before melb next week!

[Gravey]

I got my shocks on Tuesday


Installed by 1pm Wednesday by the good folk at German Auto.

We went from this:


To This:


Only about 15-20mm drop on the back and 5mm on the front, but the car was sagging badly as it was on worn shocks and all 4 corners were different heights! Had the top mounts done too as they were shagged. Now it's much more even and the rear looks level with the front....and the ride, wow! Getting up this hill through some twisty bits was a lot of fun. Felt much more stable and body roll is now very minor. Even braking seems more responsive and safer, Love it!

While I was up there I took a few more pics, it's just with a crappy 8MP camera and no editing...I'm far from a professional as you can see, but I like some of these shots:







Stupid cracked mirror surround.....a reminder to not let your girlfriend reverse your car out of tricky driveways




Now it's time to start to decide on some 18s I think