Beaus' 95 Mk3

**KI11Z** · 27-05-2015, 02:27 AM

man this thing looks super clean

and thank you for going black on the bumper tops! haha, was going to be my comment if you didn't

are you going to run that chrome pin stripe the whole way around?

**beausuf** · 27-05-2015, 11:20 PM

The chrome moulding wraps around the whole rear bar. There's already an inlay in the bumpers for it that it sits nicely in but there's nothing along the doors and quarter so I'll probably leave it. I was on the fence about putting it on to start with, can always take it off I guess.

Well my VW wheel centers arrived, unfortunately they're not a straight slap on like I had hoped for. Seems like I need some kind of spring/retainer clip to hold them on. If any has any bright ideas feel free to post them up in this thread or over here - Mk1 Golf/Rabbit Centre Caps

[img]http://i1327.photobucket.com/albums/u665/beaumaher/hubcap2_zpsq86dibku.jpg

**beausuf** · 08-06-2015, 06:18 PM

Not much interesting happening in VW land. I picked up a second hand VR6 grille as mine has a nice dent right in the middle of it, will need to paint that in future. I have a spare set of mk3 hubcap centres on the way thanks to a member on here, which I plan on mutilating so that I can retro fit my mk1 centres, will most likely be repainting the wheels once I get those on. I got some replacement LED bulbs for all the interior as I have a blown one in the dash/speedo, plus dat factory green is nasty so that'll be on the cards for a rainy day in future. And here's an experiment that I tried with some chrome auto vinyl wrap that actually turned out okay haha. eBay tells me a new grille badge is $80-90 (stuff that) so I got myself some vinyl wrap for $6 and wrapped a spare one that I had.

**Juzzpc** · 08-06-2015, 06:58 PM

that chrome wrapping looks mad, where did you get it from ?

**beausuf** · 08-06-2015, 07:52 PM

Good old eBay. Right here to be precise - Chrome Vinyl Wrap CAR Auto Roof Film Foil Premium A4 Sheet | eBay

Was a bit of a fiddly job, you need cut a square that's probably got at least 5cm around the edges so that you can grab it and really pull on it hard to stretch the vinyl over the rounded edges without having any creases or bubbles. Once that was all dandy I carefully cut out each section with a sharp razor blade.

**beausuf** · 10-07-2015, 08:05 PM

**beausuf** · 10-07-2015, 08:07 PM

**beausuf** · 10-07-2015, 08:18 PM

My laptop & phone don't seem to like each other so I had to post pictures seperately ^^^

Been a bit quite on here as I moved place and didn't have internet for about 3 weeks but I've been pretty occupied with the move any how. Nothing drastic has happened really. Serviced the damn thing, oil & filter / fuel & air filters and I have some plugs to put in as well. Ive ordered a rocker cover gasket coz that's leaking as well. One of my dash lights was out so I got rid of the old smelly green defuser and popped in some nice bright LED's. I'm in the process of retro fitting the Mk1 centres by using a set of spare Mk3 centers, trimming them back to sit inside the Mk1s as they are smaller so they will be a simple pop on / off job. They are just sitting on in that picture so not completely centred and will be painting the rims gloss black when I get the time.

In other news my little brother joined the golf clan, got himself a '93 Cabriolet which is sitting in my garage at the moment so have done a little work on that as well. I'm sure he'll post a thread at some point.

Thanks,
Beau