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Hey guys,
I'm new to this forum and would like to present myself on that occasion.
My name is Alex, I'm 24 and recently bought myself a MKV R32 in black. I work as a civil engineer for about 2 years now. As you could possibly guess (by reading the title), I am from Luxembourg, so sorry for my poor english. I know, not many people know that it even exists, but I can assure you, it does ^^
Enough about the boring stuff, lets get on to some details on my car.
I bought it about a month ago. It had 64000km and I got it for about 19500€. The car is a black 3-door R32, it has the motorsport full leather bucket seats, MFD2, DSG. My pre-owner had some sort of animal that vent through the front grill, but that was a good argument to lower the price (starting price was 21900€). the front grill was cracked, one centre plastic blade was missing, and the left and right grills had cracks too. Even the front bumper had a small crack in the middle. The cooler didn't look good either, but hey nothing major (thought so -.-)
So i bought the car and immediateley started modding it. First up was the chamfered 3D Emblem of the Golf VI because it just looks way better. Then I got myself the famous Domibox (not sure if it is that famous here in the UK too!?) with a K&N panel filtre. After 2 days, I hit a gigantic pothole on the motorway and ruined, I mean totally ruined, two of the Zolder rims (which were entirely scratched anyway). The front rim simply expoded (cracked into pieces) and the rear one was heavily deformed which made it completely unstable (not that I was able to drive the car anymore, but still...)
So I got 2 new rims and 1 new tire from the insurance and all was well. I was lucky that nothing else was damaged (thought so at that time -.-), so I got my car back the next dayIn the meantime I bought some 8x19 ET45 OZ Ultraleggera in order to get over the time waiting for the Zolder to arrive.
With the Ultras on, the car looked like an SUV and was hideous to me. Oh I forgot to mention that I ordered the H&R coilovers low version from the start
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Since I bought the ET45 rims, you could already see that without the wider arches at the front, the wheel just would not fit into the arch.
New plan: ordered some SRS-Tec wide arches, put my Zolder back on, and now I was ready to lower the car.
Since the beginning I was looking for a new front grill without success. But then one day a friend told me he had something for me
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an already carbon laminated intact front grill! I immediateley bought it, and I was able to put it on last saturday! Looks absolute MINT!!!! (I think
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Today I will put on my wide arches and my new cooler. Yes, NEW COOLER -.- From the impact of the pothole, the cooler had a very small crack on one side which leaded to a cooland fluid leak! Had to refill it every 500km, which I thought was a bit suspicious! Well, We'll see in what state the cooler is/was after the operation Black OPS tonight
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I'm new to this forum and would like to present myself on that occasion.
My name is Alex, I'm 24 and recently bought myself a MKV R32 in black. I work as a civil engineer for about 2 years now. As you could possibly guess (by reading the title), I am from Luxembourg, so sorry for my poor english. I know, not many people know that it even exists, but I can assure you, it does ^^
Enough about the boring stuff, lets get on to some details on my car.
I bought it about a month ago. It had 64000km and I got it for about 19500€. The car is a black 3-door R32, it has the motorsport full leather bucket seats, MFD2, DSG. My pre-owner had some sort of animal that vent through the front grill, but that was a good argument to lower the price (starting price was 21900€). the front grill was cracked, one centre plastic blade was missing, and the left and right grills had cracks too. Even the front bumper had a small crack in the middle. The cooler didn't look good either, but hey nothing major (thought so -.-)
So i bought the car and immediateley started modding it. First up was the chamfered 3D Emblem of the Golf VI because it just looks way better. Then I got myself the famous Domibox (not sure if it is that famous here in the UK too!?) with a K&N panel filtre. After 2 days, I hit a gigantic pothole on the motorway and ruined, I mean totally ruined, two of the Zolder rims (which were entirely scratched anyway). The front rim simply expoded (cracked into pieces) and the rear one was heavily deformed which made it completely unstable (not that I was able to drive the car anymore, but still...)
So I got 2 new rims and 1 new tire from the insurance and all was well. I was lucky that nothing else was damaged (thought so at that time -.-), so I got my car back the next dayIn the meantime I bought some 8x19 ET45 OZ Ultraleggera in order to get over the time waiting for the Zolder to arrive.
With the Ultras on, the car looked like an SUV and was hideous to me. Oh I forgot to mention that I ordered the H&R coilovers low version from the start
New plan: ordered some SRS-Tec wide arches, put my Zolder back on, and now I was ready to lower the car.
Since the beginning I was looking for a new front grill without success. But then one day a friend told me he had something for me
Today I will put on my wide arches and my new cooler. Yes, NEW COOLER -.- From the impact of the pothole, the cooler had a very small crack on one side which leaded to a cooland fluid leak! Had to refill it every 500km, which I thought was a bit suspicious! Well, We'll see in what state the cooler is/was after the operation Black OPS tonight
Here are the pictures in the order of the story (I think!?)
