Daniel M's FR PD170 - Fixed 24.07.2017

[Daniel M]

Looking nice mate. Can you please tell where you got the smoked repeaters from?

Thanks mate.

I got the repeaters from ebay. Link below

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Seat-Leon...=Car+Make:Seat|Model:Leon&hash=item257b960643

Seller was great, received them the next day and fit really well. Very simple to do.

 

[benj1989]

I have them too. Good little mod.

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[Daniel M]

I have them too. Good little mod.

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Thanks mate.

Still debating whether to do the grill surround black or not?? I love the look but think its a bit too common now.

 

[benj1989]

I agree black is very common but the chrome is awful.

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[sb_33]

Is the car just on standard springs? For some reason it looks lower than my standard FR TFSI

 

[Daniel M]

Is the car just on standard springs? For some reason it looks lower than my standard FR TFSI

Yeah just on standard springs mate.

 

[Daniel M]

Well I haven't updated this in a while due to not doing much to the car recently & due to being laid off from work. I have however managed to spray the grille surround and gave the headlights a minor restore as can be seen below.







Headlights before



After sanding with 1200 grade wet & dry



After first pass with Menzera intensive polish



Finally a comparison



Hoping to add the following in the next few weeks too.

Fly eye kit on headlights & fogs
Polo stubby aerial
Golf gti pedals
All the bits for the boot pop function
Maybe lowering if funds are still good.

Comments welcome.

 

[Daniel M]

Not getting much attention but what the hell, I'll keep updating this anyway.

Fitted my new C2/C3 stubby aerial, huge difference to the OEM one.

Before

After

My octavia struts, mtec headlight bulbs should be here today so will fit them if my man flu gets better. Going to have the boot pop enabled this afternoon on VCDS. Should have an update in the next few days.

 

[mjstokes85]

Looking good! Whats the radio reception like with the C2 aerial? Keep wanting to put a stubby on mine but don't want rubbish MW reception as like to listen to the footy on 5 Live!

 

[Daniel M]

Looking good! Whats the radio reception like with the C2 aerial? Keep wanting to put a stubby on mine but don't want rubbish MW reception as like to listen to the footy on 5 Live!

Thanks, haven't tried the radio yet but will do when I head out in the next hour. I dont really listen to the radio as I always have my phone plugged in. The aerial was more for looks than anything and at £6.50 was a no brainer.

 

[holmefield]

I do quite fancy doing this boot pop thingy, i had it on my E60 5series i loved doing it when walking to the car with shopping.

how hard is it to do ? And whats needed other than octavia boot struts?

I also did the stubby ariel it looks so much better...

 

[PLuKE]

Same as mine.

I do like the C2 Ariel.

Trying to find cheap things to do. So far I manage to fit some rear spacers, and 5 headlight bulbs with matching sidelights and number plate lights.

I need a DA and going to do my fog lights yellow

Keep this going......

 

[holmefield]

I have all the stuff to do my headlights ( amber laminix ) but dont fancy taking my Btcc bumper off to do them.

 

[Daniel M]

Same as mine.

I do like the C2 Ariel.

Trying to find cheap things to do. So far I manage to fit some rear spacers, and 5 headlight bulbs with matching sidelights and number plate lights.

I need a DA and going to do my fog lights yellow

Keep this going......

Thanks, yeah the aerial is nice plus the reception is very good from it. I'm currently removing all the fascia's to be flocked. Got a great price from a company near Leeds. £55 to do the climate, radio & speedo fascia's plus the heater vent rings.

So hopefully should have some nice updates in the coming week.

I also had the boot pop coded in yesterday too, just waiting on my octavia struts arriving, with my mtec headlight bulbs.

 

[holmefield]

Thanks, yeah the aerial is nice plus the reception is very good from it. I'm currently removing all the fascia's to be flocked. Got a great price from a company near Leeds. £55 to do the climate, radio & speedo fascia's plus the heater vent rings.

So hopefully should have some nice updates in the coming week.

I also had the boot pop coded in yesterday too, just waiting on my octavia struts arriving, with my mtec headlight bulbs.

Other than having the coding done do you just need the octavia boot struts to make it work???

Is there a certain octavia boot strut you need???

 

[Daniel M]

Other than having the coding done do you just need the octavia boot struts to make it work???

Is there a certain octavia boot strut you need???

No you need the bumpers off a new scirocco which give the tailgate that extra push it needs to open.

The octavia struts make the boot harder to close but worth it in my opinion. The only thing I dont like is the tailgate sort of jars at the top which I think over time will make the brackets weaker, but we'll see. I'll upload a video of the tailgate now.

All details are in this thread.

http://www.seatcupra.net/forums/showthread.php?t=345412

My fascia's are now on their way to be flocked, cant wait to have them back as I will have no radio for a week and the climate control unit is bodged in place haha.

I got my headlight washers working which was just a dud fuse in the end. HID's direct messed my order up for the Mtec bulbs so they wont be here until Monday/Tuesday now.

 

[holmefield]

Right im bummed, mines an 08 57 plate & i believed it was a facelift model as it has an 8 as the 10th digit on the vin number but just tryed the boot release method ( press & hold for a few seconds ) & it doesnt release the tail gate..it just unlocks it.

so if i order the bits looks like i'd have to get the boot lock reprogrammed on vag-com, thanks for the boot release link theres loads of info in there.

 

[Jarre]

Right im bummed, mines an 08 57 plate & i believed it was a facelift model as it has an 8 as the 10th digit on the vin number but just tryed the boot release method ( press & hold for a few seconds ) & it doesnt release the tail gate..it just unlocks it.

so if i order the bits looks like i'd have to get the boot lock reprogrammed on vag-com, thanks for the boot release link theres loads of info in there.

Yeah you need to get it changed through Vag-Com.

Yours is a pre facelift. Facelift end vehicles didn't come in until 2009/09. It's easy to tell as they have bigger mirrors, different tailgate with different lights and the rear window also extends to the edges of the tailgate, and they have different front bumper (FR), front and rear bumper on standard cars.

 

[Daniel M]

Right im bummed, mines an 08 57 plate & i believed it was a facelift model as it has an 8 as the 10th digit on the vin number but just tryed the boot release method ( press & hold for a few seconds ) & it doesnt release the tail gate..it just unlocks it.

so if i order the bits looks like i'd have to get the boot lock reprogrammed on vag-com, thanks for the boot release link theres loads of info in there.

To enable the mod it only takes 2 mins on vcds. I'm sure there will be someone close to you that has it.

This is the address in vcds..

Module 46 - Convenience Controller
Coding
Byte 2
Bit 3

 

[holmefield]

Cheers im going to order the bits, think I'll order the 515 power struts thou as mines got a Btcc spoiler on it. YER theres a fella @ work that has vag-com so I'll hand over some money&get him to do it.