Brad's Seat leon TDI project, end of an era!!

[hughes86]

nice i love them steering wheels. im after one for mine. gives that chunky feel to it. how much did u pick it up for and where abouts?

 

[UncleFester]

I would be wary of clearing airbag faults with vagcom, you're lucky it didn't go off

 

[brad1]

if it went off, i got a spare airbag
thats why i took the risk

 

[julianleon]

well i wasnt happy with the colour match, it looked ok, but when up close you could see it was slightly off so i rubbed them all down again and started from scratch
so i got some paint made up with the colour s57n, my colour code is l57n but they didnt have mine, but i think the colour is a perfect match

what you think

Hi mate,

I like what you've done with ur strips...

how do you it? did u take them off first? then straight paint them, or did u sand them down, prime, paint and lack! or did you leave them on whilst spray painting them

i'm thinking of doing mine now

cheers

 

[brad1]

Hi mate,

I like what you've done with ur strips...

how do you it? did u take them off first? then straight paint them, or did u sand them down, prime, paint and lack! or did you leave them on whilst spray painting them

i'm thinking of doing mine now

cheers

hi mate, well taking them off is too much hassle, i spent 25p on the sun and masked up around the door strip with newspaper and masking tape, and left page no3 on show lol
1.) rub down door strips
2.) a couple of coats of primer leaving 15 mins intervals, thin coats
3.) a few layers of paint to match the car leaving 20-30 mins in between coats
4.) and a couple of coats of laquer every 15 mins
5.) finally remove newspaper and tape making sure its fully dried

 

[julianleon]

cheers mate... will post results up once done

 

[brad1]

today, i fitted my headlight covers, which i tinted black

 

[T. Spark]

I have noticed alot of Leon boys doing that mod now, how legal are they? Assuming daytime they are perfectly legal, but night maybe not so?

 

[brad1]

if you only do a few coats, then the light will still shine through very bright, too many coats and it wont be as bright and be very dim, but they only take 2 secs to take of anyway

 

[hughes86]

looks smart that mod wasnot sure what it would look like on a silver leon as i have one and fancied doing that mod but suprisingly it looks top. mite do that to mine now

 

[brad1]

well here will be some more progress off my car in the next week to a month or so
getting some 150 intercooler pipes soon with thanks to unclefester
i made a start on the brackets for the fmic which i will be fitting to the car very soon, then will need to measure what other pipes i need to connect up to the 150 pipe work

you may say it wont be as good as forge, allard etc, but its gotta be better than the silly smic surely
but im getting the 150 pipework and hopefully the silicone joiners cheap and i have loads of spare intercooler pipes all ready
so here is my little fmic project over the next coming weeks

 

[brad1]

well, here is a pic of the boost gauge at night

and i started the work on getting the fmic mounted onto the crash bar today

i am picking the 150 intercooler hoses up from fester on saturday and the pipe from the pancake pipe to the intercooler, i am hoping the lower forge pipe from the 180 20vt leon will fit, i think it should
what do you think?

 

[StuPDi]

today, i fitted my headlight covers, which i tinted black

wonder where you got this idea from (cue B3LSY)

not that it matters. they look cool

firat saw these millions of years ago on a 1985 escort RS turbo custom and they looked cool then!!

bit like the flourescent trend of the eighties, seems to come alive again!!

i like black on silver, gives a real contrast

that why i got black lights, tinted windows in order to compliment teh bumper/skirt lowers (and cheaper than getting a bodykit or coloucoding (which looks **** with standard bumpers on the A4))

Stu

 

[jonjay]

A good load of work there Brad. Good luck with it.

 

[brad1]

well i picked this up tonight, for £30 bargain and it will be on the car very soon, obviously in silver lol

 

[CHR15B]

Will look good... I recently changed my front, and got my back one too - makes such a difference to the car.

 

[Toxic]

if it went off, i got a spare airbag
thats why i took the risk

did you disconnect the battery before your removed the airbag?

 

[jonjay]

just put it on yellow

 

[brad1]

just put it on yellow

 

[D.K]

Brad did Kenny put another map on your car today ???