My Mk4 Ibiza 2.0 8v Sport

[Radge-Aha]

I recently got myself a nice little 2.0 Sport, only to find out its an 8v so its not exactly a rocket.

However, its still a really nice car to drive, and its still slightly faster than my corsa was (1.2 16v Ecowreck engine to 2.0 8v VW engine and the difference is maybe 1.7 sec to 60..)


Here is the car the day i bought it

Here it is after coilys were fitted

Here are the smaller mods ive made

 

[Radge-Aha]

Pics added!

 

[IainW]

My old car. I read your post in the Welcome section saying that you saw the glue residue in the rear window from the SCN sticker. I peeled that one off before I traded it in, but it took that long to get it off that I just left the other two in the rear side windows.

 

[Radge-Aha]

Sweeeeet, i have managed to trace my cars history back to the showroom it first drove out of

Not very often that happens i dont think.
Well il be replacing the sticker anyway, i ordered one the other day, SCN on one side, SVag on the other

 

[IainW]

And I've managed to trace my old car.

Like I said on SVAG when I posted in your thread (somebody on here tipped me off about it), it was well looked after when I had it. It saw a lot of the UK in the 2 years I had it!

 

[Radge-Aha]

And in the 3 months ive had it, its never been further than dunfermline(like 15 miles from home lol), except 1 trip to glasgow last weekend.

 

[Radge-Aha]

New Goodies!

I got bored of the plain looking area between the arches, and since im not quite rich enough to buy the wheels i want i decided to liven up the brakes instead.
Forgive the minging wheels, the brake pads are made of coal i think o.o
Green Stuffs will be coming soon!

Spent a few hours cleanin the car up before taking it to Trix for some Tintage.

Heres the finished Product.

^ Even gave me a sticker

^ Cant wait to get the rear shock back and get it sitting on tha floor

Thanks again to dougie for a top notch job, and some quality banter while-u-wait

 

[Radge-Aha]

The goodies just keep coming!
Think this will be the last one for a while tho.
First i took the horrible badges off my centre caps which left me with this.

Any suggestions on what i can do to make it a bit less plain?

No need to explain what it is really...

^ Cant wait to get that sitting under the kerb

 

[oneofthetwins]

nice car, if you dont mind me asking how much did the tinting set you back? and how lond did it take?

and black wingmirror covers and black wheels would be nice..

Cheers
GM

 

[Radge-Aha]

Thanks for the comment

Tints cost £120 from Trix in Dunfermline

I was thinking about white wheels actually
Il break out the old photoshop and see what each one looks like

 

[Radge-Aha]

I forgot about posting stuff up here

So here is some major updating.

Start off with my spur-of-the-moment wheel purchase.

Then comes the Home-made install which isnt 100% done yet.

Refurbished those wheels. (Anthracite/Graphite)

And finally, the worst point of my time with this car...

Its amazing how low people can sink...

 

[BeezaDave]

alloys are sweet. really sharpen up the car.

soz bout the scratch.

 

[Radge-Aha]

Thanks, i really love the wheels, they were a total split second decision, i saw them for sale on ScottishVAG.net and thought why the hell not, i hate the standard wheels and these were direct fitment with nearly new tyres.

I will be getting tyres put back on them hopefully tomorrow and have them on the car with 25mm adapters on the rear to bring it out to the arch

 

[Radge-Aha]

Well ive calmed down a bit since the weekend.. but im still majorly ticked off.

So i decided the best way to remedy this is with some retail therapy.
Heres the spoils of another 2 days part shopping

With the newly refurbished wheels, the faded/scratched centre caps were just a major eyesore, so i searched through ebay for a while and finally found these.

Also ive been following another thread here and was discussing front bumpers/grilles.. that got me thinking that i like the honeycomb FR grilles... so i took a trip down to Fife Seat and came out with this.

Finally, Got tyres fitted to the wheels and going to fit wheels tomorrow, heres what that should look like.

Seeing about a pressed plate tomorrow then that will be my lot till near christmas time, got 2 holidays to save for next year and after a rough totalling on the laptop, ive spent near £1700 on the car since May
Time to back off and enjoy what i got so far.

 

[BeezaDave]

honeycomb grills make a huge improvement.

excuse my ignorance but what is a pressed plate?

those new alloys really fit the car but i think they looked better before you refurbished them, sorry.

 

[knight85]

pressed steel plates...

get the legal ones from dubmeister!

 

[IainW]

I prefer the refurbed wheels, the colour really goes well with the paint. I was going to get the standard ones done that colour when I had it, as I hated them in the normal silver and they got dirty far too easy! It's coming on nicely now.

 

[Radge-Aha]

Wheels are on!
had a bit of bother with the adapters tho.


Alright so heres the story.
I put my old tyres back on the wheels (205/40/17) because finds are tight atm so i couldnt afford 4 new tyres.

I decided to try the adapters on the back to get the wide stance, however this is what happened...

The arch is sitting about 5mm above the tyre, so i decided to see if it would be ok after all.
I got out of the drive and about 25 metres along the street when i heard the arch settling down on the tyres... so i very carefully reversed back and took the adapters back off.

So now im left with this.

SO my dilemma is.. do i leave the adapters off and stay low but narrow.. or do i put the adjuster cups back in and raise the back slightly and go wide.. This is mainly for E38, i will be getting stretched tyres as soon as funds allow but probably wont be in the next few weeks.

 

[andy17]

I LOVE them wheels, brilliant.

Nice work on the car

 

[BeezaDave]

well radge? i think it looks better with the wheels behind the arches. that makes no sense. have the car higher.

do you mind me asking how dark your tints are?