My B5 Passat... New wheels soon

[LukeyBabes]

Thanks man

[LukeyBabes]

So my wheels arrived at home. At uni though so no good pics yet!





Also got some US Side markers that will be fitted! Need 2 more for the rear though!

[LukeyBabes]

A couple of better pics for you lot!

















Up against my friends car because he went to get them for me

[Jorge]

More fitted pics lol

[P78]

^haha

good update

[Praz]

Loving the interior, Cant wait to see it on the wheels.

[LukeyBabes]

So.....Uni is over and i am home to play with my car again.

Fist thing i did is get my RS from my mate who was keeping them for me and then as soon as i took one of the caps off i looked at the bolt holes and they looked a bit small so i took a bolt from the passat and as i suspected the holes are too small for the m14 bolts.

Today was very productive, Went machine shop and got a price to enlarge the holes in the RS. Then i got the tyres taken off, Washed my car, fitted my new bonnet bra and then started splitting down the wheels.

The FIRST time these wheels have been split. They are completely original.





Will look better with smaller tyres. lol.









Heating up sealant to take out centers



And the "look i have wide wheels" pic that is mandatory when taking apart RS. lol

[LukeyBabes]

So i got my leather arm rest in the post today. And i got it colored as soon as i got it.

A comparison, Old vs new





Also covered the air con surround that was the same fabric as the headlining in carbon fiber vynal wrap.



Made a massive difference!



Also split the rest of the RS. Am taking the centers to the machine shop middle of next week. Will fix the curbing on the dishes while thats happening. And prob change my headlining while im at it. Does anyone know what i can use to strip the lacquer off the dishes. Paint stripped does not touch it!

Went on a photo shoot tonight as well but i will upload those pics tomorrow because i will have to edit them. lol

[LukeyBabes]

Went out in the morning after leaving it on all night and it had bubbles a bit but i still had to scrub it off, so since it worked sort of i put it on all the other dishes and it all bubbled off in an our and came off really easy. Couldn't really understand. Think it where they were in the sun. So got it all off now.

Anyway. I cracked the file out and attacked the curbing. Came out great!

Before



After



Looks shinyer than it is. Need a polish up.

And here is some the pics i said about in the last post

[LukeyBabes]

Got me some new headlining fabric! Now someone come swap headlinings with me so i can molest a standard headlining again!

Black suede!



And added a wikid sticker to my tripod.

[BigBody]

I was skeptical on the seat color but it came out looking awesome. Good job!

[LukeyBabes]

I was skeptical on the seat color but it came out looking awesome. Good job!

Everyone seems to be saying that. lol. I saw it in my head and went for it. I love it. The headlining will make it better, thinking about maybe doing the gear stick gaitor. And maybe the handbrake. Not sure though.

[LukeyBabes]

As if we needed more pictures of the RS off the car. But here you go. lol.

Got them back from the machine shop earlier after having the bolt holes enlarged from m12 to m14. So now they will actually fit the passat.
I tried the faces on to make sure they fit.

Going to take them to the powdercoaters to have the centers and caps freshened up. Will just stay with silver.



Wound the coilovers all the way down for these pics. Still way too high!



Too high!!



Mudflaps might have to come off. lol. (still too high)



Needs to come down another 45mm or more. On air of course. lol. So the 58mm i lowerd it for these pics plus the 45mm i want more. Thats about another 100mm lower. And with the bentleys it was already 120mm lower than standard. HA But might not be able to get that far because of the subframe.



And to go that low i need to make some room for the upper wishbones to go higher!



They have already dented the strut from the ride height wit the bentleys! So choppy choppy





And im thinking a 20mm spacer up front. So it meets the arch.

[Majend]

thats the only thing i don't like about those cars, such a shame that so much work is needed to go low in the front

[NeedingAnAudi]

thats the only thing i don't like about those cars, such a shame that so much work is needed to go low in the front

What? All you have to do is clearance the upper control arms and you can lay frame. That's easy as hell.