VW Lupo - From standard to now - UK

[moodye]

Loves it! do u get any hassle at MOT time?

[KentGTi]

This is the most gorgeous Lupo I have ever seen. Well done!
Little love for the BBS tho but the rest is doing it!

Love it man. All the little details are great. Keep up the great work.

Started reading and noticed the thread started back in 2011, so I was curious where this is now. Only to my suprise, you're Bad Low! haha, I've seen your car all over Instagram and the I Love Bass articles, gorgeous car mate, and you're fortunate to be so close to Alex Carrol, his photography is literally spotless

cheers guys, yeah alex is only about 20 minutes from us lot, love his photos. And with the BBS, I actually love them & the colour, never really shows in photos as it does in the flesh but I do need to sort the fitment out 100%.. I don't know what to do, if I build the fronts wider my drive height will have to be higher which will suck.. I drive it as low as I can.. or alternatively build the 16" RS's in the same colour.. just wider.

[Mehowski]

Started reading and noticed the thread started back in 2011, so I was curious where this is now. Only to my suprise, you're Bad Low! haha, I've seen your car all over Instagram and the I Love Bass articles, gorgeous car mate, and you're fortunate to be so close to Alex Carrol, his photography is literally spotless

[GTIKole.]

Love it man. All the little details are great. Keep up the great work.

[Nagah]

This is the most gorgeous Lupo I have ever seen. Well done!
Little love for the BBS tho but the rest is doing it!

[KentGTi]

Cheers guys, I'm awful at build threads.. like seriously awful, I mainly post on instagram (@kentgti) if anyone's interested.

Untitled by Ross Mullins, on Flickr

it's been a while..... took the car back down to a company in the UK - studioincar for a month just after jan for some more audio upgrades, basically one of my Rainbow iPauls decided to die on me with it going into protect mode over certain volumes.. bought a replacement from Germany as that was the only place who had any stock as the amp was discontinued years & years ago... however it turned out to be problem after problem.. like seriously, so many problems.

Ended up taking the plunge and upgrading to Mosconi amps, which are a lot more powerful than the Rainbow ones, so now running 3 x Mosconi Gladen AS 100.2s & 1 x 200.2.. pretty tight squeeze though.

At the same time we added another set of mid-bass as wanted more of a punch & for it to be louder than previously, which obviously meant the lower door cards being completely rebuilt, with lighting built in & trimmed to match the rear this time. Also added a XS Power Audio battery, trimmed the iPad dash surround & t-piece in alcantara, dash binnacle trimmed, heater surrounds trimmed, had some rear side builds to cover where seatbelt/plastics were trimmed, slam panel plastic trimmed & a full system tune. So now the whole of the rear is trimmed in alcantara & it's silly loud, like seriously.

Untitled by Ross Mullins, on Flickr

/// by Ross Mullins, on Flickr

/// by Ross Mullins, on Flickr

I sorted the BBS out after having a dish crack on me after Edition last year, so they're back on for now.. although currently planning on building the RS's this year, now have the right sized barrels I need just need to decide on colour and order dishes.

bbz by Ross Mullins, on Flickr

Struggling what else to write now, met up with Alex Carroll who's local to us for some photos & I'll post some from UD where I was lucky to make it inside on Players/Airlift stand (cheers).

Alex - dapper shoot. by Ross Mullins, on Flickr

Alex - dapper shoot. by Ross Mullins, on Flickr

Alex - dapper shoot. by Ross Mullins, on Flickr

Alex - dapper shoot. by Ross Mullins, on Flickr

Alex Carroll by Ross Mullins, on Flickr

Few pictures I've taken recently, UD/General

UD by Ross Mullins, on Flickr

UD by Ross Mullins, on Flickr

UD by Ross Mullins, on Flickr

/ by Ross Mullins, on Flickr

Hex & caps. by Ross Mullins, on Flickr

[ruittie]

i´ve been looking through the page´s and really love the build man!

got any more plans to do to the lupo?

[BuFFyZA]

Those seats and steering wheel really change the whole look!

Looks amazing!

[KentGTi]

Progress has been slow as I don't actually know what I want to do next with it, if anything at all.. plus I'm pretty skint as bought a pair of front seats a couple of months ago.

Gone for a pair of Recaro CS's which have been trimmed by a company here in the UK (Plush Automotive), the trimming is spot on & the backs have been done in red alcantara.

Recaro CS's by Ross Mullins, on Flickr

//// by Ross Mullins, on Flickr

Really happy as feel it now ties the interior together, just deciding whether to get the dash trimmed & what to do with the door cards & remaining plastics.. plus it's expensive.

The rear is sitting a little better, although still need to build the 16" RS's up over the summer as should be able to run arch to lip all round as currently sat on the rear beam and the front sits on the floor as is.

BBS by Ross Mullins, on Flickr

And here's a few photos from the last couple of months.

Loop by Ross Mullins, on Flickr

Loop by Ross Mullins, on Flickr

cheers x

[KentGTi]

Thankyou for the nice comments, for now I'm just happy driving it about really I think now.

Few bits sorted recently.

Steering wheel's on and wired in properly, it's a dream on the motorway just cruising along holding the flat bottom haha!

The boot's all wired up and working as it should.... was worried initially it would be operating from a button to the popper after speaking to a few other people who'd done it & hadn't got it properly working, which would have defeated the object of it really.

And, picked up a stubby drivers side heated/electric mirror which took ages to find, all painted up and on now. Unfortunately, no photos... not that it's obvious but you'll see below why it bugged me (maybe) in the b&w shot from the front.

And a few recent shots as I can't help myself sometimes

Untitled by Ross Mullins, on Flickr

LOOP by Ross Mullins, on Flickr

Untitled by Ross Mullins, on Flickr

[evertoconquer]

I have so much love for this little car, excellent work. Not a thing I would change.

[kittenpuncher]

amazing attention to detail such a beautiful little car.

[Spirit]

Nice work

[KentGTi]

Sorry I haven't been on here for ages. Thanks for all the comments, it's a Mosconi 6to8 for the iPad & I'm really happy with it & as for the wheels.. I really can't remember even the brand of dye.. all I remember is that it looked just like Ribena. I'll see if I can find out, sure I'd have scribbled it down somewhere.

It'll be more of a photo dump as don't really know what to say, not much has changed i've just been enjoying driving it really & been to a few UK shows being lucky enough to get it inside.

image by Ross Mullins, on Flickr

UD by Ross Mullins, on Flickr

UD by Ross Mullins, on Flickr

/ by Ross Mullins, on Flickr

Shots by Alex Carroll by Ross Mullins, on Flickr

More recently, I bought a Polo 6R boot from a scrapyard off eBay.. was a quick decision I hadn't really thought through. I was originally just going to have the boot painted but.. wanted it a little different. The handle was cut out of the Polo boot & the same sized hole out of mine, plated where my old boot handle was & the old VW recess.

/ by Ross Mullins, on Flickr

/ by Ross Mullins, on Flickr

/ by Ross Mullins, on Flickr

/ by Ross Mullins, on Flickr

lot of work for what it was I guess and hardly anyone will even notice but, here's a before & after.

loop by Ross Mullins, on Flickr

Polo 6R handle. by Ross Mullins, on Flickr

and a few more recents:

/\/\/\/ by Ross Mullins, on Flickr

/\/\/\/ by Ross Mullins, on Flickr

@ SlamMedia meet. by Ross Mullins, on Flickr

Wheel by Ross Mullins, on Flickr
and just bought this from a mk6 golf gti to replace mine.. so guess it's interior next

[Dooleyz]

Where did you get the paint/dye for the RMs mate pretty interested in it for a set of wheels ive got currently.....