VW Lupo - From standard to now - UK

[KentGTi]

Windscreen was replaced a couple of days ago, it's lovely looking out with no chips/scratches!

Gavin couldn't come out though as Autoglass wanted £590 or £500 if I paid there and then over the phone ... rang around locally and they came the next morning for £132. Luckily for me the tinter paid out!

Surprising enough he came back to give it another shot, this time without touching the mirror! lol

He then offered to do my back 3 windows for free as a way of apology, I wasn't sure but for free I couldn't refuse!

Here's a few pictures from when I finished work:


DSC01497 by LupoGTi Photography, on Flickr


DSC01495 by LupoGTi Photography, on Flickr


DSC01494 by LupoGTi Photography, on Flickr


DSC01492 by LupoGTi Photography, on Flickr


The tint looks darker in the photos than it actually is, probably as they were taken around 9pm. It's a 35% tint.

I'm still not sure on the back 3 but it's growing on me, but I do like the sunstrip. Each to their own I guess as I bet it won't be many peoples cup of tea.

Anyway... if anyone in Worcestershire needs their windows tinting... I couldn't recommend him enough. All I paid was £30 for 2 trips out, new windscreen, sunstrip & rear 3 windows tinted. And his work is high quality, he's about as fussy as me. Not a single bubble/mark/crease!

[KentGTi]

love it so far. would definitely benefit from wider lips and more low though

Thanks mate, yeah I'm not sure what to do though. Either going to build the RM's out to 8.5 rear and put the 7.5 upfront or I'm able to get a set of these from Poland.



They're Giovanni Cantoni's. And are 15x7, would look lovely with a polished lip & the centres finished in red.

Car does sit lower than the picture above but an uneven drive doesn't help!

The Car looks Great and the front splitter looks rad man keep it

Thankyou

[IGeL]

The Car looks Great and the front splitter looks rad man keep it

[Francois Dillinger]

love it so far. would definitely benefit from wider lips and more low though

[KentGTi]

Just as I was getting over the loss of £160 having to replace a new front bumper... my front windscreen now needs replacing, great!


D'oh by LupoGTi Photography, on Flickr

A local lad came round to add a 35% tinted sunstrip to the front, put a heat gun on the rear view mirror & gave it a wiggle n pop! There goes my screen.



Not having much luck lately am I?

It's all fixed now as this happened yesterday, good old Gavin came out (if you're from the UK) and repaired it with the poor lad paying. So now have a nice shiny new windscreen

[X5X]

I like it

[KentGTi]

I have got everything sorted with the bumper now, I think the colour match is spot on and the paint feels LUSH

LCR splitter is on too, not sure if I like it now... looks a lot better on black cars :angry2: I'm really not too sure on it! hmm

Anyway here's a couple of pictures.



Splitter - Front by LupoGTi Photography, on Flickr


Splitter - Side by LupoGTi Photography, on Flickr

So after going 10 steps backwards for just 1 step forward... I can now continue with my life after nearly pulling my hair out!

Audio next Doubt I can cock this up.......

[KentGTi]

Right, a couple of weeks ago I managed to fuck up my front bumper. I bought a Cupra R splitter to cut & fit to the front. I got it all cut down to size masking taped it on and it looked good!!

Now came the problem, getting the front end lifted. Car was too low to get my jack under as I don't have a low jack, and too low to get up the ramps and had no low ramps!! Me being impatient I grabbed some bricks from the garden and drove onto them.. all was going well, put handbrake on to go grab ramps and as I got out... the one brick crumbled and collapsed. BANG!





A £40 splitter ended up costing me £200, decided to buy a new front bumper and get it painted rather than repair it as I would still know it's been dented ha!

I just got back from the bodyshop and the new lower bumper is now on, the colour is a perfect match, thank god! Although slightly shinier but the cars filthy at the moment
They did manage to fuck up my old bumper which I was going to keep as a spare as it was only lightly damaged, it has a huge dent in where they pulled it off but have told me they will try & pop it out!

I haven't put the splitter on either, and plan on trying this weekend. This time I'm gonna take the front bumper off to do it haha


And got home for some more good news!!!!

Just got my insurance renewal letter through the post.. I expected it to go up in price to around £2300 as I put my modifications on near the end of my policy, and they charge per month or so they said.

They want... £1049, that's with me being 19, and 2 years NCB & all mods declared!! Looks like I'm keeping the Lupo

Happy times, god I love Admiral!

[Proffitt]

Looks great mate, love Lupos.

Wheels suit it

[KentGTi]

Went up to Leicester a few weeks back to pick up some audio.

Decided to go for Rainbow amps due to hearing good things about them and they look nice too! He bought them brand new about 5 months ago, and they had been masking taped up for their short lives so no scratches on them.
Gave them a little clean to get all the dust off lol.




They came up quite nicely.



And some custom made door cards.





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It's going to be a slow audio install due to having no overtime with work Going to try to do it all myself. Plan on going down the SQ route using Rainbow/Genesis speakers.

[Jorge]

I'm a fan of Lupos. Look really good when not on silly little 13s or something

[Volvosome]

sooo clean. very good looking car.

[yotatuner]

too bad we don't have lupo in the US

[lawnmower72]

awesome lil lupo love these cars, their so small and cool lol not 2 sure about that gay french car behind ur's though! haha

[JonnyBoi]

Space the wheels out a little bit

Nice clean car though