My Daily Commuter • Golf MKV GT

[TEASY]

Furthermore a really nice MK 5 - great car!
Keep it up!

[mgpdoc]

Hope everyone is doing well these days.

Decided to put some time into my beloved Golf.

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This is mostly sitting in the garage, and not much dirt or sun has seen it lately, however there were many areas to improve, as you will see in the process.

First of all here is a video, for those of you that prefer animation

https://youtu.be/BK7aDg4yOZU

Now onto the pics and the explaining of things that went on.

First up were the wheels

Golf | Wash by mgpdoc, on Flickr

Golf | Wash by mgpdoc, on Flickr

The smell was strong with this one

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Golf | Wash by mgpdoc, on Flickr

They came out amazing in my eyes, and tires were finished with Car pro Perl.

Tips were looked after

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Also captured some greek sunshine while i was there

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Then a proper hand wash

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Front grille was looking a bit tired

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So some Perl was added there as well to enhance the plastics.

Filler after cleaning and Perl treatment

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Interior of trunk had some overspray from the old days i had painted an interior trim prior to retrofitting a black alcantara headliner

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After the acetone treatment

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Treating every rubber seal with Perl

Trunk wiring harness rubber seal before

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And after

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Windshield

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Sunroof

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Some reflections after drying it, and before applying some protection , which came in the form of the old AutoGlym Ultra Deep Shine with some Meg's NXT after it

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It wasnt bad at all

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Golf | Wash by mgpdoc, on Flickr

But it can be even better so why not.

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My custom bottles lol

Golf | wax by mgpdoc, on Flickr

Golf | wax by mgpdoc, on Flickr

Golf | wax by mgpdoc, on Flickr

Golf | wax by mgpdoc, on Flickr

Golf | wax by mgpdoc, on Flickr

Golf | wax by mgpdoc, on Flickr

Golf | wax by mgpdoc, on Flickr

Golf | wax by mgpdoc, on Flickr

And some finished pics of today's work.

Golf | Wash by mgpdoc, on Flickr

Golf | Wash by mgpdoc, on Flickr

Golf | wash by mgpdoc, on Flickr

Golf | wash by mgpdoc, on Flickr

Golf | Wash by mgpdoc, on Flickr

Cheers , thanks for watching

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Mike

[C2_mad]

clean as always!

[mgpdoc]

Decided to reinstall my Thule bars

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Before

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And afters

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During the lockdown i made some orders . . . .

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Gave a shot at some Depo Headlights, which are very good quality copies of OEM bixenon headlights

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quality was much better than expected to be honest

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More on that later

Removed some parts from the trunk to be left at the trim shop for some alcantara treatment

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Next to my red Audi things

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Wanted to add an Audi triangle in the OEM location

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Sourced two new ones

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Ready

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Also bought some Thule Roof Rack Pads, same like the ones i have for my red Audi

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Installed

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Really like them

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More to come

Cheers

Mike

[Kalin]

This build (and your A1 too) is freaking inspiring man! Keep it up!

[mgpdoc]

This build (and your A1 too) is freaking inspiring man! Keep it up!

Thank you mate.

I will add some more updates, hopefully today

Cheers

[mgpdoc]

Like I said before, one of the most entertaining things to do during the lockdown, was ordering stuff online. LoL

So this came in

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Had plenty of things inside it, for both the daily cars

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Fire extinguisher was refurbished for the year

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And put in place

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Bought a set of neat cases for my ctek chargers, one in each car, and they look fantastic and classy

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I also bought a retro label maker and went nuts on multiple things

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Some lamps for the New headlights as well

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And then it was all about installing them on the car, which requires some work on the mkv golf, sadly

Cheers

Mike

[mgpdoc]

Thought I had updated some things here but again I see that I havent so lets fix that.

We were at the point, that I had bought the headlights and was about to install them.

So let's get to that.

In this car, sadly, in order to remove headlights, you have to remove the front end basically.

Started with this

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I ***** the years that went by with these ballasts of HID kits. Never again I think

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Grille removed

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Hello mishimoto

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Bumper removed

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Polished the charge pipes while i was there

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Out they went

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Enjoyed the part of cutting zip ties so much

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So much cleaner

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Threw the first headlight on

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And then both

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Everything worked great as it should

Buttoned everything up

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Did some fast height adjustment

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And here are some finished photos. Love how it came out, clean.

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Cheers guys, more to come

Mike

[mgpdoc]

Given the fact that acquired another project car, I rearranged some things.

So I went from this custom biller shift knob

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To my previous beloved sparco one which looks great in the Golf

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Also, because I am using the golf 18'' wheels in the A4 currently I swapped the Audi 17in wheels for now. Which at first were very weird , but currently they are not as bad as I thought. Plus, they offer a serious sleeper look status, which I totally love and have fun with when i take it out for a drive.

Here is how the swap story went so far.

Wheels

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The center caps could not be snapped on, due to the stud conversion I am running they werent deep enough.

So instead I found some audi caps I had laying around and popped them on

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Hmmm not so bad

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Let's give the car a proper clean to see how it looks

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They dont look so bad

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Polished the backbox once again

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Came out nice

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Took it for a spin to grab some photos

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You would never guess this runs a GTX3076 with an external wastegate pipe screaming on WOT, would you now, be honest

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To be honest, I might even go as far as colour matching these wheels and adding red Audi caps in the center.

Who knows we shall see.

Cheers

Mike

[hinrichs]

I like the look of the audi wheels with just the center cap. It works with the stud conversion and makes a little subtle racecar nod.

[mgpdoc]

I like the look of the audi wheels with just the center cap. It works with the stud conversion and makes a little subtle racecar nod.

HELL YEAH. I knew it there was something about it, I knew something with an eye would get it.

I think colourmatched wheels with red caps and either silver or gold audi rings will make them pop out even more.

[mgpdoc]

Had an idea.

Took some measurements.

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Looked doable

Ordered new Audi caps, and custom painted them in red

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Went from this

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To this

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Subtle, yet makes a difference. Exactly what I wanted.

Cheers guys

[hinrichs]

Red caps deff were worth it, perfect extra addition.

[mgpdoc]

Red caps deff were worth it, perfect extra addition.

Agreed mate. Now I think I am gonna go for gunmetal powdercoating to finishe them off nicely

[mgpdoc]

Teaser of a new mod i pulled of, more for safety reasons, but also, i like how it looks.