sam's Bora TDI

Well I'm back home now so I've put my Bora back on the road.

I had a little intro on here when I first joined and now I'm changing the bora a little so here goes:

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All I had done to it was a remap up tp just short of 140bhp as it was a motorway mile muncher when I was at Uni. 50mpg FTW!!!

Thing is it was stood for 8 months so I had a few issues over the weekend to nail:

+ Cracked windscreen - New one fitted saturday (pennies = ouch!)
+ New 'Aero' Wipers
+ ABS Fault - the 2 green fuses on the battery top needed cleaning thats all (common problem)
+ Water leaking from radiator - fitted a new one yesterday
+ New APEC Discs and pads - fitted all round, changed and bled the fluid
+ Shabby grey cloth interior -Bought a new black recaro interior which is half fitted now, just the door cards to do tomorrow
+ 'Fogged' offside headlight unit - sourced some units from an '04 bora being broken and fitted them along with some xenon bulbs
+VAG twin tone horn replacements fitted as the old ones packed up

I'm fitting an iPod connection kit and Parrot Bluetooth kit at the moment and then will make a start on reconditioning these 18" wheels I used to roll it on:

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Weekends work:

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few other bits in the pipeline:

JOM coilovers to fit friday!
various bodywork replacements

cheers

sam

Good work Sam, i remember when mine looked like the first pic back when i bought in feb 4 x 4 ride height rolling on the starfish alloys.

look forward to seeing more progress.

Olly

Great work! Keeping her nice!

sweet buddy keep it up love the alloys

thanks for the comments lads

I bought all the paint and bits for the rims today. I still don't know what make they are though.

Here are some pics of the poor state they are in:

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Coilovers arrived today aswell and it needs them asap, look at the clearance!!!

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Not a drop of coolant lost since the radiator change

Today I hid indoors as it pissed it down pretty much all day until I finished which is typical:

Coliovers fitted and lowered but not all the way as I need to give it a good run so it all settles before I set the final ride height with the 18's.... so it doesn't look quite right yet.

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Before:

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After:

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Its made a huge difference and I'll couple it to a strut brace when that turns up. Just need a dry day to lacquer the wheels now. It will go lower...

well worth the hard work, looking good

The wheels remind me of BK's.