richyhill - 1.8T Cabby

Hi Richy

It's been a while.  Car is looking awesome as always. Which ceramic coating did you have applied? Would be good to catch soon any local ish meets coming up?

Cheers Lee.

gasco said

Hi Richy

It's been a while.  Car is looking awesome as always. Which ceramic coating did you have applied? Would be good to catch soon any local ish meets coming up?

Cheers Lee.

Hi Mate,

Long time no speak , good to hear from you and hope all is well

I'm guessing the scaffolding is down now and u can get the car out 😃

It's Bristol Dub Love this fri from 7pm at Bradley Stoke if you fancy a catch up 

Then check out the National Section for my Bristol Volksfest thread be great to have u with us as a day visitor or camping if u fancy it 👍

The ceramic treatment I had was max protect , by a company Profect2Clean in Weston. Top guy there called Ryan , check out his FB page 👍

Thanks for the info Richy. I have already had my new golf ceramic coated with gtechnic products and bought some myself to keep it looking good. Very impressed with there stuff so far.  Will definitely pop a long on friday in the mk1. Will be going to get its new engine fitted finally in a few weeks.  So trying to use it as much as i can before its new engine fitted.  Will you be in the mk1?

gasco yes mate will be in the Golf Fri, unless the weather is really bad, but think its meant to ok weather end of the week    

Well just over two years on from when I started this thread in April 2017, I am nearly there 


Copies  What my plans were back then and what's done: 


 So what's the master plan ? ….

 1) Original early single lamp chrome grill - (Got a new NOS one waiting for me to collect from Funk Star, aka classic vw) ✅ 


 2) Postie rear lights (Got these from Faisal, just need to be fitted) ✅, but running all red rears at mo and need to decide what to keep 

 3) Remove clipper kit and fit chrome bumpers ✅


 4) Chrome fuel cap, flag mirrors and any other trims needed once chrome bumpers are on ✅


 5) Re fit some speakers in rear door cards and get rid of 6x9's in parcel shelf ✅

 6) Fit some large late cabby speaker pod/pockets i have, to front door cards ✅


 7) Get some new standard badges for tailgate and fit ❌



8) Fit CL or GTI lip on front once chrome small bumper on, and get magnetic front number plate for bottom of valance so can show plate-less on front ✅

Then longer terms plans are


 9) Change box (as still running 020), to 02J / 02M / better box and go hydraulic clutch or cable conversion thing of Toldeo ✅ 02J fitted


 10) Work out if i can get some fifteen 52 snowflakes with ET30 to fit without needing and arch trims (really want these wheels on it) ✅✅✅😍


 11) Fit a simple and not to expensive air ride system ✅




The air ride still needs arches rolled and chassis notch before I can work on pre sets not manual.

 Also unfortunately the paint is gona need sorting as has some issues , but Mits530 bodyshop he used to work at have said they will sort that , so hoping to get that booked in this winter 

Let's be honest they will never be "done" but it's getting there 

Roll on the AGM 2019 🍻

Loving the work mate looks mint
Regards Dean

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That is a mighty fine looking cabby, everything ties together really well, paint colour suits the chrome trims etc

Nice work

Thanks Guys 

Kingy76 is yours the cabby in your pick ? Lagos yellow ? If so very jealous , love that colour 😍

richyhill said

Thanks Guys 

Kingy76 is yours the cabby in your pick ? Lagos yellow ? If so very jealous , love that colour 😍

Yes, that's my yellow cabby, bought off a member here and undergoing a slow mechanical overhaul as the body was done previously. Got a brand new set of Ronal Turbos to fit as a bit of bling but otherwise will leave as is.

So update on the cabby …

Sep 2020 and some criminals running from the police ended up hitting some cars outside my work including the cabby 👎🏼, damage wasn't very bad though and repairable 

So I took the accident as an opportunity to put my own stamp on the car , it was Porsche grey when I bought it and I have always loved a yellow cabby 

So I went "all in" - genuine new wing , lots of body work , genuine Votex roof rack painted and fitted , interior changed from the Porsche Boxster S electric seats to re trimmed Ford RS Recaro fronts with rear bench to match in GTI stripe cloth and a few others tweaks 👍

nice

nicci21paul said

nice

Thanks mate 👍

That’s blumin fantastic, welcome to the yellow car club, still love a set of those wheels they are stunners. Great work.

if you watch wheeler dealers, the current series you may see mine peeking about with a load of other yellow motors on the final episode of this latest series on the Discovery channel

Kingy76 said

That’s blumin fantastic, welcome to the yellow car club, still love a set of those wheels they are stunners. Great work.

if you watch wheeler dealers, the current series you may see mine peeking about with a load of other yellow motors on the final episode of this latest series on the Discovery channel

Thanks mate , yeah I saw the post where they were doing the yellow car meet and was asking for cars , looked like a good turnout 

I didn’t expect the volume of cars that did turn up on a hot Friday but it was a great experience to see how they film this part of the show and both Mike and Elvis were chuffed I attended as the car being sold was a yellow mk 3.5 Golf. Lots of great car people in attendance too so I was pleased I went along.

few pics