There’s dent specialists who will come out to you. A body shop might be more likely to just tell you to change it. Just Google dent repair and check out some local ones.
Will do. This is like Mick getting his Merc but Iv always wanted a Golf.
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The last time I had anything to do with a mobile dent repair specialist was when he reversed in to me when he decided that three point turning in a traffic jam without looking was a better idea than queuing for a bit. Kind of ironic and would have been slightly amusing if he hadn’t have caused £6500 of damage to my car then denied it was his fault. Twat. He certainly was a ‘Dent Magician’ - just in my case it was putting them in, not taking them out. Took ages, but after a lot of wrangling with insurance companies it got sorted in my favour.
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Don’t think that dent will pop out, it’s too complex. Worth a punt tho
Gunna try somewhere tomorrow.
Anyone know what this means? I’m gunna have to go somewhere and spend loads of money to make some wheels happen because I’m a fucking idiot.
18 is the wheel size. J refers to how wide the wheel is. So if you had say a 18x10J wheel chances are it would be outside of the body work and require wider arches and the fronts might catch on full lock.
ET is the offset, don’t quote me on this but I think that’s the distance from the face of the hub to the outside of the wheel. Wheels with a bigger dish will have a higher negative offset.
5x112 refers to the wheel bolts/stud pattern. 5 stud/bolt and 112mm between each one. So you will need wheels with the same stud pattern because you don’t want to be messing about with adapters and wobble bolts. Golf’s being common it won’t be an issue to find something you like.
Then when it comes to tyres, one is size. So if you get 18s you’ll need a tyre that is R18. Then then there is profile and width. You’ve probably seen cars with stretched tyres where the tyre is stretched onto the wheel because it is too narrow for the wheel it’s being fitted to. And then profile you don’t want big balloon off road tyres on your pimping golf, but where ever you go should be able to recommend whats the best wheel/tyre combo for your car.
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Seriously @neddy if you want the car to look a certain way find a pic online of how you want it to sit and take that to an alloy wheel shop. It’s not your job to work all that shit out, it can get ery complex especially with offsets.
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Sticking new alloys on it will probably not make it look exactly how you think in your head, you will probably need to get new springs and the geometry realigned (if you want it to drie and sit properly), so make sure you budget for that as well.
For my old WRX I got some STI rims for like 400EUR plus another 600 for rubber - the Eibach springs and geomotry setup was another 1k
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Singer style Renault 5 Turbo restomod.
Great idea @anon83623327
I got my STI wheels from an owners club forum. You could get yourself some nice GTI rims pretty cheap I reckon
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Might look weird on dark grey. But just my opinion!
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What would you go for?
I really want Black though 
Yup!
I really like these…
…and saw a set on a black T5 (or 6? - I can’t tell the difference) recently and they looked ace!
I’m still fussing over what to do with the dinner plate-sized chrome VW badge and trims on the front of my van. The obvious thing to do would be black but I think it might be too much with the bonnet protector and commercial bumper plus I quite like how the chrome trim lines are picked up in the headlights.
Definitely not yellow to match the van because that always looks a bit shit. Not sure what else to try, though. Maybe a really dark grey or something?
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Take it off and hang it round your neck.
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I’ll try and take some decent ones. It’s at the garage at the moment getting a new cambelt and whatnot.
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Need some Ronal teddies
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