Seat Leon 1.9 Tdi, Cupra R look

lukehowardd

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Hey all, starting up my readers ride. Hope people can help amd influence me on the future progression of my Seat :)
Ive had the car over a year now and done quite abit to it. Bought it completely bog standered apart from the 19" alloy wheels. The previous owner must have hit every curb around... They are scuffed to ****, in need if refurbishment with is next on the list for things to do :-D

So i drove down and picked it up a year back. It was in a bad way inside, tobacco everywhere, glove box door ripped off, climate control wasnt working properly, no front and rear ash tray's, sun viser mirror's were smashed, no parcel shelf, it was a right mess.
Head gasket had gone, clutch was on its way out too. The alloys were scuffed to hell, 3 bold tyres, looked like it hadnt been washed in awhile. Wasnt a pritty sight. Took ot off his hands for £575.

Alot of £££ spent on it and is finally looking like what i pictured it to be :).

This is we're it started off after giving it a much needed clean.

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Alot of the work has been done near the end of 2014, like cupra r bodykit, angel eye headlight, larger side mounted intercooler, heko wind deflecters, front aero wiper blades, rear aero wiper conversion kit... Few other little bits and bobs.

After i clean today took some snaps of it and this is were i am at, at the moment...

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Gave the engine bay a good clean and added abiy of colour to it, re-sprayed the engine cover matt black, Washer cap and water bottle lid too.

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After
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Waiting on some 4mm red hoses for vacuum hoses, some cables have frayed, leaking and what not. New cold feed pipe coming soon. Focusing on the engine bay atm to get that looking smart as everyone elses look good on here. :) copied a few people ideas so sorry but not sorry :p

Car was standered 110bhp when bought it, i decatted it and had it remapped by a mate. Got 143bhp in the end which i was happy with. Probably a little more now as fitted that 5" intercooler and K&N 57i induction kit.

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Probably my most favourite mod is the angel eyes :p

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At night there bloody bright! Fitted LED side lights as well to give more of a kick.

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^ Just side lights and angel eyes ^

Currently got 4000k blue vision philips bulbs fitted but want to HID convert soon. LED fogs fitted aswell.

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I tried some rear LED lights the other night but my car didnt like them and started flashing glo plug warning light, so took them back out. Rear LED number plate bulbs fitted and are so bright! Really impressed by these lights.

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Carbon fibred wrapped spoiler and side pillers, rear badge wrapped and rear quarter panels but getting rid of the quarters, people on here have finalised my opinion on them.

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lukehowardd

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Forgot to mention i fly eyed the rear lights

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A shot of when one was done.

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Thinking of taking off the ariel and fitting a sharks fin on, give it a different look on top to the rest :p

Red LED bulbs in front door cards and White LED for rear. LED interior lights and added a red LED strip to passenger footwell, doing divers side next as liked the outcome.

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bruceR

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Good work on the car Luke, it looks the bizzy
Do you have a link for the angel eyes front lights?? and how were they to install / connect up?
Keep up the good work mate :)
 

lukehowardd

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Good work on the car Luke, it looks the bizzy
Do you have a link for the angel eyes front lights?? and how were they to install / connect up?
Keep up the good work mate :)
Cheers mate.

Ebay mate. Type in seat leon angel eyes. They do them in black and chrome back drop. There are two types, one have larger rings but are like a yellow halogen effect and not a white LED look like mine. As of connecting up and fitting, bumper has to come off, two bolts on bottom of light and two on top. The angel eyes positive and earth wires will be haniging out the bottom of fitting. I took the earths to the body via a screw and cut into the side light live wire for the positives. Bloody tight once in so make sure youve got what bulbs and stuff you want in first before fitting. You buy a separate motor to change the beam pattern, i havnt bothered with that just change it manually with the two cogs on the back of the fittings.
 

lukehowardd

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Mine turned out smart. Seen a few cupras around and gives it a whole new look :p daytime running and at night :-D
 

lukehowardd

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Abit of night time pipe work going on :p Ramair 4mm and 8mm silcone red hoses. New fuel filter too.

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lukehowardd

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Thankyou. Messed around with some tint tonight just had some lying around. But took it off as it not legal hahaa. Abit of fun for one night.

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Looked quite mean :p
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Everything look green hahaa
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lukehowardd

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Read up about it and as it was blue, its a offence as your making it like emergency service lights. :-( might find a lighter blue and see what it looks like. :p
 

lukehowardd

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So after leaving the blue tint on my fogs my LED bulbs were quite dim so decided to put my old halogen ones back in to give it abit more kick :p

LED
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Difference
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Halogen
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Just fogs
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Sides and fogs
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All on
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