Dry Weather = Clean Cupra!

[GlanzaV]

Since it's been dry for a day or so I thought I'd give the cupra a bit of spit and shine and took it out for some photo's too!

I ran out of tyre shine though!

 

[CHR15B]

Sweet mate, where in Ayrshire are you? I'm from that neck of the woods also.

Car looks mean in black with the black wheels.

 

[andygolf]

very nice mate is it lowered yet.

 

[Matt S!]

Lookin good pal....

Was nice weather today - cleaned my car aswell !!

 

[GlanzaV]

Cheers for the comments guys!

I'm from Mauchline, but I stay up in Glasgow and work in Edinburgh so I can be found in pretty much any of those places!

And no, the car isn't lowered, just std. Cupra shocks and springs. I'm not sure what to do with the car though, had it this way for about 9months and it's been fairly trusty apart from a couple of niggles, could do with a big dirty diseasal for work though!

 

[C1TPT]

looks nice mate, colour codeing the bumpstrips and tinting the windows make alot of difference!

 

[Ninja]

very nice mmmm

 

[DaNnY_LaD]

What camera did you use..

 

[gus20vt]

seen it driving round ayr yesterday looks mint mate

 

[GlanzaV]

Yeah I was in Ayr for a bit yesterday getting a present for my bro -gave the car a good run home!

I used my Finepix S5600, I want DSLR but can't really justify it right now!

As for colour-coding, I quite like the silver bumpstrips, some of my mates thought they were faded when I bought the car lol! I would like tints though!

 

[jamesroobotom]

Looks tidy mate! Did you get the pillar pods from no mad? they look smart, do they fit the whole frame?

 

[GlanzaV]

Yeah it's a Nomad A-pillar pod. It's a direct replacement for the standard pillar fascia.

I'm in two minds whether to fit my 60mm Defi BF gauges, but they're white dials And would need me to bore out the gauge pod from 52-60mm. Or just keep my Autometer Phantom's??

 

[jamesroobotom]

what is the angle like off the guages, do they point towards you or are they off a bit?
i'm thinking off getting the no mad pillar as it look more subtle, just trying to justify the cost of it ....... how much did it set you back to put the guages and the pillar in? I would quite like some with white dials to mach the rest of the clocks

 

[PhilW]

What settings did you use for the night shots?

Looking sweet fair play, lovely photos.

 

[cupraolli]

hehe

 

[R 20vt J]

My mate is from mauchline... Barry Mcvey? Not seen the car around . Looking goodthough

 

[GlanzaV]

Yeah I know Barry, I'm pals with his big brother Colin.

The gauges point straight at me, as for cost I don't really know as they were in the car when I got it. The dials are white, just glow red with the backlight to match the cars dials. My Defi's glow white though...

You get them amber but having the white numbers didn't look odd in my Glanza!

As for settings I use the lowest ISO I can (64 on my camera) and use manual settings, long exposure, it differs from photo to photo depending on light conditions, and I was trying to take a lot of dif exposures as well to try make some HDR images. I always use my tripod when I've got it though.

 

[Simon L]

Good to see the car is being kept well. Still miss it sometimes!

The pod was about £120, and the gauges were £45 each i think.

 

[CupraElliott]

Oldish topic but that's some stunning photos!

 

[Mat]

cleaned car today, and just as polishing windows, starts spitting! then it stopped. Went to pub wi bro and his g/f for summat to eat before planning on taking pics. Then it ****ing pissed it down