Hello everyone!
I've been a long time lurker on here and found many useful threads to guide me through the occasional issues I've come up against with this car, so I would just like to start by thanking everyone for sharing their knowledge of these cars. I've always found community forums such as this an extremely valuable resource.
I've owned my Platinum Grey Seat Leon Cupra R 225 since 2012. The previous owner had already had Revo Stage 1 tuning, a Miltek cat-back stainless steel exhaust, Forge blow-off valve and Forge silicone hoses fitted, as well as rear limo-tints which I was absolutely not a fan of at the time (they have since grown on me).
This was my daily driver for 4 years. When I bought it, I was in my early/mid 20s, still living with my parents, plenty of disposable income (which was of course pissed up the wall). Typically, shortly after I moved into my own place, a number of little things started going wrong with the car, situations changed and running this car as a daily became a financially draining impossibility.
I moved the car to my mum's garage with a view to fixing it up in a couple of months, whilst running around in a cheap diesel Mondeo to save a bit of money commuting to and from work every day.
Fast forward another 3 and a half years. The Leon is still sat in the garage, virtually untouched and need of more attention than the day it went in. Understandably I was getting earache from my mum asking me to sort this car that had been taking up all of her garage for so long.
I hatched a plan to have the car trailered to my girlfriends parents house, where her Dad has a workshop (he is a retired mechanic) I could use to fix the car up and finally get it back on the road. I checked over the car, drew up a fairly long list of parts I needed to get it safe and road legal again, but that was as far as I got with the "best intentions" of starting the work in the spring to get it ready for summer 2020. Then Covid hit and any plans stopped.
During 2020 my living situation changed, meaning I no longer needed a car to commute to work any more. With the money I was saving by doing almost nothing except working and playing video games, I began amassing the parts I needed to fix the Leon and get it roadworthy again.
So now finally after 5 years it back on the road. There are plenty of other jobs to do to get it back up to a standard I am happy with, along with a list of aspirational modifications for the future but I am very pleased to be back driving and enjoying this thing again.
I've been a long time lurker on here and found many useful threads to guide me through the occasional issues I've come up against with this car, so I would just like to start by thanking everyone for sharing their knowledge of these cars. I've always found community forums such as this an extremely valuable resource.
I've owned my Platinum Grey Seat Leon Cupra R 225 since 2012. The previous owner had already had Revo Stage 1 tuning, a Miltek cat-back stainless steel exhaust, Forge blow-off valve and Forge silicone hoses fitted, as well as rear limo-tints which I was absolutely not a fan of at the time (they have since grown on me).
This was my daily driver for 4 years. When I bought it, I was in my early/mid 20s, still living with my parents, plenty of disposable income (which was of course pissed up the wall). Typically, shortly after I moved into my own place, a number of little things started going wrong with the car, situations changed and running this car as a daily became a financially draining impossibility.
I moved the car to my mum's garage with a view to fixing it up in a couple of months, whilst running around in a cheap diesel Mondeo to save a bit of money commuting to and from work every day.
Fast forward another 3 and a half years. The Leon is still sat in the garage, virtually untouched and need of more attention than the day it went in. Understandably I was getting earache from my mum asking me to sort this car that had been taking up all of her garage for so long.
I hatched a plan to have the car trailered to my girlfriends parents house, where her Dad has a workshop (he is a retired mechanic) I could use to fix the car up and finally get it back on the road. I checked over the car, drew up a fairly long list of parts I needed to get it safe and road legal again, but that was as far as I got with the "best intentions" of starting the work in the spring to get it ready for summer 2020. Then Covid hit and any plans stopped.
During 2020 my living situation changed, meaning I no longer needed a car to commute to work any more. With the money I was saving by doing almost nothing except working and playing video games, I began amassing the parts I needed to fix the Leon and get it roadworthy again.
So now finally after 5 years it back on the road. There are plenty of other jobs to do to get it back up to a standard I am happy with, along with a list of aspirational modifications for the future but I am very pleased to be back driving and enjoying this thing again.
