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I like the "aero" look had them on my red cupra.

Fitted the 15mm rear spacers, surprising how much better it looks. Been for short blast around the lane's and seems to have improved handling as well. Traction is a bit slippy at the moment just "bedding in" some new Falken 453 tyres that were fitted on Thursday. Turned TCL off and lit them up in second a few times. Much better now:D
 
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flip key mod done and dusted! really easy once you do some reading! cost me £12.50 all in nice and cheap! even the boot release works bonus!
 
MalcB said:
I like the "aero" look had them on my red cupra.

Fitted the 15mm rear spacers, surprising how much better it looks. Been for short blast around the lane's and seems to have improved handling as well. Traction is a bit slippy at the moment just "bedding in" some new Falken 453 tyres that were fitted on Thursday. Turned TCL off and lit them up in second a few times. Much better now:D
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These spacers you guys keep mentioning I assume are wheel spacers? Fitted some where along the rear axle before the brakes I guess. Increasing the distance covered over the road in width to improve grip? Is the aero wiper purely a cosmetic change?

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Gingerbread Man said:
These spacers you guys keep mentioning I assume are wheel spacers? Fitted some where along the rear axle before the brakes I guess. Increasing the distance covered over the road in width to improve grip? Is the aero wiper purely a cosmetic change?

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Spacers go between the hub and and wheel effectively reducing the wheel ET (offset) and pushing the wheelout to increase track. Aero wipers do look better but I think they perform better and are quieter.
 
MalcB said:
Spacers go between the hub and and wheel effectively reducing the wheel ET (offset) and pushing the wheelout to increase track. Aero wipers do look better but I think they perform better and are quieter.
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Not necessarily better performing or quieter. I out a set of oem golf iv aero arms and wipers I bought from vw and they were rubbish on the down sweep and alot louder compared to my new bosch normal ones on my new leon....


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MalcB said:
Spacers go between the hub and and wheel effectively reducing the wheel ET (offset) and pushing the wheelout to increase track. Aero wipers do look better but I think they perform better and are quieter.
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So making it look like this?

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I did once see a civic with rear wheels like that on the m5 near Bristol. My wipers don't really make a noice although at higher speeds it may make a difference, mine just make a nice smug which disappears which I'll try to fix with cleaning (even though they are new) and with some rain repellant stuff which somebody advised earlier

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Gingerbread Man said:
So making it look like this?

a2e2edan.jpg


I did once see a civic with rear wheels like that on the m5 near Bristol. My wipers don't really make a noice although at higher speeds it may make a difference, mine just make a nice smug which disappears which I'll try to fix with cleaning (even though they are new) and with some rain repellant stuff which somebody advised earlier

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Yeah that's lowered and stretched to.

Rain repellant is good if done properly.
 
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Hi guys, attempted to fix my broken driver side window mechanism, having a bit of trouble getting the door panel off, any help?

Sorry if I'm in the wrong place... First post :confused:
 
Benmyers said:
Hi guys, attempted to fix my broken driver side window mechanism, having a bit of trouble getting the door panel off, any help?

Sorry if I'm in the wrong place... First post :confused:
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There's two screws weighing the door handle and two at the very bottom of the panel :)
 
as above, 4 screws then you may need to pop some clips off with a sharp pull then lift the whole card off the door frame being careful not to pull any wires off in the process
 
Thanks guys, I'll get on it as soon as this Manchester rain subsides... Keep you posted :happy:
 
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