Bora.. Reem… The only way IS Essex!

We travelled to Basildon where we were schooled on some local slang – we never knew what reem meant until we saw this clean Bora – possibly one of our favourites which was wearing some 9J BBS CH wheels – some serious poke!

the owner wanted a 3 button remote and miles to empty / lit pointers and autowindows

being a Bora, adding a 3 button remote will enable the boot pop feature without any further modifications

another happy customer!

FIS Upgrade

Last week, one of our regular customers contacted us as they wanted to upgrade their half screen bora sport clocks to full screen

after they picked up some bargain priced full screen non sport petrol clocks, we swapped the foils and needles over and flashed the eeprom and the end result was superb!

we ensured the needles were calibrated and accurate

miles to empty and lit pointers we enabled

another happy customer!

Sorted 1.8T

Today we were back in North London to supply and program a brand new 3 button remote and key

A lovely looking GTi – in Anthracite grey with some rather rare and subtle modifications

another happy customer!

Fobbed

We visited Wood Green, North London earlier to supply a keyfob to a customer

His key fob had stopped working and after testing the fob with VCDS, it was indeed faulty – not even a fresh set of batterys would work

We supplied a brand new 3 button remote with boot unlock and enabled autowindows

Another happy customer!

A True GTi?

Our final job for the evening was in Romford, Essex

we were treated to a little beauty of a mk4 Golf

Red, 3 door with recaro leathers and OEM S3 wheels finished in gloss black. It had every OEM extra from Bora vents to R32 pedals but it was missing the final touch

Bora Sport clocks

we had these beauties fitted and coded in 15 minutes

a lovely car to finish a busy evening on

another happy customer!

Golf Mk4 – Too fast…Too furious?

A customer came from Acton in his very unique 1.4 MK4 Golf which had enough styling to scare the flagship R32 Golf away

The car boasted a full R32 kit, exhaust system and lamborghini “suicide” doors

We were asked to fit a R32 Steering wheel and a set of R32 clocks

We will need the customer to pay as another visit as they need an additional key/remote as they only have the one. They also need an outside air temperature sensor as well as a multifunction stalk. The cluster was also reporting issues however we will need to provide a non R32 cluster board and refoil the cluster – we will keep you updated

Alarming Audi (or lack of)

Earlier this evening, we travelled to North London to look at a very tidy Audi A6 which reported issues with both keyfobs not working with the car.

The owner had to disable the factory alarm as it was prooving to be a nuisance as the only way to get in was to override the alarm causing the alarm and indicators to flash

Since the battery was disconnected, both fobs had to be resynced to the car

We were able to resync both keyfobs as the dealer would have but for a fraction of the price

another happy customer!

From Half FIS to Full FIS

We all know how rare full screen clocks are and with the Petrol variant being gold dust we thought we would construct our own clocks

The customer had a set of Petrol half screen clocks already in their car (1J5 920 926a)

We were given a set of 1J0 920 946a clusters which are basically non sport full screen clocks

After carefully dismantling both clusters, needles and foils and some handy EEPROM flashing, the finished article was a set of near genuine FIS Petrol full screen clocks

The finished article:

We will be coming back to his vehicle in the near future as they wish to upgrade their convenience module from a 1J0 to a 1Co which will show the door open symbol for all doors.

East Londons Finest!

We were invited on the day of the royal wedding to deal with two of East Londons finest MK4 Golfs both of which are very well known on the scene

One of the vehicles kept holding back on power past 5k revs

After a road test on the A12 and some intensive logging with VCDS, we pin pointed the issue to a faulty N75 as well as numerous issues with the Mass Air Flow Meter (MAF). The Vacuum pipes under the manifold also needed replacing.

The customer will report back to us once these parts have been replaced

We were then asked to assist in putting the finishing touches to an engine conversion.

We were presented with a MK4 Golf 1.6 which had a V6 R32 engine installed however the mechanic called on Vagwerkes to get the car up and running

We were given a R32 ECU and a set of R32 clocks both of which were from different cars

after some vigorous EEPROM flashing, we succeeded in the pairing and the car was up and running.

more happy customers!