Gwendoline\'s new shoes! *update - Bumpstops and more pretty pics!*

jo_tas · 27 Jan 2006, 2:42 pm

Hi all!
Got these fitted today... widend originals (5.5 inch) with 195/65/r15 GT Radial Champiros...

They fit really well, no rubbing, and after taking her around some fast corners, (hehe) they grip really well too!

They look good too!

[ Edited on 26-2-2006 by jo_tas ]

[ Edited on 8-3-2006 by jo_tas ]

jo_tas · 27 Jan 2006, 2:43 pm

2..

jo_tas · 27 Jan 2006, 2:45 pm

3..

pete wood · 27 Jan 2006, 3:13 pm

baby's got a new set of pumps!

love the chrome dress rings, gives it that competition look 😉

jo_tas · 28 Jan 2006, 3:03 pm

NO! No lowering!

Besides.. with theses tyres.. i CAN'T lower it :P

I like the way it looks now.. those wheels/tyres and ride height combo..

toecutter · 28 Jan 2006, 3:52 pm

Lowered a inch up front and away you go:thumb

baggedbug68 · 28 Jan 2006, 9:53 pm

the wheels look really good shame you cant drop it,i think it would set it off nice ohh well. have fun with it anyway!

jo_tas · 28 Jan 2006, 10:51 pm

Everyone lowers their cars!

It seems to me that the VW "customising" scene is fast becoming the VW "cloning" scene.

Everyone lowers their dub and puts fuchs on it.

Standard VW's are starting to stand out more!

bajachris88 · 28 Jan 2006, 10:55 pm

how about people like me who would be raising em? 😂

jo_tas · 28 Jan 2006, 11:18 pm

Hehe.. I'll allow that!

Schmoburger · 31 Jan 2006, 10:36 pm

leave her as she is now...looks teh sex! :bounce

Stock is go!!! 👍

jo_tas · 1 Feb 2006, 9:23 pm

Thankyou Schmoburger.. i will do just that!

She has the hubaps back on now... looks even better 🙂

Schmoburger · 1 Feb 2006, 11:39 pm

hmmm.. I dunno.. I reckon she looks pretty slick with just the dressrims 👍

give us some pics with the caps? 🙂

all my dressrims came from the local tip LOL.. they're off old HQ and Falcon wheels :P

jo_tas · 2 Feb 2006, 7:45 pm

With the hubcaps.. not the best pic.. but it'll do :P

Fossil · 15 Feb 2006, 1:10 pm

Nice one Jo_Tas leave her the way she is

empi · 22 Feb 2006, 5:20 pm

ARE YOU SUR THOSE WHEELS ARE 15S??

Schmoburger · 23 Feb 2006, 11:49 am

Hey!... it DOES look even fancier with the caps. 👍

jo_tas · 23 Feb 2006, 8:59 pm

Yes empi.. they are 15's... otherwise my tyres would be falling off them!!

Although i did have to check them against my stock wheels, cause they do look like 14's.. but they're not!

jo_tas · 26 Feb 2006, 9:43 pm

Got a new digital camera today.. and i was blown away by how good the pics are!

Just had to show them to you lot!

They're quite big.. so i can't post them here, but here's the links!

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/album_page.php?pic_id=258601
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/album_page.php?pic_id=258600

KOM123 · 26 Feb 2006, 11:09 pm

Pics are looking good Jo :thumb

Here's some smaller res ones too for the thread.

62deluxe · 26 Feb 2006, 11:56 pm

Gee I better raise mine back to stock!!! Baaaaaa LOL

ragtopp · 6 Mar 2006, 9:23 pm

Everyone is fitting fuchs!!!!!! I cant see many volksie's with fuchs around. Maybe Mangels but not fuchs. Hey Jo didnt you ask us to lower your notch last week at my place or was that you joking? You know we think your new rims look the goods, do you want to buy a fasty thats a good wide wheel doner?

jo_tas · 8 Mar 2006, 2:57 pm

Yeah well... i'm still on the borderline.. i would like it lowered.. but i don't think i really can with these tyres... and i think it does look low enough now anyway..

On another note.. i found out why it was riding so badly.. it was sitting on the bumpstops on the front! *doh!*

I can't beleive the two other mechanics that have looked at it tro try and work out why it was riding badly, didn't notice this! (i'm not mentioning names)

So anyway, i jacked it up, pulled those suckers off, and whattyaknow, it rides perfectly! so smoooth! Once again, DOH!

jo_tas · 8 Mar 2006, 3:01 pm

ragtopp wrote:Everyone is fitting fuchs!!!!!! I cant see many volksie's with fuchs around. Maybe Mangels but not fuchs. Hey Jo didnt you ask us to lower your notch last week at my place or was that you joking? You know we think your new rims look the goods, do you want to buy a fasty thats a good wide wheel doner?

Oh, maybe i meant mangels.. *shrug* i can't remember what they're all called!!

And what do you mean about the fasty?
Are you talking about the one i sold you, or another one?
If its the one i sold you, i already have the wide wheels off it! lol!

jo_tas · 8 Mar 2006, 3:04 pm

And a couple of pretty pictures...
Its not just parked on the hill to look pretty... The generator died.. so i had to park it there so i can roll start it in the morning..:P

[ Edited on 8-3-2006 by jo_tas ]

jo_tas · 8 Mar 2006, 3:13 pm

How did that little ratbag get in the shot??

ragtopp · 8 Mar 2006, 9:00 pm

Yeh im aware that you have the wheels off the fasty, it was a joke.

jo_tas · 8 Mar 2006, 9:10 pm

Oh.. right.. what kind of idiot would buy a rusted out late model fasty anyway?? :P :kiss

[ Edited on 8-3-2006 by jo_tas ]

Schmoburger · 11 Mar 2006, 9:13 pm

Hehe... just curious Jo... what happens when you cant find a hill to park on??? LOL :P 😂

jo_tas · 11 Mar 2006, 10:47 pm

Hehe... well it was only that morning.. got a new generator fitted that day.. so its all good now!:bounce

handycam · 12 Mar 2006, 12:47 pm

Schmoburger wrote:Hehe... just curious Jo... what happens when you cant find a hill to park on??? LOL :P 😂

LOL have u been 2 tassie its one big hill LOL

volma1 · 16 Mar 2006, 3:35 pm

Hi Cam, not hilly where I live but got the goods now with the country buggy. volma1

volma1 · 16 Mar 2006, 3:47 pm

oops what happened.volma1