What I will be doing is instead of having a carpet on the trunk, I will be doing a full on hardwood floor with a hatch to get to the rear tire. I won’t be doing a half-ass job that most people do by placing the wood right over the carpet. Also, I will be installing my sub after all. I have a Rockford Fosgate 10″ Punch sub that I was going to sell but decided against it now. Now my plan with that is actually mounting in a cardboard box with a wood box inside it to hold it all together. Than right on the top, cut the hole in the wood box and mount the sub in there. When the floor is done, I will screw the whole box to the floor. This makes it look like a random package in the trunk with a sub in it, like I just opened the box for a new sub. Let me know what you think.

It seems like I am going on a small cruse down to H20i. I have been posting on the thread below and I am definitely going to be driving down with this group. Now I just want to know if I should actually show the car or not.

http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=4504675

Check it out. My Bora hit 98,000 miles today, all with proudly showing its CEL. Behold its beauty.

Got my new Euro Tail Lights today. Fit perfect but it was a complete bitch to install. Its not the bolts but it is there they are located. VW really does not want people to work on their cars. Well here is the finished product.

So it turns out that the two mechanics and I was wrong about the shocks. They are actually in great shape. Not cosmetically, but performance wise. Now I will make sure they will get them installed or better, me do it.

Today I performed an oil change on my Bora. As usual, the car felt like dropping all its oil all over my driveway. Seems like every time I do it, more oil gets everywhere. The problem is that I noticed metal shavings in the oil when it was drained. I brought it up to my mechanic Paul to get his opinion. He said that it should not be a problem but you never know.

In other news, the shocks that I went up to Brewster turn out to be bad. This sucks a lot since I spent $300 for them. Well, I sent the kid an PM though the VW Vortex Forums about returning for my money back. It’s not his falt, he didn’t know. Nether did I.

Yesterday I got my new 4motion valance but didn’t have the time to install it yesterday. Today after school, I got my chance to do it. This meant pulling off my bumper and fitting the new one on. It was not a direct fit like I was told but all I needed to do was sand away just a bit of overhanging plastic and it snapped back on. Now look how nice it looks.

Now all I need to do is install my new Koni Cup Sport Yellow shocks and Neuspeed Race Springs to drop the car a little bit. Than it will look hot.

Again this site helps me. The site VWVortex Forums has a nice section for buying and selling all things VW. This is where I managed to sell quite a few items that I had lying around for extra money. One thing I ended up buying was a full used struts, shocks and springs set for my Jetta which I am still trying to have someone help me install them. Now I have my sights on a used column pod with VDO boost gauge for $60. Now all I need to do is sell a few more things and I could get it.

Finally got around to painting my front grill black to make it look better with the white. Here is my final product.

Sunday I went to one of the best events in my life. Waterfest 15. North Americas largest gathering of VW’s and Audi’s. With this post, I will be going over everything I did along with the pictures that I took. I didn’t take as many as I thought I would because of the sheer size of the event and the fact that I did not have an SLR.

I left my house at about 6am and immediately went to search for a car wash that is open that early. Well turns out there isn’t any, well, that I know of. I tried Vets Car Wash down the road from me. It wasn’t so instead of taking the LIE, I ended up taking 27. I was going to get off at Robert Mosses Causeway and take Southern PKW to the Belt but I completely forgot about it so I said whatever. Remember, it is 6:20am. I started to continue to take 27 all the way to the Belt PKW. At that point I really wished I got off at RM since I would have missed all the traffic lights, even though since it was early I barely hit any. Finally get to the Belt towards Verrazano-Narrows Br into Staten Island. I didn’t realize that the bridge went up to $11 a car. Took 440 south to Outer Br and than onto Rt 9 south. When I got to the track, I got completely confused at where I was going. Took me a good 10 minuets just to get to the huge exhibition parking lot I was parking in.

Finally, I got there and started to get overwhelmed with Audi’s and VW’s. One after another they where pulling in. From full stock to completely rebuilt cars. It was just amazing. Thing was that I got there very very early so I needed to wait to actually get into the grounds with all the vendors and such. I had to take a quick look around the parking lot just to see what was around. Here are some pictures. Most of these where later in the day since there where a lot more.

Finally It turns 9am and a flood of people made it into the vendor area. Here is what I saw though it.