VW feel the force!
Saw this Star Wars VW ad for the new 2012 VW Passat from the States and thought i needed to share it! Genius!!!
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Another 5am start yesterday to get down to Rayvern Hydraulics for 8am. Mark was like a little kid in a toy shop he couldn’t wait to see his VW Passat B6 and neither could I! One of the things I was most interested in with air ride is the ride quality as I’ve had coilovers before on cars and not been impressed with the ride. For an every day car coilovers don’t work for me.
Air ride is basically the same as standard ride but you can tighten and soften the ride if you need. Ray had put Marks on a soft setting and for every day use (the Passats not a track car) it’s just what Mark wanted.
Anyway forget all that this is were it’s at check out the pics of Mark’ VW Passat B6 on Rayvern Air Ride! Massive thanks to Ray he’s the king of air ride!
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Up at the crack of dawn!
Well 5am anyway to meet Mark and drive down to Cambridgeshire to drop Mark’s VW Passat off at Rayvern Hydraulics for a air ride install.
You wont believe what a joy it is to drive at that time in the morning hardly a soul around an you can just cruise. But they like there speed cameras in Cambridgeshire glad i had my sat nav as the speed limits were all over the place and someone not used to the area could easily be caught out.
We got there bang on 8am which was what Ray had asked as he likes to give his customers 100% attention so that Mark could spec out exactly what he wanted and were he wanted it. HAd a good chat to Ray as well great guy really passionate about his work and some cool looking motors there to including the slammed Jetta.
Ray recons he’ll get a 4 inch drop on the Passat which will put it on the floor! He also said that Mark’s B6 Passat was going to be the first one on air in the UK scratch one for Mark! The Passat also got a set of new 19″ rims to go on it which are going to look sweet.
Now we have the torture of waiting a week till we can get up again at 5am (you owe me big style Mark!) to drive down and pick it up. I cant wait to see what the ride quality is like and get some photo’s.
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The Phatsat
Finally got round to taking some pictures of Mark’s Passat the weekend before it goes off for its suspension work next weekend. So these will be good for a before and after shots. So far Mark has had the Votex frond and side skirts installed and smoothed the rear valance and had it colour coded. He’s also had the front side grills and the front central grill colour coded with chrome inserts on the front lower grill to carry the chrome through the nose of the Passat.
On the inside he’s installed Golf GTI chrome pedals and TDI foot rest along with chrome surounds for the climate control and stereo controls.
We both must be getting old as we both enjoy driving the TDI Volkswagen’s mines still the standard 140bhp but Marks had his remapped by Awesome GTI and you can really tell the difference, its also returning better MPG!
Like myself Mark belives less is more neither of us like anything thats to in your face. Check out the Passat in two weeks time its going to look very different…
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