Painting And Replacing VW Polo 9n Mirror Caps (CHEAP TRANSFORMATION!) | Pointless Polo Project
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
- Looking to paint your wing mirror caps body colour? Want to know how long/how easy/how much of a transformation it is? You've come to the right place, as in this video I show you my process of painting my mirror caps blue to match the VW Polo 9n.
Apologies to those of you looking for a top 5 video this week, I've just started a new job and am away on a residential, so will not be putting a top 5 out until April I would assume - just no time to get the work on them done (but I'll try my best to get one out if I can!)
Appreciate all the support and welcome to all the new subscribers, it's been quite a good week for subs!
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Music:
Background: My (musically gifted) sister
Feature bits: Sister again - I literally asked her for a piece of music for those bits of the vid and she made that within 5 minutes. She thinks the music is boring, I think it does the job perfectly, so whatever
Outro: Ship Wrek & Zookeepers - Ark [NCS Release]
Nice job, there is a little rubber stopper underneath the mirror, if you take it out and insert something like the smooth end of a drill bit, it presses a tab and releases the cover, lift it straight up, save damaging the cover.
Good to hear that it actually exists, for the life of me I couldn't find it!
Love the pointless polo project 💕 keep up the good work man 😁
Appreciate the support! Glad you like the project 🤙🏽
those wing mirrors look amazing mate! genuinely such a great addition to the car and you should be well proud of them. I've had my fair share of run ins of shitty plastic tabs breaking in cars, infuriating to have to deal with! One broke on my wheel arch once, then when I was going 70 on the Motorway, and the wheel arch wrapped around my wheel for like 500/600m, it was quite an experience.
Topic: I'd of loved to of found my car in french racing blue, but they always seem to be more expensive, and I dont blame them! I think the french racing blue in a Clio looks better than liquid yellow, controversial statement, i know.
Cheers as always my dude! Haha honestly don't see the point of them when they have far more robust methods of holding things in place - at least 2 of those tabs are now broken! That can't have been very fun haha, I don't envy that experience... that is a controversial opinion but I do agree - I love the yellow but the French racing blue does look sick!
Imagine just how messed up it will be if the paint doesn’t match at all the paint from the car! Very nice video!
Yeah this is true - I was quite worried!
Brilliant video, really great that it showed door panel coming off as my electric window switch is broken too and I will need to remove panel and replace switch. Thanks 😎
Remember to colour sand/wet sand them and buff as well as with the rest of the car, seeing that I have a polo as well, this is an important step to the overall look. You might think at first it's going to look better, but not turn heads or grab attention... you'll be surprised how a properly detailed car (any car will grab attention).
Awesome video and keep them coming
Yeah very fair point - I'm thinking of doing some diy detailing as soon as I've got everything right on the exterior of the car! Cheers as always my dude
The background with the stairs in the back is nice!
Haha glad you liked that background, might use it more in the future!
Loving the series, I have a 1.2 polo as well. Not sure if you’d be interested but I recently changed my air intake obviously the overall performance of the car hasn’t really been affected, however, the sound when accelerating is significantly louder and I think sounds very nice. Might fit well for your series since it cost me around £16 including next day postage from eBay. Keep up the sick videos boss
Glad you like the project, appreciate the support! I've been thinking of changing the filter, thanks for the insight in terms of lack of performance change - I'll have a look into it and see if it's worth doing!
Really enjoying the pointless polo project. Makes me want a polo myself (after my shity Corsa). Keep up the good work mate. Also if I was to have a car any colour. Got to be red
Glad you like it! Plenty more project vids to come, just depends on my own time & ability to complete them 🤙🏽 that's fair enough - I like red on cars, often see people driving the 9n in the opposing red to my blue & it looks quite good
Oh helly yeah!! it's coming together nicely!!
Cheers as always big man!
Nice one bro! Polo is looking tight with the black badge on the grill as well. Really helpful video for removing the inner door, cheers man!
Finally a sort of pointless mod btw nice video mate!
Haha yeah more pointless mods to come don't you worry!
just watched the death of your first car, what a epic story ! that little car done you proud , and at the end kept you safe. respect to the little Skoda
Haha yeah for real, that car was a blessing! Best £400 I've ever spent, still prefer it to the Polo even haha - a real shame to lose it 😢
I knew it ! You play the guitar right ?
10:25 in the background
I love you even more.
Got my first Gibson a couple of weeks ago, love it to bits.
That guitar probably is just hanging there and wasn't used for years, don't get too excited bruh, I love my bc rich too tho
Haha I did used to play guitar! I ended up stopping to play the trumpet, and then I stopped that too - my sister is the super musical one, she plays guitar, piano, violin etc etc etc... as and when I have more time I'll be back on the guitar - glad you just got a Gibson!
Looks a good job that jb turned out well they did.
Oh and nardo grey is my favourite colour at the moment.
Cheers as always Curtis! Nardo grey is a great colour, maybe the Polo should go grey one day...
Helpful.
you should fit the facelift wing mirrors mate, they have indicators built into them and look sweet, everything will work but not the indicator but theyre miles better as the mirror is sort of perspex, however you say it, so you can see more in your vision too
I do like the facelift mirrors but yeah it's the indicator that I wasn't sure about!
@@CarsWithJB straight bolt in, but im sure if you swap the window motors too they would work, as theyre the door control module aswell, but without they still function as normal but without indicators mate, message me as im building a polo too, gti rep and engine swapped it too maye
Actually I learnt a lot thank you 🇬🇧👍
I just bought a polo 9n! No joke ! In white
Very decent - congrats on the purchase! Which engine?
The 1.4
👍 great video.
If I ever wrapped my Polo, I'd have something stupid like Irn Bru metallic orange, or a blue/purple pearl shift
Ooh that would be sick, I'd quite like an iridescent wrap on the Polo!
Are you going to paint the black exterior door trim?
Yep - and the bumpers too!
So beneficial.
Another trick is to heat up the cans with a heat gun or hairdryer it just makes the paint mix better and makes it more thin
Great video, just a little thing you should get that rust of the number plate that hast leaked from bolts! Love the car it's getting there
I need this car wow
Haha it was just £400 - bargain!
More polo videos 👌
On their way 🤙🏽
*_Tak._*
Cheers as always my dude 🤙🏽
Excellent 😊
Love these videos man
Cheers my dude 🤙🏽
You should of done a grip coat with the first coat of colour, then built up the thickness through the coats, also wet sand the final piece after laquer, cut and polish it and you’ll be left with a mirror finish like the car paint no orange peel
Satin black
I do like satin paint in pretty much any colour 🤙🏽
You should wrap the whole car in nardo grey🤩
Haha not a bad shout - would look pretty mad, matte/satin nardo grey and black trim would look mental
One more step to finished polo
Edit: when you are 500k channel you'll look back at these videos and compare it to your fully speced out polo
Trust me - the finished product will hopefully come this summer! Haha that's the goal my dude 🤙🏽
@@CarsWithJB looking forward to it
Please Please Please do I video on painting the door molding. Are they clipped on or just glue, if glue may just remove mine.
I was littlery wondering how to do this 😂
Love these videos man. I've also got a polo 9n 2003 plate and have a Engine management warning light that keeps coming on and off and wondered if you had had this too or any help that you could suggest!
Get an OBD2 code reader and plug it in just under the steering wheel to the right a bit, then look up the code it gives. They dont cos't much.
Daniel P thank you
@@paddycrabb6999 thats a good shout, but from when we owned a polo 9n the engine light would come on for literally any fault; so to be optimistic, it could literally be anything; sounds like a faulty sensor or something that has degraded overtime to me, hence being temperamental.
Yeah I had an intermittent engine light on my Skoda (same system) before this, and I just ignored it as we worked out it was a faulty sensor through OBD - but definitely check!
Thanks guys!
Looks great dude, but you should of bought a 6N2 GTi or 16v version of it.
Haha I actually didn't like the 9n when I got it and would have preferred a 6N2, but it's definitely grown on me!
It seems to me that you go heavy on your coats, don't you get orange peel?
looks good! what r u planning to do next with the polo?
I want to get the rubbing strips painted too, then we'll move on to maybe looking at the engine!
@@CarsWithJB sounds good, can't wait!
You don’t need to take the whole wing mirror off to do this do you? I have the exact same polo
How did i miss this smh
Haha no worries - plenty more 9n nonsense to come
Where did you get the paint from? I wanna give this a go but it’s gonna be a first attempt. Like the fact the lacquer is already mixed in
A local paint shop that does car paint! Try find your local one, and ask them to mix the paint up for you
Pointless polo pinstripes!
Haha go faster stripes maybe? Once I've got all the exterior sorted I'll be on it with more potential flair
Hi did you find a color code for your polo ? And where ?
How much was the new wing mirror and where did you get it from please, somebody has hit mine and now the motor doesn’t work properly and let me position it properly
It was just £25 and I bought it on eBay from a scrap dealer!
does anyone know how to do this on electric windows??? or is it roughly the same process? someone has knocked my passenger side mirror but knocked the full base triangle out of place
Great question, no idea sadly - I assume there's an equivalent catch somewhere on the door card but I don't know where!
Bro can comment a link of the spray can literally can’t find that shade anywhere
I actually had the paint mixed at a local car paint store! If you have the same colour as me it's LA5F for the paint code 🤙🏽
How many miles does your polo have? and how much you paying for insurance ive got the exact same car
85,000 miles and I pay around £400!
Pretty happy with my car being white. Having owned a black car, I can categorically say that white cars are annoying to clean, but black cars seem to get dirty a million times quicker.
In case you're taking wagers on how long before someone hits one of them, I'm saying 5 months. Hopefully that doesn't happen of course, but I'm placing my bet just in case ☺
Haha yeah this is true - I really like blacked out cars as well as white ones, I'd quite like to see the white equivalent of a blacked out car at some point! I think 5 months is generous given my road, I'll place my bet on 2 months 😂
You should polish and buff it.
you need to wait to buff paint, reccomended 45 days to use wax on certain types of paint as it can leach the colour from it. just trying to save you some money before you go and polish your newly repaired panel.
@@Craziestbanana no like the whole car mate, needs a good polish because now the mirrors look fantastic and the rest of the car looks messy.
Yeah I think I might do a detailing video soon!
@@CarsWithJB that would be great to watch, it would make your polo a hell of a lot nicer.
What engine do you have in your Polo?
1.2L
Yeah - it's the 1.2E - so the smallest/least powerful engine!
Cars With JB So are you planning to swap it? I own a Polo too (9n3 tho) and it’s a 1.2 HTP, which means it’s a 3 cylinder and I guess yours is too? In my country it’s illegal to swap engine so I’m stuck with it, but I think I like to have a really slow car, it’s fun for some reason. Anyway big fan of the series, keep it up.
How much are you paying for insurance
£400 👏🏽
Cars With JB big chungus oof
you need a new car to pull the veiws. civic type r, mr2 turbo, clio sport , retro ford or Vauxhall, none really dear and all have a big following
The polo is the project
I will be trying to get a new car this year, I just started a new grad job and am saving as much as I can to see how long before I can seriously consider buying a nice sports car or something! But yes I agree, a new car will be necessary in the near future (even if the Polo remains the project)
I follow a UA-camr and he had a massive response with a project shed!! mk4 golf tdi. I think a Clio sport track car would be good. as in just for track. and daily the polo. a skoda fabia vrs 1.9tdi is a good shout for all rounder.
my mr2 turbo was such a cool car. pop up headlights, t bar roof, mid engine, rwd, turbo, so many cool things in one car. and was no different on fuel to my 1.6 205 gti. stage 1 is close to 300hp. and I think they will be a sort after car on the future. so a investment of sort