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October 29, 2003
New Gallery: Our New Car
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After months of wishing we could afford one, and weeks of shopping after deciding to buy one anyways, we finally have a car.
Our beautiful 1996 Jetta Trek is outfitted with fancy-pants European badges and weirdo tweaker struts. There are all sorts of aftermarket and performance parts that we have no need for, but since we’re true consumers, enjoy nonetheless.
Here’s the rundown:
Black exterior, black interior. Paint has a few dings on the bumpers from other careless drivers, but is otherwise excellent. Interior is very clean and shows minimal wear.
- roof rack (holds two bikes)
- Ground Control Coilovers — 300lb/in front, 200lb/in rear
- Bilstein sports at all 4 corners
- VR6 strut bearings front, polyurethane rear
- 6-spoke factory option 14” wheels
- 195/60-14 Falken Azenis tires
- Autotech chip
- Autotech front strut bar
- Autotech short shift kit
- Missing LinkZ shifter upgrade
- Evolution tuning mesh grill
- Euro vento H4’s
- VR6 euro chin
- blacked out rear VW badge
- “Vento GT” rear badge
- smoked side markers
- ATE powerdiscs and new Ferrodo pads (500 miles.. just bedded in)
- AM/FM cassette / 6-cd changer
- upgraded tweeters in the front
- platinum plugs