Doing DIY mods on my Polo TSI: Why its nothing short of an adventure

I've made plenty of retrofit wiring from scratch for this car, and they've all taught me so much about VW cars.

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Polo 6R Vanity Lamps
This was something I wanted to do for a couple of reasons, the stronger one being that the Jetta had it, and the second one being it would sit well with my mother, sister and girlfriend who'd find it useful

I procured sun-visors with sliding mirrors and contact switches, and prepared the wiring which would be tapped from the W8 cabin light. Everything was bench-tested, but I didn't have the heart to cut open the head-liner, and this soon became an incomplete retrofit.

Bonnet Contact Switch
Before I left for US, my friend Sheethal gifted me this contact switch, but alas, I couldn't install it. It would have been sweet, since it shows up on the Maxidot cluster.

PQ25 Kessy Retrofit

This was another exciting feature which became popular in India, and it seemed to work really well. So I bit the bullet and procured a PQ25 KESSY kit. A retrofit that seemed to level-up the capabilities of the Polo, but had its share of complications.

It used a few aftermarket modules, and needed some wire changes, which would need huge wire cutting around the ignition switch, along with proper adaption of a few used tools, like the ELV.

For a car that needs to be reliable for daily driving, I decided to pause this retrofit, and never ended up fully installing it. All I did, was lay in the wiring. and recently, I had it taken out, so I could give it to a friend, who will surely install it.

Polo In Pieces
In my 4 years owning this car, I've seen these visuals way too many times. Seats taken out, trims opened up, radio not on the dashboard, steering not in place, airbags on the seat and so on. Each time, it feels like a struggle, but once everything is put back, you can't even tell it was all taken out, because the Polo is so brilliantly engineered that it all fits in like a puzzle.

Making Wirings, Catching Feelings

I've made plenty of retrofit wirings from scratch for this car, and they've all taught me so much about VW cars.

Definitely an experience of a life-time for me. It is sheer because of these beautiful experiences, modifying this car, that I've felt a stronger connect with this brand, not to forget, the brilliant driving experience, and the grunt from this 1.0 TSI! I've no regrets for wanting to push the PQ25 platform to its limits, and even though I couldn't do everything I once sought to, looking back, I've actually done quite a lot of stuff, and this thread will be a testimony to those milestones that I can look back onto.

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