Hi, I'm Dave, picked up my new Monte Carlo 1,6tdi 105 after trying to decide on a good daily driver for a couple of months!

The reason I needed a daily was because my mx5 became a little unuseable and tiresome for the daily hack... It looks like this...

Whilst I love the MX5 and its completly hillarious to own and drive, it is incredably inpractical, uneconomical, deafaning, has the waterproof properties of a sieve and has only two seats. So it will be retired to the garage for more stupidity.

So for every day I have bought this. Picked it up today with 10miles on the clock.

Full Spec:

Candy White Skoda Fabia Monte Carlo 1.6tdi 105bhp

Options:

On Board Computer

Climate Control

Cruise Control

Spare Wheel

Ipod Connection

This is what it looks like:

So far I'm very please with it! It's quiet, climate control is awesome, I'm not going deaf inside it and its waterproof! So its a massive improvement already :p

I have a few plans, mainly cosmetic things!

I want to get a new set of decent bulbs for my headlights, number plate lights and indicators (can anyone recommend any?) tint the fog/DRL's yellow with some laminex, pressed plates and plate holders, miltek exhaust (if they will make me one :p) and some coilovers (again recomendations please!)

I also work at a tuning company in Bromsgrove, and we have very recently been able to tune these so this will get some dyno time and the map will be extensively tested (once I've got a few miles on her!)

Niiice looking Monte mate! Not sure about ur taste in yellow tints for the fogs/drls tho (then again nothing wrong with looking at a big pair of tints out on display at the front haha)

Milltek on the vRS is awesome, don't think they have ant plans for a diesel one. Let us know how you get in with the map, I'm sure a few people on here would be interested to see the figures etc.

Nice looking monte mate, looks just like mine..

Nice mate!! I pick up my red 1.2 TSi 105 monte carlo in 2 weeks time, im in redditch, so close to you (my names also dave ha!). tuning company you say? can you do the tsi?

Dave...

Edited 15 August, 201213 yr by DMilsey

Hi, I'm Dave, picked up my new Monte Carlo 1,6tdi 105 after trying to decide on a good daily driver for a couple of months!

The reason I needed a daily was because my mx5 became a little unuseable and tiresome for the daily hack... It looks like this...

Whilst I love the MX5 and its completly hillarious to own and drive, it is incredably inpractical, uneconomical, deafaning, has the waterproof properties of a sieve and has only two seats. So it will be retired to the garage for more stupidity.

So for every day I have bought this. Picked it up today with 10miles on the clock.

Full Spec:

Candy White Skoda Fabia Monte Carlo 1.6tdi 105bhp

Options:

On Board Computer

Climate Control

Cruise Control

Spare Wheel

Ipod Connection

This is what it looks like:

So far I'm very please with it! It's quiet, climate control is awesome, I'm not going deaf inside it and its waterproof! So its a massive improvement already :p

I have a few plans, mainly cosmetic things!

I want to get a new set of decent bulbs for my headlights, number plate lights and indicators (can anyone recommend any?) tint the fog/DRL's yellow with some laminex, pressed plates and plate holders, miltek exhaust (if they will make me one :p) and some coilovers (again recomendations please!)

I also work at a tuning company in Bromsgrove, and we have very recently been able to tune these so this will get some dyno time and the map will be extensively tested (once I've got a few miles on her!)

Hey mate, nice Monte! It's identical to mine!

I fitted a HiD's direct 4300k HID kit to my headlights and it's made a huge improvement, the std headlights are almost dangerous!

I also fitted their LED DRL bulb kit which looks a bit cooler.

I'd be interested in knowing about a re-map but after you get a few more miles on the clock it does loosen up quite nicely!

KW or someone like that would be best for the Coilovers, they don't go mega low, but will still give you a great ride! Not that cheap either, but it's a new car so you want to treat it right

Have fun!

Have you got a link for the bulbs?

The standard ones are a massive improvement over the candles in the mx5 :p

May see you about as I'm in bromsgrove. I drive a red mk 1 fabia vrs. There is another white monte around this way I have seen a couple of times you may well see too.

Enjoy the car .

Kirk

Sweet.

I'm looking at a few different sets of wheels for it now...

Can anyone tell me the offset of the standard Monte Carlo Wheels?

I would be interested to see the laminex idea and pressed plates, I have black monte and was thinking similar but not sure how would look without going the whole way of euro look wheels, lower etc.