This is Mya! she's my first car and although very very slow, is very reliable. Why do i call her mya you might ask? Because she's MYa CAR....i know...cheesy but best i could come up with at the time. She's a 95 VW GTI manual with a 2.0L or (2.slo) engine... Basically bone stock besides a radio and 'surbo'. Surbo is basically a fan put in your intake that generates turbulent air to promote more efficient combustion and hence save you gas. It also really felt a bit like a turbo because there was some lag until 3000rpm.

she came with ugly ass seats that really looked quite bad....

Big ol rust spot that only got bigger and bigger over the one winter i had her

Faded bumper from not being taken care of by the two previous owners... this car came with relatively low mileage because all the owners only drove it to and from work and a car was just a car to them

bubbling side skirt that eventually rusted enough and expanded enough that when you got outta the car it would jsut be kicked off. after a while i got tired of putting it back and just ripped it off. As can be expected, i soon grew tired of the slow 110bhp engine and looked for something better

This car was for sale not far from me in detroit and was going for 6000...i HAD to have it! it looks exactly the same to the untrained observer but a true dubber would note the 5 lug as opposed to a 4 lug setup for the 2.0L gti. Also, those taillights were just what i wanted on the car.

as you can see, the paint was what really attracted me to the car. The guy had gotten it resprayed a couple months back due to a minor mishap wit a truck. The kamei grille in the front was also a nice addition. So i decided to drive up to detroit, braving eight mile and all...and took the car for a spin. The moment i thumped on the accelerator, i was hooked. Due to pure low end torque, the 175hp 178torque vr6 engine let off a low rumbling growl.....it was unbelievably sexy. Even bryan woo (who's car i will feature at a later time) thought it sounded so good...the only difference from his car being that it had a cone filter instead of a stock air box and filter panel. So a couple weeks later i went back up there and bought her

This was the mileage she came with..and since then..its gone up to 105,600 miles...when i went up to buy her, the owner was being a real asshole, checkin every bill i gave him and shit....really uncool. i just wanted to take the car and go.

we got back to purdue in one piece...and she drove perfect...but one thing that really bugged me was the radio..it kept goin on and off and when i pulled it out i saw all the ghetto rigged wiring work the previous owner did...first sign of trouble.. note the ugly red vw badge... had to get rid of that asap

another monstrosity that came along with the car is this shift knob....its a TT shift knob that just was really uncomfortable when shifting... along wit it came this crappy boot... also note the cup holders and teh "carbon fibre" looking thing at the end...thats jus some canvas covering a whole....ghetto rigged part 2

loved the evil look kamei eyebrows too....theres something called a boser for vws that just makes the car look oh so evil

this is what happened a couple weeks later.. i was driving down to town from school and all of a sudden my dash just starts spewing smoke that jus smelt like someone was burning a bucket.... i just pulled over to the side and turned off the engine and waited for the smoke to clear...i called bryan and he came to my rescue...low and behold i managed to start the car...which was amazing...it was the shoddy wiring ....some of the black tape fell off and short circuited and burned all the way to the key cylinder... i was pissed and shitting my pants havin to tell my parents wat happened

thats the key cylinder and all the burnt wiring.... all $1600 bucks worth of it...took a long time for the stealership to get it done but i was just happy to be able to drive my car again. She gave me lots of trouble after that...goin into the shop almost every other week..but i still love her

i decided to tear thru the whole car to see what else this guy messed up and was horrified to see that he basically went into every nook and cranny in the car...prying and leaving marks, breaking tabs, losing screws...i was pissed. on top of that. this wire was found connected to my battery and going all the way to my back seat..at that time i had no idea what it was for but now i realise that it was a 2 gauge power wire meant for a sub....he left it connected to the battery and laying with bare wire under the seat..i couldve died if it grounded itself to the chasis...

he even broke a tab off the abs controller....among other things.... but after the whole debacle was over, i got down to the main business of modifying the car to how i really wanted it. Stay tuned tomorrow to see my car as she stands now

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