European Leon MK1 20VT4

[ivo098]

I bought the car a little over 2 years ago.
My requirements for the car were very specific. I wanted Seat Leon with 1.8T engine, Cupra optics and four wheel drive, which happened to be very rare combination, and it took me 7 months looking all over Europe until I found and bought my car from Latvia.
One previous owner, full history, 92 000 km on the clock and a lot of options ordered:

Fully electrical leather/alcantara interior, front seats heating, headlights washing system, cruise control, + other standard options.

Full stock when I bought it.

What I have done until now:

FMIC
Remapped
De-cat
Apexi intake
18" Alessio wheels
10mm front spacers
17mm rear spacers
Golf 4 R32 front arms and wipers
Golf 5 rear arm and wiper
Aftermarket projectors installed in the stock headlights
Cupra 4 Steering Wheel

Future plans:

Full Recaro interior from Leon Cupra 2.8
Instrument cluster from Golf 4 R32 or Passat B5.5 4.0 W8
Double DIN Android unit (got the double DIN console already)
LCR Brembo-s
Big Turbo EFR series most probably

Later I will post some photos of the upgrades completed until now.

 

[Slimy]

Damn you Europeans get all the good toys!! I'm not surprised it took you so long to find one, the 4x4's are difficult enough to find on their own! And then you mention in your future plans about the Cupra 2.8 interior, that's like taking some rocking horse p00p and some hens teeth and making a blue moon!!

 

[VT86]

Nice one, I would love to have that kind interior also.

 

[ivo098]

Cupra 2.8 interior will be tough one. There is one in ebay.de but price is 900 EUR....

 

[grahams81]

Nice car, great start for huge power to make use of that 4wd

 

[ivo098]

FMIC

Golf 4 R32 arms and wipers

Golf 5 rear arm and wiper

Projectors

 

[Seal_LCR]

Can I have your interior when u do get it? Lol

 

[ivo098]

 

[george_seamons]

Any more details of the headlights? They look awesome!

 

[Richy Cupra]

Very nice touches dude. Loving the interior, very unique

 

[ivo098]

Headlights are custom made, integrating aftermarket projectors in the stock headlights. Idea is to look as stock as possible without, LEDs, angel eyes, devil eyes and so on...

 

[george_seamons]

They look perfect, exactly what I'm after. I hate angel eyes on these cars, it just doesn't look right.

Do you have any details of how it was done, or links to what you used? Think I might have to take some inspiration from you if thats ok

 

[ivo098]

http://proparts.bg/category/4/bi-xenon-systems-with-projectors-and-xenon-retrofit-kits.en.html

These are the projectors used. The rings around the projectors are the GTI style ones in the website.

 

[george_seamons]

They are nice, but VERY expensive! Shows as being £400 odd when put into the correct currency?!

Shame, because all the ones on eBay have the tacky angel eyes rings built in

 

[ivo098]

Some temporary wheels, which I tried on the car for a few weeks, but didn't like them.

 

[aaronipswich]

Headlights look awesome mate

 

[Steely]

lovely car! why oh why didnt seat give us the Leon 4

 

[ivo098]

Some video from the beach last year, still without projectors and smaller 17" wheels then...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEV8Gv8kCIo&feature=plcp

I had a friend with Mitsubishi L200 ready to pull me out, but it wasn't needed

 

[poliq]

Glad to see a fellow leon 4 on here! There's not many of them.. Like what you did so far, looking forward to more pics!

 

[ivo098]

Little update. As my Leon was not ordered with Cupra 4 interior from factory, I am starting to assemble it piece by piece.

This is what I found by accident on a very good price.

It needs a little cleaning but general condition is quite good. Problem is that there are scratches on the logo at the bottom but I can't find the part number for the logo only. Can anybody help?