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Messages - Monkey

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Members' Cars / Re: G135EPB 8v GTI
That looks terrifying!

If I tried that, all I'd end up with is a bunch of fancy coasters!
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Members' Cars / Re: G135EPB 8v GTI
I've never heard of a thick pile carpet before! Sounds very Gucci!

Also, glad I didn't go now, if you were one db over the limit, I'd have been bollocked on my first lap!
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Suspension & Steering / Re: Momo Steering Wheel Boss Woes - please help
Do you have a multimeter?
If so, take the boss off and measure continuity (resistance) between the ring at the back of the boss and its chassis. If you have 0 or very low ohms, your issue lies in the boss and not the method you're using it to fix to the car. It's entirely possible something has moved in the boss and is constantly earthing out the horn push wire.
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Mk2 Golf Chat / Re: Spares list
Assuming you've kept on top of your maintenance.
Give it a major service before you leave and swap out things like brake pads, check your brake hoses for degradation, replace the flexible fuel hoses going from your chassis leg to your fuel rail/metering head, check all tyres, wheel bearings, ball joints and bushes. Go over the car and fix any coolant/oil leaks you may have, swap any dodgy looking coolant hoses, you can get them all brand new off autodoc now for only a few pounds, so it's not even expensive to do.
Really give it a birthday.
Do it a good hundred miles or so before the trip, so if you upset anything you'll know well in advance.
Doing this will dramatically reduce the kit you need to take with you and prevent any unwanted stoppages.
Then, I'd keep things like:
Coil pack
Spark plug leads
Dizzy Cap
Rotor Arm

And a basic tool kit.

Been going to the Nurburgring for about 20 years now and this is what I usually do.

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Mk2 Golf Chat / Re: Heating issues
Yeah, those bypass valves will be the problem.
They were only installed as a recall because the original mk2 matrix couldn't cope with high pressure and would fail.
So they were designed to bypass in the event of an over pressurisation.
Though nowadays the fail and bypass for normal operation.
If you've had a new matrix, it will be the newer design (rolled out in 1992) and you'll be safe to either bypass with a piece of metal pipe or if you're feeling like it, you can buy the rubber pipes that run straight from the matrix to the head/crossover pipe and do away with the valves that way.