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Bodywork & Paintwork / Front small bumper guide repair
Not the wing plug, the runner on the bumper 👍
Have had a good look but can only find ones available for the big bumpers 😡
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Not the wing plug, the runner on the bumper 👍
Have had a good look but can only find ones available for the big bumpers 😡
Thanks
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I.C.E & Electrical / DAB antenna position
Got a dab unit to fit to my 16v, kenwood headunit i bought in 2001 has given up the ghost. Sad day, had it longer than i have owned a car 🤣
I have fitted windscreen mounted dab aerials to mk4 golfs, but never a mk2.
Just wondering where others have mounted theirs for best results and path of least resistance....
Doubt i'll get a reply before i fit when wife comes back to take over with the kids, but google turned up a blank🤣
Thanks 👍
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Members' Cars / 8v & 16v
Hi,
I thought that with some pretty substantial progress predicted for the coming months I should start my own thread.
I was a member on the old forum also but not much of a picture posting guy as I dont think threads are worthy without pics and updates lol
Various factors have limited my ability to address the issues on my beloved 16v but that will change soon.
So her goes
Bought this in September 08 after selling a vento vr6
Originally it was on 14" castelletes, but a moment of madness saw it rocking the gold ra's. Bought at 97k full history and every mot from new
A neighbour kindly reversed into it outside my folks house in 09 which resulted in the loss of red stripe on the offside. I sourced a replacement but was far too curly to attempt fitment lol
Time passed and the ra's dissappeared after my friend passed the car parked up in Glasgow and thought someone else had the same bad taste in wheels as me but it was my mk2 lol
Replaced by these
Once fitted i realised i had found the best oe wheel in my opinion for the small bumper mk2
It then became apparent due to the terrible ride and tyre squeal that the car needed hit with the lowering stick
Lowered on jom coilovers, and after 4 years I cannot complain, although the 16v only goes out in the dry and is garaged during the winter....
The main reason for this is due to as time progressed, it became apparent that my shell was suffering form the dreaded rot and needed some serious work.
Being stuck in a flat, and as of 2012 with child also, and not having the option of a space to work on the car myself, i simply could not justify spending £2k + getting someone to complete the work on my behalf but hopefully in the coming weeks this will change.
The car was broken into in 2013, nothing left in the vehicle cab, an empty water bottle on the floor, but I feel it was opened to steal and then when said thief noticed there was no steering wheel fitted it was pillaged for my beloved tools from the boot
Instead of smashing the window, which i could have replaced with a spare in my cupboard, they bent the door out far enough to hit the lever and open the door. Bloody raging all my tools were stolen as i had them since i was a young lad and when i worked in a local bus yard. I reshaped the door and it bears this scar today lol
The car went to silverstone from glasgow in summer 2013 to ford fair with no issues over 840 miles but the following year after putting her on ramp at my friends bus garage it became apparent some serious surgery is required.
These are the parts i was aware of from above
There is also work required on both sills, previous welds to mot standard but full replacements not required.
Where the loom passes from the body to the tailgate on the nearside is rotten and the engine needs removed and chassis legs and bay prepped.
In my opinion, the only solution is a complete strip, on a spit and every area addressed with longevity in mind. Why do half a job with all the effort to start any of the above. Anyway, over the coming weeks and months i hope to start this myself.
The car will stop, start and go anywhere without letting you down, but the body is dying around the mechanicals lol
Praying to the restoration gods everynight for the last few years might have paid off and i may be blesses with a garage of my own, and as its the only car i have kept as long and given the pedigree it had, it needs saved.
My 3 year old loves going in "the speedy car" and this alone makes the valver all that more important to me. A re-shell is not n option.
Anyway, heres a few more pics, the last one taken 2 week ago. It cleans up well but shine can hide a multitude if sins
So this pic takes the thread in a new direction. Well, really i have thousands of pics on various sd cards and phones that could expand the thread but not to hand sadly
The red mk2 was my 1st vw. I bought it for £500 in September 06 when i was facing a driving ban for driving well in excess of the 70 limit in my old civic coupe vti.
I had F151, kept my licence and sold the civic. Recouped almost evey penny i had in it and bought the vento vr6 in june 07. Sold the vr6 in august 08 and bought the valver in sept 08 as said earlier.
I started a new job in glasgow, watched crash tests for the mk2, mk3 and mk4, so made the heartbreaking but sensible decision, given i was doing rush hour daily driving to sell the 8v. It left my company in February 09 and was never seen again. Replaced absolutely loads of parts on it, including clutch and gearbox etc... and it left my company for hopefully a happy life elsewhere in its original small bumper p-slot form...
Its owner turned up on scottishvag in summer 11, and i made contact with him. Car was saved from death, had done nearly 40k since i sold it, had been broken into, maybe stolen and was set for certain death.
Codgie, hes on here too has some pics on a thread that i will try copy onto here. There also pics of both my valver and his in summer 11 down greenock esplanade somewhere.
So fast forward til summer 15. I had said to Codgie if he was selling to give me 1st refusal as the car meant so much to me and is an absolute survior mk2, more on that later.
I wa on nightshift and went onto Scottishvag to see it forsale with a knackered engine, and with two local breakers expressing interest. I could have cried. I messaged him and said give me 24hrs and i would try pull some strings to buy her back.
A quick call to my best mate and the deal was done. Since my ownership it had been fitted with big bumpers, coils, 90spec red ultra violet interior and bbs rz's. Plus an exhaust that would wake the dead. That will be replaced before it goes anywhere near a mot station lol
Saved for £400
Pics from the add
Safe and sound and dry in my friends work. Hopefully work will start soon on her also
I posted an add on here last summer and Chippy Gti sold me this
2.0 8v and everything in the pic for £150
Collected from slough on way home from ford fair in my 1.8 20vt mk4. Madness looking back on it lol
I must add that performance on acceleration and braking was not notably compromised given the extra load with 2 passengers up front.
We got back to glasgow safely
Mk4 being unloaded, you can see the mk2 to the right in this pic. This was its 1st home after saving
So that brings me kind of up to date. Pics really just to build a picture, as i just lurk on here lol
I also have two very reliable workhorses that are a mk4 gti 1.8t i bought in nov 09 for £2200 with recaros and a mk4 gt tdi 130 i bought for £2k in November 2012. Getting a bit long in the tooth now, but for the money they cannot be beat. I wanted to change the 1.8t for a mk5 gti but a house is a much higher priority and with the amount of knowledge i have learned from these cars including vag-com, vagtacho and an nvq in mk4 golf doors and their failings i cannot fault them. They owe me nothing and they are ran with minimal outlay
The 1.8t on 125k and tdi on 133k. Original clutches, flywheels and turbos. Bought standard. They do the daily duties to work and ferrying my son about with ease
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