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Messages - t2000

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Mk2 Golf Chat / Re: Mods
The second one I like, looks more factory plus retains the 12v slot.
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Mk2 Golf Chat / Re: Mods
Yeah I'm a fan of leccy aerials if it's an 8v non bee sting, so many people put a bee sting on when it shouldn't be there, stick with the wing one.

Momo steering wheels are ok but not a fan of snap offs, if it were me I'd be looking for something offered as dealer aftermarket like BBS wheel or an early Wolfsburg or Votex etc.

Votex consoles are period but don't butcher it to fit cup holders, I think Polo or Lupo ones fit but it's modernising what is essentially a 30 year old car that never came with cup holders.

It is your car but my opinion is less is more, I went down that route of Wolfsburg handles, gearknob, momo wheel, clear indicators back in the day and I kept all the original bits and put it back to standard after 20 years.

Spend money on maintaining it and using it.
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Suspension & Steering / Re: Retro fit power steering
And finally if you want to do it oem style you may note between your two cars, is different steering wheels. Pas has straight spokes non-pas is curved.

Can you elaborate on this??

Actually just looked it up, never knew that, also it seems the PAS wheel is smaller.
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General Chat / Re: Cherished Plates...
Lol, yeah picked that up off a Merc around 2001 for 125 quid and the guy put it on retention and paid the fee lol, so it cost me buttons, no idea what it's worth these days but I find it funny.

I hate the way they do tax now, sucks you can't buy a car and have a few months tax on it, I used to pick up cars with more MOT than tax for a few hundred quid and run them until the tax was out and then sell them on as it was a cheap way to run around, can't do that any more.

I now make sure if I buy a car I do it in the last week of the month so that I am not paying tax for weeks before I owned the car, I wonder how much money they earn from that tax crossover, must be millions!!

You may have a problem with that MK1 not being on the DVLA, I would check it and if not get it sorted before the reg is lost due to DVLA incompetence.

I had a similar thing on the MK2 over here when I moved address, they put me down as a new owner!! tried to get it removed but not a chance so instead of it being a one previous owner car it's now 2, they have no idea how that affects some classics!
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Mk2 Golf Chat / Re: Coolant Light Flashing
Flashing is usually level if it does it from the off, the sensor gets gunked up in the bottle you can clean it or the wiring to the sensor is dodgy.
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General Chat / Re: Cherished Plates...
This is mine still currently on the Golf, thought I'd lost it because the DVLA in Swansea are useless feckers and when they took over Coleraine and transferred the records they lost a lot in the process, numerous calls to them that the car had never been out of the UK with proof of SORN and current Logbook made no difference, blanket reply was 'It's not on the system'

Classed as an export as they all were prior to 2014 I think but they weren't actually exported just put on the NI system and should have been put back on Swansea but weren't so show as export, Martin has had to contact customs and re import it, they were fully aware of the problems thankfully and it's back on the DVLA for no cost.

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Engine & Gearbox / Re: Reading Spark Plugs...
That thought did occur to me as well Eddy as I remember when I had my 87 16V tuned in 1990 they put those plugs in and I hadn't seen them before but I have heard similar stories back in the day of them not being suitable for some applications, never had an issue myself though.