1991 Mk2 Golf GTI - the journey so far

So, in a bid to keep normality in this crazy world we live in currently, some more hours smashed out this week.

Rear arch trims are back on, stainless rivnuts and fixings all around so they can be removed with ease should be needed:







On to the interior!

I've had this rear strut base kicking around for ages to run with the 'Clubsport' theme the interior is taking on. It had been powder-coated in a horrid mottled grey/black finish so that got resprayed in satin black. Fits nicely under the parcel shelf, looks OEM and is inoffensive.





The rear boot trim on a Mk2 Golf is made of a 50:50 mix. 50% milk carton, 50% unobtainium. Because of this, scene tax is slapped on and there's no way I'm forking out. Mine is in 3 pieces so I 'plastic-welded' it back together with by melting a zip tie on a soldering iron. A finishing coat of textured paint makes it perfectly serviceable.



Moving forwards from the boot area... oh dear. What a state! 2 years of dust, debris, body shop grime etc mean things are not looking pretty









Out with the seats:



Out with the carpets:



I don't have a wet vac so liberal clean with upholstery cleaner and pressure washer did a reasonable job:



What does the 30-year-old sound deadening look like? It's been about 10 years since I last had this lot out. Ah...



Stripped:





As well as being thickly undersealed underneath, Mk2's also have a tar-based coating inside the floor pans too. A lot of this original coating was lifting in the rear footwell so only one thing for it:



A heat gun, scraper and copious amounts of Xylene proved useful here! I tried to preserve as much of the original zinc coating as possible.











The rest of the floorpan coating looks in really good condition so made the decision to leave that alone.

Zinc primed and ready for epoxy:



Any recommendations for underlay and soundproofing? Heritage do a Newton Commercial kit but it's £120! Currently looking at Silent Coat plus some more closed cell foam topping as an alternative.

Good to know, thanks!

Love this. Thanks for sharing, enjoying watching it come back together.

I've read the whole thread over the last few nights. What an great tale you've told. Thank you for sharing. Keep doing what you're doing. It looks great.

Been smashing some hours on the car over the bank hol but progress has slowed a bit - the interior seems to be fighting me all the way.

After sorting the floor paint again and waiting 4 days for it harden properly (joys of epoxy) I got the carpets back in. Finally, time to install the new seats! What should have been a ten-minute job had me scratching my head for 3 hours. Turns out the seat frames I have don't fit - the guy I got them from was amazing though and is currently making a new set for me.





So all I could do was mock things up as a taster of what it'll look like:











Began the refurb on the sunroof wind deflector and arms. Deox C did a great job of neutralising any rust so they got cleaned up and Electrox primed. Just need some satin black of some description as a topcoat.

interested to know ehere you got the guage pod from, been looking for one to fit my electric window area for a while

No, clubsport is a good look on your car. I have done very similar to my tornado red mk5.

You could fit a false floor just to tidy the rear up.

I'm going through an '87 924S and pulled the dash over the weekend in order to replace the block > heater > block hoses. While I'm in there: new heater core and the same sort of foam flap seal restoration you've just done. Talk about little jobs turning big. The 924S is really just a VAG parts-special. Best, John

More exciting than seatbelts would be to fit a schroth asm harness. It clips into the rear female seatbelt things so no harness bar needed.

I have one for my mk5, only drivers side though.