Well here's the current daily driver that's become a project! Shown here as purchased:
I picked this up for the princely sum of £250 with tax and MOT! (+£50 for him to leave the DAB stereo in there!) Is this world's first scene tax exempt GTI? Basket cases sell for more than that! I may also have sold the "vanity plate" it's got at the moment for enough money to fund a new roof. Can't argue with that!
OK so it needs a bit of work. In it's favour it's had the engine replaced and the previous owner told me he'd spent £250+ having the brakes sorted - more of which later. Now on to the problems....
The roof seals are leaky and there was a swimming pool on the passenger side. I later found that the leak was so bad because the plastic sheet behind the door panel was missing. That's now sorted so it's just the roof seals I need to do now.
The brake pedal had to go right to the floor before it worked when I bought it. I replaced the master cylinder with a £15 second hand item and also adjusted the rear drums properly. Works as good as a Golf gets now! To say the previous owner had all that work done on the brakes I think it's a bit shoddy that they didn't set the rears up properly.
I was thinking of using it for a bit and then selling it on. It wasn't to be though, time to sort it.
My major gripe (apart from the leaks!) is that the shocks are knackered. It wallows and bounces round corners and at the moment the rear is lower than the front. Reverse stance is a unique thing perhaps but it's rubbish at going round bends. It'll never catch on!
So to sort it out I decided that the way to go was:
New top mounts too and you can see my "official tool" for replacing VAG strut top nuts. I grip the box spanner with stilsons and away you go.
mid repair:
Goodbye wallowy old leaky rusty oily thing....
That's got to be better
MOT is next week so let's see what happens then.
I picked this up for the princely sum of £250 with tax and MOT! (+£50 for him to leave the DAB stereo in there!) Is this world's first scene tax exempt GTI? Basket cases sell for more than that! I may also have sold the "vanity plate" it's got at the moment for enough money to fund a new roof. Can't argue with that!
OK so it needs a bit of work. In it's favour it's had the engine replaced and the previous owner told me he'd spent £250+ having the brakes sorted - more of which later. Now on to the problems....
The roof seals are leaky and there was a swimming pool on the passenger side. I later found that the leak was so bad because the plastic sheet behind the door panel was missing. That's now sorted so it's just the roof seals I need to do now.
The brake pedal had to go right to the floor before it worked when I bought it. I replaced the master cylinder with a £15 second hand item and also adjusted the rear drums properly. Works as good as a Golf gets now! To say the previous owner had all that work done on the brakes I think it's a bit shoddy that they didn't set the rears up properly.
I was thinking of using it for a bit and then selling it on. It wasn't to be though, time to sort it.
My major gripe (apart from the leaks!) is that the shocks are knackered. It wallows and bounces round corners and at the moment the rear is lower than the front. Reverse stance is a unique thing perhaps but it's rubbish at going round bends. It'll never catch on!
So to sort it out I decided that the way to go was:
New top mounts too and you can see my "official tool" for replacing VAG strut top nuts. I grip the box spanner with stilsons and away you go.
mid repair:
Goodbye wallowy old leaky rusty oily thing....
That's got to be better
MOT is next week so let's see what happens then.
