Well it's a sad day for me logging in with a now completely inappropriate username. Unfortunately I have moved on from mk3 life and bought a mk4 GTI. All is not lost though, my brother has taken it off my hands so that it'll still be around and I can keep an eye on it.
The only criteria I had for buying a 4 was it had to be 3 door, not a 1.4/1.6, and black. The following vehicle is the best example I could find for the money. Sure I would have liked a turbo, but none were up to my standards.
Down to business, here it is: a tidy black 3 door that's only done 60k miles. One owner from new serviced and MOT'd at the same time each year (13 stamps and cam belt done at 40k). Pictures from the advert:
Looks like you'd expect a mk4 to look like.
First day I got it:
Was impressed by it really. I miss my colour concept leathers quite badly though. Oh- it's a lot faster than the AEX too. But that's about all it's got going for it over my old 3. I'm not particularly in love with it if I'm honest, but I'm hoping once it's in a similar state of modification as the 3 that'll change. Having said that, modifying one of these appears to be significantly more expensive than older dubs! Gone are the days of 17 pound vr6 eBay splitters
First on the agenda was a little bit of interior tidying. So I bought some tailored floor mats as it had lost its originals. I fitted my Pioneer head unit to give those actually pretty good speakers a bit more beef. And as we all know, by nature of its design, the interior plastics are known to eat themselves after very little abuse. So some carbon wrapping happened on the centre console, and I completely replaced the drivers door switch bank grab handle thing with an OEM part.
Wielding a dangerous combination of scalpel and hairdryer:
In place with head unit:
Don't know whether to do the rest or just keep it conservative at that. I think I have the centre console where the flanking strips don't come away, which could cause problems.
New vs. Old
And on the car:
So that got me enjoying the interior a little more. There are however some rather interesting electrical problems. The rear fog light sometimes comes on with the sidelights or even dipped beam, a wiggle of the switch usually fixes it so I think I need a replacement switch? Also, the drivers window only goes down using the one touch part of the switch, the partial depression makes it go up!
Next to come: external tinkering and decent external pictures.
Thank you for reading
