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Offline SI74

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Re: What have you done to your Golf today?
« Reply #6160 on: 21 December 2012, 07:44 »
Cleaned the two rear arches, hit them with the wire wheel then Q-rust and some zinc primer. Waiting to get some seam sealer and Dinitrol 4941 in the post and thats another thing off the list.

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Re: What have you done to your Golf today?
« Reply #6161 on: 21 December 2012, 21:22 »
changed the whole sunroof mech from a thousand pieces of glass to one piece of glass   :grin:
removed the headlining and shampooed it with auto glym interior shampoo (great stuff)
plugged up the rear wiper
fitted a momo steering wheel

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Re: What have you done to your Golf today?
« Reply #6162 on: 21 December 2012, 21:28 »
went and had a look at it in the body shop, rot was much worse than appeared  :cry: but welder will be able to sort it  :smiley: but its gonna cost  :cry: previous bodged repairs have not helped but it is a keeper, so it will just take longer to get it how i want.

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Re: What have you done to your Golf today?
« Reply #6163 on: 22 December 2012, 03:10 »
changed the whole sunroof mech from a thousand pieces of glass to one piece of glass   :grin:
removed the headlining and shampooed it with auto glym interior shampoo (great stuff)
plugged up the rear wiper
fitted a momo steering wheel
fitted some xenon bulbs
changed the bonnet for one with no lacquer  peel!

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Re: What have you done to your Golf today?
« Reply #6164 on: 23 December 2012, 22:51 »
replaced both front electric window mechanisms (ball ache!)
fitted a cone filter and it sounds MMMMMMM delicious rrraaaaa  :grin: :grin: :grin:

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Re: What have you done to your Golf today?
« Reply #6165 on: 24 December 2012, 09:15 »
Cleaned it and found clear coat peeling off the roof because of the previous owners cheap paintjob..  :cry:

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Re: What have you done to your Golf today?
« Reply #6166 on: 24 December 2012, 21:42 »
Picked up the christmas shop and got it and the 3in1 bird back in good time  :wink:

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Re: What have you done to your Golf today?
« Reply #6167 on: 02 January 2013, 08:56 »
Ripped the engine and box out, next comes all the aftermarket crap then scrap yard  :smiley:

But today i send a mondeo st24 to the scrappy and good bloody riddance  :grin:
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Re: What have you done to your Golf today?
« Reply #6168 on: 02 January 2013, 17:53 »
turned 200k on the clock-and seem to have warped a disc on the front brakes!  :embarrassed:

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Re: What have you done to your Golf today?
« Reply #6169 on: 06 January 2013, 14:29 »
Replaced front vr6 spillter as i cracked it on a curb bout month bk now.5 min job looks tidy again.also changed my rear license plate bulbs to super white  :wink: