Boneybradley's blue Mk3 8v Anniversary!! The keeper?

[Wayne]

I thought the rear set up was entirely different on an estate and those springs wouldn't fit your GTI struts?

Your right estate is completely different to a hatch.

[boneybradley]

I thought the rear set up was entirely different on an estate and those springs wouldn't fit your GTI struts?

Your right estate is completely different to a hatch.

well I thought that but the product lists

LOWERING SPRINGS HIGH TEC FIT FOR VW GOLF 3 VARIANT SYNCRO (1HX1, 1H)

and they do fit fine onto my std (bilstein) hatch shocks.... I have asked fk and they state the spring rates are higher than the hatch spec one's

[boneybradley]

amp and sub and rear head rests fitted.... being quite a productive weekend when you consider I have had all 3 kids in the warm weather!

here's how to fit the headrests.. strip the seat covers (they simply clip onto/over the metal backing! b.t.w these were freebies from a broken GL model)


unclip the plastic guides and unscrew the head rest runners


and do the reverse to fit...you do need to cut a hole for the guides to go through the seat top but it's easy to find the correct location. Plus I didn't even need to remove the seats to fit them (I do need some black covers/headrests but the fronts are identical so they shouldn't be hard to find?)


next update hopefully will be more suspension work?? (as I'm still unsure about the springs that I have fitted!!)

[Len]

Nice Mod that Boney! 

[F17BAD]

front and rear headrest are different but they skins do fit, the shafts on the fronts wont fit the rears tho properly so you will need to put the skins on to your existing rear rests

early and late GTI's also have different fabrics 

 


Its a crime all GTIs didnt come with rests int he back looks gay without them

[boneybradley]

front and rear headrest are different but they skins do fit, the shafts on the fronts wont fit the rears tho properly so you will need to put the skins on to your existing rear rests

early and late GTI's also have different fabrics 

well that's good to know. I did trial fit a front headrest and it seemed ok, but as I already have the rears swapping the covers makes more sense... I will try and get later black fabric too 

[F17BAD]

fronts wont go all way in right unless u bend the legs, thwy can get  stuck. you was lucky

[Wayne]

Those headrests should have been standard, they really make a difference.

[thai-wronghorse]

I've fitted rear headrests in all three of the mk3's I've owned,  as you guys say... . They should have been standard issue.

[boneybradley]

well due to injury I've done virtually no work to it! and it's now due the m.o.t (although it checks out all round ok, apart from the decat and exhaust which now rattles badly! new baffles needed?)

the mod I have done is some hella magic colour rear lights (clear)



they were very cheap for proper hella's and apart from a small crack (which is quite discreet) they seem fine although I am unsure of whether to give them some red paint (full red's?)

oh and a local guy (who's a german car specialist) breaks audi tt's for fun....maybe it's time for some goodies (or an engine? as he seems well priced and can give me proper engine history  )