Just like everything else in my life I've managed to get side-tracked and forgot to keep this project post up to date.. In fact the things I'm listing now are stuff I did up to a year ago, so I need to sit down and really work on this.
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Well since I did the 5 points listed above, the car really needed to be brought back up to scratch in the sense that I needed to get a smooth, safe ride which is solid. Golf's are solid, so why wasn't this 1?
There was a definite problem with 1 of the rear bearings. It felt as if they'd gone, but even after I'd changed them the noise was still there. In the end it turned out to be the seat which the rear bearings sit in, inside the brake drums. The ring itself had a groove inside it where it'd worn down, kind of like a crease. After changing these on both sides the car felt a lot better.
Aerial, lack thereof
OK, when I bought the car it's aerial had been snapped off in true chav style, so this needed fixing as at the moment I'm either driving round listening to CD's (not so bad, i spose) or whitenoise.mmmmm white noise.
Because of my intentions of the car, I decided to move the aerial away from the o/s wing and up onto the back of the roof. So I bought a wing blank for £2 from ebay, not as horrific as I thought it would look on the car. Infact it looks quite subtle and leaves a nice finish. I then boughta complete aerial, again from ebay, and took the plunge on removing the headlining and drilling the roof of the car to fit the aerial. I then ran the lead of the aerial along the o/s of the car to the side of the seats, down underneath the front door then up into the back of the head unit via the rear of the dash.
At first it only worked when stationary, so I figured it must've been shortening out somewhere. It came to me that it must be the slight piece of raised metal where the bolt comes out of the main part of the aerial, so I took the aerial back off, ground back the said piece of metal, then re-attached and it worked absolutely fine. Job's a good'n.
