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Model specific boards => Golf mk2 => Topic started by: Garza on 29 July 2009, 15:28

Title: help needed to identify missing part
Post by: Garza on 29 July 2009, 15:28: Hi folks, when I first got my GTi a couple of years ago the accelerator cable had been slack... because there is a bit of trim/washer missing which should go where the hole is for the cable to run through.

You can see in the photo below that there is an old ring around where the accelerator cable threads through the metal work (where the white cable tie runs down). I have bodged it with cables ties for the last 2 years lol, but probs time to get that missing part! Without the cable tie, the blue section of the cable goes through the hole, hence the slackness.

Anyone know what it is I need? what it's called? part number?

(http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/453/missingpart.jpg) (http://img208.imageshack.us/i/missingpart.jpg/)
Title: Re: help needed to identify missing part
Post by: Garza on 29 July 2009, 22:18: anyone?
Title: Re: help needed to identify missing part
Post by: 01664gti on 29 July 2009, 22:21: is it not just a rubber bung with a hole in it??.I will have a look tommorow for you mate
Title: Re: help needed to identify missing part
Post by: Garza on 29 July 2009, 22:23: Quote from: 01664gti on 29 July 2009, 22:21
is it not just a rubber bung with a hole in it??.I will have a look tommorow for you mate

yeh it looks like that's pretty much what goes there. Just need a name/part number so I don't look a fool trying to describe it at VW lol

Would appreciate it very much if you could have a look tomorrow.
Title: Re: help needed to identify missing part
Post by: Gates79 on 29 July 2009, 23:00: 171 723 589 A thats the part number for the stop buffer as its called on ETKA thats what the blue part of the cable fits into by the looks of it
Title: Re: help needed to identify missing part
Post by: Garza on 30 July 2009, 17:47: Quote from: Gates79 on 29 July 2009, 23:00
171 723 589 A thats the part number for the stop buffer as its called on ETKA thats what the blue part of the cable fits into by the looks of it

great stuff, I'll call VW tomorrow to check the part, thanks alot for the help.
Title: Re: help needed to identify missing part
Post by: 01664gti on 30 July 2009, 20:49: as gates said above mine is the same :wink:
Title: Re: help needed to identify missing part
Post by: Garza on 30 July 2009, 21:12: thanks chaps... finally after 2 and a bit years I'll get it sorted lol.
Title: Re: help needed to identify missing part
Post by: Garza on 01 August 2009, 08:51: part ordered... couple of quid. thanks for the help guys.
Title: Re: help needed to identify missing part
Post by: Garza on 11 August 2009, 10:25: finally got round to fitting the rubber stopper today... £2.04...

Best performance upgrade so far lol!! throttle feel and response is spot on now! cant believe I'd been driving around for 2 years without having the full potentional of my GTi... muppet haha!

Better late than never eh.

thanks again chaps for helping me identify the part