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Model specific boards => Golf mk4 => Golf mk4 gallery => Topic started by: jv on 04 August 2011, 13:45
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Cheers JV :afro:
First update to come tomorrow evening, i'm going to make an effort to actually update this regularly unlike my Mk3 one :embarassed:
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Right then, I made the jump from my Mk3 up to a 52 plate 1.8T Mk4 about a month ago now. The specs of the Mk4 are as follows:
- 150bhp AUM
- 2 Previous Owners
- Only 51k miles on the clock with an extremely comprehensive service history to support this
- A full years MOT
- 6 Months Tax etc.
A pic of it at the garage & when I got it home:
(http://i790.photobucket.com/albums/yy183/codling1234/IMAG0262.jpg)
(http://i790.photobucket.com/albums/yy183/codling1234/IMAG0268.jpg)
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The first mod was a very important one :grin:
(http://i790.photobucket.com/albums/yy183/codling1234/IMAG0269.jpg)
Following this was a pretty brief clean to see what was lurking under the dirt picked up on the way home, the paint is in pretty good condition:
(http://i790.photobucket.com/albums/yy183/codling1234/IMAG0270.jpg)
I also added the red dice caps from my Mk3:
(http://i790.photobucket.com/albums/yy183/codling1234/IMAG0271.jpg)
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The number plate surrounds were also swapped over from the Mk3
A week later and the car was treated to a full machine polish & detail, process:
- Snowfoamed with Magifoam
- Washed with 2 bucket method & chemical guys citrus gloss shampoo
- Clayed with Megs clay
- Machine polished with a variety of Mezerna polishes depending on the panel & imperfections on it.
- Followed by Poorboys blackhole glaze
- Finished with Collinite 476s wax
The bodywork is now absolutely gleaming and most of the marks/swirl marks have been removed:
(http://i790.photobucket.com/albums/yy183/codling1234/IMAG0275.jpg)
It looked that clean for approximately 10 minutes until it was taken out :laugh:
I then added a black front badge:
(http://i790.photobucket.com/albums/yy183/codling1234/IMAG0282.jpg)
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Another vital addition was then made to the car by the way of forum stickers:
(http://i790.photobucket.com/albums/yy183/codling1234/IMAG0298.jpg)
Also swapped the smoked side repeaters over from the Mk3:
(http://i790.photobucket.com/albums/yy183/codling1234/IMAG0297.jpg)
And got a quick snap of them side by side:
(http://i790.photobucket.com/albums/yy183/codling1234/IMAG0294.jpg)
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I bought a brand new, genuine anni rear valance sprayed up in the right colour from eBay and set about fitting it. I had to remove the wheels in order to remove the mudflaps so I could get the old valance off, so decided to paint the rear brake calipers whilst I was there:
(http://i790.photobucket.com/albums/yy183/codling1234/IMAG0300.jpg)
Valance fitted:
(http://i790.photobucket.com/albums/yy183/codling1234/IMAG0302.jpg)
(http://i790.photobucket.com/albums/yy183/codling1234/IMAG0303.jpg)
I also decided to remove the rear wiper:
(http://i790.photobucket.com/albums/yy183/codling1234/IMAG0304.jpg)
(http://i790.photobucket.com/albums/yy183/codling1234/IMAG0305.jpg)
(http://i790.photobucket.com/albums/yy183/codling1234/IMAG0306.jpg)
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Next I bought a pipercross panel filter and decided to smooth the inside of the airbox whilst I was fitting it:
(http://i790.photobucket.com/albums/yy183/codling1234/IMAG0307.jpg)
Filter in:
(http://i790.photobucket.com/albums/yy183/codling1234/IMAG0308.jpg)
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Nothing much happened for a couple of weeks but then I made a trip to Carbon Chiptuning for a remap!
After sorting a few small niggles Nick went ahead and fitted a Forge 007p from Awesome:
(http://i790.photobucket.com/albums/yy183/codling1234/IMAG0331.jpg)
(http://www.awesome-gti.co.uk/shopimages/products/normal/AWEDV.jpg)
A baseline power run was then done and the car produced the following:
(http://i790.photobucket.com/albums/yy183/codling1234/IMAG0332.jpg)
The new map was loaded and after a few more dyno runs the results were:
(http://i790.photobucket.com/albums/yy183/codling1234/DOM.gif)
It completely transformed the car but it soon became apparent that the N75 valve will need to be replaced soon :sad:
Before I left Carbon a rear window sticker was added:
(http://i790.photobucket.com/albums/yy183/codling1234/IMAG0330.jpg)
And that brings it up to date so far :smiley:
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Had a few days enjoying the new map :evil:
Took the car for a trip to Ikea to see how much crap I could fit into the back of it:
(http://i790.photobucket.com/albums/yy183/codling1234/IMAG0335.jpg)
Also replaced the standard aerial with a shorter version from a Polo:
Before:
(http://i790.photobucket.com/albums/yy183/codling1234/IMAG0336.jpg)
After:
(http://i790.photobucket.com/albums/yy183/codling1234/IMAG0337.jpg)
(http://i790.photobucket.com/albums/yy183/codling1234/IMAG0338.jpg)
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Ok, so the car currently looks like this:
(http://i790.photobucket.com/albums/yy183/codling1234/IMAG0353.jpg)
Since I bought the car there has been the tell tale smell of a leak in the car, the other day I noticed water dripping from the spare tyre well so pulled the spare wheel out to find a puddle of water. Initially I thought that the culprit was a hole on the boot floor, which I'm assuming should be plugged with something?
(http://i790.photobucket.com/albums/yy183/codling1234/IMAG0339.jpg)
After having a search on ukmkiv's I stumbled across this thread:
http://uk-mkivs.net/forums/p/51109/392618.aspx (http://uk-mkivs.net/forums/p/51109/392618.aspx)
I had a spare afternoon so decided to have a look at the vents mentioned in the thread, I whipped the rear lights out and the bumper off and had a poke around. It is worth noting that the rear light seals look pretty good, so I'm going to rule them out. The drivers side vent looked ok:
(http://i790.photobucket.com/albums/yy183/codling1234/IMAG0340.jpg)
The passenger side looked a little worse:
(http://i790.photobucket.com/albums/yy183/codling1234/IMAG0341.jpg)
(http://i790.photobucket.com/albums/yy183/codling1234/IMAG0342.jpg)
I took the passenger one out, split the plastic bits apart and reattached the little flaps. Whilst it was out I had a look into the hole that the vent was fitted in and saw this :undecided:
(http://i790.photobucket.com/albums/yy183/codling1234/IMAG0349.jpg)
(http://i790.photobucket.com/albums/yy183/codling1234/IMAG0350.jpg)
Anyway, put the vent back in:
(http://i790.photobucket.com/albums/yy183/codling1234/IMAG0351.jpg)
And sealed both sides with a nice thick layer of silicone sealant:
(http://i790.photobucket.com/albums/yy183/codling1234/IMAG0352.jpg)
We'll see how that holds up, I don't have a sunroof so that is ruled out, since I have dewipered the rear I have disconnected the hose for the washer from the water bottle so that cannot be the problem :undecided:
I also suspect that the car has been rear ended on the passenger quarter sometime in the past, it all looks a little bit dented around the vent/under the rear light:
(http://i790.photobucket.com/albums/yy183/codling1234/IMAG0345.jpg)
(http://i790.photobucket.com/albums/yy183/codling1234/IMAG0346.jpg)
(http://i790.photobucket.com/albums/yy183/codling1234/IMAG0347.jpg)
In comparison the drivers side is perfectly smooth :sad:
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With the help of a mate stripped the trim & carpet out of the boot and investigated possible sources for leakage, the light seal seemed to be letting a small amount of water in so we made up a second gasket & attached that to the original one which has hopefully fixed that.
There was no other obvious source of a leak though, the majority of the boot floor was covered in dust which would suggest that on water had ran over it recently :undecided:
This only leaves the bungs in the boot floor, it appeared that they had been removed & refitted in the past so we prised them out ran a bead of sealant around the edge and refitted them, hopefully with a more substantial seal. If that doesn't solve it I'm really stumped :grin:
I don't have a sunroof so the drainage things in the doors aren't going to be an issue, i've checked the pollen filter & housing and it is all dry :undecided:
Anyway, I also managed to fit the new N75 'J' valve this evening and it has solved the slight surging I was getting in the higher gears, the power delivery is even smoother than before :cool:
(http://i790.photobucket.com/albums/yy183/codling1234/IMAG0354.jpg)
It is a horrible brown colour though :sick:
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Well re-sealing the vents did not solve the problem, stripped the rear out again this evening and got the pressure washer on it. Water is p!ssing in through the boot seal along the bottom of the boot, especially the n/s. It looks like the back panel is sitting too far into the boot so the seal isn't being made correctly when the boot is closed :rolleyes:
Going to take a sledgehammer to it on Sunday to see if I can knock it back out, got a panel beater mate coming over to help out so hopefully problem will be solved soon :smiley: