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Model specific boards => Golf mk3 => Topic started by: stainesy on 14 August 2012, 17:27
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Ok I think it's time I give in and admit defeat.
Now the brakes are failing. Checked all the pipe and bless the breaks just now asy mate came over.
Car breaks still bad and pedal slowly drops to the floor with engine running.
As alot of you no I was made redundant before Xmas and still can't find work.
This was going to be a badger project to see how far I could get on a very tight cash flow.
Well the MOT is next Tuesday and it still has rot on the sills as pictured in my build thread.
Wiper motor has gone
What I think is master cylinder gone
Rocker cover gasket needs replacing
Manifold is blowing
And needs new tyres on the rear.
Who ever had the car before me removed the abs light bulb aswell so god knows if that works.
And what ever els it may fail on.
I have it ago but think its time to admit defeat.
Sell it for parts as mint interior engines great. Brand new coilys.
So I can save for a good one.
What do you guys recon? Is it time to give up on this one?
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Well it's depends, will you be buying another mk3? I think you should keep going with it!
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Yes I will be buying another mk3 may not be a gti and always fanceyed slamming a mk3 estate. Just can't afford to keep going.
Just spotted all the spelling mistakes in my first post. Bloody iPhone spell help :grin:
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One thing that is gona be a bigger to sell is my coilys as the car still needs to be able to be rolled onto a car transporter to scrap it once stripped. How do I sell the coilys and still be able to do this?
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when u sell then ask if u can have his standed one once he fitted them. be a shame if u sell or brake mate. :sad:
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Think my mate with the anni may want them actually so yeah could swap.
Also I'm not really feeling the love for this one if in honest. Kinda lost interest. It's a lovely looking car and the paint is pretty much mint on this one.
Think it may also be the fact I want to do things like I always have in the past to my cars but I just can't afford to do anything.
I need a car and it will be a long time till I can afford to put it back on the road.
Doubt it's worth much as a hole even with mint paint mint interior and full service history as it needs abit of welding and a few little things fixing. I just can't afford them at the mo.
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You could just split it all up, all the panels interior ect. I recon you could do alright from it if its the road you want to go, more money then scrapping it. Front wings, doors, bumpers, coileys, engine, gearbox, lights, grille, bonnet, wing mirrors, wheels, boot lid list goes on! If you did split it i wish i was a bit closer to you tbh haha :rolleyes:
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If it needs loads of work then chuck it. The money can go towards a better one in the future when you're ready :wink:
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Yeah I was just adding up a the really nice bits like wings and stuff and recon I could make a decent amount of cash then it wouldn't take long to save the rest for a nice one.
Spose it's a very good thing it's the most common colour and the paint is mint. What price would mint dragon green wings boot lids doors and stuff go for you recon each?
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£25-30 sounds fair
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£25-30 sounds fair
What for doors and bootlid aswell?
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Should you not bang it in for MOT and see what happens? All of those bits you think need doing aren't too bad are they? Got mot on ours on Friday - will see if it's as good as I think it is or turns out to be a heap! Lol!
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Should you not bang it in for MOT and see what happens? All of those bits you think need doing aren't too bad are they? Got mot on ours on Friday - will see if it's as good as I think it is or turns out to be a heap! Lol!
+1 to this. You could then sell it with a years ticket if not too bad to get it thru :cool:
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£25-30 sounds fair
What for doors and bootlid aswell?
Each yh, strip them down and sell the regulator etc separately but make this obvious to anyone purchasing them.
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Should you not bang it in for MOT and see what happens? All of those bits you think need doing aren't too bad are they? Got mot on ours on Friday - will see if it's as good as I think it is or turns out to be a heap! Lol!
^^This, see what repairs are needed then work out the next step as required.
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Could you not salvage all the good bits like coily's interior and lights , shelve them for the next car and scrap/break the rest? I feel for you mate...... Must be sh!t
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Put your cv on cv library and hopefully you'll get lucky. I know a few people, myself included who've had a few jobs offered to them in the last few weeks. Then maybe you could park it for a while till you can get cracking
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I feel for you mate, personally i'd also chuck through an mot first then go from there, laying cars up until things get better always sounds like a good idea but 99% of the time you just lose interest and never get round to sorting them out and its nearly always cheaper to sort a few problems out and keep a car than chop it in for something worse.
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Yeah I see wt your all saying but £60 for an mot and it fails is £60 towards a new one I don't really want to loose.
I no for a fact it's going to fail on brakes rust rear tyres. And then it will sit in my garage and I will never have the cash to put it all right.
But I could sell all my good bits and the parts and make enough be be very close to buying another one. In better shape. Also have the SEAT wheels I'm custom painting that I am going to Finnish and ither sell or keep if I decide im getting another gti. Also wouldn't mind a 16v this time :grin:
I'm confident I can wheeler dealer my way out of this and get a decent mk3 again.
Just watch this space :wink:
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Do it, there are shed loads of bargain mk3's out there to be had.
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well i have a master cylinder you can have cheaply and a wiper motor.... if you decide to keep it drop me a pm..... :wink:
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Mate thanks do much for the offer but even if I did want them I don't have the cash for postage or petrol to get them things are that tight.
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No worries dude, I feel you pain, as i been there recently with my mk2, just as i feel like im gonna give in an get a different shell my ole man kicks me up the arse an points to the welder lol
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lol i wish i could weld. would so much simpler if i could :grin:
now i have fixed the brakes im actually thinking maybe i could keep it.
think im going to do as said buy you guys. spend this week going over it inch by inch and just realished that 2 of the SEAT wheels im sanding down have good tyres on them.
they have 65 profile tyres on but if i stick them on the rear thats the tyres sorted.
the sills at the side have a couple of rusty spots but no huge holes. its just the bits where the sills meet the rear arches that have holes but that is covered by bodykit.
what is the MOT rule on wipers. they do come on but only one speed and no intermitent
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ive only ever seen a tester squirt the windows with the wash function, which then makes them wipe, i never seen them go through all the functions!!
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If he does that my wipers will will not turn off then unless he clicks them up one then down again. And they will stop where they are. I have to time it right so they are down when I switch them off.
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Ok fcuk it in gona try and do this.
Have tyres sorted for the rear even tho it will look like a dragster lol
I did have it booked in for next Tuesday for MOT but it's not actually do for another 3 weeks so that gives me an extra £60 to play with.
So I can now afford wiper motor.
Not sure what to do about the abs light tho as it has the bulb removed by revious owner. Will they check that?
Must have been removed for a reason.
Revers lights don't work but not sure if they are part of the not and my drivers side headlight is loose inside but held still with a cable tie. So will not be aligned propply.
Have 3 weeks to sort this all. But still don't fix the 2 holes in the rear sill/wheel arch join.
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The rule with warning lights at the MOTers these days are that they should come on and then go off again for a pass so even if a non important light was on such as washer fluid level you'd fail. But since your's isn't on it's missing you should be fine. Most MOTers would over look it, you could always contact them and ask if it would need to have a working abs light? But then if you got a bulb and the light was on constant you'd fail anyway! I'd personally put it through without the functioning light and hope for the best!
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you can always do whats been posted above,
And I posted it before & been flamed for it on an offensive level,
but as your money is so tight & you need the car to pass,
you could possibly, while you have no funds rig up a light for the abs,
piggy backing from the airbag light, so it comes on & goes off like it should,
which would get you a pass, but its very naughty, No naughtier than you being sold the car with a bulb removed,
but at least your car is still on the road usable untill you can afford to fix the abs, & it will be no more dangerous than it is at present.....
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Yeah the problem with them looking for a light to come on and go off is that the abs light is on the right and is a black thing that says abs its not in the speedo. But what if I was to go scrappy and get one that just has airbag light on it from a cl :grin:
My mates cl only had airbag and not abs in his panel thingy.
As iv just put in my other thread abouts breaks.
Bled the brakes today and got LOADS of air out of the system. Brakes work great. But just went for 50 mile drive and the pedal has started to sink to the floor again wile sat I traffic and foot on it.
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CL cluster FTW, or piggy back off the airbag light
Or if you can't find a CL one, tape it up they can't remove tape...
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I'd be checking for diagnostic fault codes at this point, you might have some ABS issues that need attention.
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I'm gona check my brake lines today specialy the rear as when I bled the breaks the rear drivers side one had sh!t loads of air in it.
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Didn't you already say you had an issue with the Master Cylinder?
If my knowledge of the mot is correct, the new system will instruct the tester to look for a functional abs light on yours. It takes a lenient tester to turn a blind eye to one that has been piggy backed off of the airbag or oil pressure switch, as the lights generally illuminate together and then go out seperately on a properly functional one.
I had the abs light up on mine, turns out that I had disturbed a sensor when swapping over the suspension. I would get it code read to see what codes it throws up with the abs and then you are pointed in the right direction.
If you were closer, I would lend you a wiper motor to get yourself sorted out, you shouldn't have to pay any more than a tenner for a wiper motor and mechanism from a breaker/classified, and it is a wiper arms off/scuttle off/3 bolt and one cable connector job.
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I already bout new wiper motor. Hasn't arived yet. But I don't need it now as car is going to be broken or swapped for a set of Porsche wheels and adaptors for my new car.
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Parts of you car still live on :smiley:
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oh no so you have ripped her feet off and pullered her eyes out :cry: :grin:
wheels look good. are they my headlights to? or are they yours. think i remember you already having them headlights actually :undecided: cant remember
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Yeh they are mine bud, wheels splitter coilovers and a few other bits come off it :smiley:
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ah right yeah cool. bet that splitter was a b!tch to get off. that had really good clips on it