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Model specific boards => Golf mk5 => Topic started by: Hurdy on 11 August 2008, 14:15
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Finally,
After much swearing and p!ssing about in the garage I've finally managed to get the driver's side down level with the wing :smiley: :smiley: :smiley: :smiley: :smiley: :smiley: :smiley: :smiley:
I know it has been the subject at many a meet and pics I've posted and really needed doing.
took off the front VW badge and then loosened of the front latch housing. Down it dropped about 5-7mm and hey presto!!!!
It has been bugging me for ages now and I'd even thought about motorsport bonnet latches and even putting the standard bonnet back on!!
Time to clean the car now and get some decent piccies up :cool:
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Pics as promised :cool:
(http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t8/hurdy_album/Bonnetfits003a.jpg)
(http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t8/hurdy_album/Bonnetfits001a.jpg)
(http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t8/hurdy_album/Bonnetfits002a.jpg)
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Soooo glad you've sorted that mate... Needed doing.. Good job too.. :wink:
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looks good
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It looks great Hurdy. I just think the lights look wrong...
But Im used to xenons.
Its such a sexy car. :kiss:
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Much better. :smiley:
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That got it :wink:
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Looks v good now. :smiley:
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much better :D
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Damn! Need something else to wind you up next time now....
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I never noticed it was out of place at Inters :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: but then again, there were more interesting things on the bonnet at the time :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil:
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Looks better now. :wink:
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I never noticed it was out of place at Inters :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: but then again, there were more interesting things on the bonnet at the time :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil:
With the forum crash I had almost forget about them, so here they are again.
(http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/kk207/Stevep_010/IMG_0454.jpg)
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I never noticed it was out of place at Inters :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: but then again, there were more interesting things on the bonnet at the time :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil:
I can't imagine what you mean :rolleyes:
(http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t8/hurdy_album/GTIInters2008004-1.jpg)
(http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t8/hurdy_album/GTIInters2008005.jpg)
(http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t8/hurdy_album/GTIInters2008010.jpg)
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....^That's one way to hold down your hood! Sorry, it's call a bonnet in the UK.
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I bet it looked like an army of snails had been on your bonnet after they left eh Hurdy... :wink:
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I bet it looked like an army of snails had been on your bonnet after they left eh Hurdy... :wink:
Funny that....I wondered what all them young lads were doing sniffing the bonnet just after the laydees had got off it :wink:
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The brunette on the right looks like an utter dirt bag :evil:
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The brunette on the right looks like an utter dirt bag :evil:
She was :wink:
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glad too see you got it sorted hurdy :cool: :cool:
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The dirt bag....or the bonnet ? :grin:
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(http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s264/philmcavity/Santapod015.jpg)
i say bring back the butterfly motive!!
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took off the front VW badge and then loosened of the front latch housing. Down it dropped about 5-7mm and hey presto!!!!
Just re-reading this thread - so did you not take off the front grille? Because the VW badges are supposed to have "security tags" to stop them being removed from the front! Or have yours snapped off? :huh:
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took off the front VW badge and then loosened of the front latch housing. Down it dropped about 5-7mm and hey presto!!!!
Just re-reading this thread - so did you not take off the front grille? Because the VW badges are supposed to have "security tags" to stop them being removed from the front! Or have yours snapped off? :huh:
....I wondered why I couldn't remove my oem VW front grill badge from the front when I swopped to a carbonfibre one! People on this forum were saying that front removal was easy!!
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took off the front VW badge and then loosened of the front latch housing. Down it dropped about 5-7mm and hey presto!!!!
Just re-reading this thread - so did you not take off the front grille? Because the VW badges are supposed to have "security tags" to stop them being removed from the front! Or have yours snapped off? :huh:
....I wondered why I couldn't remove my oem VW front grill badge from the front when I swopped to a carbonfibre one! People on this forum were saying that front removal was easy!!
LOL. Yeah, you are supposed to remove the centre grille (two T25 screws on the top, and two philips screws below the number plate which hide in the lower grille). Then from behind - oooh errr :evil: - you have to release a couple of tags on the badge, then rotate it before releasing it. A bit like a light bulb.
This should tell you how: http://www.golfgtiforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=54324 - specifically - http://volkswagen.msk.ru/body/g5/g5_66-03.pdf
HTH
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didnt have to do any of the above, it just twisted and pulled out on mine :huh: :huh:
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TT, I had no tags on mine, I just simply twisted, shuffled it about a bit to line up the slots and out it came. It was quite shocking that it came out so easily. Then again the front bumper has been fully off a few times and so the tags may have been removed on one of those occasions :undecided:
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very easy to remove same way as Hurdy no tags on mine and mine had never been off before and nothing had snapped when i too it off