MK4 2.8 V6 4Motion Project

[hardmonkeys]

hey all,

I bought a 2001 on an' X' plate, I bought it off a friend of mine back in October 2025, with intentions of getting it back to looking good again.

My friend is a boat builder/repairer, and it was a daily driver until he got himself a van, when it was just used at weekends. He used to have the workshop across the way from me, so I seen the car every day, and knew he'd looked after it.

He sold the car to his dad who used it as a daily again, which was great to see again. Unfortunately his dad became ill and died about 2yrs later, it was left on the driveway for a while looking very sorry for itself, so my friend had it back and used it again. He had the chain done, the clutch and DMF, and also the power steering rack, all BIG costly jobs.

Since ive had it, I've not really done much to it, until in my ultimate wisdom, decided to want to show it at Simply VW at Beaulieu  booked it in January for May 24th...

so...HERE WE ARE!

9days away, and still looking the same















I tried to rub the bumper down, as you can see its in a terrible way. Theres quite a bit of filler in there, so decided to get another rear bumper, I'll get that spray up with the next few days.

The wheels weren't in that bad a condition to be honest, so I was just going to tidy them up, remove any kerb rash, and spruce then up...then I was contemplating changing the colour








I was toying with black, copper/bronze or anthracite...

I decided on Anthracite








while it was up in the air, I took a look underneath and noticed a broken spring

 



MARVELLOUS!!

so, I think thats a good excuse to put some lowering springs on it 





I think while the wheels are off, im going to clean and paint the calipers too, thinking of going red.

I'll keep updating this when I can

[SRGTD]

I’ve only just spotted this discussion topic as I don’t venture onto the mk4 forum board very often these days, but I always really like seeing someone taking the trouble to put some love back into an old(er) Golf. I have a soft spot for a mk4 Golf as my first VW was a mk4 (sadly not a 2.8 V6 4-Motion) and in its day it felt quite premium compared to the likes of an Astra or Focus, with little touches like the blue instrument illumination, the really high quality feeling row of switches below the centre air vents, the small third sun visor behind the rear view mirror and the chrome tie down hooks in the boot.

I hope you managed to get the car ready in time for the Simply VW event at Beaulieu on 24 May and I hope you’ll provide an update on how the project progressed, along with some more pictures (please!).