Author Topic: robz' mk3 gti 8v - dusty mauve more door!! (Read 46191 times)

robz · « **on:** 17 July 2009, 21:41 »

hi,
i thought i'd start a thread here rather than in the projects section as i quite like to hear other peoples views and thoughts:)

i'll start with a background...
i bought the car at the beginning of the year after seeing it and falling in love with it, i was looking at mk2's but i just saw potential!

this is the car as i bought it ...

i havent really done too much, as this was meant to be a sensible ish car after the disaster of a rado i had before, that turned out to be a lemon, lol.
i was happy with the way it looked, and just wanted to eventually see if the wolfsburg edition actually existed or not, but then i had a crash... single track road, blind corner, wet, not good, lol. was only doing 10 most and managed to wreck the front end and the car i hit was a 4 week old peugot, woops!
so we settled it out of insurance, as that we felt was the best way, and i have now got standard lights/grill and one fog/indicator unit left

so i came to thinking the other morning, i dont wanna spend silly money on another set of hella quads, i want something different, so i have chosen the vento front conversion... this has been discussed on another thread and although it may be commen thing at the minute i have never seen one round me and i generally like it, so thats me mind made up, lol.

i was gonna take pictures today of how it stands now, but its pissed down all bloody day so decided not to, lol!!

yesterday i replaced a broken wheel bearing where the race had a massive crack on it, lol, scary

i also finished rollin my arches, patched up the rust i found and stuck the plastic wheel arch covers on with lots of evostick impact adhesive! lol.

so, i think the mrs wants the pc now, so will update more as and when i think of it and get some current pics up too when i get chance,
happy reading and i hope i didnt drone on for too long

robz

robz · « **Reply #1 on:** 20 July 2009, 07:52 »

well today is the day, its going in for diagnostic testing...
hope fullly it'll say air flow meter, cos thats my suspision so far, although as the gf polo decided to throw a wobbly yesterday, we took the golf down to leicester instead, and it was absolutly brill!!
a few occasional power losses and a bit rough, but mostly a real nice drive and plenty of (safe) overtaking, which i havent done since the mini really

in love again i think, lol
so will see what today brings!!
, and its sunny, so might go and take pics now... quick

Mikester · « **Reply #2 on:** 20 July 2009, 08:12 »

Nice work

good luck for today!

Mikester · « **Reply #3 on:** 22 July 2009, 18:56 »

Update?

robz · « **Reply #4 on:** 22 July 2009, 18:58 »

wow there cowboy... lol.
gonna do one later on when there is no one at work, lol
thanks for the interest though

should be about an hour or so

Mikester · « **Reply #5 on:** 22 July 2009, 19:29 »

I'm at work on the old iPhone. Forum browsing ftw. Will be waiting!

robz · « **Reply #6 on:** 23 July 2009, 08:31 »

hey all
well i was gonna update last night, but got called out till late

well the car went in on monday for diagnostics... and nothing, lol
no codes what so ever, so now im back to square one again.
so i think the next move is replace the air mass meter... as mine has silicone all around it and looks to have been messed with.
so that is all i can think of for now!!
i still cant find the camera cable fpr up to date pics, but i finish early today, so will have a look with the gf:)
till later!!;)

robz · « **Reply #7 on:** 27 July 2009, 09:29 »

hey all,
right then, gf found the bloody camera cable finally!!
so first thing i do when i get home is put the pics up!! woo!!
was out with the car the other day and gave it a good wash, and nearly finished getting all the black plastics black again,
also on the fleabay last night and grabbed myself some standard indicators and fog blanks for the front for £10.50,
that'll do for me for a while untill i can get some of the iced one peice sets again!!
you'll love the pic of my old wheel bearing... cant beleive my wheel was still on, lol!!

robz · « **Reply #8 on:** 27 July 2009, 19:27 »

right, home a t last, woo!

so i'll start with the car as it stands now!!

also a picture of the lovely exhaust my gf got me for my b'day... nice!
cant wait to get that on, lol!

im gutted though cos ive lost the wheel bearing race and pic of it:(
but it was a massive hole out of it anyway!! lol

ive also fitted 2 x jbl 6 x 9's on the parcel shelf along with the mutant amp, i know now that this wont give great sound quality, but im only after a little boost to the system

still need to trim the speakers around edge, and make a little cover for it all when im leaving the car in an area i dont like, lol.

so thats it all so far it think.

next will be my bargain indicators.
enjoy!
edit - i dont know what is going on with the 3rd one down, but i edited it on photobucket to be the right way up, and now it looks worse, lol.
will get better all round photos when i have done the front indicators and when its less sunny, thats my excuse for bad photos, lool!

robz · « **Reply #9 on:** 28 July 2009, 21:38 »

ok, now ive stuck my leeds volkvest window stickers on ready, and hopefully got a working air mass meter on the way shortly to hopefullt this bloody hunting out!!
fingers crossed!!

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