the_stink - Oak green GTI

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Not much really happening at the moment but thought id post a bit of an update,

finally had my power steerign sorted today the silly belt was slipping so thats all doen, currenty got a oak green standard tail gate in my room along with a new rear bumper which i need to spray and a refurb'd set of RA's sat in my room next job is to spray the bumepr and get that and the tail gate sorted and a new boot popper!!

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As per the last update kind of lost motivation with the car so many things were going wrong that it was just annoying the sh!t out of me!

Anyway after a fun drive down a B road from my drummer house i know quite well did re light the fire and fun of the Mkii and gave me a bit of motivation to get some work done!! Finally got round to ordering a set of 4 Toyo T1R's so they shoulf be here in the next day or two and I can finally get the refurb'd RA's on the car



Get the 4 wheel alignment done so this should improve the drive a hell of alot. Also go on the phone to Heritage VW today and ordered 2 cans of Oak Green paint ready for the new rear bumper which again has been sat in my room for a while along with the Standard Tailgate!

Just need to prep the bumper and find a dry and can get spraying again then sort out the rear end get the new bumper on and tailgate and get the number plate where it should be!! want to get that doen in the next month or 2 before it starts to get too cold

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Will be up nice and early on Sat for a trip down to pro tyre, finally getting the Refurb'd RA's on the car along with 4 new Toyo T1R's full wheel alignment and a new set of locking wheel nuts as teh ones at the mo are a bit old and shagged!

So thats going to set me back i think in the region of £100

Also primed my rear bumper last wk when i had a day off, just need to get soem paint from halfords as a base coat then can use the 2 cans I got from VW. Once thats done and laquered can set about putting it on along with the standard rear tailgate at last!!

Moving along slowly! Also getting my hands on a set of crystal inner spots and a 16v glove box

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Had a trip down to Protyre this morning and had my new wheels and tyres fitted



Also found out while i was there that i need new front topmounts and new rear wheel bearings, so need to do this before they can do the wheel alignement

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Went to Halfords today and got some Oak Green Paint mixed, have have the rear bumper sat in the shed for a good 2 months!

So decided today to get to work while i had the day off, using a can of halfords mix first as a base coat and then ive got 2 cans of genuine VW Oak Green paint

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Finally got round to doing a few silly little bits mainly getting the tracking sorted, the steering wheel was so off centre after taking it of a few times trying to figure out what was going on with the wipers so thats all done and actually gave the interior a good old clean and its a much nicer place to be! also got a new set of indicator stalks coming so can replace them when they get here but also need a new PAS pump so a few new things added to the list

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Tiny update finally got round to getting a new MFA stalk and a new PAS pump, well a secondhand one but that should cure the mental wiper issues and well the heavy ass steering and squeak!! 

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Had a day off today so thought id try and tackle my bloody power steering!

First things first had to go to Halfords to buy a trolley jack and some axle stands as i haven't got any which kind of prevents me from doing any kind of work on the car! Lucky I found my Halfords trade card  so saved some money on that and while i was there picked up some new PAS Fluid



Drained the fluid out and well it didn't look to healthy!



topped it all up and bled the system, now when on full lock the car still squeaks to hell so had a look and see what i could see,



So had a little go at the bolts holding the pas pump in place but they we seized solid! the tension on the actual belt seem a bit slack so tightened the tension bolt a bit got the car down and took it for a spin, needless to say didn't make feck all difference! Jacked the car back up and then realized there was a small bolt behind the the tension arm so loosened this a bit then tightened the tension bolt then re tightened the bolt

Take 2, although it still squeaks at least i have made some improvement i don't have to fight the steering wheel so much when stationary!

still need to fit the spare pump i have but will leave that for another day

next things to do:

Major serivce!!

oh and here is what is currently in my room 

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So today finally got round to doing the long awaited oil change!!!



nice black oil!!



Drained all the nasty oil out and after some advice from Danny P we flushed the engine with some 20/50 mineral oil which did the trick really helped get the crap out and eventually it ran clear. replaced the sump plug and oil filter as well

then filler her up with the good stuff



now as we were doing this my mate was checking his air filter on his golf and I thought might be a good idea to check mine, and well glad i did when I opened the airbox was presented with this!!!



I felt sick seeing this! Guess thats what happens when the last service was in 2007!! although it was garaged for 2 years, or so i was told, anyway my mate drove me up to the local autoparts shop and got a replacement filter.

The biggest ball ache was  I tried to start the car and it didnt! but a quick call to Chuff and discovered I had Knocked off one of the vacuum hoses! bit of a school boy error but all running and all good!

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Finally got around to getting the old spark plugs outoday just as well look at the state of them!!




Just went for a quick drive and it just feels so much better! esp when starting idles perfectly now all i need to do now is get the fuel filter swaped out and fit the new expansion tank and thats the service bits done

also got a new handbrake cable through from euro car parts so need to fix that as well!