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Offline Len

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Anybody got a Vento?
« on: 23 February 2011, 12:57 »
Need to know what the boot latch looks like and how it operates!
If only vagcat was working! :angry:

This is for the smoothed hatch I am working on, as I am looking for an alternative manual latch.
Yes I know I can buy a solenoid kit of ebay!
But I want be able to open it by hand and still have the pneumatic C/L.
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Re: Anybody got a Vento?
« Reply #1 on: 23 February 2011, 12:58 »
Oh I am assuming its only the Mk3 that has air operated C/L.
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Re: Anybody got a Vento?
« Reply #2 on: 23 February 2011, 20:11 »
Anybody?
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Re: Anybody got a Vento?
« Reply #3 on: 23 February 2011, 20:18 »
I'm confused. Are you trying to have it so that it will pop when the central locking is still "locked"?

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Re: Anybody got a Vento?
« Reply #4 on: 23 February 2011, 23:42 »
http://www.cult-society.net/en/component/k2/item/18-clean-style-griffleiste-f%C3%BCr-golf-3-mit-dr%C3%BCcker-20-weihnachtsrabatt

len seen these? if you dont want your bootlid tooooo smooth could always get one? and they say you use your own lock mechanism so is there no way you could modify yours?

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Re: Anybody got a Vento?
« Reply #5 on: 23 February 2011, 23:45 »
Believe he has shortened the plate recess so wouldn't fit :)

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Re: Anybody got a Vento?
« Reply #6 on: 24 February 2011, 00:31 »
http://www.cult-society.net/en/component/k2/item/18-clean-style-griffleiste-f%C3%BCr-golf-3-mit-dr%C3%BCcker-20-weihnachtsrabatt

len seen these? if you dont want your bootlid tooooo smooth could always get one? and they say you use your own lock mechanism so is there no way you could modify yours?

As simple as they are Ive always being a big fan of those Cult Society boot trims since i had one fitted to my mk2. much cleaner looking.

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Re: Anybody got a Vento?
« Reply #7 on: 24 February 2011, 09:06 »
the boot release is separate to the cl, so you can have your solonoid hooked to the lock and have it work if car is locked or unlocked. but if you've smoothed it off there would be no button anyway?
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Re: Anybody got a Vento?
« Reply #8 on: 25 February 2011, 13:04 »
Button could/would be tucked up out of site behind new metal plate.
The problem is the angle it would have to sit at!
IF i use the existing latch I would have to turn it at least 60/70 degrees, so that makes the connecting rods difficult to work. If indeed they will work at all. :sad:

Need to look at a Mk2 and see how that works.
Alternatively I can go back to my first idea of using a Passat boot latch but that means I will have to run the C/L for that via the alarm box using the feed to the air pump.
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Re: Anybody got a Vento?
« Reply #9 on: 25 February 2011, 14:49 »
http://www.cult-society.net/en/component/k2/item/18-clean-style-griffleiste-f%C3%BCr-golf-3-mit-dr%C3%BCcker-20-weihnachtsrabatt

len seen these? if you dont want your bootlid tooooo smooth could always get one? and they say you use your own lock mechanism so is there no way you could modify yours?

Damn! Thats exactly what I want except for the plastic plate bit! I will have to see if I can find out more about that as it looks perfect except I want it behind a metal plate!
Anybody good on translating German?
Guess I'll ask my colleague who sits next to me! :wink: :grin:
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