Scottie's MkII Gti

[ScottieG]

Picked up my first MkII on sunday  it's a royal blue, 8valver with 120000 on the clock, it's not a minter but it's pretty solid and with a bit of help from Benrevs on the bodywork & paint It should tidy up nicely  also need to re-stick the head lining and find a O/S door trim.

I put it straight in for an MOT on yesterday that I thought it would fly through but turns out I need to replace 3 brake lines and sort out the exhaust mount (I didnt notice it comes off the mount so easily) so it's going up on the ramps on thursday for those to be sorted ready for a retest on friday  Hopefully it'll be on the road by the weekend. 

on with a few pics.






The exhaust needs to be remounted in this pic 




there's this tiny dent and rust patch that needs to be sorted.


and this is the worst rust patch on the boot

[SoundillusioN]

Nice... Looks good and if that's the only rust on it you've done well.  Engine bay looks like it could do with a good scrub.

[Wayne]

Does not look too bad. 

[Benrevs]

Scrott, I dare you to look under the arches     Bring it round for THE treatment when its mot is sorted.

[ScottieG]

Cheers guys 

Nice... Looks good and if that's the only rust on it you've done well.  Engine bay looks like it could do with a good scrub.

I think the whole car could do with a good scrub, got Friday off work so that's a job for after the retest.

Externally thats the worst the eye can see but I haven't had the balls to take any trim off yet; but the sills and inner arches are solid so hopefully the outer arches are good.
I've got some welding to do just infront of the battery tray but nothing I cant handle. Can't complain for £400 eh

You free on Friday Ben?

[SoundillusioN]

Awesome... do the right thing, have a look behind the trim, i was the same with my bodykit but my theory is, if you can't see anything as it stands, then go looking before it finds you.

[Benrevs]

That I am, that I am.

[lemski]

like it. 400 is a bargain if ur arches arent slowly rotting under the plastics. my front left was but i wouldnt have know if i didnt full lock n rip my arch off.

not too much work for the mot either

[ScottieG]

Cheers matey 

I put the golf through the retest on Friday and then Benrevs and I spent a few hours cleaning and polishing it  It looks 1000xs better now! Cheers Ben! I then spent the rest of the weekend enjoying driving her!

Then yesterday about half a mile from my house I noticed 5th gear starting to whine so quickly shifted back into 4th for the rest of the journey, looked underneath to see that the gearbox oil was leaking from cap at the end, so I popped it off and resealed it, topped it back up with oil and took it for a spin! no more whining in 5th thank god

[lewis1641]

polished up really well. you must be happy with that