Dubster2 - '91 16v with hot interior :)

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Just paid a visit to the garage and took some pics:
 



















 
And the splitty there after the respray:

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Here's some 'bling' bits I've just fitted:

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I tried to get a new one of these but they have been obselete for a while, so I had to sort my current one out!
This is how it was looking a bit faded!:

-the light bits are where it's faded and are the areas that were not covered up by the bonnet and open to the elements.

Here's the job done:

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August 4th.

Spent a fair bit of yesterday getting the floor carpet out (while the rear seat and door cards were still not back in after the respray) to do some more soundproofing. Had the front Recaros on the path, the vacuum cleaner, the heatgun, loads of tools etc around, then it sodding starts raining!  Had to carry on or I wouldn't have enough time to get it all back to drive it to work tomorrow! Ended up putting black dustbin sacks over the Recaros and vacuum cleaner to keep them dry! I got quite wet though!  <_<

Got to finish it tonight and am putting some new under-felt as the original was damp and falling apart, especially at the front! Pics tonight after I've hopefully finished it and put it all back in!


Here's the last of the soundproofing:
Got all the seats, under dash trays out, centre console loosened & moved back, side trims and carpet pegs etc out:


With the rear part of the carpet out showing the original soundproofing:


With the original soundproofing out and floor cleaned:


With 2 layers of sound-deadening added:



I was going to completely remove the front part of the carpet, but there was still the sectrion behind the centre console and wiring to the electrics in the centre console, so left it in but replaced the soundproofing that was on the floor.

With some tec-lite neoprene foam added:





Used the original under carpet felt as a template for some new carpet felt:



Covered them in some thick dustbin sacks cut up to prevent them from holding moisture if ever getting damp:



In car:

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Taken at the Sussex VW Owner's club show on August 10th:












Came runner-up in the water-cooled class which included mk.1, 2 and 3 golfs, a caddy and some new Beetles etc!

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Well, the annoying vibrating rattling from behind the dash was the loose wiper arm as it is fixed to the 3rd blanking one, so I cut that off on Saturday after having bubble wrap around it as a temporary fix. The shaking up the steering column, is I think warped front discs (the surface is certianly uneven anyhow) and I have new ones to go on. Still got to fix the horn, outiside temp connector that is hanging down, the windscreen washer, the rear seat-belt that fixes to the C pillar and the wiring for the drivers side lights-front and rear. All things that were fine before the respray!

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Wasn't too amused when I got back to my car from where I park it in a residential area when I'm at work as I found out that the local grass-cutting contractors had decided to cut the grass right by my car! The grass was wet, so even after a 27 mile journey home, the grass was still stuck all over it like glue!    It was pretty clean before, but it took over 2 buckets of shampoo to get the sodding grass off!

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Rubbed down the front slam panel, primered it, then sprayed it in satin chassis black. Took ages to mask up and was tricky to do because it was a bit windy and kept blowing the paper about!  Also had the various washers and screws powder-coated in satin black to stop them going rusty like the pevious ones!


Also got the horn, windscreen washers and outside temp sensor sorted, driver's side light wiring is being sorted tomorrow, then it's just the rear seat-belt to sort out-prob get another replacement, as it just won't work!

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Had a problem trying to update it on here for a while as it just wouldn't  work, so hopefully this will now the site problem has meant to have been sorted out!

Going back a few months I found out what the slight groaning noise noise was when I was moving along slowly. Thought it was something with the brakes and was on the way to a friends when it seemed even worse and was even moving the steering wheel every so often. Anyway, had just gone around the corner from home and though I can't go much further with it like this! A guy who I had just passed who was walking along stopped and walked up to me and said did I know that it looked like the car/wheels were not moving quite right and I said yeah, I'm just going back home to look!

 Anyways, I go just down the road from where I live and park on a flat surface to jack the car up. I jacked the front right side up and took the centre cap off to find two bolts not fully tight!    I dropped the car back down and drove the car back and then forward again and it seemed better, but still not right. I then went round the passenger side to find this:

-The centre cap nearly off, one bolt fully out and waiting to drop out and another bolt half out!   I thought bloody hell, that was close as a little further away from where I live I was about to have driven down a very steep hill! All the times I've taken wheels on & off and never had a problem, so I guess they bodyshop didn't tighten the bolts quite fully enough!


Then the other problem I had was shuddering when braking, again thought it was the brakes and was told probably the discs as I knew they were getting old! Anyway, they were well knackered and pretty scored, but had knackered my new Black diamond pads which was pretty annoying. Don't know when the pads were fitted, that they didn't say that the discs were shot and should be replaced! 

The last problem was that I was getting a little twitch when driving and it seemed to come from the rear. I could be going along normally on a stright road (not booting it or anything), when there was a little twitch a bit like a tiny skid if you hit a little bit of ice. Was really unsettling and meant I had to drive quite carefully without putting my foot down, especially in the wet!    Found out what it was when it went in for the MOT-turned out to be a loose front bolt in the passenger side wishbone! I fellt the difference straight away after it was tightened up!

The car then failed the MOT on the rear driver's side seat-belt which was annoying as I had just fitted a replacement that I'd just been sent from a VW breakers! It also failed on a split steering rack gaitor and because it had no side repeaters when it passed without them at another garage last year (didn't want to go back to that garage though for various reasons!)! Was a bit of a problem though as my new G60 wings came without side repeater holes!    Had to drive to the VW breakers to find a seatbelt that worked, then fitted that, got the steering rack gaitor fitted, another set of black diamond pads fitted, then had to pull the side repeaters through to the front scuttle area and taped them to the top of the front wings just for the MOT re-test!



 They will now remain there hidden until the next MOT! Got the MOT at last!