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[Jordie]

Rear shoes, wheel bearings and h/brake cables replaced. Braking alot better now.

 

Need to machine polish and fit the arch trims.

[Jordie]

Sick of my car looking faded pink, i enrolled the help of a guy advertising on gumtree. £35 for a machine polish.....seems good value to me.

 

heres what it looked like....

 

And after, bit of help from "back to black" on the trim....

 

 

 

Also fixed the spring thing that keeps fuel flap shut, so that wont come open when cornering anymore.

 

Jordie

[Jordie]

Fitted black arch trims.

 

 

 

Also took delivery of some goodies to help keep the paintwork protected and stop it fading etc. From the ultimate finish site, very quick delivery. ordered thursday 12 noon, delivered friday 12 noon (on free delivery option, didnt pay for next day).

 

Dodo Juice PH neutral shampoo, so it doesnt take off any polish or wax.

Poorboys Nattys paste wax red

Autogylm trim and vinyl gel (to do bumpers etc)

[Jordie]

Scuttle plastic replaced.

 

Horn fault investigated.

 

Washed, polished, wax, trims treated. Vacuum'd.

 

 

 

 

Washed with dodo juice born to be mild.

dried.

polished with autogylm deep shine.

waxed with poorboys nattys paste red

trims treated with autogylm trim/vinyl gel.

 

Jordie

[MBarnes]

Looks great, did you have to work in the bumper gel very hard? I found that to get a half decent finish I had to put in some mega elbow grease! I've heard of a lot of people using a heatgun to bring the bumpers back to life, then using Autoglym bumper gel to finish.

 

Matt

[Jordie]

yeah, with the crinkle finish on them it had to be worked in. but id previously back to blacked them so dont know how good the gel worked.

[MrBounce]

Now looking very smart. Like it

[Jordie]

Gave me abit of jip this week, kept randomly breaking down, no spark.....then would start again after so long. Replaced coil and leads as dizzy cap/arm/plugs were allready new.

 

Couple of days later same thing. After afew checks etc, ordered a distributor and replaced it. Old one was siezed but managed to get it out quite easily.

 

Running ok now, could only have been a faulty hall sender in the old distributor.

[megamini_jb]

Not really into VW's, but this is very nice

Edited by megamini_jb, 08 September 2013 - 11:11 AM.

[Jordie]

OSF strut top bearing/rubber replaced

 

Oil and filter changed, so thats a complete service its had now.

 

Jordie

[Jordie]

Scuttle plastics replaced with harder type.

Bonnet earth replaced.

Dipstick guide tube replaced.

Fuel pipes replaced in engine bay, was getting smell of petrol, could also be the fuel pump - monitor.

 

Novelty boot fingers added.

[Jordie]

Did the timing belt about 2 weeks ago. Changed a coolant flange as a slight weep at side of block.

 

Been fine, replaced some speaker shelfs etc. Added bits of missing interior trim.

 

Been running fine, passed mot on tuesday with no advisories, tester praised how good condition it is.

 

Going to convert to weber carb tomorrow with manual choke, fit a front engine mount and a new alternator belt (squeaking on cold start since i removed it to do timing belt).

 

The car runs ok, but cold start can be abit lumpy until it warms up. It appears the choke is working but it doesnt seem to increase the revs, so kinda just bobs along until it gets warm and then drives fine. So ive had the weber sat there for a while so gunna do the conversion, more reliable choke for the winter ahead.

 

Jordie

[Jordie]

Weber conversion done, manual choke fitted.

 

found a broken wire to the old carb, which might have been why on choke the revs didnt rise. its all electric and vac controlled.

 

Anyway....weber power!

[Jordie]

Been on and off about wether to sell this or not.

 

Think its gunna stay.....

 

Came across some quite rare BBS alloys, so purchased those.....

 

Going to get them refurbed in same colour for summer wheels. Thus making the current wheels winter wheels, so got a set of goodyear winter tyres today for those.

 

 

Weber tuned abit and running better, new alternator belt stopped the squeal.

 

Probally not do much else to it now, maybe a set of rubber mats etc.

[Jordie]

Current alloys now demoted to winter alloys, goodyear winter tyres fitted tonight.