lilfuzzer

nice dude what polish did you use with the machine polisher?

Nice pics there buddy. his a shout if you want Should have a gear knob ill take a look Defo have a lighter will check clips. Have some pins but sure u can get new too. Have under trays but if yours are just sagged under steering wheel they could poss ne fixed by fixing properly. There is a wiki on the saggy undertrays.

Yeah sorry for late reply bud just behind the subframe bolts. Mines there as the subframe on mine is fresh so didn't want to damage it. As said hitting with hammer may shock it enough. That said though i gave up on mine and took whole lot down to my mate and used an air windy gun and buzzed off in a crack. Anyway prob too late with reply but glad u enjoying buddy :) s.

Mines currently sitting on those box sections at the minute mate been on thee for some 7 months now.

**** dude didnt relise that was you hi by the way sorry we didnt have a chat the motor looks spot on dude shame I didnt tow you back though ;)

To add to this consider that some people that turned up have more than one which would mean that percentage goes up add the factor of those that turned up and not with their cars even more of a bonus :)

take 15?

if Stu cant sort you I have one too

As above mate

Home from an epic weekend. Thanks to all those involved espeially those who organised it. I know its been said many times before its a thankless task but credit to the folks of teh committee they put a lot of time and effort in and seiing the turn out this year is amazing. It was teh most rados I have seen in one place which was a fantastic sight!!! Great to chat to old (you know what I mean) and new people that I have never spoken to in person before great to see what you look like. Great folk and a great day well worth the drive. See you all hopefully soon and well done Darren and Dave great looking motors. Very hard to chose one from sooooo many great looking cars

Shame Neil at least its not too bad. Hope you get it sorted monday mate also that firm was High flow if I remember rightly mate cant find the receipt ---------- Post added at 1:04 PM ---------- Previous post was at 1:03 PM ---------- 6 hrs from home for me but see you all tomorrow :)

The squares one mate. Got some ill fetch one down

Nice motor there mookie Nice colour too. Enjoy it mate hopefully see it around. Could have a mini blackberry meet as newbridgejob has one too from up here

Hi mike welcome. Hopefully doing the tdi too soon. Have a look at purple tom thread of his tdi very useful

Ah Rigjto just interested I done mine myself but had centre tunnel done by him

? has it came off?

I think it bordeaux ftw!!! :)

more pics

Well I thought it was time to start a build thread on this one so I could keep up to date with what has been done and any future works until the car is sold. I purchased this back in Feb 2011 as a non runner no tax or test and no interior. Basically thought that someone is going to break that, so I may as well, as it was so close to me. Sent a message and bought just from the ad picture. The guy I bought it off actually went to uni with me at the time so was handy in sorting things out easily. Time to go and pick the car up! Went with my good friend J with the recovery truck. Took a spare battery just in case. Put the battery on and started ion a button. Good stuff I thought, one less thing to think about. Removed battery placed on the floor and the car was driven on the truck. It was dark when I picked it up but looked fairly clean apart from the white wing and bumper. Once home the caddy was pulled out and rado placed behind garage door. Fortunately Verity was in storage so not too many cars in the cul-de-sac for once. As mentioned plan was to break it up for parts that I wanted to keep and hopefully get back enough to cover the cost of the car and make a few quid to pay for some of the bits on Verity. However, a quick look in the daylight revealed that the underside of the car was very good. So with a quick change of plan I thought this may be too good to break. So thought quick punt on a MOT and see what its actually like. Drivers seat thrown in and booked in for the MOT. Hung around the garage for the results. The MOT guy drove it back up the road got out and had a bit of a chuckle (well actually a lot of laughing) as he started shuffling through lots of sheets of paper. Instant thought was its cattle trucked so back to plan A. However, he confirmed that the underside was really good and the failures were general maintenance, basically being sat for so long. Brake lines, rubber bushes etc. So thought sod it, save it! Left it at the garage to let them sort it and onto Plan B. Plan B = Drive this one around and break the sherry one that was pretty tatty. Removed the interior from the sherry one and installed in this one and it became the new daily. Summer 2011 seen us sell the house and was looking at living some distance from work so a daily diesel was required. Got offered a MK3 estate as a swap for the caddy so took the offer (that I hugely regret now as owned that caddy for 11 years). With this in mind it went up for sale as it stood. Basically done this, to show the current condition and leave for someone to have a blank canvas to work from, with a good base car hopefully. In the meantime fitted a few parts that needed sorting: - a set of fog intakes that I made to replace the broken fog light newer headlights as the fixings in the originals were broken Newer grill as the original had all the tabs broken top and bottom In the beginning of 2012 we had a house lined up so thought it defo needs selling. Since no interest as it stood I thought paint it and get some interest. Prepping started and thought I’d have a crack at it myself. However with time flying as it does I booked it in to a local shop to get it done. It was booked in 3 weeks time, so I had to make sure I had the new slam panel sorted ready for them to paint too. Unfortunately time ran out to give them the flushed mirrors to paint too. So they are there still to do. Monday morning 2 weeks before Elsecar saw me down at the painters workshop stripping the car apart. Finished at lunchtime so left them to it and went home. Phone rang on the Thursday, car finished today could you pick it up as need it out of the workshop for the other jobs coming in. Problem was the car needed rebuilding before I could drive it home. So drove it to my mates garage which is just up the road as I knew someone would be there late. Spent a couple hours putting it back together, left the slam panel for now as all the fixings needed putting back on before fitting. That weekend sorted the slam panel and fitted it with a new radiator as that decided to go on the Friday (typical!) The car had no radiator brackets so I had to rob them off Verity when the rad was fitted. Also to add I seen the 928 slots (or drain covers as Eric knows them) thought that that may add some appeal to the car to. So sat and polished them in the living room over 4 weeks leading up to Elsecar before they were put on the car. I still have the speedlines so I have options for potential buyer to negotiate with the price. Wheels on and car with 2 coats of wax and the car was ready for Elsecar. The drivers handle broke!!!! Damn had to use a spare one so the car could be opened. Once at Kip and Judes for the night the suspension still needed lowering. Kindly they let me do it on their drive so hopefully looks a lot better now. The show was a good day out and received nice reception but no serious interest. L Once back received a repair kit from Daves16v so I could repair the original handle and ensure the lock works. Quite easy job to do and very happy with how it works. Dave deserves loads of credit for those as great kits. It continues to be my daily at the moment as the house purchase fell through L, but development continues. The headlining was very dirty and I had some spare pillar trims so I thought what the heck I have done it before I’ll trim them. Material and glue bought the trimming begins. All the trim complete bar the b pillars. So I fitted that the weekend before last. The car sits outside and since it has rained none stop for about 3 months I didn’t want to take the sunroof panel out and leave out while I trimmed that so it was sprayed black which has a pretty good finish so happy when I put it all in. I can’t decide whether to put the passenger grab handle back on yet, but time will tell. So hoping the car will sell soon as already have another one (silver 2.0l) so I can TDI it for a daily. However, as many of you will know me I can’t sit still too long so work has already started on polishing a manifold and rocker cover for this. As I have no proof of the tensioners being done, I thought that polishing these parts, head rebuild to do stem seals and while all apart, change the tensioners. After that I don’t know what yet but hopefully Verity will be finished and I can start fetching her to the shows again.

Should be cheaper than what i paid mate as mine was more than for sure

Had to get mine from the states too was a while back so can't remember if ebay or other shop just remember getting stung 40 quid import duty about 4 weeks after they arrived.

I assume swap with that mpney in title on top? Would also help if you gave more spec on the view too ---------- Post added at 7:42 AM ---------- Previous post was at 7:41 AM ---------- Oh and welcome

Hi anyone have a spare one of the above laying around they want rid of. Doesnt need to have cams. Just want to do valve stems and re-lap the valves while off the car. Cant be without the car for to long so tensioners, head change, polished parts should be ok to sort out in a day. Cheers

Ill volunteer to do some badgering ---------- Post added at 2:41 PM ---------- Previous post was at 2:40 PM ---------- [Ok sarg :) QUOTE=KIPVW;870025]Jude has already ordered them Chris but thanks anyway. :salute: ---------- Post added at 12:51 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:46 PM ---------- Not a bad idea but sadly so many would forget we'ed still need to sort something on the day anyway, all in hand now and badges ordered. Any voluteers to do a badge registration point please??

Cool loving the convoy getting bigger. Dave I have no idea where to meet as was going to follow Wendy