Henny

nope, just clean it off, maybe a quick sand down to get rid of any imperfections in the metal, and then just brush it on... :) Easy as pie... 8) I think it cost me about £6 for enough silver to do the engine and gearbox and more, and the black stuff is powdercoated whcih cost a lot more, but will last for ever... :) It helped that all of the engine was in bits so I could clean it properly, but it's easy to do and looks good... :D

Looks good... I quite like the wheels to be honest... 8) See ya on Friday then... :) I'll be there with J-DUB and a load of the other nutters from on here and Dubforce too... :)

take it slow, steady and don't rush... get the jobs you need doing done, and see where you stand then... :) I wanted to get mine totally finished by inters, but it was never going to happen, so I've settled for it being there having been driven the 300 miles there by me... :) ...sod what it looks like at the moment.... I know it'll look MUCH better at the later shows in the season... 8) My new target is VWNW at Tatton, as that was the day before my car blew up last year... :D Good luck... 8)

mmmm! Revolution 5 spokes? Lovely... 8) Good luck getting her ready... :)

Ok, here's the late dials too... admittedly a little later than I planned, but hey... :lol: Print at 300dpi... :)

Golf 4 = Seat Leon = Skoda Octavia = Audi TT... All based on the same floor pan :) Best looking one out of the bunch is the Seat Leon IMHO... 8) I was dead impressed when my parents came home with a nice shiney red Leon 1.9 TDI... 8) (makes a nice change from some of the cr@p they've had in the past! ;) :lol: )

yup, it's a sod... :? are you putting it in from below? If you are, then your best bet is to pop the drivers side ball joint and pull the whole bottom of the hub/shaft/strut assembly away from the engine bay slightly. This will give you some room between the drive shafts and the diff... The other trick is to put the box in at a angle so the diff goes in higher than it sits when mounted, then once it's cleared the chassis and drive shafts, locate the gearbox input shaft loosely into the clutch, and rotate the box so that the bolt holes line up and slot the box home... now you can line the driver's side drive shaft up and then put the ball joint back into place and tighten everything back up... 8) If you're tying to put the box in from any other direction other than from below, I can't help as I've never done it, but most of the tilting and stuff above probably still applies... 8) Good luck... :D

'nother plug here from me... knew exactly what he was doing on my gearbox, for a good price with excellent service to go with it... :) 8) Definately worth visiting and talking to... :D

Seat Leon Cupra R's now also have one MAJOR flaw... people keep nicking 'em... :? :( :roll: The insurance is getting silly on 'em and is only gonna get worse, and the nervous twitch the owners develop every time they hear anything that sounds remotely like a car alarm is something I never want to experience... :? Shame, 'cos it's a car I'd seriously consider buying to replace my MKII golf driver... (I'd never replace the Corrado! )

yup, there's 2 ways to do it... 1) take/send the reminder, your current MOT and insurance + too much sodding money along and get your tax disk... 2) take/send the V5 (or the green bottom bit if you've just bought the car) your current MOT and insurance + too much sodding mone along and get your tax disk... I've done both methods in the last 6 months on different cars and had no problems.... (...apart from letting go of the cheques.... robbing gits, there's only one of me, why should I have to pay two lots of car tax when I can only drive one at once?!?)

check the earth strap... it is the clamp on the -VE of the battery, then runs down to the chassis behind the battery and then onto the gearbox.... they have a nasty habbit of oxidising (they go green to show this!) and becoming resistive to electricity which screws up the starting and general running of your engine.... if it's green at any point, bin it and fork out the £20 for a new one... :)

nice brakes... 8)

Well, seeing as I bought one 2 weeks ago from my local dealer, I KNOW that they're not obsolete! ;) Part number is: 357 721 465A Cost: £29.53 + VAT 8) Go and give 'em hell 'cos they're talking crap... :mad: :evil:

Welcome to the forum... 8)

I had to rebuild the engine to get it that clean! ;) :lol: I used silver engine laquer from my local car parts store... clean the parts up with Gunk and a toothbrush, then just paint the laquer on with a paint brush and, voila!, clean looking engine bay! :) Apparently the Autoglym engine cleaner is very good too... 8) There is only 1 polished bit and one chromed bit in my engine bay... the VW on the rocker cover is polished, and the coil now has a chrome cover and clamp... everything else is either painted silver, or powdercoated black, with the exception of the rocker cover which was painted with a VW genuine touch up spray in Aqua blue to match the bodywork... 8)

don't tempt me! ;)

yours is a 1.8 16V... different pulley set up entirely... ;) The bad news for you is that this is likely to be the waterpump idler pulley... it's a crap design where there is a pulley that's on a brass bush bearing onto the waterpump pulley. The inner pulley powers the waterpump, the outer one is a free-wheeling pulley to guide the belt to the P/S pump's pulley... the brass bush wears out and falls to pieces making a hell of a noise and eventually falls out making a horrible noise all the time... :? The slightly better news is that they have dropped in price in the last few years and are no longer the £90+vat I paid for one 5 years ago... :| I'll dig out a part number and pic of the bit in a mo so you can verify that this is the part you mean Randal... 8)

...still not forgotten! ;) :lol: Bummer about the compressor... :?

J-Dub is actually J### DUB and was supplied on the car from new... Still looks cool though, and people don't believe it's a 12 year old car! 8) I can't wait to see people's reactions to it once I've got the bodywork sorted out (got another dented wheelarch this week while the car was in my garage so she looks even more unloved at the moment... :cry: ) (I don't like putting my numberplate onto the internet... )

as Kev says, there's power in the CD changer lead anyway, so putting it next to the power to the sub won't make a blind bit of difference to it... IIRC the audio that goes down most CD changers multi-wires is balanced (like pro audio kit in the radio stations I work in) so it filters out any electrical noise anyway which is why they can put power in the same cable... 8) The fan is a doddle to fit once you've got one, but it's worth doing it fairly soon as once they start squealing the bearings are already knackered and the fan motor will start to over heat the resistor pack and blow the thermal fuse stopping the fan working on any speed except 4... :mad: It's not difficult (or expensive, about 30p!) to fix the thermal fuse, but why let it get that bad when you're gonna have to change the fan anyway... I've just fitted a new fan to my Corrado and it makes such a BIG difference... 8) DON'T spray WD40 into the fan, it'll dissolve what ever grease is left in there and speed up the wear on the bearings... if you wanna try lube'ing it, try some 3in1 oil... that's got graphite in it and will help lube the bearing rather than cleaning it... ;)

sounds more like an alarm timing fault to me...

2 days to fit an exhaust??? My Corrado had a custom made one designed and fitted and tuned to the noise I wanted in less than 6 hours.... :?

Bugpak can be got from GSF.... (at least that's where I got my MKI Golf ones from... )

HIC gave me the same NCD for my Golf as for my Corrado, so the Golf MKII driver cost me less than £150 for the year TPF&T with the Corrado costing a smidgen over £800 with all the mods declared... 8) It's called a "mirror policy", but it does mean that if you crash either car, you loose the discount on both! :? It's also about to drop by about £50 on the golf and £100 on the Corrado this time around for some reason I'm not gonna argue with! :D

go for Anthracite as the colour... not black, not grey, but classically different... :) I reckon it'd suit the steelies down to the ground.... 8)