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look forward to seeing the new pics, some major surgery this but the outcome is going to be amazing

Brilliant, be sure to get some pics if you can, get an idea what's in store for me then.

Brilliant, I read on here that the Passat climatronics were the way to go as they're nice to fit. Mine still has some of the bits for air con but I'm not 100% on what's missing, once I know and source some parts I'm going to consider putting it in. One of them, thought it's coming up to winter now so not point in rushing about to get the air con working, then I heard we're due another heat wave soon and I'm now thinking it would be nice to have it in. So are MK4 condenser a good fit then? I think that's the main part that's missing from mine

amazing work, can't wait to see this when it's done. So glad I didn't take my mates dash and try to take this on or I'd have gone :bonk: by now lol

hahaha, it's nicer than having air pretty much coughed out of the vents at you, tones nicer being able to have cold air as well, not just hot air all the time. is that a MK3 Golf climatronic unit from the Highline? I still need to find a way of making the cover fit and change my CD player for one that sits in flush.

Final finished product

Cheers pal, I'm gonna have to have a proper look through your thread, my mate offered me the dash out of the Bora as well but I said no, so it would be good to see how hard it would have been to fit, see if I saved myself a nightmare of a job lol It shouldn't be much harder than my install then, just need to cut out a whole in the firewall for the air con pipes and wire in a few more wires, if you have all the air con gubbins that is and you can stand having your car off the road for a bit.

It's all in and everything now, I will post up some pics tomorrow, just need to find a way to make the controls look a little more stock. Even all the diagnostics stuff? I really didn't like the idea of cutting in to ECU wires if I'm honest, I don't think getting the air con working on it will be much harder as I plan to do it in the future. Just got to bite the bullet and start cracking, from the look of your signature it would be a nice addition to your mod list

It depends how much function you want, Jay pointed out most of the wires on the loom are diagnostics and some air con, if you're like me and you just wanted it basic with no air con... fan live/ignition live/two earths and illumination and it works. You don't even have to wire in the outside temp sensor if you don't have it, it will just take it from the cold air vent. If you know your way around removing the dash and you're a dab hand at fitting and have the tools, you could have it in a two days I reckon. Dash going back in, fitted the Corrado centre vent to the MK4 air box and all the vents surprisingly fit really well, just the middle ones need shaving back a bit

Loads more done today after a pretty crap day yesterday, drilled out the wholes for the heater box and got it bolted up and wired it all in Fitted and in place nice and snug working and illuminated up Now just to fit all the vents and fit the dash, away seeing family tomorrow so problem going to wait till Monday but it's all working, just the recirculation motor is faulty but I'm not too arsed at the moment

Thanks Jay, I will see how I get on today with getting it all bolted up... if the weather quits that is lol

cheers, so far everything has gone really well, so hopefully the rest will and it's finished soon

So, I found out my mate was breaking a V5 Bora and asked him if he had the climatronic unit in it still, so I managed to salvage the bits I needed. Heater Box Heater box wiring loom Dash wiring loom (I asked for the climatronic section, but instead he lobbed the whole loom off) Couple of sensors but I don't think I will be using them. He didn't have the air con system which is a bit of a bummer, but I'm putting it in with just the basics, but I thought I would take some pics a long the way for anyone looking to do this conversion. Big thanks to Jay (24v Renshaw) for his advice, once he told me what I needed to do I was confident in getting going so I started today. So I started to strip my dash, I'd done this before on my past Corrado doing the heater matrix so I just delved right in, I won't bore with the details as Corrado Canada have a really good write up on this. Dash completely removed and heater core exposed Old air con wiring, the original setup is in a proper state and not really worth salvaging so I'm going to wait till I find a system of a MK4 Heater core removed Jay told me when I got the two boxes side by side you'd see how similar they are and he wasn't wrong, heater matrix dropped straight in, just has one additional bolt to drill out to get it to sit right. Because I've had air con on my car the glovebox/undertray have already been cut back which saves me a job. Corrado heater matrix in and good to go That's me so far, done quite a bit so far, hopefully weather will be good tomorrow so I can get it put in, tested and start throwing it all back together. More pics to follow

I'm sure I mentioned it but it does have the spring cap on there, it's just the one off the original strut. I emailed over to Weitec and they said that kit doesn't come with a convex cap and the original spring cap will work fine so it's not that causing the issue

it does have a plate on the top, but it's not the one that comes with the Weitec, it's just one off the old damper setup, I'm going to go in the place tomorrow and have a word with them

Hi guys I've just got some Weitec coilovers and fitted them, they were sold as ex display but still new and everything, but since fitting they're really not sat right, when i'm driving it pulls to the left, then when you go round a corner and get full right lock on and straight up it starts to pull to the right, then you go round a left corner and it goes back pulling to the left. So I was speaking to the mechanic who fitted them for me and we'd both noticed they didn't have any caps on the top of the coilovers, could this be what's causing it? I noticed this had happened to the top mounts, as it stands the springs are sat in the top mount cups [ATTACH=CONFIG]68727[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]68728[/ATTACH] Here's a pic of the coilovers, as you can see the fronts have no top caps and I remember my MK2 Golf ones having them

I'll let you know on Friday mate, I wanted them on for the meet @ Awesome GTI this sunday really

No problem, well i'll see how I get on with getting some by Friday, if it doesn't happen then expect a PM

I wouldn't mind a set of all reds, how much do you want? and are you in Manchester? ---------- Post added at 11:36 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:36 PM ---------- Are you based in Manchester? I could really do with picking them up for Friday rather than having them posted out

Is anyone selling a set of rear lights that's close to Manchester area? Preferably just the inner clusters but I wouldn't mind if it's a full set cheers

Yea, its all sorted now, brilliant advice. I peeled back the tape and there was no break in the wire so I was going to wrap it back up, then I peeled up a bit more and sure enough the wire crumbled apart lol Sent from my Nexus S using Tapatalk 2

Took a while, but you was right Sent from my Nexus S using Tapatalk 2

like the title says I'd removed my ECU to change the EEPROM to a mapped chip I had purchased and two of the screws have snapped, anyone any ideas what I can do? I tried to drill the old ones out but it's not happening, either because of the drill i'm using or the bits I've put the ECU back in for the time being though

That's a brilliant idea

one of my mates uses that DODO juice, he swears by it. Here's some videos of the stuff I've got, I think she said the kit only cost something like £10 but the dealers charge £300 to have the car treated in it... madness Gloss Protector Glass Protector Cheesy sales add but it shows off the interior stuff