aide

bought a set of 288's hoses of DG recently, and they went out there way to get the hoses delivered to me, thanks guys :salute:

crikey dan it looks really good, are you hand cutting that stuff or some kind of printer?

you have me wondering about this stuff on mine now :)

My garage has an electric door but also a side door with a normal mortis lock. The electric motor failed a day after the mortis lock on the side door jammed. I had no way of getting into the garage to get the car out... even worse, just a few days earlier my fridge had broken down and I was storing all my milk, etc, in the garage as it was mid winter.

that's hilarious :lol:

Aide

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- has been known to keep 'pet' house spiders

- has a double jointed left thumb

- once played rugby dressed in wellies and a dress.

good effort fella, you look like you were flying it in that vid!

wouldn't put me off, depends how much your negotiating off the price to fix :)

:lol: nope, its only been 9 months or so!

/\ cheers for comments. My last one was a blackberry, lovely colour, the wife is dropping hints about a blakberry re-spray already :)

thanks dan, gotta love the bay! photos are masking a lot of rust and dent issues, attention turning to those now :) yeh plan is to get the 16's on and see how they sit, they're a lower offset but the rim slopes out quite a bit so they will poke more, will space if not far enough 8)

couldn't hear the bearing, but the tensioner is £100+ and the bearing £7 so just a peace of mind thing when i changed the belt, old one was rough in comparison though.

> AJ - got the seals from the dealers, pricey at £50 just for 2 288's, a swap is the best plan with the beam i just couldn't get one local, defo a summer job if you're doing on the garage floor!

aye cheers, worth doing the rear beam, i had it off the road three months whilst i did the beam, brakes and suspension and the whole car feels loads tighter now and no crashiness, brakes still bedding in tho.

losing the will doing the wheels myself, they're not far of prepped now, that's`an old photo, might just take them to a local guy for the £200 it'll cost me, planning on a gun metal gray, am going for moody look :)

golden arches my a55.

more pics.

corrado nr 4, black k reg vr6 with 93k on the clock.

- rebuilt and painted rear beam, new bushes, bias regulator, goodridge braided brake lines, mk4 brakes, discs, pads, bearings, stone shields and looooooads of clips. H&R anti roll bar stripped, painted and fitted.

- kw v2's on, alongside new top mounts and some major cleaning under the arches.

- 288mm brakes refurbed, painted and fitted with braided lines from DG Autotec and some cross drilled discs and new pads.

- rear spoiler now works following strip and rebuild

- de-crusted the contacts to sort wing mirrors

- new aux water pump, new yellow temp sender and g12

- lupo wipers

- oil, filter and spark plug change

- K&N panel filter

- degreased the ISV, fixed the ISV damper pot

- bonnet earth strap replaced

- replaced rusting rear number plate light cover

- fitted black VW badge

- replaced fuel filter, stripped and repainted the filter bracket

- rear lights tinted red, strips mean they flash yellow

- replaced the bearing in the tensioner and fitted new serpentine belt

- fitted new fuel pump

- painted and fitted a replacement sump

- new plates

- pulled (lessened) a few dents

jobs to do

- passat moonroof - ONE OF NEXT JOB'S

- cylinder head and front subframe overhaul for the winter DONE!

- central locking

- sort out a few wee rust spots and dents GETTING THERE... DOES IT EVER END.

- tinted film for front lights and fogs

- remove bump strips DONE

- little nervous about the windscreen pillar, hmmm

- fix everything else that will go wrong along the way...

changed metering head for a known working one with tamper seal in place (thanks aide!!) - no change

no probs, glad it arrived ok, shame its not cured issue though.

it sounds to me like the control pressure in the upper chamber of the metering head is a wee bit high, this will resist upward movement of the air flow plate from idle but not when air flow increases, i don't know the 2ltr very well, but the pressure in that chamber is controlled by an actuator in the black box on the side of metering unit, would guess it gets it's signal from the potentiometer on the throttle body and the ecu, maybe that's what the throttle fault means :scratch:

polish. drive. magic :)

you'll need to describe it better than that mate, theres various pipes on the manifold :)

belfast based too then, i'm over near the holywood rd, about 2 mins from ikea.

try and reduce the picture size in picture manager or similar.

roll up, roll up 21st Aug then...

1. Dan

2. Aide

3.

:D

check out the clutch and timing chain guide in the wiki, couple of pics of starter motor wiring :)

6. i think there's a speed control wire that can work loose behind the dash too, think its blue :scratch:

fixed my stuck spoiler on purchase, potential causes.

1. sleeved pipes siezed with 15+ years of gunk & rust

2. spoiler motor

3. failed microswitch in the init

4. failed speed control module behind dash

5. wiring failure *somewhere*!

mine was combination of 1 and 2, £.99p for a microswitch and 2/3hrs to strip, clean, lube and reassemble.

hey anto, good to know of another owner, where you based?

what you reckon Dan, set a date and see who can make it, 21 or 22nd this month, centrallish location for those coming TBC?

is mine the only one on here with these niggly imperfections?

No, don't lose heart! A lot of the people on here have had their cars for years, it takes time and some spare cash to get them looking good, had mine 9 months and i've a long way to go yet, main thing is they're in the hands of people who want to maintain and improve em :salute:

adjusted handbrake cable, tinted lenses on front lights, washed and went for first drive in 3 months... everything is loads tighter now, well pleased :D

that's not bad actually, dont generally like non standard.

have you tried propper driving gloves? ok you might look a bit poncey but they're supposed to be good for dealing with sweaty palms.