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What part are you struggling with? Bend some pipe, buy a hose, attach it to the beam. I've got some rusty GTi pipes sitting on my bench ATM to template some copper lines for ray.

Oh and isnt the rear glass thinner on the GTI Bootlid compared to the standard one? How big is the weight difference does anyone know?

Nice mk2 👍🏻

Hello everyone picked up my first lupo sport yesterday! Yellow with a blue Tim Tom interior!

Hey folks, New here and just sold my Golf - now there's a big VW shape hole in my life and I'm looking for a Lupo Gti. Open to options on the colour, but leaning towards Tornado Red or Raven Blue. Bodywork should be great with no rust, hopefully the underside with minimal rust too. I'm based in Bristol but can travel for the right car. Look forward to hearing from you, Mark

Hey folks, New here. Looking for a Lupo Gti, open to options on the colour, but leaning towards red or blue. Should have great bodywork and underside with minimal rust. I'm based in Bristol - can travel for the right car. Let me know, Mark

i already fixed my 3rd brake light using long wires instead of using the stock connector that always rusts off following this guide https://www.lupogtimotorsport.de/anleitungen/reparatur-3-bremsleuchte/ so that shouldn't be an issue. And since I went to the effort to do that and that I just like the look of the regular spoiler more I'd go this route

You could probably do that, the boot lid should be a direct replacement. It was my plan, until an FSI boot lid showed up on Kleinanzeigen. It's a straight swap, lighter than the GTI one, and doesn't come with the same 3rd brake light issues, although doesn't look quite as good. The 3L would also fit, it's the same as the FSI just without the spoiler. This is the best picture I have of mine:

My Tailgate has rust around the boot handle and is also bubbling around the spoiler bolt holes. The spoiler is currently only fixed with the 3 center screws, both the bolt holes on each side of the spoiler are broken and don't work. Repainting or replacing the tailgate with a GTI one would be quite expensive so this made me wonder: Cant I use the regular Lupo Boot and just mount my spoiler the same way it's currently mounted with only the 3 center screws, that way water couldn't get into the cabin from the big holes, and I'd have a clean boot. Is there any difference between the boots that wouldn't make this possible, or do you not recommend it. Only downside I see is that I would lose my GTI badge, the one with the red i, because they only sell the silver one new

No issues since fitting them, they're still on there. As I mentioned before it's not an ideal solution, but it's a cheap easy fix and works fine.

If the main problem for the GTI owners are the balljoints, you can use two pairs of lower control arms, go to a tig welder and make one extended pair, between the anti roll bar and the balljoint mounts. By my measurements it needs to be 15mm longer each side. Then you can use standard balljoints. I think the phisical strut difference is only the holes position for the knucke because the track width, but that can be elongated taking the reference of the oem one.

Any issues with the mk4 lines? I’ve got the two Mapco ones you mentioned in my basket just want to make sure nothing has cropped up with the peculiar routing over the years. I’m assuming they don’t need loads of adjustment either, just a few bends maybe?

Funny that I find myself here 8 years later as a Googler of 6X0 611 764 D these hoses are a nightmare to find

More and more driving the car you could tell the rear brakes were binding as it wouldn’t roll freely at low speeds. was driving on the motorway and started to smell burning brakes, ended up stopping and realised it was the rear right brake. Started to strip the brakes down to rebuild or replace the calipers, but had known for a while the rear beam was a bit rusty, it had gotten quite a bit worse. I couldn’t knowingly put new brakes onto this, so off came the beam. it’s currently being sandblasted then will get it all painted up. got new bearings, brakes, dust shields to go on (these crumbled apart!). only issue I now have is the rear brake lines sheared and I need new sections from the beam backwards. Anyone any ideas on the best place to find OEM replacements? I could get the HEL braided but for the use the benefit is going to be minimal compared to the price of them.

There are two, TRW JHM 185T and JGM 185T H is hydraulic and G is Gas I think. AutoDoc list the same part numbers for GTI and standard.

on TRWs ZF aftermarket part finder I put in the GTI and the 1.4 The JGM185T part showed up when I put in the GTI but didn't show up when I put in the 1.4, but I won't guarantee it edit: here's a screenshot of the part info shows the GTI and the FSI https://aftermarket.zf.com/de/aftermarket-portal/unser-katalog/suche-nach-fahrzeug/#/article/JGM185T?languageID=1&brandID=14,22,32,35,68,126,161,294,8888&countryID=D

I thought I had compared listings and found the same part number listed for standard Lupo and GTI. I'll have another look.

don't know how true this is, but have you checked out this TRW one. From a quick search I could find it on ebay

I have a new set of RTS ball joints. I just don't really want something as stiff as Bilstein B8s and struts other than factory are proving hard to find. I'm running H&R springs and would like a little more damping than the originals. Koni has yellow inserts that they say will go in the factory strut with modifications. Wonder what's involved in that. Sorry, I have more questions than answers.

wow, literally two weeks ago I was looking for these ball joints and I even contacted RTS asking if they're gonna make any more but got no reply so I bought the ones I linked here last week But since they haven't shipped it yet and I got no updates I now ordered the RTS one because they're really back in stock. Thanks for the heads up lol. I'd like to think me contacting RTS is what caused the restock 😉

And I'm guessing the spacers pushing the wheel farther from the steering pivot point would make the steering "twitchy" and wear stuff out quicker. Camber bolts and standard struts a better combo? Anyone have experience with that?

You could, but the inside tyre edges would wear a lot faster. Autodoc has stock of RTS joints, but you have to leave a message on the order saying "no substitute parts please".

By axles I mean drive shafts.

Maybe this has been asked. I searched but didn’t find the info I’m looking for. With the GTI front track being just over an inch wider and with the difficulty in finding GTI specific shocks and ball joints, I wonder would this work: Use normal Lupo struts, ball joints and axles and then restore the track width with .5 inch wheel spacers. I’m sure some geometry would be changed but would that work? Has it been tried?

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