mk2

do gsf still have their 50% ish off deals going on? no email from them for a while now...

one of my mk2s still has the original from new oem bushes, and thats after 135kmiles. not even slightly perished or worn. beats me why. my mk4 rear is already on its third oem set at 120k.

I've also found this too. the trouble is that by reducing the amount of 'give' in the suspension, especially the rear on a FWD car means all the shock has to be taken up by the tyres. and unless you run a really soft pirelli or goodyear compound, the tyres start bouncing around corners. airborne=you lose the back end. so for regular road tyres, at regular temperatures and pressures, I'd always say stick with squishy OEM bushes.

i have occasionally got some amazing, too good to be true bargains like this on ebay. usually, you find that it is a large company and their secretary or a PA just lists the 'thing' on ebay without having a clue what it is. and yes usually they have a x10 error (decimal point in the wrong place). but hey, why not for £2 for 5L, delievered to your door! can always raise an ebay dispute if they don't deliver as promised.

the rear window glass is so annoying... that will be a real pain to replace in canada. special order I'd imagine. v expensive. I hope you dont have to pay for it. They are expensive over here in the UK. Like £200 fitted, so maybe £150 to buy? how immensely annoying. i hope they keep it out of the rain, or the inside will be destroyed. and everything started out so well... Flashing oil light coukd be anything. Light or LCD service indicator? The only reason the light will flash usually is because of low oil or a defective instrument cluster. has anyone tampered with the instruments? my gut feeling is that the oil pressure is fine and someone has been messing with the sensor or something. @Rich- on the 1.4 petrol, is the oil pump drive a 'free' pulley off the back of the cam belt? trying to figure out why the oil light would be flashing all the time. wouldn't the buzzer go off as well if you ignore the oil pressure light, like on old polos?

ebay item 132598804872 bargain... if only just for use as flushing oil

yeah... must have been a hell of a bang. even the alloy frame has snapped! poor thing was just hanging there bless it's little soul.....

some kind person just sideswiped my car while parked and fortunately only took out my entire driver door mirror assembly. anyone got one, any colour? i can respray it. not the mk4 golf type- the one that is meant to go with the lupo/arosa (small, stubby, original). manual adjuster. thanking you all kindly!

you can play marbles with the spares

i have an SDI box to collect at some point (which needs some welding). i'm going to pull out one of my worn boxes and swap over, then get the removed one rebuilt- with a camera present.... i can't wait. it'll be the ultimate how to! no point having a quaif though.

which side? i'm guessing the drivers side at the fuse box? which means there must be some sort of controler down there somewhere... i've never ever had to look at one of them. ever. from what you're saying, i think not all models are fitted with a fancy dimmer thing?

rich will know... is it behind the dash, or near the fusebox? i'm curious too now....

both my sdi's have lovely slow dimmers on them, that extinguish slowly as you start the car or after about two minutes after unlocking. factory too.... standard festoon bulb above the mirror that takes about three seconds to go from full bright to off. they come on instantly though. there must be a circuit controlling them somewhere, as a switch can't do that- either full on or off. my mk4 is the same.

nice to see someone doing something interesting... how are you setting the bearing preload on the quaif? do you use the same crown gear and what are the complications? do you need to shim it or is it in exactly the same position as stock for the crown gear mounting flange? more pics please!

if it's like vdubs, there's a PWM dimmer switching circuit in line with the feed to the lamp. so you'll measure 12v with a high impedance meter, which will die when you load it. could be that the dimmer isn't working right. no idea where the circuit is located though. Also, you can't replace dimmer bulb circuits in cars with LEDs. wont work...

marketing people tell us that every product must more features. allways keep adding stuff. more stuff make a product more sellable. anything with bluetooth and an app has got to be better of course! its all for people with short attention spans. we need to stay entertained, which means more gizmos....

yeah. they need to look almost stock. have a read of the rules online.... basically a vdub factory class.

do tell! i love to see people using their grinder....

@cj1 what class are you? i noticed that just about all your "image" is pretty much vdub standard... vwcup is very image conscious to the absurd where even the vw logo has to be completely stock!

does anybody ever do any engineering these days? not bolt on, stick on, remove, add, unscrew, peel, polish, plug-in ... but real chop, weld, grind, drill, sew, glue, cast, form etc...?

we need a stig to do tests... and a donor car... and a track for a whole day....

i'll second what skezza says... (especially true for mk2 golfs)

jeeze, that must have been a loud bang. make sure you get the money from your council once it's been fixed. keep all receipts and all the old broken bits. so long as they knew about the hole before the event, you cannot lose in court.

increase the pipe diameter of the whole system. put in a big central box, keep the small rear box. more bass. more rumble. still quiet.

make some original design lupo keyrings...