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I need to do that yet. The closest place is 3 hours drive away so have not got it done. I have been noticing one front tire goes low suddenly in a few hours some days and sometimes it's good for weeks at a time. I had the Missus stop at the tire shop yesterday and they could not find a leak. I took it off today to put the winter tires on and on close examination the sidewalls are badly weather cracked in one place only, both sides. My theory is that it sat flat for a long time over in Japan as the shape of the cracks would support that. So now it holds air pretty well as long as that part is up when the car is stopped. If it is down the flexing of the side wall opens the cracks enough to cause a leak. By the way - the 13" Rabbit wheels I have fit the back but not the front as the brake calipers are too big to fit inside the rims!

We only use rear plates here none on the front. The snow is still melting on the roads so no salt yet. They use salt and calcium chloride in the cities and main highways. The back roads here don't get any, just what carries in off the highway.

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A very common problem then. I am going to try silicone as both the factory glue and the fix did not hold. The plus side is that only one clip is broken as all the other plastic brackets stayed on the door!

I'm seeing 2 different kinds of glue. Some amber colored stuff that appears to be factory and over top of that is some whitish hot melt glue that did not stick at all.

The joys of used car ownership! 🙄

Finally getting time to address some issues on Franklin. The key not coming out is resolve for now - sort of. I could not find a way into the shift lever area to see if the cable could be adjusted so for now I disconnected the cable at the key end. I am thinking now that the whole center console has to come out of the car to get at it. The only downside is that the key will now come out of the ignition with the shifter in any position. I fail to see that as a big deal though as being a family of standard shift drivers we always use the park brake. On the the door card problem, I now see why the fabric is coming loose around the edges. I am not the first bloke to open up this can of worms. It looks like the glue that holds the plastic bits around the edge of the door card that in turn hold the clips that pop into the little holes in the door has let go. Someone has tried to hot melt glue it all back together!

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The drivers door card fabric is coming loose n the top edge. I am used to VWs having a little plastic bit under the inside door release lever that pops out to revel a screw. Not so here. Any tips on how these come off before I break stuff and find out after the fact would be appreciated. Thanks!

Here is a story that will be appreciated on this site! Last Sunday I pulled in to fuel up the company truck just as my boss was leaving … in a bright red Mustang! I had no idea he was leaning toward the sportier side of cars so I asked him about it at work later. To make a long story shorter, he got it at a smoking hot price, 1999 35th Anniversary Addition with 72K on it in mint condition. Stored inside all it's life, the old lady that owned it has passes on. I asked him if he was going to keep it. "No, it's much too small. I don't like small cars. I drove it to Hardisty and back the other day and it scared me! What if I hit a deer?" I looked it up on the "net", mid sized car, 3,235 pounds!

All I really need is what was called a valet key on our Jettas. It worked in the door and ignition but did not operate the power locks or have a panic button funcion. They told me it still needs to be coded to the ignition.

Maybe I should just do like Rich and just use the passenger side door lock from the Jetta.

I have an '04 Jetta TDI wagon here in the yard for parts. Won't work?

That is what I believed too for many many years. Then we started buying cute cars and every female head is turning our way from young to old. Do you suppose that the establishment has hoodwinked us into believing in something that is not real to sell products? Just like us fellows, deep down if we care to admit it or not, prefer the ladies to have a little substance to them not these scrawny anaemic bone racks that the establishment wants us to like! But... there are whole economies based on what we are supposed to like... And have you noticed that the big rugged, square jawed, bearded, hairy, jean jacket with the sleeves ripped off, biker types are almost always alone? 😉 So - the ladies at any age still like cute and us guys at any age still like big ________s! You fill in the blank! It's etched in our DNA.

There must be some sort of story behind these characters. I tried Mr Google but nothing shows up. Some Japanese inside joke? Should it not be in Japanese characters then instead of English? Oh and for your information MS Cherry, I have found out far too late in life that "cute" gets a guy more attention from the fairer sex than macho any day of the week! My son who drove his Porsche 944 to school and couldn't seem to get a Graduation escort/date to save his life took the Buggy to school one day. Within 10 minutes of school being let out there were videos all over social media of a Buggy load of squealing girls, hair blowing in the wind, cruising with him around town! Unfortunately I do not have a picture of that caper. The last one is his sister and some of her friends. Now he wants to trade the 944 for the Lupo! His Mom says no!

Here is the Tim/Tom theme. It appears that Tim is a cat and Tom is a mouse.

I checked with the closest VW dealer today and they told me they could not get us another key. The reason they gave was the their software for programing the keys only covers North American VWs. They said I would have to go to Japan for my key. Make sense?

Actually that color puts me in mind of the '78 Rabbit Champagne Edition they sold here in Canada. Mostly silver with just a hint of green. Going back and looking again just now the Rabbit was definitely more green than that though.

That is green? Must be the lighting... or I am loosing my sight?

This is the third Japanese import for us and they all came with just one key. I have no idea what those people do with the spares, sell them on Flee Bay?

The inside door grab handles are doing that on our Lupo. Nice theme on this one. Our green one has "Tim" and "Tom" with what looks like mice on the cloth upholstery. We wonder what the significance of that is. The college theme is simple enough.

Nice pair of Lupos! Keep them both and sell the other car in the background!

Thanks! That explains why sometimes fooling with the shifter helps. Silly thing to have on the car don't think? This Lupo came with only one key so time the fix that too.

The Lupo seems to have developed a problem. I did a search here and found nothing about it but perhaps I used the wrong words. The ignition key does not always want to come out. Sometimes it's fine but often now it takes a lot of fiddling to get the lock to release the key. Is there some sort of interlock with the auto gearbox?