What did you do to your MK1 today?
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AndyParsons said
hi Andy, did you buy the flexi brake pipes or buy them and just fit them yourself, i need new flexi pipe and lines for my rear disc conversion.
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1990 - Cabriolet GTI 1.8 (DX)
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Ordered some new rear speakers and some upgraded speaker cable for the car
1990 - Cabriolet GTI 1.8 (DX)
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Replaced damaged and scratched instrument faces with better ones courtesy from another golfmk1 member! <~~ A complete ball ache getting the speedo to read right!!
1990 - Cabriolet GTI 1.8 (DX)
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Still trying to find where the water is coming into the rear passenger side of the boot.
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Also had same problem of water getting into boot. Was the drain tubes from the sunroof being short and letting the water drip down the inside of the rear quarter panel.
See this post, maybe the same problem for your car.
Post Posted 22 October 2012, 1:28 AM Rating: #1233210 (In Topic #147350)
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1992 Red 'Sportline' LHD from France now in Spain,
1991 White' Young Line' GTI LHD from Germany that I can not take to Spain because of Brexit!😒
1991 White' Young Line' GTI LHD from Germany that I can not take to Spain because of Brexit!😒
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Not quite 23 degrees Spain but clear and dry and yesterdays 24hr downpour washed most of salt off road. Good 150 mile New Year blast.
1983 Mars Red 1.8 Golf GTI
1987 Alpine White 1.8 Clipper Cabriolet
The trouble with doing nothing is that you never know when you are finished.
1987 Alpine White 1.8 Clipper Cabriolet
The trouble with doing nothing is that you never know when you are finished.
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shaunyp said
AndyParsons said
hi Andy, did you buy the flexi brake pipes or buy them and just fit them yourself, i need new flexi pipe and lines for my rear disc conversion.
Sorry for late reply bud. Bought it all off fleabay. ((5 of the stuff that was on there needed angle-grinding off! So I made up some replacement hard lines as I have the kit (cheap off ebay if you wanna go!), new flexis over the axle beam, hard lines to the mk4 rear caliper and new flexis to link these up.
Up front my brake upgrade uses Vectra front calipers, and some have used the VX flexis, but I found them too long and would foul the suspension. After a bit of research i found that Seat Arosa (so still VAG Group) ones were the correct length and had the correct end fittings.
Beam flexis were Mk1/T25 and rear flexis were from Passat.
All from ebay and reasonable cost, details below:
FRONT - Seat Arosa £15 pair, item no 131033460464.
MID - T25, tenner a pair, item no 221224204192.
REAR - Passat, £12.22 a pair, item no 131032789618.
You may also want new spring clips, my old ones were knackered, £2.85 for 4 from BandB, item no 370966344847.
The only additional thing you might want to do is secure the hard line to the rear beam near where the rear flexi joins (it'll make sense once it's all done), some use zip ties around the beam, i got hold of some 5mm rubber lined p clips and tapped a hold into the beam to hold it securely whilst looking a little less bodged.
Best of luck with conversion, mines now 80% there now, I'm just refurbing the suspension.
Cheers
Andy
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Replaced old air filter with new Bosch one. Replaced handbrake lever as my old one was damaged by previous owner(s) - Got this for a fantastic price of another user on here… Thank you scrag
& Then finally, after having to take the drill to the old completely rotten and damaged screw, fitted my new Chrome mirrors courtesy of CrazyQuiffs.
1990 - Cabriolet GTI 1.8 (DX)
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1983 MK1 Golf GTI Campaign Model - Under (looooong) resto!
1962 Rover P4 80
2002 BMW 745i
2008 BMW Z4 2.5Si
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1983 MK1 Golf GTI Campaign Model - Under (looooong) resto!
1962 Rover P4 80
2002 BMW 745i
2008 BMW Z4 2.5Si
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Discovered they appear to be two different types of lamp - one with 'short' mounting lugs and the other with 'long' mounting lugs.
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oh and spent nearly a weeks wages at vwheritage so will be selling a kidney to fund the rest of the car if anyones interested
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