Check your spacer and adaptor bolts people!
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Thankfully no casualties apart from the plastic arch and the wheel. Oh and a new pair of pants…
The chassis didn't touch the floor thank god.
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Can you tell I'm not a fan of them for the reason you have shown.
1988 Mk1 Golf GTi Cabriolet 1.8cc DX, K-jet. Daily drive. 317,000 miles and counting
1978 Mk1 Scirocco GLS 1.6cc FR, Webber carb. Weekend toy.
1978 Mk1 Scirocco GLS 1.6cc FR, Webber carb. Weekend toy.
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Check your spacer and adaptor bolts people!
Glad all safe and just a bit of cosmetic damage.
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Check your spacer and adaptor bolts people!
If so take the spacers off and measure the thickness. May have wanted thicker one on the back and thinner on the front. Got them mixed up and put thick one side and thin the other.
Reason the bolt is short might be because it was on the wrong spacer?
Worth a check as I guess you will have them all off for checking now anyway.
Take the all off and lay them on the ground next to each other and see if there are any differences.
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Ordered the correct bolts and got new suspension coming next week so going to do some investigation and measuring while it's up in the air and in bits 🙂
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On the drive
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T25 Diesel…sameoldblueshiŁ (currently under resto)
Rocco gt2….1990 secret 2…(currently under resto)
Mk4 99 1.8t indigo blue Gti with 43k miles
Caster 93 clipper JH Green cabby
Snowy 91 GTi White cabby( sat waiting for inspiration)
Myvalver 89 GTi Grey mk2 16v
Yuppy Flu 91 GTi Flash Red Sportline
Golf mk1 owner's club on Spotify
Mk1 golf owners club playlist: Golf mk1 owner's club playlist - YouTube
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Check your spacer and adaptor bolts people!
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Check your spacer and adaptor bolts people!
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Backinblack said
Peeps I think the moral of this story is ………. Locktite and a good dose of regular checks for these things.
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Loctite is great until you get a flat and need to get the spacer off to fit your 4 stud space saver 🤣
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Check your spacer and adaptor bolts people!
Find on the dust cap. Did you find a wheel repairer? I know it’s a trek but I use Birmingham wheels. They did a nice job on my wheels - see my project thread for before and agrees I think may be some pictures there.
Go somewhere that checks for buckles as well as cosmetic refurb. That’s a nasty chunk out the rim so worth getting it fully checked out.
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Check your spacer and adaptor bolts people!
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This is why I always add wheels bolts to the monthly checks on my cars.
The worst is my big GMC truck 5 Ton, 520BHP, it always has one of 8 bolts loss.
I've since used locktite and line of paint to see if bolts move. No problems on my mk1 and truck now and the monthly checks help
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