Christmas Cabriolet guide

Hi everyone,

I'm a newbie here.  I myself own a 1986 Christmas Cabriolet which I purchased last summer for ?550 with only a few minor jobbies needing to be done (bit of a roof tear but what do you expect for a 20 year old car).  The guy luckily also had the original guide about it from VW which I thought I would post here as it's still damn hard to try and find anywhere any kind of info and there's still a lot of very confused people out there!
Here is the love of my life:


Here is the guide:

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Sorry they are big

nice car did you buy it from a guy called dean or danny in bognor regis?

Hi
Nice car. How did you fix the roof tears? I have a small tear either side where roof folds above front seats. Covered with duct tape now.
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Hi there,welcome along, I also have a CC  but the roof has been replaced with  a black one, also its been resprayed so lost the logos. Drivers seat s a bit roppey along with the inside roof lining  

Hiya, yeah I did buy it off Danny! Do you know him or did you own the car? It's had about 7 owners. The speedo's been broken since 2002, as hhats when the cam belt was replaced and the cam belt label has the same mileage listed at the odometer! I have no idea how it passed so many MOT's like that!

So far I haven't done anything except have the exhaust replaced, because it was blowing like hell and in the quiet roads of Norfolk and Lincs I sounded like some kinda girl racer with nothing to prove.

Some things that need doing:

1) Hood - yes it does have a 4 inch slice in it like someone's stabbed it with a kitchen knife.  My fathers favourite implement is insulation tape and it looked even worse after he stuck this crap on it. The first rain came and it all came off though….luckily.  The cab does not actually leak AT ALL despite these holes and tears.  It is however stored safely in a barn on our farm with the hood up but not secured, so as it wouldn't slacken.  I didn't leave it down though as I didn't want it to crease, and our kitties have a habit of exploring!

My dad thinks he knows someone who can repair the hood - it may cost as much as a new hood but I'd rather have the original on it!

2) Suspension is shot - no matter.  I wanted to drop it 40mm anyway but as I'm a student having to pay my way through a shoe design course next year I can't afford to do everything at once.  Obviously I have to sort the suspension out or it won't pass MOT.

3) Wheels are in need of attention.  I tried to dremel them, I honestly did! But they are such annoying angles its damn hard to polish! I can't afford the ?200 refurb.  I do however have some tasty 15" deep dish Mims I'd like to put on instead. They are a hell of a lot easier to refurb.

4) Seats - they are in good nick.  Only one small rip in driver seat.  Am good at textiles so will repair myself.

5) Rust spots - bf promises he's going to get a mini paint gun to do these for me.  And after all, white is the easiest colour to match!

6) Radio - I've got a hideous modern radio in there, albeit cassette. I want the old skool flavour in there, for my Genesis tapes!

Also, does anyone have a clue what a good one would sell for? I don't want to, but I am thinking about getting some kind of value put on it should the worst, god forbid, happen.  Some (personally I think, silly) person I read about on the Club GTI forum bought one without any of the original interior for ?2000! (A clipper or something I could understand but we don't get big bumpers or nowt on ours!) TBH, I know I was damn lucky to get mine for the price I did considering its rarity value but he needed the money to pay council tax bill and i had the cash……….

Thats how I want it to look in a couple of years time when I'm as famous as Jimmy Choo!  Maybe even next summer depending on how nice the tax office is about my refund!

Becca,

your car looks really familiar….

G2B mean anything to you?

Yar, my bf was the one filming out the back of it! You can see the vid we made on my myspace:

www.myspace.com/bexinaboop

I'm also setting up a special Christmas Cabriolet one,. coming soon on

www.myspace.com/christmascabriolet

I used to go to No Rice quite a lot but too cold in the winter!

I thought i remembered that car, you had the camera bolted to the crossbeam didnt you?

I wasnt with my VW that day, but if you remember a black Pulsar zooming past a few times, that would be me! lol

got any plans for the cabby apart from the wheels?

Pricie

well i think that thats conclusive proof to the poll a few weeks ago on what the cc stood for!!!

good luck with your plans!

Hi ya, you can get a mohair (heavy cotton type instead of vinyl) for about ?175, try ebay, a german guy sells em all the time, once the hoods damaged/ripped/split its usually more hassle than its worth to try fixing it, you need the new one fitted professionally too really unless your good at lego??????? and trust yourself to glue all the edges, adjust the wires and cut the hole for the rear window frame!! luckily mine just had one fitted before i bought it!, good luck with the project i am sure it will look like the photoshopped one before you know it :wink: .

I've seen the ones on ebay yeah, I always keep my eyes peeled.  I'll venture outside later and show u some pics of the tears.  I've been prewarned how hard it is to a) ge thte hood off and b) try and work out how the hell it goes back on again.  My friend reckons it took two of them most of the day!

As for pimpin my ride, I'm going to be keeping it fairly original, I think it deserves it.  I just think it looks a little better with a lower ride height and as I spent over the odds on the Mim wheels (?255 in crappy condition) I don't really want to sell them as I'll never get my money back on them and might as well use them, they've been hanging about for 4 yrs waiting for a purpose!

I dont remember seeing a Pulsar, I was too busy directing lloyd where to point the camera!

BeCCa said

I dont remember seeing a Pulsar, I was too busy directing lloyd where to point the camera!

i should have said a black blur…….  

BeCCa said

Yar, my bf was the one filming out the back of it! You can see the vid we made on my myspace:

www.myspace.com/bexinaboop

I'm also setting up a special Christmas Cabriolet one,. coming soon on

www.myspace.com/christmascabriolet

I used to go to No Rice quite a lot but too cold in the winter!

Watched your video on 'myspace' Becca, was cool that lots of lovely golfs plus a few randoms, I think my golf wouldn't look outta place… Mines untouched, but not unloved ha ha.

p.s. sorry for going off topic!

I like original cars too, modded is good too but not for everyone, wheel and suspension mods are cool but i always keep my dubs body etc as it left the factory! i think you lose the character if its too chopped about, just my personal preference though
heres mine…..

yeah i know danny i did some repairs to the car when he first got it

not a bad car from what i can remember think i did clutch and cable new downpipe gasket and a few other bits oh yeah new fuel pump relay

good car very hard to come by these days you had a result when you got it    

oh u r mean, I really really really wanted a red clipper but just didn't ever have enough cash

And bathy, urs is lush also.

Sorry I hope i didn't pee anyone off about the moddin thing.  It's just really because it is a CC that I wanted to keep it original.  If it was just a normal cabby I'd change it and it'd have a clipper kit on it asap, but with (so I've heard) less than 250 in the world, keeping it original seemed like the most sensible thing and correct thing to do.

I love my cabby don't get me wrong, I wouldn't swap it for a clipper now because I love the rarity aspect.  Thats y I didn't want a hard top really, just like to be a bit different (plus I had a sort of romantic view of driving around in the hot sun with the top down).  And that's no disrespect to you hard toppers out there, my bf's rebuilt a lovely tropical orange mk1 2litre 16v

I just hope the weather is good next summer, I got a mk4 facelift polo turbo diesel, which while it is a good daily driver isn't half as fun as the cabby.  Although the leccy steering is a godsend with the parking situ in Portsmouth!

small bumper cabs look better than with the clipper kit

heres mine now with the 20vt conversion complete

BeCCa said

oh u r mean, I really really really wanted a red clipper but just didn't ever have enough cash

Its not a clipper though 8O , its a 1992 J reg sportline Gti in Flash red, only 450 made and last of the line of mk1 cabs, it has the recaro interior, which is a bonus, here are a few pics from the original VW brochure, this A3 size booklet also includes the rivage leather and cloth interior rivage models as well as the last of the line basic cabriolet :dance: