Mk1 Golf Cilpper Cabriolet H reg Nottingham

Hi,,Well finally after 11 years of nagging hes bought me a MK1 i love it having a few probs at minute trying to buy and replace gear linkage but someones advised me to get one from GFS parts on ebay so fingers crossed if i can find someone who knows what there doing i will be driving it sooner than later its all taxed insured & ready to go so if anyone in notts knows what there doing give me a shout would be very interested…

Looking forward to going to lots of meets Cheers Lou

hello and welcome to the best site, get some pictures up of your golf. its worth joining as a member as you get some good discounts.  

hi ya welcome along to the site.

look forward to seeing some piccies

Hi,

Thanks for the welcome, paid my membership coz need to do a few bits to her, shes parked on my mates drive at mo till the gear linkage is sorted and also is a chrimbo pressie, so not meant to have her till then, but im not waiting lol, hopefully should have some pics up by end of this week Cheers Lou

Best xmas pressie ever then

glad you've joined up and can start reaping the benefits too

Now get some piccies up!!!

Hi mate,  I'm from nottingham and i've just changed the gear linkage and bushes on my 93 cab, i got all the parts off the shelf at GSF car parts, near the windmill in sneinton, nottingham give us a message if you need directions
Chris

hi, ordered bushes & 2 rods to pick up from there tomorrow and got someone who knows what there doing to fit em friday so hopefully will be mobile by saturday wa hooooooooo, but thanks for the offer thats real nice of you

Hey Lou,

Welocme to the site.

I've also had to do my gearlinkage along the way, quick note - I bought the gear linkage kit from GSF and it was missing something that wears a lot, it's like a plastic ball on the end of a stick - sits in a square box - got mine from Volkswagen in the end (you may / may not need it)

Also if you do it yourself, don't forget to mark the horizontal select rod which comes from the bottom of the gear stick as it's pain in the bum to find it's location! (I know from experience haha)

You live you learn!

Si

lol , thanks for the tips, i bought the bigger pack of bushes that had the extras and red bung in it so hopefully should be ok touch wood, im not doing it anyway have got a mechanic who also has a mk 1 so hopefully he knows what hes on with, i wouldnt be able to do it i dont even know how to put water in for the windscreen wipers…

Well its being done as we speak so will let you all know later how it goes ta ra for now

well, gear linkage is now sorted, he charged me 40 quid to change the lot which  i thought was very reasonable, but…. now we have another problem when driving it he said it feels like its driving on ice, so maybe its the tracking or could be the 16 inch alloys on it that are scraping the arches, so ive got to decide, new 14 or 15 inch alloys or buy low profile tyres for the 16 inch ones, so i still havent driven her yet, and cant afford new ones till after santa been and seeing as i got the car for chrimbo dont think he will be bringing me any so watch this space … cheers Lou