my floppy top

what a busy few weeks its been, first off a few weeks ago i drove home from work and parked up outside, then when i went out an hour later i saw petrol pouring out from under the car, sob  so in it went to the garage for a new fuel tank. then when i got it back a week later, it needed its mot which it duly failed
it failed on emissions, rear suspension not secure (i hadnt done 1 bolt up tight enough) steering rack insecure ( the weld that holds the bracket on had begun to crack giving abit of movement, quite common apparently) and n/s sill needed abit of welding done, this was because sum1 had had a go at weldin a plate on it before very badly and only spot welded it on, so it just needed a constant weld to passs the mot… or so i thought, when i took the skirt of this is what i saw:




oh lord i thought, this isnt going to be pretty, and it wasnt, this is how it ended up


it appears that at sum point in its life its had quite a whack as there's nearly an inch of filler in the quater so just to get it thru the mot i patched it up and put a gob load more filler in ops: thought this'll do till its gets a full resto and i can get a whole new sill and r/qtr to put on. this is the latest pic i hav but its in primer now and will be painted tomorrow

also this is the steering rack bracket thats been welded


and finally got these a couple of weeks ago, now all repaired and primered waiting for a full paint, cheers Hoppygti







not all that interesting but its all what we need to do to keep these old cars on the road, will update once the resto begins, likely after GTI festival

thanks for looking

Holy crap mate, i would have set fire to the petrol lol

good work tho pal…. amazing what them side skirts can hide  

i wish i had now mate, wud of made a nice claim up too

Stripped the clipper kit of my one the other day to see what i had brought!!

No rust at all!!! not even a micro blister, just loads of waxoil!

Im so glad it wasnt like yours  8O

good work  

kick him when hes down lol

lol, i checked the other side and the wheel arches and there both fine, its just a bad repair sum1 has done perviously and they hadnt waxoyled so it had gone rusty.

i had the same steering rack faiure for my mot, was the only fail. I am too scared to remove the kit just incase i could find that!loving the lowering once again though!!go good luck...

Macca what suspension you running?

ebay coilies mate, work a treat :y:

Did you fit both the springs on the rear?

Hows the ride?

yeah i did. took a while of faffing around gettin the right hight to comfort setting but now there spot on and the ride is very smooth