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Ade's Mk1 Jetta C

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Lido Green Rust Monster

You so right about the wheel well, try fitting a template and a car battery onto it, pain every time I've had to disconnect the battery

List of past and present cars ive owned

1997 corsa 1.2 poop

2003 Ibiza 130 tdi hybrided to 240bhp

1991 Mk 2 jetta calypso green 1.6td

2001 MG ZT 190+ v6 in trophy blue…. Sold to my brother

2003 Golf GTI TDI 150 black leather heated recaros ;) the

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Wow that's quite a bit of work, with much more to go.  Good luck.  I hope this turns into the car you want.

Fully restored and driven daily!  I love my 1980 Rabbit Diesel!!

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Turned my attention to the interior floors:









All in all they were fairly solid… Bit of work required on the inner sill but otherwise pretty good

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One of the door hinge bolts was well and truly fubar'd so I had to fabricate a solution:



It's not pretty and it took quite a few attempts; but it worked in the end!



If anyone is breaking a golf or jetta and doesn't mind sticking a couple of rear door hinge bolts in the post to me then that would be great!

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Oh, and finally summoned the courage to get the rear glass out…



Ta-dah!



And somehow, it didn't break!

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Nice one, well done mate! 😀 👍🏼

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There's me building mine 28 years ago, almost finished!        
  
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Be proud of your VW Golf Mk1, it's very special!

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ade36
I saw the VW Classic Parts "Individual Item of the Week" (Mk1 Jetta Luggage Pan[?]) and thought that it may be of some interest, although yours does not appear to be beyond repair…
https://www.volkswagen-classic-parts.de/en/wochenaktion.html
(link will probably be dead/different come Monday when the new item is posted)

Cheers!

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Fausto said

ade36
I saw the VW Classic Parts "Individual Item of the Week" (Mk1 Jetta Luggage Pan[?]) and thought that it may be of some interest, although yours does not appear to be beyond repair…
https://www.volkswagen-classic-parts.de/en/wochenaktion.html
(link will probably be dead/different come Monday when the new item is posted)

Cheers!

Damn! Mine isn't too bad but that panel would be very handy nevertheless! Shame i've got no spare cash at the moment… Missed out on a NOS full rear panel a little while ago too for the same reason… A project car and having no money do not mix  O_o

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Set to cleaning the sound deadening off the raintray…



Wasn't actually as hard as I had feared it would be.  I found that heating the panel from underneath meant it came off in quite big chunks…

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Got very bored of scraping cr*p from various parts of the car so turned my attention to the scuttle… or whats left of it.





It came off easy enough (as there is pretty much nothing holding it on!)

And got on with removing the donor panel…



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Before it goes on the Jetta I still need to replace the rotten metal from where the bulkhead joins the scuttle… and clean all the sound deadening residue off the raintray… and trim the outer skin off the jetta a pillars…  and finish the inner wing repairs so there's actually something to stick it to… and wire wheel and prep the inner parts of the a pillars… and blah blah blah…  Sod it; let's just offer it up and pretend I'm making progress



Yay!

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Great Work Ade! Removing the rear window was probably one of the more stressful moments! But I've done 2 now and luckily have a spare front and rear window with seals! Keep at it matey

List of past and present cars ive owned

1997 corsa 1.2 poop

2003 Ibiza 130 tdi hybrided to 240bhp

1991 Mk 2 jetta calypso green 1.6td

2001 MG ZT 190+ v6 in trophy blue…. Sold to my brother

2003 Golf GTI TDI 150 black leather heated recaros ;) the
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