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Members' Cars / Re: G135EPB 8v GTI
Only minor update and back to the window stencil! I noticed that my boot carpet was a bit wet as was the sound deadening in the spare wheel well. I got my daughter to spray the hose on the boot whilst I was sat in the boot and narrowed the leak down to the rear washer jet of all places.


Not taken this apart before so undone the lock and pulled the washer fluid pipe away



Old one (temp fixed) with a blob of silcone and the suppose new genuine one

Fitted and climbed back in the boot and hosed down again and seems to have solved and a nice simple fix🤞


When clearing my garage late last year i found a new coil still boxed which was a nice bonus! I decided as mine was looking pretty crusty and quite probably original, it was worth swapping as preventative if nothing else. I've kept the old Bosch one as a spare as it was still fully functioning,
Whipped the old one off


i noticed the earth strap was showing signs of wear

copper earth bits were cleaned up

and replaced the earth strap

this 12mm blank on the bottom of 1 way valve was looking pretty holey and brittle! Not sure if i disturbed it or if it was already like this.

Got a new silcone blank off ebay for a few quid

 I've been giving some more thought on where i want to go with the car in future as progress feels very stagnant these days. I am re-wondering what i can do to regain my interest without chucking loads of money at it. Something that seems quite sensible is a gearbox swap, something with either a 3.9 or 4.2 final drive to liven it up a bit more? My current box has a Quaife lsd and it would be a shame to go back to open diff but that creates a much bigger job than just throwing another box in. I might be tempted to temp fit something short term to see if i can live with the ratios before going to the extreme of ripping mine apart for the Quaife. Having said that not sure i would want to commit to doing this over the summer when i hope to use it a lot more
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Members' Cars / Re: G135EPB 8v GTI
Thanks, that is possibly the one I bought last time when I had the car painted. I think I'm going to leave it off for now 🤔
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Members' Cars / Re: G135EPB 8v GTI
She quite likes it,  except no parking sensors 🙄😂 ive ordered an android headunit with a reverse camera, so hopefully I can get that fitted before she reverses into something 😄
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Members' Cars / Re: G135EPB 8v GTI
I started picking!

Fortunately a bit of heat amd it peeled off easily except around the wiper and behind the spoiler


I decided I prefer the wiper to be stood up in its factory position opposed to laying flat to made sense to reverse the "90s mod"
Also orange lights, i fancied a change. Not sure of I'll stick with them

Managed to get a quick was before it started to rain, still scrubs up ok!

Almost a complete post on my window stencil 🤣
Laura's passat is needing some urgent maintenance (snapped spring amd coil light) so she will be driving my mk6, meaning the mk2 will get some use this week 🙂 it will be nice to put some miles on it and might reduce my commute time 😬
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Members' Cars / Re: G135EPB 8v GTI
looks like i havent put any 2024 progress in here and we are now in 2025! So here is a bit of a catchup...
I have stored all my spares and tools in a garage away from home since owning the mk2. This is my dads and he is moving to a new place, with no garage! With nowhere else to store stuff, ive been thinning out my spares quite drastically. A lot of what i own are contingency spares if the worst happened, panels, gearboxes etc. Stuff that i have owned for years and never used so i've sold, given away and thrown loads of stuff. The hardest decision was parting with my wheels, although not super special ones I had a set of RA's with road tyres as i always liked the oe look, BBS RX214 which i really liked and filled arches a bit nicer and the sebrings on r888s which i have used for track. I decided the sebrings would be hardest to sell/ worth the least so sold both sets of BBS and fitted some Pirelli road tyres  to the sebrings and live with them ( the start of problems!)

Here is what i had to clear. Doesn't look much but it took ages to sort sell and get moved out. Months in the end. I sold loads on eBay so was forever popping down and wrapping and posting stuff and luckily someone offered to bulk buy everything i had left  which really helped with the final push.

Prep for national meet this year i noticed my timing belt hadnt been changed for sometime and had a indented mark down the middle of belt which convinced me it would be wise to get this done. Feeling brave i thought i can do this myself but then back tracked, i dont fancy sourcing a replacement engine or facing a rebuild! The best thing about owning a mk2 is mk2 mates! Dan offered to do it with me/ for me and i would help him which was great. I ordered a Gates kit with a new auto tensioner and to be honest it wasnt a bad job at all. I took a few photos but hardly worth sharing
You can see the mark on the belt just about here. Not sure if the tensioner has caused this or the timing cover or something else has caught on it but definelty worth swapping plus it was 4-5 years old

New belt on. We were a tooth out when we tenstioned it. In the end  we kind of had to aim for a tooth out the opposite way and the tensioner pulled it back correct. Not sure if that is usual but we turned it over a few time and all of the timing marks were perfect.

I'm sure there was other prep, i'm quite particular about doing an oil and filter and cleaning the k&n annually before the national meet.
2024's National meet i was much better prepared than 2023 which left me sleeping on a mk2 rear bench! I even got some fire wood from work for the camp fire loaded up ready for my favourite weekend of the year

I always take a fair few photos of the cars but hardly any with the friends I have made there over the past few years. I managed 1 this year! Brilliant to sit round a fire with some food and a few drinks!

Laura came over with the kids for a few hours, i always encourage her to go for a lap with someone. Last year i sent her out with Baz in his abf and this year Dan in his 400+ bhp 20vt.
She had no idea what she was letting herself in for but massive smiles when she survived Dans mental car and driving!

I love this photo of his car, this thing really moves and it was great to see it work fautlessly after having problems all weekend in 2023

I had an issue this year. I was warming the car up on the out lap and the inner CV joint snapped! I limped back to the pits to assess. I wasnt the only one who had done the same thing and fortunately Dan and Warren were already at the local motor factors collecting the same part for his car so picked me one up too.

It seems like a potential weak point so have since bought a pair of shafts to carry with me in future.

I was back in the track within about an hour-ish.

A nice action shot

One of the pits

I was chatting the Chris about his Rallye, such a special car. I asked him if he would run me up the road in it as I've never been in one and to my surprise he chucked me the keys! Dave did the same with his BBM 3.2. Massive treat and great to experience to drive two very different but equally special cars. Sadly i cant find a photo of Dave's car but his has a build thread on here.

Another big surprise was winning the modified class for a 2nd year running! I didn't expect to win it last time but to win it a second time was such a nice feeling and a massive shock. I havent won anything since i was a kid! It was made extra special to win when against so many great cars that I wish i could own.


With the national meet over and clearing my spares, tyre selection should be interesting for 2025.
The r888's were now over 15 years old which has been a bit of a running joke in its self but were also very questionable whether i could really use them on the road.

I decided to buy a set of road tyres- Pirelli P1. I wont go into too much detail as they weren't new and have ended up causing me massive problems! The car started to pull violently to one side. To cut a very long story short I have replaced loads of parts, multiple alignments, one of which was hideously expensive! rotated wheels and tried mates wheels and eventually It was fixed! this really tested my patience and my wallet but after chatting to mates for guidance I have finally got a car the drives in a straight line again :) Along the way, i tried to replace parts that might be more robust to avoid needing to be touched for a while at least
Powerflex topmounts hopefully more substantial than the rubber ones


Really pleased to have taken it on a long drive and be back enjoying my car :) just hope the pulling issue is behind me 🤞🏻

Superpro droplink bushes

Accelera 651 Sport Xtra tyres


Ive done an oil change and fitted and regular airfilter instead of the K&N. Not sure I can be bothered with cleaning the filter every year over buying a replacement for a couple of quid


look at the holes in my airbox 😂 this was like it when i bought the car!

Also replaced the brake fluid with some of this ATE200 stuff as i am planning on a ring trip in May!


Sadly my window stencil has had it. I think i am going to remove it shortly and maybe replace the taillight back to orange. Have you seen how much half smokes go for these days? It would break my heart if i cracked one! 😂


Aside from the mk2, i sold the T5 a while back so i need of a daily i was using a gold mk4! PD130 mapped egr deleted and what a car she was. my kids name her Goldielove 😂

After enjoying the mk4 i made a decsion that i spend too much time driving to be in a 20+ year old car with no working ac and generally wanting somethiing a tiny but more modern.
I bought a mk6 GTD

Not a fan on wind deflectors or the wheels especially. Its mapped to over 200 bhp, working AC, heated seats and a whopping 195k miles! It was reasonably cheap and got it off a mate so felt comfotable-ish with the mileage. I quickly swapped the wheels and fitted some eibach springs so its more my own.  Maybe need a carplay radio but otherwise is making a really nice daily so far.







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Shows & Events / Re: Stanford Hall 5th May
Tickets are buy on gate Andy so can get one there. Of the 12 passes we have only 9 people have confirmed to me so welcome to join 🙂
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Shows & Events / Re: Stanford Hall 5th May
@Daz7953 @al67
Meeting point: The Chequers, High St, Swinford, Lutterworth LE17 6BL
meet at 7:45am and drive to show for 8am
gives us a 15-20 min window to meet up and give out passes etc and arrive at show in good time
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Shows & Events / Re: Stanford Hall 5th May
@Daz7953 we've had a few people that haven't replied so there is space. Are you on Facebook and messenger? We've got a group chat on messenger we can add you into. If not I can just post our plans in here if thats easier. Let me know
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Members' Cars / Re: LUCY ‘91 Mk2 Golf GTI Alpine White
Good to see you've got a happy engine. Does it feel betterer? Rolling roads are strangley exciting aren't they! I got massive differences between the 2 separate dynos I went to but I guess how it feels is all that really matters.
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Members' Cars / Re: G135EPB 8v GTI
To catch up slightly from October 23 to present.
I took the golf to Bedford Autodrome with a a mate in his 20v mk2. Sadly he had some running issues but the little abf performed well all day 🙂 it's a big track with some very forgiving run offs so felt pretty confident. There were several other  mk2s there 2 with teekay sun strips am 8 valve and the other an abf which I had chased round for a a few laps.

https://youtu.be/CYyLlSfPljA?si=awQH8BZi50daqsbR
Nige Pinder was there and he kindly took me out for a few laps in the Pinderwagen towards the end of the day.  I've been lucky enough to go out twice in this now, previously at Curbourgh but it was even more impressive at Bedford. I think he will be selling it before too long, so very happy I've been able to experience it.

I noticed in the following weeks the car was beginning to pull to the right quite aggressively. I had tweaked the ride height so put this down to knocking thr wheel alignment but after having it adjusted the problem remained, took it elsewhere and again the problem remained. I did a good check over, a nut and bolt check and there didn't appear to  be any play or anything obviously wrong so I stated asking for advice before borrowing some camber and toe guages to avoid spending more on alignment! So after faffing with this for ages it was clear it was definitely something more than alignment so I just bit the bullet and replaced the lower arms, bushes, ball joints and topmounts! After a final alignment (my local garage trusted me to get on with it myself) it finally drives straight again 😆 the only downside is I couldn't tell you what part fixed it. I went for tt bushes over the poweflex this time although I went for powerflex front still and some new mk3 topmounts.
Some crusty but genuine (I think) vag arms. Maisy wasn't jmpressed!

Smashed the old bushes out

Bit or rust eater

Bit of primer

And some black Rattle canned on in the shed

I got my mate to press bushes in and fit arms on his ramp to save me trying to fit on the floor.
 I've done a few other little bit and peices but mostly down grades! The electric windows had become terrible, very slow and not winding up evenly if that makes sense. So got some good 2nd had ones and snapped over whilst wiring my amp and speakers up. The novelty of manual windows is actually really good 😂🤦‍♂️


I actually made a very tidy job of this but minimal photographic evidence sadly.
Next down grade was engine mounts. 99% of use os on the road and I wasn't liking the vibratechnic mounts. I had hockeypucked my corrado front crossmember previously and the whilst the feel was very good it was a bit excessive for the way I use the car. So swapped back to standard corrado vr6 front mount and standard mk2 rear and gearbox too. The comfort and general feel made a huge difference to comfort so a worthwhile downgrade in my opinion.


Quick oil and filter change

For some reason I wound a rear window down which then wouldn't go back up! The metal strip on window and corroded and was beyond repair. Luckily I found a spare in my dads garage.


Lastly a few photos from Ben Winch from 2023 national meet 😁












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Shows & Events / Re: Stanford Hall 5th May
1. Ian Mcmullen confirmed
2. Michael Burbage confirmed
3. Richard Dickeboy Burbage confirmed
4. Seb Sroka?
5. Phil Woodward confirmed
6. John Connor?
7. Tom Moon - tbc
8. Paul Wilkes?
9. Darren Hodgetts?
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11. Tom Whitaker confirmed
12. @al67 ?