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Members' Cars / Re: G135EPB 8v GTI
Last post by ianmac86 -
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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Mk2 Parts Wanted / ducelier distributor
Last post by fez -
hi, anyone out there have one ? Ducelier, used on 1.6 and maybe 1,8 for a short while in 1990. i am looking for the dust cover,the circular shield that lives under rotor arm.or if you have one,but its needed,could i have part no, please.this will help me find one. as i'm sure it was on some french cars and volvo's  thanks folks
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New Members Say Hi! / Re: 41st Year of Ownership
Last post by Old Golfy -
Thanks everyone, it is kind of you. 

I would be grateful for some advice on how to load images from the hard drive of my PC (I am old school, and don't use cloud services, nor am I on social media, partly because of the dangers of disclosing my personal information to all and sundry, and partly to have a life).  I have been able to upload an Avitar, but I cannot see a similar function for messages.

Can anyone tell me how to do it please?