Sorry about the pics. Photobucket has broken half my links as I've supposedly exceeded my limit. Created a flickr account now so should have them back up very soon.

Edit: I can see them all?

Edited 30 January, 201412 yr by malaga red

Managed to jump on a complete headlight washer kit for this. I was first in line for once, as I usually miss things like this. Very happy with my purchase as I've always wanted a set for my polo but never managed to find one, so a kit was high on my wants list for the Golf. It is complete and very little is damaged or broken. I have one broken wire to repair and one plastic elbow for connecting the washer to the tube to replace (already sourced a pair). Also need some way of attaching them to the bumper as the old fixings had rotted away. I also took the front bumper they were mounted to, bumper itself is scrap, but is good for measuring the hole position from to mark up where I need to drill my NOS genuine bumper . Washer bottle needed a good clean too.

Jets and all important relay 33:


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8 litre bottle:


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Tubing and pump:


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Complete un-cut loom/ rats nest:


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Well there it is. OEM awesomeness

Had a go at cleaning up the 8L washer bottle.

Before:


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After. Still needs more cleaning as not happy with it:


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And a couple of boxes turned up, with another couple of boxes inside each of them:


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And inside those boxes:


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They've arrived . My brand new set of teardrops. The first new set of wheels I've ever had, just a pity the centres are obsolete. They look so much nicer in the metal, pics don't do them any justice at all. I'm now a winter wheel man. These aren't going anywhere near salt!

Forgot I had some teardrop centres in the house. They are rather odd though. No part numbers on the back, or anything at all and in place of the usual grey painted recess with cast in Volkswagen script, there is no paint and an aluminium sticker with Volkswagen screen printed onto it. Never seen another set. Just need to get them refurbished to original finish and somehow replace the stickers as one is bent.


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Decided to have a play with stereo wiring again today.

Managed to remove my original pull out stereo from the dash, as it WAS stuck. A few sharp tugs on either side saw it out. Then removed its cage and wiring:


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This however revealed a problem. The car and stereo ISO wiring weren't the same. The car wiring was nothing like what I had seen before as everything else has always matched up with the ISO cable. Confused I tried to find an answer to what should connect where, but just decided to go ahead with what I thought it should be like as it could only go two ways.

The car wiring looked like this:

Red (constant live), Brown (ground), Red/ brown (had no idea but now know it is ignition live), Yellow/white (speed sensor?), blue/ grey (illumination):


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The stereo wiring like this:

Red (ignition live), Yellow (constant live), Black (Ground), Blue (Antenna feed)


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I wired black to brown and both the red and yellow to the cars Red wire. Ignored the others as didn't know what they were/ thought they weren't needed.

Connected it up, switched it on and......

It powered up and worked perfectly

Connected my MP3 player and blasted out some of my favourite tunes to make sure all was well.


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A new problem has come form this though as the unit illuminates orange which obviously doesn't match with the MK2's green dash lighting and wont do at all. It has to be changed to green.

I decided to open up the stereo faceplate to see if it was possible to change the colour of the lighting. Inside there are 4 little bulbs, each wearing a little orange rubber cap, which can be removed and swapped for green. Unfortunately, though 2 are easily accessible, the other 2 looked impossible to get too without removing the LCD screen from the circuit board and risking damaging one or both of them, which would be a disaster. Had a closer look and realised the bulbs could be removed by simply de-soldering 4 points on the board that are nowhere near anything else and then the bulbs (in a plastic housing) can be pulled out and the caps changed the soldered back in. Simple.

Then I couldn't find any bulb caps the right size in the UK. So googled and searched foreign ebays and came up trumps on Australian ebay from a Hong Kong based seller!

Also, after asking around the MK2 forum, managed to get pics of the original dealer stickers, plates and tax disc holder from my cars supplying dealer, Drift Bridge Garage, Epsom. I will be getting all of them reproduced and the plates made up in period font. Just waiting on the sticker dimensions and will fire an email to DMB Graphics and get them made up. Will post up pics once I've had them made .

Went into the loft again and found the NOS Votex rear spoiler. Decided to fit that as well. And in the box was a pic of a Golf with the spoiler fitted which had the Votex VW wheels, but in straight silver. So off to the powder coaters they will go as that's less than half the price of the diamond cutting.

Another find from the loft. NOS Original VAG Votex hatch spoiler. Unlike the Heckblende I decided to fit this one .

Fitted it this morning as it was a nice sunny day and dad was home to give me a hand.

Measured up where the brackets need to be, only roughly as can be adjusted later. And then forced the three brackets under the rubber, by lifting the rubber with a screwdriver. Pushed them up until they hooked over the edge of the glass. What a pain in the backside that was:

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Then placed the spoiler onto them and centred it on the car, to see how far out the brackets were. Tapped them across by a few mm to line them up better. Then fitted the speed nuts to the fixing points on the spoiler and placed it on the car. Pressed down on it to bond the sealant to the tailgate and then screwed it on. Done :

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Certainly gives a different look to the back end of the car:

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It also came with this brake light. But I personally think it is rather ugly and the spoiler was never originally designed for it. The LED's are rather out of period anyway and a hole is needed to be drilled for the wiring. Which is never going to happen to a rust free tailgate:

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Should compliment the Votex VW design wheels rather well. Looks slightly odd being the only mod at the moment. Need a Votex Sport sticker made up now

Well that was quick!

Green bulb caps arrived today and were waiting in the mail box for me when got home from work. Was surprised as didn't expect them until near the end of the month.

Went straight to work swapping them in to the stereo.

Stripped down, orange caps removed and green ones fitted. Also de-soldered 2 of the 4 points where the bulbs for the screen went to and managed to wiggle them out without disturbing the other 2 :


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Green cap:


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Comparison of the orange and green. Orange ones are taller as they go right down into the bulb housing. Green ones cover only the part of the bulb that's visible:


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Back together and working fine. It survived! :


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And a picture of the orange again for 'before and after' purposes:


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Could have been factory :


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Pretty chuffed with that. Was an effort to get to this stage, but the green illumination makes all the difference :party!:

Just unfortunate that I cant change the colour of the ridiculously tiny bulb in the power light. Its still orange, but its not noticeable really and doesn't bother me.

That tailgate plastic thing looks wicked!

and the boot spoiler looks spot on :)