Dude where did you get those seats and wheels ! I need them for my jetta lol
I got those seats for $200 from someone parting their 1991 GLi. Quite a find! BTW, I will sell you the wheels if you want them :)
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Dude where did you get those seats and wheels ! I need them for my jetta lol
I got those seats for $200 from someone parting their 1991 GLi. Quite a find! BTW, I will sell you the wheels if you want them :)
Recaro! It is like a different car.
Which looks better? 😊
I reconditioned the grill with SEM bumper paint and also paint the grill trim piece to tornado red finally!
I have the golf back from the body shop now and I think that the rust repair looks pretty good. Unfortunately the reason I bought it and started getting it in shape was for my kid to drive long distances back and forth to school. He has a Corrado g60 and while it is a sweet car, it isnt something that I trust for a long distance commute. Now my son has decided to go to Miami University and it is 10 minutes down the road. So now I am considering selling the golf since it is essentially an extra car that I don't need. Now it is a toy.
New wheels are on the Golf with fresh tires. The wheels are BBS RA's from a Jetta GLi. I think that they make the car look so much better. I think that they even make the ride height look better. I dont notice the rear end sag now... I still might buy some front lowering caps though.
The biggest problem is that the wheels did not come with center caps and those can run around $100. I hopefully have a solution and I will let you know about it once I get the car back from the body shop. It is there to fix that ugly yellow rear quarter.
I can’t wait to get this new toy on! It is from a MK2 Jetta GLi
Saggy rear?
Headliner Repair Part 2
In the previous post (Headliner Repair Part 1) I had repairs the headliner board with 2 part epoxy and used fiberglass to sure up the weak parts and to fabricate missing pieces. In this post we will finish covering the headliner board and install it.
One of the articles that I read on headliner repair mentioned wiping the headliner board down with acetone prior to applying the glue. I think this is a good idea but be very careful because acetone will eat into the board especially if there are scratches. I ran into this and mixed some very hot 2 part epoxy to fill in the gouge that resulted.
The glue that you need is something equivilant to the 3M #74 spray glue. 3M makes several models of spray glue but I was told to stick with #74 because it does not eat away the foam on the headliner material line the other versions do. I picked this up at Hancock Fabrics for around $16. I probably only needed one can for the headliner but I did some other things with it that caused me to need two cans. I'll explain later.
The headliner material is a piece of fabric glued to a piece of foam, like pictured below. I also bought this at Hancock fabrics because I was on a time crunch and didn't have time to wait. If I had more time I probably would have ordered from Your Auto Trim Store (http://www.yourautotrim.com/). They have more selection including suede material. What I chose was medium dark grey and I really couldn't have done better. It did a good job of matching the existing interior.
Videos to watch:
A pretty good video but the board that they are covering is fairly simple and made of some sort of cardboard instead of stryrofoam.
Sorry, i got distracted by an Alison Brie video on youtube and couldn't find the other video. Check back later, I will find it.
This next part is probably the hardest part to do alone. You need to lay the fabric out over the headliner board and trim to it to be easier to work with once you get glue on. I kept running into trouble here because the board was so weak that new cracks started forming every time I moved the fabric. Again, a second set of hands would be useful.
I used the method described in the first video of folding the fabric half way back and apply the spray glue to the board and the back of the fabric. Once they are dry to the touch, carefully attach the fabric to the board. Be sure to smooth the fabric with the back of your hand to avoid leaving finger prints in the material. Fingers apply a lot of force in a small area and can cause the foam to compress into the glue and stay instead of returning to shape. I wish I had more pictures of this but I was too busy keeping the fabric front clear of glue that i didn't want to risk getting glue on my iPhone.
Once done you will have something similar to the picture below, but not all trimmed up. I learned three big things during this process.
Covering a headliner that you have never seen in the car is confusing. This headliner board was in multiple pieces when I bought the car so I was not sure how it when together.
Wrap the fabric in the front over and glue on top of the board but the rest should be trimmed up and not wrapped. I mean, you can wrap it all if you want but it will make installation harder since you will need to install the rubber door gaskets over a thicker headliner.
Do not cut out the sunroof area until the headliner is installed. The fabric in that sections gets glued to the body and trimmed. Please see pictures below for why.
After you have wrapped and trimmed your edges, make sure to cut out the hole in the headliner needed for installation. You can cut them out with ta straight razor or you can simply cut an X in them if you please.
Reeling from the high of wrapping my first headliner, I decided to take on wrapping the A, B and C pillars in headliner material too. I dislike the black hard plastic look that was standard in this car and covering them to match the headliner seemed to be a good way to soften them up. Unlike the headliner, you need to wrap the material around the item and glue it on the backside. If you didn't I think the plastics would show through.
As I mentioned above, I should not have cut the sunroof opening before I got the headliner in the car. As you can see in the picture below, I should have glued the headliner to the lip at the edge of the sunroof as shown below.
i had also covered the back trim piece that holds the headliner in over the hatch. I messed up and completely wrapped it so i could not get it in place properly until I removed too much material from the backside of the item. I plan to go back and fix this in when it is warm outside again.
If you have questions or need further explanation, please let me know.
Ron
I bought a hatch off of a guy parting another MK2 golf since the one that I have looks like someone hit it with a baseball. When I got it I was surprised to see a Hello Kitty Stormtrooper sticker on it.
Springs, brakes and other upgrades
One of the things that Chris wanted to do to the cars was to swap in front brakes from a MK3. He already had the parts and just needed to get the work done. I can't praise the work that Chris has put into this car enough. He has really gone through it to make sure that it is a good car.
During one of our conversations I mentioned that it seemed to ride too high and he agreed. Since it already had a set of Koni shocks on it, I quickly ordered a set of Eibach springs and Chris agreed to put them on.
A good ride height will make a car go from plain to exciting. I chose the Eibach Sportlines because I did not want a "slammed" look to the car and all of the headaches that come with driving a car that low on a regular basis. I think the look is good but I don't want to live in too much fear of speed bumps!
The results we good but the rear is sagging a little now. Chris is going to get it in the shop again and look at the rear shocks because the thinks that they are adjustable and may be on the lowest setting. Just incase it was the rubber components being old I bought two sets of rear shock mounting kits for it. This work won't happen until after my son goes back to school after spring break since I want him to spend some time driving it when he is home.
Headliner Repair Part 1
One of the big problems with the car when I got it was that the headliner was not in the car. To be honest though the headliner was in the car it was just in the back seat... and the front seat... and in the hatch... It was in several pieces where a previous owner decided to tackle fixing it but never finished. A headliner in most cars since the 80's is made of a styrofoam shell to give it shape with a layer of foam backed cloth glued to it to make it look nice. With years of heat baking it, the foam dries up and disentigrates causing the cloth to fall on your head when ever you are driving. This has lead to an increase of duct tape abuse to keep the cloth out of drivers eyes!
Chris offered to let me pick up the pieces of the headliner since he knew that I was eager to get started on repairing it.
The front area around the sunroof was broken into multiple pieces and some smaller edge pieces were missing. The larger rear piece was fairly intact but it was cracking and splitting even more every time that I moved it. I had to be very careful to not do more damage to it while I was trying to repair it.
I sat down in my kitchen floor with the front section to experiment with glues to figure out which was the easiest to work with while also providing the sturdiest repair. I tried superglue, Monster Glue and a 1 minute two part epoxy in a syringe.
It turned out that the superglue was fairly useless since it did not have the filler needed to span the gaps in the cracks in the styrofoam. It also seemed to take longer to cure on the styrofoam than it did my fingers and every other thing that my finger came remotely close to...
The monster glue takes moisture to cure and the styrofoam has no moisture in it so the glue took forever to setup since it had to pull moisture from the air. When it did set up it was extremely stronger but it did cause more work since it tended to have a very rough texture that I wanted to get rid of.
The two part epoxy did the trick though. It had enough filler to fill in the gaps, it set up fairly quickly and it left a smooth texture that would not be noticed after it was covered. It did take quite a bit of epoxy to cover all of the cracks and seams so I bought the same material in bottles at Lowes. This was plenty to do what I needed.
Some of the big seams needed reinforcement even after the epoxy was used. While I did most of the epoxy work on the top of the headliner, I needed to hold the other side together with small fiberglass sheets on the underside. If I had not done this, it would have fallen apart when I was trying to glue the material on. I had not ever worked with fiberglass before and it was much easier than I expected. If you can put two part epoxy together, you can do this simple work with fiberglass. I suggest going to Youtube and researching fiberglass repair. That is what I did.
As you can see from the picture above, I had to use the fiberglass sheets to replace a few missing pieces too. I used blue painters tape to fill in the gaps and then lay sheets of fiberglass directly on top if it. I started doing this in the picture above in the big triangle shaped gap in front of the sunroof hole.
I let this set up over night since my garage was cold and I did not want to break it while trying to cover it.
I bought a Red Golf
My son goes school three hours up I-75 in Toledo, Ohio. He is a freshman this year so having a car on campus is a pain in the ass since he has to leave it in the ghetto and catch a bus back to campus. This is ok because his car is not quite reliable enough to make the trip frequently anyway. Since I have made the 6 hour round trip quite enough this year, it is my best interest to make a car available to him that we can trust to make that trip.
My son has a 1990 VW Corrado and I took it to a guy that I trust, named Chris, to look it over and give his honest opinion on what it would take to make to make it run better and hopefully be dependable. The conclusion was that parts and work that he couldn't do was going to cost at least $4000. It was going to cost even more when you add in his labor. While this this car's body is in very good shape, I still am not ready to sink this amount of money and in time into it right now.
The Chris had an intriguing option for me. He had a 1990 four door Golf that he was willing to sell me and guarantee that it would be mechanically sound. It looked at the car and except for the lack of an intact headliner and a layer dirt, the interior was amazingly nice. The outside needed some love but over all, it was in pretty nice shape. I will go into the body work in a later post but a body shop owner quoted me $300-$400 to make it passable. It also has a low mileage 16v engine swapped into it and a new exhaust. The swap was done by DTR Performance and they are known to perform quality work.
I decided to buy the car and I think that we came to a good price considering the backing that Chris was willing to put behind it. I am very happy with this and I am excited to get it on the road.