VW Golf Mk2 Tour edition.

Build blog! Working on and restoring a 1988 VW Golf MK2 Special Edition Tour 1.8L. Will keep this blog updated with everything I do! Mainly this is for my own account and to have some memories of my time working on this awesome car!

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What’s happening?

Okay! So haven’t posted in a while so kind of throwing a lot of stuff out that’s been happening over the last few months!

But in this post I’m going to try explain what I’ve done and what’s been going on!

So to begin with.. I bought the car as non-running it seemed to have a douzen and a half of issues..

However I promptly found out that 90% of what was wrong was all electrical and down to the fact the fuses looked like they hadn’t been changed since factory.

So after changing the fuses I found that a huge amount of the car was working again.

Many biggest issues were the battery was draining rapidly and it was also just being very finicky and cutting out quite a lot to the point it was undrivable because of it cutting out every time you put gas on.

I narrowed it down to the carb. So I did have a pierburg 2e on it but that was taken off and replaced for a Weber 32/34 DTLM.

After then adjusting the carb, re-sealing it and making sure I had no air leaks around the area it was running a damn slight better!

And with the carb fixed the battery issue seemed to disappear too as it hasn’t ran out since!

I then scanned the car and looked for any other damage and besides a couple rust patches the car was in very good nick Just needs a good old clean!

I put it through an MOT and it passed! Advisory’s were minor, most important one is to get the windscreen glass changed ASAP because of the crack which I’ll be doing soon.

That leads up to now..

So as you can see it’s been stripped back to silver!

We’ve got one more day of polishing up to do and after that it’s onto detailing, touch ups and extras!

It’s safe to say the mechanical side of stuff is near enough out of the way! Now it’s just down to the more aesthetic stuff!

It’s looking good!

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Fixed it ;p what a beautiful sound! Im posting these way after the fact! But I’m going to put an explanation post up in a moment!

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Had a few engine problems :(

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Time for a new Choke Cable!

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Won’t be black for much longer :)

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Guess what we did today ✌️ sunshine and good mates, It’s not bare metal! Previous owner sprayed the whole car in satin black spray paint He regretted and I hated it! So here’s some advice/tutorial for anyone else with similar issues! (Also works if your car ever gets graffitied So for a very long time I’ve been pondering on and playing around with ideas... The goal was strip the spray paint without touching the original factory paint. As this car does look awesome in the original Metallic Silver! Not a common colour for the mk2 as I understand! However every method I was either suggested or tried was either too abrasive and damaging the factory coat and lacquer or too soft and wasn’t cutting the paint off So after finding out specifically which paint the previous owner used I started doing some google searching an figured out the paint was acrylic based as is most spray paint... And then I came across the beautiful solvent known as acetone! And acetone basically specifically attacks acrylic and near enough dissolves it. I eventually found that you can purchase 5L bottles of the stuff at Salon supply shops for use in nail studios to remove acrylic nails. So after dragging a mate along we got a few buckets and a bunch of cloths and got to work! Now it comes with its problems so if you’re gonna do anything like this be prepared. It’s not easy, you’ve got to wear gloves it does sting and burn your hands, just wash off with cold water and should be fine, it’s quite pungent so preferably do outside. It gets very... very messy. We found that it was moving the paint very easily within seconds of application but if it’s oversaturated then it will just move it about and then will dry quickly and just create big black smudges everywhere. We found the best way as to get a microfibre cloth slightly dampened on one side and work in small areas and keep going over the same spot until it’s completely off and no smudges. It’s took us at least about 6 hours and we’ve done probably 70% of the car now. It’s going to take time and effort! But it is a lot of fun seeing it transform! I’m mainly posting this because to find out this took me a long ass time! So hopefully this will save someone a few hours of googling! It’s beginning to look mint and I’ve just saved myself a heap of money as compared to a full respray! It’s not going to be absolutely flawless but it’s going to look rad! Any questions please ask! ^^

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Interior needs a clean but holy hell the interior is in decent nick!

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Before and after having a little clean up still needs a full proper wash but that I’ll be doing once I can get the engine out!

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Picked up this beauty of a guy who had lost love!

Was an arse ache getting it into the garage but here we go!