SA A 1.6 litre odyssey

[WhoIsJohnGalt?]

G'day all!
I bought a '04 MkIV Golf 1.6 'Generation' for..... too little money 3 months ago. The poor thing was sitting in a dust pile (which may have been dessicated power steering fluid) smelling of petrol and lost dreams at a wholesale dealership.

As I've got a motorbike as my daily driver and needing to get rid of my old car due to it being associated with a failed long-term relationship. I felt a kind of kinship to the abandoned little old golf. I knew I shouldn't, my common-sense was screaming. 'This lemon will suck worse than a pensioner whose lost his dentures trying to eat a bowl of overheated minnestrone soup.'

Like Pandora and her box, or Orpheus trying to rescue Eurydice from Hades......

I couldn't resist.

As I've opened the box. Now begins a new odyssey. To give new life to the abandoned Golf.

This forum has already been a massive help to me up to this point getting it back to running. So I've decided to stop just staring and join in!

[Sharkie]

Welcome mate,

good old cars the Mk4 1.6s .... decently reliable engines that should last for a long time if looked after.

I know your pain having resurrected one from the dead as well. Issues I had were gear linkages, interior trim, intake plastic bits and front wheel bearings. Paid $800, fixed it, drove it for 2 years then sold it for $3000. One of the cars that I did not actually lose money on.