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Fixing those little things...
It seems that every time I want to fix a small thing in the mkII I always spend the rest of the day in the car fixing other things and before I know it... its midnight. 
It started off with simply trimming some carpet and re-tucking it back under the door seal and soon turned into fixing all the carpet, re-sticking peeling vinyl, the gear box cover and lastly the driver seat.
The carpet was pretty much straight forward and easy, trim a bit and put back so that was over in no time, the vinyl was a bit more annoying, the glue used to stick it on (some red sticky stuff
) seems to only have a short life spanned because everywhere its been used, its started to fail. So had to remove most of the stuff before re-gluing the vinyl back on.
Stoie fixed the gear box cover, couple of zip ties to hold the leather back up, then a bit of rubber tubing on the inside of the shifter head so it actually stays on.
The seat came next, been having problems with these since I got the car. The front passenger seat doesn't lock so if someone sits on it they move back and forward on take off and slowing down. Didn't look into that one as the driver seat was a bit more important,
When turning right it decided to rock you into the passenger side making you grip on the steering wheel for dear life and your foot slipping off the accelerator. I'm about 90% sure I'm going to have to replace the passenger seat rail, but driver one I wasn't sure about. Pulled the bottom covers off the seat (Covered in gray vinyl, stuck on by that red sticky stuff which over time has turned the gray 'pink-ish')
Shot without the covers (sorry for bad photos
Camera phone was only one available at the time)
The Seats are mkIII, so I thought the rails should be mkIII to, but turns out that the mkIII rails were cut off and the mkII ones welded back on with a new custom mounting block added. Took an age to get the two bolts off
Once under there you could see the problem behind the eject sideways issue, the right hand rail had been forced out of the runner by carpet:
So out came the scissors and the carpet was cut completely back from the runners and around the mount base so you can get to the thing! Greased up the mechanisms on the seat which were fused into one position only, the rails and the runners.
Put the seat back in and bolted it up and took it out for a spin around some roundabouts, waking up a few people I can assure you
But man does it feel good knowing I'm not going to go flying into the passenger every time I turn right.
It started off with simply trimming some carpet and re-tucking it back under the door seal and soon turned into fixing all the carpet, re-sticking peeling vinyl, the gear box cover and lastly the driver seat.
The carpet was pretty much straight forward and easy, trim a bit and put back so that was over in no time, the vinyl was a bit more annoying, the glue used to stick it on (some red sticky stuff
) seems to only have a short life spanned because everywhere its been used, its started to fail. So had to remove most of the stuff before re-gluing the vinyl back on.Stoie fixed the gear box cover, couple of zip ties to hold the leather back up, then a bit of rubber tubing on the inside of the shifter head so it actually stays on.
The seat came next, been having problems with these since I got the car. The front passenger seat doesn't lock so if someone sits on it they move back and forward on take off and slowing down. Didn't look into that one as the driver seat was a bit more important,
When turning right it decided to rock you into the passenger side making you grip on the steering wheel for dear life and your foot slipping off the accelerator. I'm about 90% sure I'm going to have to replace the passenger seat rail, but driver one I wasn't sure about. Pulled the bottom covers off the seat (Covered in gray vinyl, stuck on by that red sticky stuff which over time has turned the gray 'pink-ish')
Shot without the covers (sorry for bad photos
Camera phone was only one available at the time)The Seats are mkIII, so I thought the rails should be mkIII to, but turns out that the mkIII rails were cut off and the mkII ones welded back on with a new custom mounting block added. Took an age to get the two bolts off
Once under there you could see the problem behind the eject sideways issue, the right hand rail had been forced out of the runner by carpet:
So out came the scissors and the carpet was cut completely back from the runners and around the mount base so you can get to the thing! Greased up the mechanisms on the seat which were fused into one position only
, the rails and the runners.Put the seat back in and bolted it up and took it out for a spin around some roundabouts, waking up a few people I can assure you
But man does it feel good knowing I'm not going to go flying into the passenger every time I turn right.
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