Bora R32 Build Thread

[sports racer]

When I've got my Oettinger 4MO registered I'm going to have to come see you to talk cars.

[beale187]

Anytime mate

Didn't think it was going to make it back on the road after the wheel falling off.... Be good to see it back in action!

[sports racer]

Wheel was an easy fix. Been doing a bit of swapping parts off the other 4MO, hope to get it registered soon.

[beale187]

Had some time over the past few weeks to begin finally installed some bits I've had in storage for years. Spent about 1.5 weeks doing a full Leatherique resto on the R32 seats.



Drivers 1 treatment - Passenger 3 treatments. Feels such much soft, the wrinkles / cracking really came up to the surface and smoothed out, especially on the bolsters and lower section (where the back of your knees would be)




Thought I'd give the car a good details before installing these only to notice the .:R floors mats are twist type and my car had the push type plugs. That's when this happened.





fml...

NEXT....

Received a bunch of goodies in the post, of which was the smoked US spec GLi tails.

Went to fit them only to find there is no provision for fogs

So took some measurements and using a 29mm hole saw cut the backs out, sanded and cleaned.

Hole in the bottom left is the new addition.


Got them fitted, unfortunately the LH fog isn't working. Tried changing bulbs, bulb holders... Only thing I can think of is if the LH / RH fogs are on separate fuses? Yet to investigate.

Also fitted up some Heko wind deflectors, worth the investment.



Hoping to get all the carpet and R32 seats fitted over the weekend, along with all my brushed aluminium trim, door cards and swapping over all the interior plastics as the one in my daily are rubbish.

Then it's back to fixing ****...

Busted driveshaft outer boot (Fixed LH side about 2mths ago, now the RH has let go)
Find some way of capping this as it's causing my idle to hunt.



Find / fix a coolant leak
Find / fix a wiper wash bottle leak.

[joshmrmateria]

Looking awesome mate!

[kkkevin29]

those seats look like they came up pretty good.

[beale187]

cheers mate! Getting there, I REALLY want to get me Oettinger body kit on

[beale187]

those seats look like they came up pretty good.

They came up amazing. Considering these seats haven't had an ass sit in them for near on 3years, they came up really good. A lot of the faint cracking lifted out too once the leather softened further

[dylan8]

Suprised not many people have got the smoke GLi tails previously. They are a great look on a black bora Imo.

Remember to get coloured bulbs for the fogs.
Most boras only have 1 fog light from standard from memory. Mine was missing a bulb when I got it, fitted a new one and it's just worked? So don't know if this is a year thing or an Aussie thing...? Many threads about people adding a wire to activate it in other countries.

How much is a pain to pull the carpet? Considering doing it in the golf as its pretty feral.

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fml...

I feel your pain, using one of those carpet cleaners takes forever. It seems to work better, when you pressure wash the carpet and use the spot cleaner to just suck the water out. Hang the carpet up for 24h or so et voila....great results with a lot less work involved ✌

[beale187]

I feel your pain, using one of those carpet cleaners takes forever. It seems to work better, when you pressure wash the carpet and use the spot cleaner to just suck the water out. Hang the carpet up for 24h or so et voila....great results with a lot less work involved ✌

Damn, wish I had a thought of that! I hung it up, beat the crap out of it, vaccumed and shampooed it twice but there was still a lot of sand and **** that just would not come out. Great tip!

A lot of work just to change floor mat plugs though... VW says they just "pop out" but they're 15-20yrs old they snap before they pop.

[beale187]

Suprised not many people have got the smoke GLi tails previously. They are a great look on a black bora Imo.

Remember to get coloured bulbs for the fogs.
Most boras only have 1 fog light from standard from memory. Mine was missing a bulb when I got it, fitted a new one and it's just worked? So don't know if this is a year thing or an Aussie thing...? Many threads about people adding a wire to activate it in other countries.

How much is a pain to pull the carpet? Considering doing it in the golf as its pretty feral.

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haha dude if I'd known that earlier! I had to play musical bulbs for a while there not realizing I needed the colored ones.
Interesting about the fogs, not sure why from factory only one would work, should have checked if both sides worked on the factory tails I guess. I'll jump on UKMKIV's and see I can get any info on that because it's going to bug me that only one works.

RE: Carpet. Old MK4 vet like you will smash it out in no time. There was only 2 things that really stumped me a little.
Removing the bonnet release handle (there's a small retaining clip you need to pull out) and this section of the carpet here.


You have 2 options, cut a slit in the carpet at this location (Like I did)
Or undo the support bracket for the dash, plus remove the interconnecting ac/heater duct



That allows you to pull the carpet towards the back and out. I might throw up some steps when it comes time to putting it all in.

[beale187]

More fun and games with this thing. I was getting a lot of vibration at high speed and whining noise coming from the front right, turned out the wheel bearing was completely shot. Checked the front left and although there wasn't any noise there was a lot of play in the wheel. So up on stands it went for 1.5 weeks whilst I sourced the bits and fitted them.

In hindsight wish I had taken the time to just do the R32 spindle swap, but it meant another 2 weeks went by where I didn't get to fit my .:R trim or seats



New bearings all pressed it.


After pressing in the front left bearing and hub I found there was still a bit of play. I closer inspection it look like the hub was worn so replaced it with this 2 piece Vaico assembly, the beauty of this is the ABS ring is separate so if I need to press a new bearing in later I can with a lot more ease. The stock hub and ABS ring are one piece and it's a pain in the ass to work around the ring.


Pieced it all back together only to find that I couldn't was the hub nut back on because the cv end was rounded out (nfi how that happened) had to pull it all back apart and attempt to clean up the thread.



Picked up some new hardware as well because all 3 of the LCA bolts were completely stripped.


Also took the liberty of winding up the BC BR's by about 10mm so I didn't pack a steamer everytime I spotted a pebble on the road.

Didn't take many pics unfortunately because at this point I was getting ready to burn the thing.

[beale187]

Got the new carpet back in, swapped just about every piece of plastic trim in the cabin during the process and finally got my .:R seats in!

Before (eww..)


During


After



Also whilst I had all the brushed trim out I've recorded all the p/n's (best I can tell) for anyone playing at home.

[dylan8]

Should have just thrown the 32 gear in. soooo much nicer.

im sure that would have been satisfying getting getting the new carpet in