What have you done to your mk4 (golf/bora) today?

[Back Door Shenanigans.]

Over the last two days. Gave her a nice good clean head to toe and inside and out. Also managed to destroy 4 light bulbs. And replaced my two center console peices which i broke doing the stereo install which i hate myself for. To change it involved taking the glove box out the two peices pulling the wire up underneath the carpet that i did before pulling the wire through then changing the handbrake peice and put cable back. All in all a massive pain in the ass.

[geoff_gti]

I went through that crap when changing my car kit for the phone...didn't know where the original box was installed. Had to pull the glovebox out too and then the center cluster came forward. The two pieces surrounding the gear leaver and handbrake which lock together no longer fit properly either. The mounts for screw on either side busted and a couple of the clips broke too

At least I wasn't messing around with cabling; I just had to swap the control box behind the dash as I used the existing mic & speaker. Damn...

[Back Door Shenanigans.]

Haha yeah its good fun hey. What i've managed to do is wire the ipod cable first to my glovebox with a usb connector. Then that wire runs under the center carpet past the gear levers and handbrake and up through the plastic trim of the arm rest and into the side. Great when its working but to do anything around there is a pain. Sounds like you also broke what i did aswell

[tomtom_r32]

"Digged" ??? hehe

Do like though!

'Cupra lip V2' - as in replacment, or is there a new/different design version?!?

Yeah, I had it in storage as I didnt like the look, the blacked out badge looks tops, but I love the stock OEM grill!

Cupra Lip V2 as in second one bought as the first snapped cause I ran over some builders tool which fell onto the road.

[thekraut]

Had its 90,000km service. Not long to go til it hits the 100K mark though

[McDub]

just had a free checkup of my car after 1000km as it had shock & springs & ecs stage 2 front suspension refresh kit put in recently by scot at arcus at artarmon.
strongly reccomend

Anyways, onto my car. I spent $2k on stuff from ECS last night.
H&R sport springs with KYB AGX damper adjustable shocks (My old stock suspension is shagged),
the front strut mounting kit, and rear strut mounts,
VW Stage 1 Clutch Kit (don't quite need to replace my stock clutch yet, but i'm planning ahead),

nice, that's the exact setup i've got.
though not to make you feel worried, i was very dissapointed with the drop the sport springs gave me.
i estimated they would drop the whole car around 15-20mm.
instead, front dropped about 12mm, which was ok, but the rear dropped almost nothing!
when you get em in, can you take some measurements for me? and post in here:

http://www.vwwatercooled.org.au/f14/shock-spring-combos-45655.html?highlight=

cheers

btw, the ride and handling is excellent otherwise

[goodfella]

just had a free checkup of my car after 1000km as it had shock & springs & ecs stage 2 front suspension refresh kit put in recently by scot at arcus at artarmon.
strongly reccomend

I've used Scott (Arcus) several times. Great guy and his team know thier stuff! Very strongly recommend!

[McDub]

yep it was your recommendation in an old post that made me use him

I also got them to do my pink slip at the time. Did it the once over and I didn't have to pay for a single part (he just reccomended what i needed to do myself, such as replace air filter... which i finally just got around to)

[bujna]

when you get em in, can you take some measurements for me? and post in here:

http://www.vwwatercooled.org.au/f14/shock-spring-combos-45655.html?highlight=

cheers

btw, the ride and handling is excellent otherwise

No worries mate, I will do. By the sounds of it i might not need the adjustable end links afterall. If i don't use them i'll put them up for sale.

I'm more interested in handling and comfort than drop for the most part, but i do hope it drops at least a couple of centimetres. You have probably put my mind to rest a bit though, as i was worried my exhaust might rub on the rear subframe if it dropped too far . I installed a stiffer cusco hanger quite a while back to address the issue on my stock suspension setup (basically with a full car of people the suspension would sag enough for the rubbing to occur when taking off in first gear).

anyways, i can't wait to get the new setup installed.

[Lonewolf1983]

chopped up my DVD player harness today and my OBD port works!
now to test out the C2 ECU again...

Also picked up some Meguiars plast-x to fix my foggy headlights, will post up some before and after

[dainese]

chopped up my DVD player harness today and my OBD port works!
now to test out the C2 ECU again...

Also picked up some Meguiars plast-x to fix my foggy headlights, will post up some before and after

good job! don't you just hate dodginess? you must have been shaking your head to have to go through all that. hope it works! *fingers crossed

[Lonewolf1983]

Oh, did I mention that the head unit is secured by velcro? LOL.
Going to replace the unit and mount it properly in the near future me thinks.

[dainese]

Oh, did I mention that the head unit is secured by velcro? LOL.
Going to replace the unit and mount it properly in the near future me thinks.

Oh? is it? well, maybe i was too harsh.

double din?

Best Seller and greatest prices:

http://stores.ebay.com.au/liquidice2008

[Lonewolf1983]

Well what an interesting afternoon...
a) tried to unfog my headlights, didnt do a great job. Probably going to buy some replacement lights and get some HID's in them
b) Time to try the C2 ECU that was continually giving me issues previously. Plugged in, cleared some fault codes, fired her up...
Idle was smooth, throttle blips ok, took her for a spin (where previously it had chuckled a CEL and died) and....

IT FREAKING WORKS!
Couldnt believe it, but it runs perfectly, checked for codes after a quick thrash (to test out the 7200rpm rev limiter ) and no codes at all!
Going to give it some KM's over the next few days, and if all good will go back on the dyno.

To be honest, it feels a fair bit quicker, and less throttle lag when getting on and off the throttle.
Fingers crossed it stays working.

[Merlin8r]

Got my birthday present. A custom 2.5" stainless steel downpipe, fitted by Castle Hill Exhaust.

To be honest, I'm surprised out how much harder the car pulls now.