Hi there!, i thought it was about time i showed you all some pictures of my new car! i took a few the other day. Its been outside a week or two and needs a clean but i still think it looks good. so here we go From the side: From the back: From the Front: From the Back: you should be able to see all images of this car in my photo bucket album by Clicking Here!! I thought id post up some pictures of everything i need to change on the car and what i plan to do, there may be quite a few. First off i wanted to change the indicators that it came with: changed them to this today I got them from Volks Bits, they look great, but the build quality is shat and i doubt ill keep them on, 20 seconds after i switched them on they were fogging up. Plus when they arrived they were wired up backwards so they wouldnt work when plugged in, i had to swap the wires around to get them to work! First on the repair list is this really annoying key hole drilled into the rear drivers wing god knows what for, my best guess is some kind of alarm. next is the rust underneath the wind screen and the spec of rust on the rear panel. I also need to sort out the rust thats just starting to appear under the boot seal very common on the jetta, luckily tho not structural next up is the rear bumber, you can just see the crease here where it has been dented in the past and as a result of that dent the bumper has moved slighly as you can see by comparing these two pics, however i have anoher genuine bumper in my garage i can replace this with, i just need a bumper iron for it, or to have this bumper jigged straight pic one drivers side gap pic two passanger side gap next i have to get a new windscreen because of this crack also i want to get any old set of clocks to use to replae the front glass as this has cracked. it should be easy to swap the glass over, i will also change the digital clock illumination at the same time as its green and all the other illumination is red. next im going to change the roof lining to black, i have a black roof linning in the loft, i will however need to find a sunroof cover and two sun visors but that should hopefully not be too hard. the roof linnning is a little nasty, i think there have been smokers in this car at some point as its a little yellowish
intirior is in great nick, and the seats have prety deep buckets, deaper than my gti ones, however they anrt perfect and i prefer the leather so they will be going as will the door cards probably end up in my current gti also need to repair a fog lamp as the drivers side is cracked, bt i have another set in the garage somewhere so not a problem aswell as getting a cat one fitted, doing headlight relays and fitting my stereo stuff, will need to do some re wireing in the engine bay, its been attempted before but im not perfectly happy with it so that will have to go as will this radiator and fan setup, its a gti fan to a none gti radiator with extended arms both sides, the radiator looks like its had it anyway lol have all the needed parts in the shed engine bay looks nice 50mm inlet already fitted the origional cover is on the bottom of the bonnet and its all pretty much unmolested to say all the work thats gone on under there also want to replace the thin horrible scuttle cover with the newer thicker item from vw will also be having my wheel balenced again, so i can get rid of all the weights someone has bolted to the outside of the wheels and will get a new one of these or spray this one black etc so it looks a little nicer on top of all that ill be fitting Electric mirrors should i body colour code them? electric windows, would really like a new set all around really but can never find any and its 250 per window from vw... ouch 280mm brakes with help from spacers from a friend 10mm mk4 rear calipers baded hoses all round hopefully if i can find any, some smoked top factory us spec rear lights maybe chineese door handles if i feel the need lol. my rallye grill and leathers of course and maybe and only a small maybe my exhaust, but possibly going to have another one made thats slightly smaller. the rest im probably going to leave as origional as possible, altho i might go for some deep dish wheels someday and a few tweaks here and there lol. seems like alot of bad poins on the list, but most of them are only small and the rest dont really equate to what i would have to do to my current car and most of the issues you cant even tell are there unless the're pointed out. so what do you think?
Ive been looking into why the car is running really lumpily, and noticed this wasnt connected properly. When i tried to connect it, the back of it wouldnt fit infront of the suspension turret which is why it came off in the first place. This is the unit: This is where its supposed to fit: When i took it out to look at it, i noticed the wires on the connector were comepletely missing, so thats a rewire job for the next few weeks. Here's how its supposed to fit: You can easily see the curved hose so it avoids the suspnsion turret, ive just been and ordered the two hoses from vw the curved one was 3.50 so not worth not buying. I have also just ordered a new front windscreen 70 inc VAT and knowing the guy behid the parts desk hopefully, i can get it for about 60. I was going to do it through my insurance after i'd got it on the road, but the excess would have been at least 50 ish so for the extra 10 - 20 its not worth the hassle. I cant wait for it all to arrive now! I've already had the car in at the local VW specialist who isnt cheap but is very very very good, and had all new gearbox bushes and linkages fitted as the car was struggling to get into 1st gear. Im not sure how cured it is yet as ive not driven it but my dad seems to think its fine! it cost me 58 :S ouch. Its booked back in on wednesday for an oil pressure test, just to be sure and to have the engine timing and co level adjusted so it should run fine after that hopefully!
I think you can do a lot with that mate , looks like a good start point. Always thought the getta was a nice motor
Cheers guys. To be honest chris im not 100% sure of the colour, it probably is atlas grey but its very sparkely in the sunlight and looks really good. Today, i soldered on the connector pictured above, it seemed to go together pretty well. i also cleaned, clayed and waxed the whole car, it was too dark to take any pictures, but if we get any sun tommorrow evening ill try to get a few, i will also give vw a call in the morning to see if they have got my pipe and windscreen ordered ok davey, get yourself onto the jetta owners club, see sig!
Ben, im not sure as yet, im probably going to sell it. It would work pretty well as a track car i think but it would need some work. I will have to see if anyone wants to buy it, if not then ill probably have to strip it and scrap it or something, who knows. Inoakgreen, im not sure if im going to drop it or not. My other one is on coilovers and its pretty hard and for the daily drive to work, i dont think its doing the car a great deal of good, at least with the standard suspension its comfy on the country lanes even if it is a little tall, i will have to see how i feel, no doubt ill end up lowering it at somepoint, i just want to do it right tho.
i only have a rear one at the moment as my front was destroyed by some aweful driver in a car park. but ill let you know
ello matey im sure ive come across that atlas grey befor [:^(] to all thos who are intrigued by the key hole in the back 1/4 it was to the cars original alarm. I know my stuff aye
no not been to the ring, previous owner really wanted to take it, but due to family comitments couldnt get the time to drive it over there so flew over rented a car around the ring and got a sticker. think ill take it off tho altho i like the sticker, i think it has to have been round to qualify lol
Well the cars been in again over the weekend and monday, to try to figure out why it was running so lumpily. The emmissions were off the chart when it got there, turned out the metering head was shot. I swapped one from my other jetta, and instantly it ran flawlessly. I managed to pick up another one for 40 from a friend, so now the car seems to be running fine gears and engine. Time to turn my attention to brakes and suspension, hopefully im going to order some VR6 pads for my calipers tommorrow and maybe make a start on fitting all the new calipers and the new master cylinder i have. Im also gonna wack the rear struts off as theyre sagging and fit some i have in the shed that are solid which should make it look nice and level and not tired. In the end i had to fabricate a pipe for the missing part pictured above, so i could drive the car as VW couldn't get the part. I recieved a bill of 166 from the garage :S but id have never have figured out it was the metering head so i suppose it was worth it. I also bought a brand new battery for it and might swap over the radiators, and if i feel up to it swap the water pumps too. I want to get the fog lamps changed over and maybe even the headlights and slam panel because i have the rest of the week off, so i should get quite a bit done, i might start with the easy stuff tho and see how i get on with the brakes later lol
