The "Big Dirty" MK2

So I thought it was about time that I made myself a thread.

A little about myself, I'm David, 23 and I own a mk2 Golf Ryder. Got it a little over a month ago from a scrapyard believe it or not.

One previous owner, 127,000 miles. Body work is great other than some minor rust on the arches and a single dent on the rear quarter.

So far I've change the indicators and side repeaters for smoked ones. Got some cheeky Hella rear lights too. Also given the whole thing a much needed t-cut and painted the bumpers and splitter back to a nice dark black.

The interior just as clean as the outside. Apparently the previous owner had no wife or kid's, so it's not been abused .





Looks live i dont have any pictures that are up to date. Ill get a few soon. Thats my mates MK3 Polo GT in the last pic.

Current plans for the car?
New speakers
Lows
Handling mods
New exhaust
Maybe a paint job, depending on the quote.

Ive done a few bits since i took these pics. So ill get some this afternoon.

 

Blimey, that's a good find from the scpappers. Well saved

 

Seconded, good find

 

Cheers guys. Ill have to get some updated snaps tomorrow now. Hate these short days =/

Mainly been doing some maintenance as of late. Also steam cleaned my bay. Oh boy do I like cleaning engine bays!

 

Incase anyone is interested. This was my last car http://www.ukstarletowners.com/topic/52674-metal-gear-starlet/

My first car was a Rover Mini Cooper. No thread for that though.

 

Left it too late again. Got one picture though.



Ive got a front upper strut but I dont think ill fit it as it knocks on the bonnet a bit.

 

Im sure it wont fall to bits without it on standard power plant

 

Finally got a couple of pictures yesterday. Since then I've changed some bolts to stainless in the bay and gave the grill a splash of paint. Finally got my light clips through as the old ones have mostly snapped.

 

Grill repainted and new cross-hair lights fitted. The clips were a pain in a balls. Any alternatives as if i change lights again I'm sure they'll snap...more

 

So it's been a little while and i have 2 updates.

1: i fixed my rear wiper. Wire had snapped.

2: Got lows. 40mm drop to be precise.

Went from this



to this



And finally to this

.......oh yeah. i havent got a finished picture lol. Ill get on that.

 

Nice save. Paint looks pretty good from the pics!

 

Looks like my old Red Mk2 I owned a few years ago. Miss that car

Yours looks nice and solid though.

 

Thanks man, Im really happy with it. My first VW and all seems to be going well. I haven't broken anything yet =] Cant wait for Big Bang and Bug Jam this year!

 

Cleaned the whip today and finally a propper picture of the lows.

 

So it's been a a few weeks but ive done a fair amount in the last 4 days.

Moved the radio to where the ashtray was, relocated the cigarette lighter to the side of the centre console.

Fitted arch trim and gave all of the trim a respray. =]

 

OMP 4 Point Lower strut. What a pain in the balls to do while under the car.



Also made my exhaust straight through. Still have the back box, but it makes a nice sound

 

BBS Alloys would look better.Nice car tho.

 

Great condition, glad it was saved. I'd like a cooking Mk2 to pootle about in.

Never seen one of those OMP braces before.

 

I do need a new set of shoes. Waiting for something nice to come up. Will most probably be BBS.

Cheers man, admittedly I've never heard of a "Ryder" before but the 1.6 goes along just great. I've seen a few of the 2 point OMP struts about but I've never seen the 4 Point strut either. Cant hurt to have a couple of extra mounting points.

 

Well it's been a long while. Just a small update.

Got a Weber carb, changed some earths for the sake of it



Im thinking of cleaning up the rocker and giving it a splash of paint.But other than red or black. What would look good =/