My MKIII Golf GTI 20 Years - Daily Driver

[bernardgam]

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[terrorandre]

ich liebe diesen wagen <3

[Kaiyin]

<3<3<3<3

[kittenpuncher]

love absolutely everything but the tinted tails but I guess with your red car it kind of works. Great attention to detail, pretty awesome you are almost at 250,000 miles thats an accomplishment.

[P78]

next time you are in brussels, let me know, so i can c this in real life

damn that golden plastidip look really works

[Shepherd]

Finished up the gearbox...


All related parts got a little overhaul and new paint and are ready to go in now.


My rear shocks were leaking, so I got two new ones... also installed new camber shims. -2° now instead of -1.5°


Everything taken apart...


...one bolt had to make problems of course, but nothing the angle grinder couldn't fix!


New vs. old. New shocks with KW springs.


all done.



dropped the ass 1,5-2cm and it looks so much better now, finally less rake and rubbing
Sorry for the shitty pics though... idk but thought the foam would come out better.

[93foxx]

damn that plast-dip is bright as shit i like it

[Kaiyin]

stuff and things and stuff and things

is it time for Worthersee yet?

*gets on a jet-plane*

[Shepherd]

gti-03 from GShep on Flickr


gti-04 from GShep on Flickr

Some weeks ago (before the pics above were taken), I fixed some rust.












It was way too cold for the filler, the bondo hardly dried... so I just gave it a quick sprayover. Once the temps go up a bit more, I'll have that all smoothened out.

Next thing was my gearbox breaking down... 4th gear doesn't work anymore and all the other gears are all wonky, first and second gear sometimes need a lot of force to shift... so eh.
Didn't wanna spend money on some gearbox where I didn't know in which condition it was, so I ripped the gearbox off the 2.0 16V that's still sitting in my garage.
For what I plan to do with the engine, I wouldn't need the gearbox anyway.

Of course I couldn't just put it in though. Had to give everything an overhaul to match my standards.

First the shifter box... taken apart and cleaned, waiting to be put together with new parts now.




The gearbox itself, oily and dirty.


..diesel took care of that.


Where did all that dirt go?!


...oh there it is.


After the pressure washer and some cleaners, it still wasn't clean enough.


...so I scrubbed it with a wire toothbrush for two hours, till the alu was all shiny again, time to tape it up, get it fillered and painted!


Now that looks like a gearbox that I would allow to sit in my engine bay.


After I was done with the gearbox itself, I started sandblasting the few parts that I won't replace... like the starter.


surprisingly it had green parts, lol.


Just fillered everything I sandblasted then and cleaned up then, gonna get all the rest painted tomorrow.
Still sooo much stuff to do till Wörthersee next month!

[Shepherd]

Just something a friend of mine sent me.... recorded at last year's MIVW.

[Shepherd]

Plastidipped my second set of summer wheels.

They are no Compomotive TH Monos!
They were made by Race Wheels (afaik a cooperation of Compomotive and Schmidt), sharing the TH Mono design. Though they are a good inch wider than the Compomotives.
Dimensions are 16x9J ET25.
They came in a different paintjob as well, 500 made in silver/black and 500 chromed ones.
Unfortunately Race Wheels went out of business shortly after these wheels were made, so I had quite a lot of luck, gathering 4 of them together.
Though I only could get 3 silver/black and 1 chromed one.

As the wheels were brand new, I didn't want to destroy the original look (also in hope I still can get my hands on a fourth silver/black one).
So last year I plastidipped one side white, as now the white didn't fit my colour scheme anymore and already got pretty dirty too, I just plastidipped them again, but this time more fitting in gold.


It was too cold in the garage though, so I moved everything to the hallway



I like the look now... it's not 100% good, but whatever, it's removable.

[Ubergewicht]

nice

[Logotech]

Very nice GTI ! I really love the pattern on the roof !

[Tubaman]

This MK3 is awesome! 400km, thats quite high. Gotta love those 8v

[Kaiyin]

@ Kaiyin
Lol you :p

<3 you too