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Nice work. MK1's have such a clean look, and the classic BBS's are perfect.
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LOVING THIS!!!!
MK1's are simply the best.
Keep it up bro
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loove it! cant beat a white mk1, whereabouts in the west midlands are you?Comment
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Nice MK1, too bad it's gonna look like every other one on BBS. Use your imagination, and get sum original wheels...
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I like how you brought a lot of things back to stock.Comment
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Its no a bad one for your first car mate
Keep up the good work!
Mk1's Rule!!Bri
Respect Existence or Expect Resistance - AoF
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Im not fussed - its my car, and I have always wanted my own set of BBS' and i am building it to how i want my car. Im sorry, but im not building it for you or anyone else, its for my own pleasure and if someone just happens to like it too, then that's cool.Originally posted by DutchStance View Post
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Originally posted by speakerboy View PostOriginally posted by Tubaman View PostOriginally posted by MuTToN_DaGGeR View PostOriginally posted by mk1poloboy View PostOriginally posted by SheaMoose View PostCheers everyone!Originally posted by WiiGoCrazy View Post
Yes i prefer that classy original look, to all the smoothed, de badged and crystal light stuff.
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I still have so much more to add to this thread until it is at the present stage!
Been busy driving her about over the past few days, Mk1 Golf annual gathering, and the Alldubs show have taken up this weekend!
Maybe more to be added in the week!
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Looking good! Hope to see more of this build...
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Winter was here!
I took her off the road over the winter to start picking away at the list of things i wanted to do to her to make me a little more happy!
I started to collect a few parts!
Mint condition center console with mint condition vdo dials.
New lower arms, bushes and ball joints
A genuine VW badge, unused and was in the original bag!
Brand new Hella headlights
And a few other bits and bobs to tidy her up!
I stripped the insides out! And while doing so, i found an old spark plug under the carpet? What on earth was that doing there? Atleast i had solved a rattle!
Fitted new dash lights as all of mine had blown!
Refitted the carpet as the mupet that had owned the car before me had never fitted the carpet correctly! I also sorted out some of the wiring at this stage and tidied it up!
Not looking to shabby. Much better than it looked before!
On the lower dash/undertrays, i bought some decent second hand ones, but i was not told they had several holes in them, which would have drove me crazy knowing they were there!
So i had a play with a soldering iron, melted the plastic back into the hole, and tried to recreate as much of the texture pattern as possible with the soldering iron. I didn't think the outcome was too bad!
Before
After
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I set about changing the lower arms, bushes and ball joints, and i think it was fair to say that the old ones were at the very end of their life!
New ones fitted
I put some GTI side stripes on that i bought from http://volkswagenstickers.co.uk/ - they make all their stickers to the original specs, and to the best quality i have seen.
I went to change the front brake callipers for recondition new ones - but i could not get the same callipers as my existing ones so i ordered the other type of calliper that was also originally fitted to the car. I was not very keen on them but they would do the job.
I started to swap the calliper, disk, flexy hoses, and pads on the one side, and was unable to thread the flexy hose into the calliper... strange? After a bit of thinking i discovered that for some reason, the new callipers had been tapped with a left hand thread?
I took them back to the car spares place i had them from, played my face as im sure most of you would have done, and decided to send my existing ones of to be reconditioned. That way i knew they would be the correct ones!
Once i got them back, then fitted on like a dream!
Old vs wrong calliper!
My own reconditioned callipers all fitted with no problems.
I did position the flexy hoses correctly afterwards with the protectors etc.
New original VW choke cable - special order from germany! Almost £100 for a bloody cable!
The new badge fitted! Look at that shine!
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I took her for MOT, and she passed with no advisories on the old wheels!
As soon as i got her home, that was it, new wheels being fitted and the coilovers being wound down!
I was rather pleased with the results!
Mid fit
Heres a few photos other people have taken at a couple of shows!
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