1989 Jetta - nOEM

[Dutch]

I remember speaking to you about the compo's in your citroen thread! They would look BAUSS on a jetta!

[AndrewCross]

i love super in-depth, detailed builds. looking forward to seeing future progress!
also, that schumi wheel has me all sorts of excited

[Mudcoatedgolfer]

put those borbets on the bx, they resemble it's lines a bit imo

Haha, I would but they're 4x100 and the BX is 4x108, I don't really want to spend out for adapters when I already bought wheels for it.

I remember speaking to you about the compo's in your citroen thread! They would look BAUSS on a jetta!

Oh yeah! I haven't decided what set will go on it yet. Perhaps a hybrid, the comps have the barrels already polished 😉

i love super in-depth, detailed builds. looking forward to seeing future progress!

also, that schumi wheel has me all sorts of excited

Thanks! Hopefully I can keep it going now that I have some time! I know, I love rare steering wheels. I don't know if it means anything to you but I also have the ABT version of the Nardi Gara.

Here's something else which ought to get you hot under the collar!





Also I need opinions, obviously I have a couple of sets of wheels that I'm refinishing.

Would you like to see wheel updates in this thread or shall I start a seperate one?


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[AndrewCross]

sounds like you've got quite a collection of steering wheels, I'm envious! wheel updates in this thread would be cool

[Mudcoatedgolfer]

sounds like you've got quite a collection of steering wheels, I'm envious! wheel updates in this thread would be cool

At one point, I had 7 different BBS steering wheels!

I'll keep updates in this thread then.

I need to figure out how to remove the ceramic clear coat on the Lips of the RN4 since my normal industrial stripper won't touch it.


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[AndrewCross]

I need to figure out how to remove the ceramic clear coat on the Lips of the RN4 since my normal industrial stripper won't touch it.

maybe try soda blasting or glass bead blasting. i had a set of wheels I'm refinishing soda blasted. got all the paint and clear off, just had to start at a low grit when polishing.

[Mudcoatedgolfer]

maybe try soda blasting or glass bead blasting. i had a set of wheels I'm refinishing soda blasted. got all the paint and clear off, just had to start at a low grit when polishing.

Yeah, thats an option. Im hoping not to have to do that since itll be more work polishing them . Im hoping i can find somewhere locally that can acid dip them.

[Meeve]

Wow a lot of work done so far! This is going to be nice!

[Mudcoatedgolfer]

Wow a lot of work done so far! This is going to be nice!

Thanks man!

I was just browsing through Instagram, and discovered that a guy called John vanek had a jetta which was built to almost the exact same spec. Same colour and everything.

I had never even seen it when I started planning mine. But I guess mk2s are so common that you inevitably find one that's pretty similiar to yours.

I don't think his was bagged though, so I got him there.


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[Mudcoatedgolfer]

Ran out of welding gas, so I made a start on my B2 headlight swap.

Here's what Im working with, luckily I was able to find someone who was cutting up a shell so i have parts of the B2 slam panel too. But annoyingly they didnt do a great job of cutting it out, so i may have to do some repair work before I can use it.



Firstly, I tried lining the moles on the headlight buckets up with the original jetta slam panel ones.



As you can see, they are are way too far in.

So next I used the grill as reference.



Ive still got to move it up a little and fabricate some mounts but I will try to finish it up tommorow.


I forgot to add this in earlier, but I switched out my rear deck and Cpillars for black Jetta GTI ones. I would like to find an Original non-sunroof Jetta GTI headliner but here in the UK we only got a handfull of Jetta GTIs and of them nearly all would have had sunroofs.

I am going to try staining the original one for now.

[rice4life]

Seems like the interior is coming together nicely. Have you considered wrapping the headliner in black instead?

[99sil-teg]

Man this is killer, love all the rare parts and attention to detail.

[Mudcoatedgolfer]

Seems like the interior is coming together nicely. Have you considered wrapping the headliner in black instead?

Thanks, I dont know If I posted up a photo but I have heated black leather recaros for it too. Theyre Oem mk3 ones, but they were never available in the states.

It would actually be my prefered option but for two thungs:

*The headliner would have to come out through the front or rear window, which means removing and probably breaking the glass, finding a Jetta rear window in the UK is actually pretty hard. Plus thats a load of extra work.

*On a previous mk2 I wrapped the headliner in alcantara, I spent probably somewhere near 4 hours on it and I could never get all the creases out. I know that the pros can do it but I dont like having to get other people to work on my cars.

So in summation, Yes I like the idea of wrapping it but no Im not going to do it haha.

That is unless I find another headliner to do, then I can just swap them when Im happy with It.

Man this is killer, love all the rare parts and attention to detail.

Thanks, I wasnt expecting such positive feedback whilst its still nowhere near done.

Yeah I love rare parts, theres plenty I have that Isnt in this thread. And also Im in the UK and I have pretty much every single US market Item for this car, so that can loosely be called "rare" here.

I actually managed to track down one of the most obscure badges available for a mk2,

"Jetta GTX16S", I have it NOS, Its from the french market equivalent to the GLI 16v which I believe they only sold a few hundred. Imo Its perfect for a supercharged 16v.

[P78]

you seem like handy guy

make the citroen 4x100

[Mudcoatedgolfer]

you seem like handy guy

make the citroen 4x100

I guess I could tap out the hubs to 4x100, the citroen has a much bigger center bore though.

And to what end? Just to fit the Kamei wheels on it? I could probably find a set in factory 4x100 since they made them for audi 80s.


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