After just about a month of ownership, I figured its finally time to start a new build thread or whatever these end up being.
Lets catch up everyone who has not seen my last build. Here is the golf. It was cool. I never drove it. All I did was spend a lot of money on it. https://stanceworks.com/forums/showt...-your-mk3-back
IMG-3798 by minthinrich, on Flickr
Basically to really get it where I wanted I just couldn't justify the build anymore. I got a lot of "interesting" trade offers. I got this picture and info and was kind of interested but there kept being issues to see the car. I almost pulled the 2.0 to swap in the VR and keep the golf since I was getting annoyed with everyone.
IMG-4447 by minthinrich, on Flickr
Anyway I took my lunch break one day to meet the guy at the notary. I looked it over and decided to trade. Did I test drive the car before deciding? NOPE....why would we do that. First pic driving it home. Decided to keep the thing hanging from the rear-view.
IMG-4449 by minthinrich, on Flickr
65342053390--656E7951-197E-41B1-97E0-96F99F629040 by minthinrich, on Flickr[/SIZE][/FONT]
Within 5 minutes of getting the car home I remembered I had some pedal covers. Threw them on to make it mine haha.
65342399942--130EE2A0-249A-407A-8441-6678011A82FF by minthinrich, on Flickr
Fixing little issues happened the rest of the day. The guy said the ebrake never worked, and didnt know why. I pulled apart the center console, and imagine that.....they were never hooked up. So easy 5 min fix and we had a working e-brake.
IMG-4467 by minthinrich, on Flickr
Boost gauge never lit up was another thing I fixed. I traced the wires into the dash, and once again, never hooked up. I wired it in using an old diy and it worked perfectly. I did find in my old parts stash one of the best fitting and looking gauges on the market from years ago. I will rewrap it when I do the headliner and pillars. I still love the MK4 indigo colors.
IMG-4462 by minthinrich, on Flickr
65357443194--E956927F-F917-4557-A701-A50E62FA1845 by minthinrich, on Flickr
I also had to get rid of the light bars right away. I will use them on my riding mower, but they do not belong on the car. Took the car for a drive up to the pagoda to see how she really felt.
IMG-4488 by minthinrich, on Flickr
Lets catch up everyone who has not seen my last build. Here is the golf. It was cool. I never drove it. All I did was spend a lot of money on it. https://stanceworks.com/forums/showt...-your-mk3-back
IMG-3798 by minthinrich, on Flickr
Basically to really get it where I wanted I just couldn't justify the build anymore. I got a lot of "interesting" trade offers. I got this picture and info and was kind of interested but there kept being issues to see the car. I almost pulled the 2.0 to swap in the VR and keep the golf since I was getting annoyed with everyone.
IMG-4447 by minthinrich, on Flickr
Anyway I took my lunch break one day to meet the guy at the notary. I looked it over and decided to trade. Did I test drive the car before deciding? NOPE....why would we do that. First pic driving it home. Decided to keep the thing hanging from the rear-view.
IMG-4449 by minthinrich, on Flickr
65342053390--656E7951-197E-41B1-97E0-96F99F629040 by minthinrich, on Flickr[/SIZE][/FONT]
Within 5 minutes of getting the car home I remembered I had some pedal covers. Threw them on to make it mine haha.
65342399942--130EE2A0-249A-407A-8441-6678011A82FF by minthinrich, on Flickr
Fixing little issues happened the rest of the day. The guy said the ebrake never worked, and didnt know why. I pulled apart the center console, and imagine that.....they were never hooked up. So easy 5 min fix and we had a working e-brake.
IMG-4467 by minthinrich, on Flickr
Boost gauge never lit up was another thing I fixed. I traced the wires into the dash, and once again, never hooked up. I wired it in using an old diy and it worked perfectly. I did find in my old parts stash one of the best fitting and looking gauges on the market from years ago. I will rewrap it when I do the headliner and pillars. I still love the MK4 indigo colors.
IMG-4462 by minthinrich, on Flickr
65357443194--E956927F-F917-4557-A701-A50E62FA1845 by minthinrich, on Flickr
I also had to get rid of the light bars right away. I will use them on my riding mower, but they do not belong on the car. Took the car for a drive up to the pagoda to see how she really felt.
IMG-4488 by minthinrich, on Flickr
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