MeTsU's 9N3 TDi - Sooty from South Africa

**MeTsU** · 16-02-2011, 02:12 AM

Not much in terms of an update...

I organised a new vbelt & tensioner, had them replaced today by my local dealer, ahead of my trip with *SamStaR* to Cape Town for the U2 concert. There was a bearing type noise on idle and worsened when the AC was on - the belt tended to slip slightly when blipping the throttle.

We also decided to replace the alternator pulley, as the clutch in it was starting to go, and it would cause a knock on effect to the next vbelt tensioner. A big thank you to my very good friend Darren for looking after Sooty whilst at the dealer, as well looking after me when it came to the bill!

Sooty's super smooth on idle and with the AC on now.

**MeTsU** · 23-02-2011, 06:19 AM

I was asked the following by a forum member on my local VW forum:

Originally Posted by BIGMIG

hows your cup bumper coming along

Migs, the bumper is waiting patiently - although I am most certainly not! All the necessary parts have arrived and are sitting in a very neat pile. Here's a photo from the weekend, I was fiddling about - I had to play a little, as it's incredibly difficult seeing the boxes there and knowing I need to wait a bit more.

**MeTsU** · 23-02-2011, 06:24 AM

So....

*SamStaR* and I made the 1800km odd round trip in Sooty to Cape Town for the U2 concert - what an incredible experience! I saw U2 in 2005, in Poland when they were doing their Vertigo Tour, and that was awesome, but their 360 Tour was the berries!

The drive to CT went well until we hit roadworks after Mossel Bay, from then on until Swellendam, we battled through rain and incredibly poor roads - it literally looked like they dumped Bitumen on the surface and threw the stone at it, in the hopes it would stick. Naturally, having idiots on our roads, we had people trying to overtake in these conditions.

This resulted in having tar spots on every single body panel and part of Sooty, as well as stone chips in places you would never believe. My OZ's unfortunately also took a serious knock and are now ruined and will have to be refurbed.

We organised a GTG with the locals, and seeing there had been 18 votes deciding on Table Mountain lower parking lot as the location, we were expecting around 3/4 of that to be able to make it. Well, we couldn't have been more wrong, with around 40 cars and hundreds of people there, it became a Summer Stance fest! :ThumbsUp:

It was great to meet up with all the CT dubbers, thanks to all and to Etienne and Robert for giving me some tips on best practise with my DSLR. Here are some of the shots captured and thanks to TinTin & Golfer23 for these. I still need to go through all the photos from the trip.

To Bos, TinTin, Vannieks1 - shot for the awesome continuation of the evening with a great meal!

**dom123** · 23-02-2011, 12:03 PM

wish we had 2 door tdis here in oz

**MeTsU** · 23-02-2011, 03:30 PM

Originally Posted by dom123

wish we had 2 door tdis here in oz

Yeah, we're really lucky to have produced the Sportline (3dr). Some of the PGTI guys here complain, as it was only available in 5dr.

**vwthunder** · 23-02-2011, 07:21 PM

2 Doors FTW

**Tarq57** · 23-02-2011, 07:48 PM

Those pics in post 73 look fan-fecking-tastic. Liking the grill. Liking the black. As Doug Adams said: "light just seems to fall into it..."

**polorized** · 24-02-2011, 03:19 AM

AAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!! i cant belive i did not know about this gtg!!!!

I live in Cape Town and would of loved to have a couple of pics taken of your car next to my Tdi since they are similar in appearance (similar drop, Lamin-x Head lights, black badge and i also have o.z. rims but mine are the oem .:r32 17's in Black). Just mine is Silverbird.

oh well

**MeTsU** · 24-02-2011, 03:34 PM

Originally Posted by vwthunder

2 Doors FTW

Hell yehs!

Originally Posted by Tarq57

Those pics in post 73 look fan-fecking-tastic. Liking the grill. Liking the black. As Doug Adams said: "light just seems to fall into it..."

Thanks mate.

Originally Posted by polorized

AAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!! i cant belive i did not know about this gtg!!!!

I live in Cape Town and would of loved to have a couple of pics taken of your car next to my Tdi since they are similar in appearance (similar drop, Lamin-x Head lights, black badge and i also have o.z. rims but mine are the oem .:r32 17's in Black). Just mine is Silverbird.

oh well

Ah, pity there bud. There was an 8 page thread on VWClub about it. Pg8+ are photos & video etc. Would've made for some nice photo's to have you there. What suspension are you running?