New diesel owner

[GeorgeMK1]

Awesome man, cool pics. Sammy should really make a build thread on here!

[DieselMk1]

There's some seriously good pix in there and it looks like you had a fantastic day.

The yellow one looks like my old one.

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You need to get out the angle grinder and cut down your springs though, make it look less sit up and beg and give it some attitude.

Cheers

Paul

I would but I really like the smooth ride for once, plus for once I get no attention from the boys in blue. It's a nice feeling not stressing out when there's a cop car behind you once I take it off the road for rust repairs I'll buy some coils and drop it an inch or so

Awesome man, cool pics. Sammy should really make a build thread on here!

He should, although as far as I know the wheels and coils are the only mods. His other build though, well, that will be one to keep an eye out for

[sports racer]

Take the coils out and cut them with an anglegrinder. That's how I've been lowering my cars for the past 30 years, ever since I bought custom Lovell springs that turned out to be too long. I sent them back and got the exact same springs returned after they cut off a coil.

I figure if they can do it then I'll save money and do it myself too.

The advantage of cutting your own springs is you can set the exact ride height you want by cutting off half what you think is enough, let the car settle, then work out how much more you need. It's never as much as you first thought. The springs also get harder when they are shorter (less compression because there's less spring) so the car is stiffer. This is great for standard springs.

I've done this on every MK1 I've owned and every one of them handled much better after this mod. I've never had a spring problem on any of my cars.

Cheers

Paul

[DieselMk1]

Take the coils out and cut them with an anglegrinder. That's how I've been lowering my cars for the past 30 years, ever since I bought custom Lovell springs that turned out to be too long. I sent them back and got the exact same springs returned after they cut off a coil.

I figure if they can do it then I'll save money and do it myself too.

The advantage of cutting your own springs is you can set the exact ride height you want by cutting off half what you think is enough, let the car settle, then work out how much more you need. It's never as much as you first thought. The springs also get harder when they are shorter (less compression because there's less spring) so the car is stiffer. This is great for standard springs.

I've done this on every MK1 I've owned and every one of them handled much better after this mod. I've never had a spring problem on any of my cars.

Cheers

Paul

Not to sound rude but I'm quite akin to the ol' Makita super lows

The main reason I don't want to cut my springs (aside from keeping the stock look) is the fact that this is a one owner, completely original car, save for the little bits and pieces I've done. As I drive this car daily and drive long distances on terrible rural roads, comfort is number one for now after learning the hard way in my first Golf that low stiff suspension is awful for long distance driving. First on my list of things to do is to make it get up and go a little more, and if I havent bought a daily by tax time I'll be spending money buying tyres for the Mk2 steelies I have and then investing in some coils. Ones that fit this time hahah.

[sports racer]

Fair call.

I cut down the springs on my 98 polo and it's still a soft ride, just not as seasick inducing as a normal polo.

Go for a decent rear sway bar, one that fits inside the rear beam. That and a front lower strut brace + decent tyres will really put a smile on your face. Rear sway bar and brace can be built up for less than $100 if you know how to weld.

Cheers

Paul

PS How bad are your roads? I do 180 ks per day in the MK2 with cheap coilovers and it's really fun but some sections of the local country roads make the CD skip a bit. I've recently fitted 14's with 60 profile tyres instead of the 15's and 50 profile I was running and it's heaps better but I can't go through corners as fast as I used to.

[DieselMk1]

Fair call.

I cut down the springs on my 98 polo and it's still a soft ride, just not as seasick inducing as a normal polo.

Go for a decent rear sway bar, one that fits inside the rear beam. That and a front lower strut brace + decent tyres will really put a smile on your face. Rear sway bar and brace can be built up for less than $100 if you know how to weld.

Cheers

Paul

PS How bad are your roads? I do 180 ks per day in the MK2 with cheap coilovers and it's really fun but some sections of the local country roads make the CD skip a bit. I've recently fitted 14's with 60 profile tyres instead of the 15's and 50 profile I was running and it's heaps better but I can't go through corners as fast as I used to.

Cheers for the tips I really need some sway bars aha

Our roads are really quite bad, it's surprising really seeing as the Barossa Valley is somewhere people from all over the world come and visit yet the roads are awful. Go figure

[DieselMk1]

Random update, I got a genuine Mk1 foglight switch for my foggies chuffed!

[DieselMk1]

New update woooo

So, there was an auto swallowtail for sale for a while on Gumtree. Someone bought it, we ended up finding the new owner on Facebook through a Euro group, and surprisingly he lived around the corner from where my missus lives. Car itself is a 2/76, and is the earliest one I've seen in the flesh I'm pretty sure.

We met up with him and got some problems sorted on his Golf, including:
- replaced bulb in left hand head light
- replaced parking lights
- replaced left hand front indicator
- swapped out the air intake and filter box for some good ones
- got the high beams working
- got all the instrument panel lights working
- swapped the really crap dash with a not as crap dash
- replaced the bolts on the cam cover
- re-secured the battery mount
- replaced the middle water pump hose
- replaced both windscreen wiper arms
- swapped out the sun visors for some factory ones
- replaced the indicator stalk as the old one was busted
- installed a dash mat!
- installed a new fuse box cover
- cleaned out a fair amount of crap out of the back











Now the owner is wanting to sell and guess who has first dibs

Seeing as my diesel needs some rust repairs and rego is due soon, the timing is perfect Hoping to pick it up on Friday

[gazzmo]

So other than an old straw and a few pens did you find any coins

I hope you paid a fair price for her given how much work you had already put in.

[DieselMk1]

So other than an old straw and a few pens did you find any coins

I hope you paid a fair price for her given how much work you had already put in.

Found a 5c coin haha that's about it. Yeah I'll be paying a very fair price for it