What did you fix/replace on your Mk1 today?

**Brisben** · 11-08-2009, 10:07 AM

Lowered it a little more.. looks awesome.

Having the interior retrimmed.

Just removing door cards ready for retrim in black vinyl.

Will post pics.

**Jarred** · 13-08-2009, 12:20 PM

washed and waxed my wheels...

**dubai gti** · 14-08-2009, 07:42 PM

had a new central locking kit & keyless entry fitted today, as the old one was knackered...tomorrow is wheel alignment and balancing....

BTW..Jarrad, did u get out to see vipergreen's car in Canterbury Rd ??..I gave it a miss on buying the whole car in the end.

**Jarred** · 14-08-2009, 10:13 PM

Yea I ended up buying it. There's a good car under there somewhere and I'm determined to find it!

btw, it's Jarred. spelt with an 'e'. as it says in my user name. thanks.

EDIT: what central locking kit have you got?

I've decided to get one for my mk 1, ones off ebay normally go for about $50 odd bucks.

**Inertiatic** · 19-08-2009, 01:41 PM

Master brake cylinder...
ISV
Potentially fixed the top's hydraulic reservoir (if i can work out how to seal up the whole of the bottom of the plastic reservoir)

**Jarred** · 19-08-2009, 07:26 PM

installed remote central locking.

**mrlex** · 19-08-2009, 08:43 PM

Jarred,
How hard was it to fit the central locking to the Mk1?
Which kit did you end up getting if you don't mind me asking...

Cheers
Alex

**Jarred** · 19-08-2009, 11:55 PM

I got the one from repco, 60 bucks on special. pretty sure they're the same as the kits off ebay.

install is pretty straight forward, just a little fiddly trying to get to some of the bits, and requires a bit of out of the box thinking sometimes.

I had to (well I did) remove my front seats to hide the wiring under the carpet. In the end I could only get 1 clicker to work (not both) and there kit was lacking a few screws, but apart from that, seems pretty good so far. Lack of instructions made it a little difficult to get it to work, but I think I got it in the end. took me about 4 hours. That included alot of fiddling around including swapping bits from other cars. now that I know how to do it, probably about 3 hours, 2hrs for a 2 door.

Don't know if it was worth it yet, cause I havn't driven it yet, but I'm pretty sure it was!

**greasykitchen** · 20-08-2009, 06:07 PM

Took it in for a service and for a few other things including having the brakes relined, tie-rod replaced, and wheel bearing looked at/fixed. Hope it's not gonna involve too many $$$