WA: Back doors 'Boring'

[Back Door Shenanigans.]

Spent most of Friday driving around different places trying to find a freaken crimp connector to install the fuse for my fog's. Thing is impossible to find. Good old Germans taking something that should be easy and making it hard.



Over the weekend i removed the lower black plastic bumper, stripped some paint off it, sanded, primed and then painted it to try and bring back the front end of my car.

Before, Notice the scrape marks on the underside. This sits about 10mm above the oil sump and i can tell you the oil sump looks worse


During paint stripping, Quite funny as you would scrape off some black paint to find silver, then scrape the silver off and it would go black again.


Before priming


And first coat of primer down:


Didn't get time to finish all of the final coats down but looks a lot better. All though i do believe its going to have to be replaced soon.

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Also went out and did some photo shoots for a small forum sig. Taken with a crappy iphone but mainly to just get some ideas. I know what i really want but will have to wait till next weekend.

It turned into a typical 5min drive on a VW with the shifter screw undoing itself along the way and freaking me out!

My fav 3


I'm unsure on which one i like best so if anyone would like to give there opinion heres the album

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So this is what the front end looks like after the lower bumper respray. It makes the Grilles look a bit odd because now they are all cruddy and not new



So yeah finally found some of the clips i needed for my fog light install on the friday when i got her back from the doctor (she is still sick as well ). Basically i tried to do the most stealthiest install i could do i.e OEM. I think i did a pretty good job of that but it was a pain in the ass to do it haha.

Wiring in the grille


No visible wiring in the engine bay (blue wire hidden afterwards)


lights Installed not ready yet


To connect up the fog light relay to the switch i had to run a wire into the dash. This is a pain in the ass as i couldn't find a nice grommet and i also wanted to do this stealthily. So i decided that i would run it up underneath the rain tray, also installing the ground up there in a OEM spot. Turns out there is a lot of **** underneath a rain tray. So whilst it was off gave it a clean and a vacuum.

Wipers and rain tray off


Rain tray before

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Ground installed


Wiper assembly removed to get access (pain in the ass)


Blue wire installed (not the prettiest but it was a serious pain in the ass to do any better and time was running out fast)


Rain tray cleaned up


CLEAN!


And fog lights working


They seem almost like a dimmer headlight, Throws light in all directions so definitely only used when no ones around (very likely at 1 in the morning)

[dylan8]

looks good mate.
I like the lack of visible wires. Iv got two sets running (one to 4mo headlights as i didnt have fogs before and the other to my old lower lights like yours) and there is wires going everywhere!
I found i gromet infront of the passengers footwell.
Did you reseal/glue the rain tray back to the window...?

[Back Door Shenanigans.]

looks good mate.
I like the lack of visible wires. Iv got two sets running (one to 4mo headlights as i didnt have fogs before and the other to my old lower lights like yours) and there is wires going everywhere!
I found i gromet infront of the passengers footwell.
Did you reseal/glue the rain tray back to the window...?

Haha thanks . I installed the relay and fuse into the engine bay box so unless you knew what you were looking for it all looks oem. Oh, I'll have a look i bet ill find that now . No but i'm not sure that its needed, Definitely wasn't before.

[geoff_gti]

nice work!

[balkanac]

i took my rain tray off a few times and i never glued it to the windscreen and never had a problem. Its not glued from the factory so i dont think it needs to be

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Spent some more time as always on it on the weekend, ironically trying to fix up what i broke last weekend haha.

Glued back the "welded" in thread that holds the wire box down on the driver's side. It snapped off last weekend when installing the blue wire. Got some rapid fix stuff to "weld" it back into place. Good stuff, first glue that actually does what it says and sets instantly. For some reason i didn't get a picture of it snapped off but oh well.

Bolt glued back,

Box on properly


And as always when fixing one thing on my car something else has to brake (god i love cars but god damn do they absolutely hate me ) Luckily i think my insurance will cover that. Best $25 ever spent


I also remember someone on this forum saying to check behind your wheel in the wheel arch liner. Whoever that was they are right, That is so chocked up with crap its not funny. Had to clean it out to get a metal tab from the side indicators which fell down there.


Quick question as well, does anyone know what this is? Looks like a horn for the alarm system but it doesn't work and i tested the wires coming in and nothing is sent when the doors are locked.

[RolfGolf]

I also remember someone on this forum saying to check behind your wheel in the wheel arch liner. Whoever that was they are right, That is so chocked up with crap its not funny. Had to clean it out to get a metal tab from the side indicators which fell down there.

Hope you checked 'em all while you were at it - it's amazing how much junk gets caught in there. On a positive note, you're now saving weight by not carrying all that dirt around!