What have you done to your mk4 (golf/bora) today?

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Originally Posted by Back Door Shenanigans.

You wont have a problem at all. I've ordered probably close to 3k from ecs all comes quickly and well packaged. Good place that is. Also what colour did you get? The black looks awesome just hope you get the filler notch aswell.

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Well it arrived at 1pm.
Im very happy with ecs they are very quick considering i ordered the grill on the 28th of december holiday period.
Thet put the part i needed to fill in the notch on the bonnet too. I got the black grill with the chrome lip edge i like d bling without d vw centre
Coilovers will be next hahaha

Replaced the control arm bushes today. Used R32 ones in the rear of the arms.
Drivers side is a bit of pain to get the front bolt out of.
Did an oil and filter change too.

Only washed it. Nothing too special :)

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Originally Posted by Peter Jones

Replaced the control arm bushes today. Used R32 ones in the rear of the arms.
Drivers side is a bit of pain to get the front bolt out of.
Did an oil and filter change too.

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HA!!! you did this in one day, took me 3 weeks AND i managed to shred a outer CV boot in the process.

Drove it in the rain. It hasnt seen rain in over a year!! I forgot how nice it is to have AWD, eventho my bmw is so much more fun :)

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Originally Posted by Dyldo

HA!!! you did this in one day, took me 3 weeks AND i managed to shred a outer CV boot in the process.

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Took a bit longer than I would have liked, about 5 hours all up including re-lubing the sway bar bushes, doing the oil change, replacing a stripped bolt on an exhaust clamp and installing new wiper blades :-)

For my next trick I'll attempt a haldex filter and oil change, (once I buy the haldex wrench.).

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Originally Posted by Peter Jones

Took a bit longer than I would have liked, about 5 hours all up including re-lubing the sway bar bushes, doing the oil change, replacing a stripped bolt on an exhaust clamp and installing new wiper blades :-)

For my next trick I'll attempt a haldex filter and oil change, (once I buy the haldex wrench.).

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I need to look see at the specifics of Haldex changes. Not sure whether I'll service myself or go official yet....
Any links/tips Pete?

i think there is a cool jpg floating round of a good pictorial and write-up of the haldex oil change. I need to change my controller and then do a filter and oil change too. Judging by my suspension handywork i'd say it might take me about 4 days :)

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Originally Posted by schoona

I need to look see at the specifics of Haldex changes. Not sure whether I'll service myself or go official yet....
Any links/tips Pete?

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I've got the MK4 Bentley manual to go by but this PDF for the TT haldex looks about right.

http://www.billswebspace.com/Audi%20...%20Removal.pdf

Two biggest issues I see are

• Need to have the special wrench.
• Getting the car far enough off the ground to be able to use the cartridge gun to refill the oil.

GAP has the wrenches and filters, I'll have to get the oil from VW locally. To get enough clearance under the car I'll have to run it up on my tandem trailer.

I have my own haldex tool-it more like a crows foot-but works well(same ones as Billswebspace). The haldex is pretty easy drive the car to get the oil warmed up and then change it. Filter and oil I think it took me about 20mins. Also you dont need the calking gun you can fill from the sight glass. I used the ramps I bought from Autobarn and then put the front on jack stands so the car was level.