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

[kaneda]

Installed a MBC to lower my boost until I can change my software to something better .

[sirmoe]

Today I parked next to a stocky mark 4 at the shops, to my surprise it looked a few inches higher :/ Mines not lowered factory stock.

I popped the bonnet, the strut braces (or whatever you call them) have a 1-2" sagg on them :|

Springs must be worn?

[dylan8]

Today I parked next to a stocky mark 4 at the shops, to my surprise it looked a few inches higher :/ Mines not lowered factory stock.

I popped the bonnet, the strut braces (or whatever you call them) have a 1-2" sagg on them :|

Springs must be worn?

Wheres worn? do you mean the struts seem to be sitting high?
I know when i replaced my strut top mounts, the new ones were .5' higher then the existing... got a pic?

I open the boot on mine to find my 5lt oil container had fallen over with a lose lid... good thing I have a boot liner! a tshirt, and lots of documents were thrown straight in the bin however

Gave the car a clean, added a new sticker, and took it for a test run on the new wheels. Only took 100m of driving to realise the fitment is a little extreme...

and gave some of the other wheels a polish. Now for the other 3 sets of splits...

[Shadow_Rusty]

Long story short, When I attempted to start the car (in gear whilst on ramps by accident) one of the camshafts skipped a tooth...
Fixed up the camshaft timing, and now it all works as it should...
Just waiting on a heater pipe junction (1J0 221 087 D), but it should be in tomorrow morning...

http://www.vwwatercooled.org.au/foru...sor-62510.html

[sirmoe]

Wheres worn? do you mean the struts seem to be sitting high?
I know when i replaced my strut top mounts, the new ones were .5' higher then the existing... got a pic?

Here is what i was referring too,





I'm gonna take it to pedders for one of their suspension checks, already got a quote which I thought was pretty good. $1500 fitted for set of Koni's plus Koni springs all round.

[audi-tone]

Buy some coilovers from ecs tuning (America) or Dpm performance (England) and get a mate to help install them. It's jot that hard and $1500 will get you a lot! Maybe even some bilstien pss9's

[djorkboy]

Driving home tonight I noticed one of my newly installed headlights wasn't working right. The park light and fog light would come on but the indicator, high beam and low beam were not working.

Went to open the bonnet and the pull handle popped out fine from under the bonnet but when I pulled it came off in my hand. When I removed it to fit the headlights on Saturday I didn't like the piece of wire holding it on, so I replaced it with a cable tie. Only problem was the cable tie needed to be very small to fit in the hole, I guess it was too small to handle the heat under the bonnet, it softened and snapped.

Wasn't too hard to bend a piece of coathanger and slide it under to pop the bonnet, then used a piece of the coathanger to fix the handle back on more securely.

Disconnected and reconnected the connector on the back of the headlight and everything works fine now.

Also noticed that my second radiator fan doesn't work on slow speed and my driver's door micro-switch that tells the lights to come on only works half the time. Two common Bora problems that don't cost much to fix but are very very tedious.

[dylan8]

doesnt look to bad sirmoe... new mounts should bring it down a touch, but they are meant to sit up a little from memory.

[ohsnap!]

pulled out the starter motor and gave it a clean and regrease since it would randomly stick and make that horrible squealing noise. so far so good, and it definitely sounded nicer when we hooked it up to the battery to test it.

also picked up a $25 air mattress from kmart and a 12v pump for the car, fits a treat although it loses air over time

[Coralon]

Finally got my hands on a 36mm socket and did the oil change. The dealer I got the car from had to have lied because there is no way that oil was 7500km's old, poor engine must not have seen new stuff for the last 20k as it was black and the filter was pungent. Will have to do another change in 5k to get all the old sludge out.