Fixing those little things...

[valgamesh]

It seems that every time I want to fix a small thing in the mkII I always spend the rest of the day in the car fixing other things and before I know it... its midnight.

It started off with simply trimming some carpet and re-tucking it back under the door seal and soon turned into fixing all the carpet, re-sticking peeling vinyl, the gear box cover and lastly the driver seat.

The carpet was pretty much straight forward and easy, trim a bit and put back so that was over in no time, the vinyl was a bit more annoying, the glue used to stick it on (some red sticky stuff ) seems to only have a short life spanned because everywhere its been used, its started to fail. So had to remove most of the stuff before re-gluing the vinyl back on.

Stoie fixed the gear box cover, couple of zip ties to hold the leather back up, then a bit of rubber tubing on the inside of the shifter head so it actually stays on.

The seat came next, been having problems with these since I got the car. The front passenger seat doesn't lock so if someone sits on it they move back and forward on take off and slowing down. Didn't look into that one as the driver seat was a bit more important,

When turning right it decided to rock you into the passenger side making you grip on the steering wheel for dear life and your foot slipping off the accelerator. I'm about 90% sure I'm going to have to replace the passenger seat rail, but driver one I wasn't sure about. Pulled the bottom covers off the seat (Covered in gray vinyl, stuck on by that red sticky stuff which over time has turned the gray 'pink-ish')

Shot without the covers (sorry for bad photos Camera phone was only one available at the time)


The Seats are mkIII, so I thought the rails should be mkIII to, but turns out that the mkIII rails were cut off and the mkII ones welded back on with a new custom mounting block added. Took an age to get the two bolts off

Once under there you could see the problem behind the eject sideways issue, the right hand rail had been forced out of the runner by carpet:







So out came the scissors and the carpet was cut completely back from the runners and around the mount base so you can get to the thing! Greased up the mechanisms on the seat which were fused into one position only , the rails and the runners.

Put the seat back in and bolted it up and took it out for a spin around some roundabouts, waking up a few people I can assure you But man does it feel good knowing I'm not going to go flying into the passenger every time I turn right.

[GOLFBALLS]

Good to see you're fixing those things up! I used to kinda scoff at the carpets and seat when I test drove it at GOLFWAGEN when we worked on it. That carpet work always looked a bit untidy to me. Obviously its harder to work with being thicker than auto carpet..?

Is it still getting hot?

Keep it up!

[valgamesh]

Yeah it just makes the car look a little bit tacky, its always the first thing people would comment on. As for the cutting it back, wasn't to bad, yeah its tougher then normal carpet but get the right part of the scissors and it cut fairly well.

Is it still getting hot?

What do you mean by that? Engine? Interior?

[Golf Loon]

Seats are Mk4 mate, definately.

[valgamesh]

Seats are Mk4 mate, definately.

Was told they were MK3 seat redone

[jayjay]

look kinda mk4 ish to me.

i can definitely relate to mk2 repairs.

[STOIE]

Yeah was a bit of a bitch to get the seat off the runners, I spend a long time trying to get those damn bolts off.
We pulled the passenger seat today, turns out the reason why the passenger has a bit of the lean is because when the mkII leg was welded to the mkIV base it had been cut to short thus making it lop sided.
Also needs some new plastic bushes that run down the front track on either side of the base mount. Anyone have any? Or know where to get them?
Fixed the slide though, the actuator was jammed because the base had been bent, bent it back straight now the pin locks in and out a treat.

[alex g]

yer mk4 they are.suprised that carpet has lasted so long to be honest,and the vinyl i was less than happy with most of it,but when i built it as a showcar,driven on the weekend in the sun it kinda worked.(and i learnt a hell of a lot in regard to how i would do things next time)

was never gonna stand up to day to day use, but kinda looks semi ok considering its 6 odd years old

one of my favs

[ozvino]

Also needs some new plastic bushes that run down the front track on either side of the base mount. Anyone have any? Or know where to get them?
Fixed the slide though, the actuator was jammed because the base had been bent, bent it back straight now the pin locks in and out a treat.

If you want the nylon seat bushes for MK2 runners you can buy them on Ebay; I bought a set for the front seats, cost me about $14 AUD incl. postage, several sellers list them, here is one example

VW Jetta Golf MK2 Seat Guide Slider Kit New : eBay Motors (item 180496634594 end time Apr-27-10 04:00:15 PDT)

Dave

[STOIE]

Thanks Dave,

I was trying ebay but didn't know what exactly to search for.
Those are different though, the ones I am after are rectangular, then mount on the ends of the aluminum block and slot in the guides down either side of the front runners rail.