My Mk2 GTI - the road to rego

**f320kty** · 16-07-2015, 10:34 PM

Il check if I have a flare - do u need front or rear ?

A lot of euro guys paint the bumpers and flares and remove the texture so they are high gloss like the rest of the body

Only cars to get roof aerial are 16V and Rallye , all normal GTI have aerial on the n/s guard .

**Matt P** · 16-07-2015, 11:11 PM

hmm thats odd then. Perhaps someone has retrofitted one at some stage.

Need a front flare.

I want to keep the plastic texture. Generally want to make this car as close to standard as i can.

**f320kty** · 17-07-2015, 05:26 PM

I'm trying to do the same thing - look as close to standard but be a monster under the skin ! Lol

**Matt P** · 30-07-2015, 09:57 PM

Registered!

**sports racer** · 31-07-2015, 12:17 AM

Congrats, looks good.

**Matt P** · 02-08-2015, 09:21 PM

Spent a fair bit of time driving it this weekend. Put 500kms onto it.

Has some quirks which i think i can fix and a lot of rattles that i'll chase with dynamat and silicone but really enjoying it. Reminds me of my youth and my first car (79 cortina) and a mixture of some friends first cars.

I think when i get it back to Adelaide i'm going to do a deep clean and pull the seats etc.. out. The car has a lot of mould in it from being parked on the street for a while before i got my hands on it so i'll probably dump a few cans of glen20 onto every surface imaginable.

An uncle has told me he knows a panelbeater who is out of work who is doing cashies around his area so i'm tempted to get it resprayed as the paint is pretty **** (although i have high standards when it comes to that sort of stuff). Just in the factory black. Another part of me is tempted to respray some minor bits myself and try and touch up some scratches etc..

I've found some rust from unrepaired damage too so i'll be chasing that down and learning to weld i suppose. Been a long time since i did some welding on a van project that i started with some mates but we'll see what happens

**Matt P** · 03-09-2015, 08:57 PM

SO sometimes the easiest way to find parts for your car is to buy another car.... which is what i did.

I now own a white auto mk2 GTI haha

1990 Mk2 GTI Auto in white, 120,000kms!!

It has had a little tap in the rear but easily fixable.

I'll probably mine the parts i want and give it to my brother in law to drive as his Mk4 just ate the dust.

**benough** · 03-09-2015, 09:05 PM

Hilarious. Tim showed me that.

Don't wreck it!

**Matt P** · 14-12-2015, 10:24 PM

So this thread has been neglected for a while.

Have been putting some good kays on her when i'm up visiting my parents (where it lives). 2 visits ago i lost reverse and while i was up there last i had trouble finding 5th too (gearshift linkages). That kit i bought a few pages ago came in handy, but being at my parents and nowhere to work on it i had to send her over to visit Matt at Camden GTI. Its back now and my dad tells me the gearshift is very tight.

I'm heading up there just before xmas for a week so i plan to finish off the stereo and chase down a lot of the rattles. Then working on getting it down to me in Radelaide.

Still hunting a passenger side front flare... anyone.... bueller... haha