Another random kids pointless VR6 thread

[-Dell-]

Common fault the cruise control. Along with plenty of other things that I don't wanna tell you in fear of ruining that "I just bought a VR6" vibe - it really is a great thing

If you want coilovers, go ask 'evorobin' about a set of Hottunings. Quite popular for a good drop without compromising too much handling and stiffness, for $850 as far as I can remember. The car looks clean, straight and best of all, stock. Best platform to begin work on is an unmolested example

Just be careful with future maintenance because although I haven't mentioned any of it, it can sting you quite hard. Lots of things on these that can (and probably will) go wrong! That noise and that performance makes it worth it though

[Ben J]

haha yea had been "reasearching" vr6's for months before finally buying one so am quite aware that there are a heap of problems, but then again with any car this age theres gonna be problems, and that noise and feel when you touch the accelerator (even with my stock exhaust) make it worth the more expensive/hard to replace bits

Anyway some "progress" today:

Had agreed when sorting out paying for this thing to have a bit left over to buy a new headunit, as the old one may as well had been the stock one, was like 7 years old and so yea, needed to be refreshed.

old:


got a pretty good deal on this at jb


Didn't get many photos, but after soldering up what i figured i needed and connecting speakers, the thing wouldn't turn on. Turns out id blown a fuse when cutting the old wires, forgot to disconnect the battery anyway... while trying to figure out where the power problem was, found out there was actually a massive mess of wires and sticky old electrical tape, some things not even soldered and bare wires, looks like this must be the 4th headunit or so installed into this thing. So tidied it up a bit, got rid of some of the tape and soldered up dodgy connections. By now it had already taken 3x what i was expecting, getting the old head unit out and getting the new mount to sit nicely took quite a while.


So i finally thought it was all done, reconencted the battery, fired the thing up, had no sound at all. Then occured to me that that "speakers" i had plugged in were actually plugged in were actually rca leads, probably for an amp. A fair bit of searching later and found this completely useless amp hidden under the passenger seat:

The specs of the thing: 4x32W max. Actually a fair bit lower then the head unit it self... But since all the wires where there it was easier to just keep running it instead of tunning speaker cables up too the head unit. Might put a real 4 channel amp there when i have some funds again.

Anyway long story short some unknown cables we had found when trying to get the head unit powered turned out to be for the amp, reconnected these and almost came when I head music bouncing around the car

Anyway by the time it was all finally finished it was getting dark, and the crappy phone pics get even worse when its dark, but here.



The thing looks much better then what was previously there, not to mention front aux, usb and sd in, ipod control and like everything. Might just be that i spent way to long putting this thing in, but it seemed to sound 10x better too

[Jace]

That VR6 sound sure is awesome.
It was the one and only thing I liked about my car towards the end of me owning it.


Good luck with yours! Kudos for doing it on a tight budget too.

[VW VR6]

Well done mate and good luck with new VR6. BTW - if you have current RWC with your rego - your cruise cotrol must work. And how much you paid for VR6 if is not secret ???

[Ben J]

I havent got a rwc yet as i bought it in NSW, will need to get one to get QLD rego though. You're saying the cruise control will need to work to get rwc even though most of these cars didnt come with cruise control?

Paid 7500 for the thing. Considering the low km's and the condition compared to alot of other ones i had looked at, thought it wasn't a bad deal.

[skatmatt]

Those cheap springs on ebay says that they suit 4 Cly models only.
If you want to go low for cheap and dont really care about how it rides maybe go to pedders and get some cheapish lowering springs?

[Ben J]

yea had noticed that, found another set of identical looking ones for vr6, but idk, sounds like a good way to **** up the shocks and would probably feel horrible to drive on. May have too see if i can get some cash togethor and just do it right the first time and go with hottunning or something.

The car can be a little "hard" to start, have to turn it over for a while and give it a bit of accelerator for it to roar to life, it then sometimes feels like its running a bit rough. It has been a bit cold so hoping this is normal for a vr6 or not a major problem, once it gets going the thing is fine. Also hear a some what loud sort of quack noise (its hard to describe) when it starts up, no idea what that is.

[VW VR6]

Sorry I forgot that you bought car in NSW - I do not know rules in NSW but here is slightly diferrent. Good luck.

[KI11Z]

Congrats bro, welcome to the brotherhood of the VEE-ARGGGGH-6! lol, good to see another stolen from interstate!

Always fun building on a budget, it's when your creativity blossoms But please, as hard as it is, try stay away from china parts; I know they're cheap but you'll regret it...

If you want to go low on the cheap, get yo uncle snip snip on! :p

oh and if you haven't already, give it a major service; I did to mine after a month of ownership (back in the day) and it made a MASSIVE difference! It may also solve your lil start up issue...

It'd be nice to see you at future events if you can make it down

[Ben J]

Yea thanks, should be a bit of fun trying to keep the thing running especially if (well when) things break, let alone paying for things i don't really need yet. Alot can be done with a can of paint, some simple tools and some imagination though

The thing was serviced about 7000km ago, but it does sound like a good idea. Not sure if there are any good people specialised in vw up here though, want to advoid the dealership. A trip down to Jmac maybe, considering from what I've read here he knows his stuff, and either next year or the year after I will be living down in brisbane anyway.

And yea will definately try to make it down to some events, would be nice to meet some other members.

edit to save double post: Thing fired up perfectly this morning, which it also did the next 3 times i had to start it. Seems to have solved its own problem