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LC5F's Graphite Blue GTI - Pilgrimage to Caffeine & Machine
LC5F:
I got the calipers back from powder coating:
Sadly they are going to need a lot of tidying up, lots of coating on matting surfaces and they didnt block up the cylinder while blasting so I need to hone the bore again!
Did a trip to my favourite scrap yard, I was looking for Aero parts for underside but every car was up on stacked wheels destroying the parts I was looking for.
Shifted the search to MFSW, I thought I had looked at every Mk5 & Passat, I was about to head off when I spotted a black one.
It had the switches, weirdly the airbag had already been removed.. why leave the valuable switches?
Took the switches and the module out in one piece, cost at my yard for one set of switches a bargain £6
Cheeky celebratory Burger King on the way home - no que at the drive through - Great success!
LC5F:
I was too keen to wait till daylight...head torch + I was careful & didnt disconnect battery...fitted:
Worked straight away thanks to mine being DSG
LC5F:
Yesterday I finished work for the year and has freed me up to get a chance to do stuff with the Golf.
First task was to get rid of all the old parts I had accumulated- The majority of the stuff was a pile of rusty Mk5 parts, Mk4 hatch and a clothes airer in the front garden:
Loaded up I have some nice tuck:
Took that lot to be weighted in, weigh bridge on entry 1630, emptied 1430kg - thats with fuel tank hovering around the red line - operator said it was a heavy car!
So for 200kg of mixed steel and cast iron I got £25, a little bit better than £0 if I took it to the council waste centre.
One thing I had been reading about right from start with the Mk5 was OEM aero upgrades, there is a great thread on here.
Between Ebay & TPS I got all these and the hardware to fit:
Engine undertray was from TPS, I am friendly with the guys there and they give me discount, pattern copies on ebay without the vents are £50, I was really surprised when a genuine one was £50 plus vat. If I remember its a TT undertray, difference from shorty one is:
Should speed up engine warm up, keep bay cleaner and reduce drag - from initial short drive it is noticeably quieter.
I also fitted the pyramid strips too, very easy to install.
The last piece to fit is the curvy part that smoothes out air after the fuel tank - it bolts onto the subframe, one side needs drilling to install a captive riv-nut stud and a bracket installed on the other side - going to wait till the spring to do this part.
Last thing I did to the Golf was an oil service. So the nagging "service now" chime is silenced for another year.
fakie1977:
--- Quote from: LC5F on December 11, 2020, 03:56:09 pm ---Yesterday I finished work for the year and has freed me up to get a chance to do stuff with the Golf.
First task was to get rid of all the old parts I had accumulated- The majority of the stuff was a pile of rusty Mk5 parts, Mk4 hatch and a clothes airer in the front garden:
Loaded up I have some nice tuck:
Took that lot to be weighted in, weigh bridge on entry 1630, emptied 1430kg - thats with fuel tank hovering around the red line - operator said it was a heavy car!
So for 200kg of mixed steel and cast iron I got £25, a little bit better than £0 if I took it to the council waste centre.
One thing I had been reading about right from start with the Mk5 was OEM aero upgrades, there is a great thread on here.
Between Ebay & TPS I got all these and the hardware to fit:
Engine undertray was from TPS, I am friendly with the guys there and they give me discount, pattern copies on ebay without the vents are £50, I was really surprised when a genuine one was £50 plus vat. If I remember its a TT undertray, difference from shorty one is:
Should speed up engine warm up, keep bay cleaner and reduce drag - from initial short drive it is noticeably quieter.
I also fitted the pyramid strips too, very easy to install.
The last piece to fit is the curvy part that smoothes out air after the fuel tank - it bolts onto the subframe, one side needs drilling to install a captive riv-nut stud and a bracket installed on the other side - going to wait till the spring to do this part.
Last thing I did to the Golf was an oil service. So the nagging "service now" chime is silenced for another year.
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What’s the part numbers for those parts?
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LC5F:
--- Quote from: fakie1977 on December 11, 2020, 09:18:40 pm ---What’s the part numbers for those parts?
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Here you go-
Engine undertray:
1K0 825 237 P
3x 1K0 825 951 - you re-use the original 8 at the front & these 3 bolt into subframe
Pyramid parts are:
1K0825002B
1K0825001B
10x N 103 546 02
4x N 909 591 01
Fuel tank smoother-outer
1K0501713E
1x 1K0 501 682
1x N 905 483 05
1x N 901 838 02
1x N 910 011 01 -this is the riv-nut stud, apparently later rear axles have this stud built in
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