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Members Rides / Re: New Member - Newly Purchased ED30

« Last post by Graney_ED30 on August 30, 2026, 10:35:07 am »

Making some excellent progress, it certainly sucks up the hours.

Not  far off fitting up the rear sub frame ?

I think my drivers rear sill will be the same when I finally get to that bit.

What a good idea a restoration club, never heard of that before .

Haha aye mate, it certainly does!

Yeah, the rust fed far worse than I initially expected but glad I got to it when I did.

Aye the restoration club is mint, it’s a charity that has been going since 1971. You pay a membership fee and have access to the facilities, there are bays, ramps, a machine shop, a paint cabinet, blast cabinet among others. There are loads of people in it and they all offer advice if you need it - https://www.northeastrestorationclub.co.uk/ thats the place if you wanna have a look

Yeah I had a good day at it yesterday, got both the front and rear subframes on, track rod ends, bottom arms, fitted up a couple of the rear arms, got the rear shockers on and a few other bits.

Pressed the rear hub bushes in, fitted the front bearings and also fitted all the new ABS sensors to the hubs.

However, I have realised that a few of the bits from autodoc are not correct, and I am missing some bolts too. The inner race of the rear wheel bearings are too big by like 2mm so they need swapping, and one of the front bearings is missing a bolt, so will need to get those sorted and I also missed off the rear swing arms 😂 so I’ve ordered those.

Feels good to finally start putting things back together!


















Hopefully have those other bits sorted soon and then crack on with the rest!

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Members Rides / Re: New Member - Newly Purchased ED30

« Last post by mk1mad on August 28, 2026, 12:42:02 pm »

Making some excellent progress, it certainly sucks up the hours.

Not  far off fitting up the rear sub frame ?

I think my drivers rear sill will be the same when I finally get to that bit.

What a good idea a restoration club, never heard of that before .

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Members Rides / Re: New Member - Newly Purchased ED30

« Last post by Graney_ED30 on August 26, 2026, 07:17:22 am »

Finally getting round to getting an update on here! Been away on holiday and had some time off with the boy over the school holidays so that car progress has slowed down…..but managed to get on with a few jobs, good news is that I think that I have everything there ready to start installing!

Main thing I have been doing is sorting ANOTHER rust section which I found on the drivers gate rear sill (same as the other side) but it actually turned out to be worse! I didn’t take a photo of it before but it honestly looked like nothing, but I ended up having to cut away this much:



So, made another patch panel and get it welded in, seam sealered, painted and stone chipped - it’s not the prettiest but it is solid and should last another 20 years!







Also cut off and made some new rear bumper supports as they were completely rotten





Next, I moved onto the rear brakes, I’ve not refurbed a set of calipers before but thought I’d give it a go since the car is off the road, they came out pretty well.

I’m a member of a restoration club here in the northeast where I have access to various bits of machinery, blasting cabinet being one of them, so stripped them all down and blasted them first:











Then bought a seal kit from big redd to replace all the seals, wasn’t too bad to do, main issue was I snapped one the lugs off the internal circlip so had to order some more which hindered progress!





Then painted them all up ready for assembly, they have came out pretty well, just hope they don’t leak haha!





Then moved onto replacing the outer CV joints, the driveshafts were fine but it was more the fact that they were rusty so it was cheaper to just replace the outers and paint the rusty bits 😂





Other things I’ve done, I got replacement front to rear brakelines from TPS but the fronts from ABS unit to arches are discontinued so had to make those, I only got a couple of photos of those though! I had to put a join in the one to the drivers side as getting it in without removing the engine was pretty much impossible without bending it all over!





Other than that I am hoping to start making much more progress as I could really do with it being back on the road! I cleaned and fitted the rear archliners and also gave the underside a coat of bilt hamber Dynax UC wax, just to make sure that it stays a silver as possible for as long as possible haha!

Until next time!

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General Area / Re: golf gti 2.0 tfsi mk5 manual losing power then i attempt to boot it on motorway

« Last post by GVK on August 20, 2026, 11:38:45 pm »

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General Area / Re: golf gti 2.0 tfsi mk5 manual losing power then i attempt to boot it on motorway

« Last post by iLimitless on August 20, 2026, 02:14:43 pm »

Every now and then, I run into a match who gets really insistent about exchanging phone numbers or Instagram handles on the very first day. If I politely say that I prefer to stay on the app for a little bit, they sometimes act offended or accuse me of not being serious about dating. How do you handle pushy behavior without escalating into an argument? Is it worth continuing to talk to someone who ignores your boundaries so early?

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Mk5 General Area / Mk5 golf gti wingback set difference.

« Last post by GTI 500 on August 19, 2026, 09:47:51 pm »

Are the wing back seats different in a 3 or 5 door golf in respect to the way they tilt,
do the 3dr seats tilt further forward more or slide forward when tilted like standard 3dr seats??

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Members Rides / Re: Edition 30 rolling resto.

« Last post by Graney_ED30 on August 19, 2026, 07:28:14 am »

It was a lot worse than my mk1 rear beam. The rust has eaten really deep in places.

 This will save time and money at the powder coaters as it won’t take as long to clean up,and will look better.


Plus I got the xenon  levelling bracket and  sensor .

Dropping it all off tomorrow, then onto the underside this weekend if it cools down.

How are you getting on ?

Aye defo makes sense! Hopefully as ya say should be coming together a lot sooner!

It’s getting on OK, progress has slowed as we have been away on holiday, I’ve taken some time off with my little lad and I’ve also been waiting for some bits!

I’m hopefully gonna get an update on there by the end of the week. I have finally started bolting bits back on though haha. It feels like ages but technically only been about 2 months in total and that is working on it the odd afternoon/evening

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How to Guides / Troubleshooting / Re: S3 fuel pressure dropping on hard acceleration

« Last post by TyGTI on August 18, 2026, 09:42:19 am »

With the Low Pressure side sitting at 5 BAR, that is a little on the low side. The fuel filter is the regulator and that is set to 6.6BAR

Worth replacing the fuel filter if its not been done recently

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How to Guides / Troubleshooting / Re: S3 fuel pressure dropping on hard acceleration

« Last post by GVK on August 16, 2026, 08:32:55 pm »

Thanks I think the high pressure pump internals were worn causing the issue. Worth keeping an eye on the low pressure though.

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How to Guides / Troubleshooting / Re: S3 fuel pressure dropping on hard acceleration

« Last post by mjmallia on August 16, 2026, 06:35:56 am »

It could be the LPFP also as mine used to feel a little laggy when pushed hard. I changed it out for a 2012 scirocco R version that had the newer version of the pump and very low milage. That sorted my problem out.