Mk1 Moro Audi TT wanted a 225 so bought a 180!!!

[Evo]

Thought I'd post a few pic up of my TT. The car has had 2 owners from new and a nice full main dealer history with just about everything done in the last 12 months, belts, water pump, dashpod, tyres, Haldex service. Just a shame neither of them bothered to clean it much.

In the one week I've had it I've given it a degrease, wash and clayed the body and removed 10 years of dirt of the seats so the Aniceed leather is back to its original colour.

I really wanted a 225 and said the only car that would make me buy a 180 is a Moro blue with Aniceed interior which don't come up often, bugger me if one went on the night I started looking so a phone call was made and a deal agreed over the phone.

It goes really well and much better than I'd read from peoples posts about the 180, I'll remap it in the future but for now it's just fine and will be spending time cleaning all the dirt out of the awkward places, refurbing the wheels as Stevie Wonder must have been parking it.

After picking it up



After a wash and clay session





Interior was really grubby so I started with the Meguirs,



And back to its original colour





And the shocking engine bay that's going to take quite a bit longer to sort out

[carinaman]

Good work with the cleaning.

I think many have to compromise on their ideal spec. if a good example that comes along ticks many boxes. Buy on condition and the best you can get for the money. I assume the 180 doesn't have the twin pipes to show the difference between the 180 and 225? I wouldn't turn my nose up at that or look down my nose as it's only a 180. I'm taken with the features of the VR6 DSG, but it seems they may not translate into driving pleasure.

[Evo]

I could do with a full weekend on my own to get properly stuck in however wife and family means finding a bit of time when I can lol

[carinaman]

I doubt I've ever had a car that looked that clean. It would turn my head.

Do these have those 'secondary air pumps' that draw clean air into the exhaust manifold to enable them to get through the EU emissions tests?

I've liked the V5 engine since I heard a Seat Toledo pull up outside a chip shop I was queueing in in the late 90s. Learning recently they had a secondary air pump spoilt the allure for me.

[Evo]

carinaman said:

I doubt I've ever had a car that looked that clean. It would turn my head.

Do these have those 'secondary air pumps' that draw clean air into the exhaust manifold to enable them to get through the EU emissions tests?

I've liked the V5 engine since I heard a Seat Toledo pull up outside a chip shop I was queueing in in the late 90s. Learning recently they had a secondary air pump spoilt the allure for me.

I couldn't tell you, it's the 4 cylinder 1.8t engine.

[carinaman]

Evo said:

I couldn't tell you, it's the 4 cylinder 1.8t engine.

A relative test drove a 1.8T A3 and was going on about the 5 cylinder noise. I informed them that although it was 20V it was a case of 4 pots with 5V rather than 5 pots with 4V.

Regarding the secondary air pump, if it has one and it plays up there is a guide on how to mend them on YouTube. I think even some E39 BMWs have them. It's stuff like that on those engines, and tyre pressure sensors and run flats on Crossfires that spoil the ownership of more modern cars for me.

It's a nice looking TT and I've have no problems taking the keys and driving the wheels off of it. A colleague had a TT and another colleague and I, admittedly one with a nice MK2 Golf, said we couldn't understand them selling it.

[xjay1337]

carinaman said:

I doubt I've ever had a car that looked that clean. It would turn my head.

Do these have those 'secondary air pumps' that draw clean air into the exhaust manifold to enable them to get through the EU emissions tests?

I've liked the V5 engine since I heard a Seat Toledo pull up outside a chip shop I was queueing in in the late 90s. Learning recently they had a secondary air pump spoilt the allure for me.

Nearly every VAG petrol of the era has SAI, even my TFSI I do believe.

[Evo]

So today I cleaned the door shuts properly, started the engine bay by cleaning the drivers side wing area oh and temporarily removed the drivers side rear under tray as it was falling off and sounded like a pice of plastic being dragged over the floor.

One nasty door shut



To this



Important pokey stick for the hard to reach places



And had a go at the front wing area, from this



To this



Also got the engine bay sorted too.

So apart from snapping my dipstick tube today, I removed the plastics and cleaned all the bits you can't see and the ones you can, more to do but I was pee'd off when I snapped the dipstick tube, though it best to quit while I'm ahead ish lol

I'm leaving the air box as next I'll have that out for a Wak mod and I'll either polish or crackle finish the intake

A familiar sight



So all back together in a few hours we've gone from this



To this







Cheers

[carinaman]

Evo said:

So apart from snapping my dipstick tube today, I removed the plastics and cleaned all the bits you can't see and the ones you can, more to do but I was pee'd off when I snapped the dipstick tube, though it best to quit while I'm ahead ish lol

I usually make things worse when I work on cars. The last time I only managed to break one trim clip, but it was one of two in that place, and I fixed the problem that needed fixing.

That's a very clean car. Impressive indicator repeater reflection.

[psychoR1]

Mrs R1 had one of these - a 99 car - I thought it was 190 brake?

It certainly went well and lift off oversteer round roundabouts was fun!

[Evo]

Cheers for the comments, other than a clay I've yet to start on the paintwork, I'll snow foam it first then get set into removing the swirl marks. Wheels are off next to get under the arches and paint all the suspension arms and calipers and refurb the wheels.

[carinaman]

Lidl are doing 0.5L Aerosols of underbody protection paint for a £5 tomorrow.

[Evo]

I'll stick with good old Hammerite tbh

[Paraicj]

Excellent cleaning job, really makes the car look great. Lovely colour combination as well!

My A3 has a 1.8T engine and I managed to destroy the dipstick the first time I tried to check oil levels. Weird.

[Evo]

Glad I'm not the only one, I thought I'd given myself a world of grief when I did it, so just put it all back together again. I'll go and get the new part tomorrow and get if changed over then finish off the engine bay.

[aka_kerrly]

Some good cleaning taking place on this one, it certainly doesn't look it's age now, especially the interior.

[cerb4.5lee]

Nice work and I love the transformation already.

[Patch888]

Excellent work, has made a real difference to the car. Plus it also makes you feel good when it's done too

[Evo]

Thought I'd add an update. Had the front wheels off and given the arches a bit of a spruce up, nothing to ott and tried the gold on the calipers, don't like it so they are going red.

Pads look fine with plenty of meat on them but the discs will be changed as they look nasty.

A before





And an after





Got to sort the wheels out too.

[Evo]

Finally got round to removing the rear badges though the rings will stay, also gave it a quick polish today, not going overboard yet as got a few stone chips to repair and three scuffs to sort out before I give it a full detail oh and not forgetting my nasty wheels too :mrgreen:



Much better.



Also got round to Waking my box