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Matt_N said:
tinman0 said:
Long time since I had to do my GTI history.
Find the weights, and you will be surprised at how heavy the later GTIs were.
I wouldn't know where to find them, got a link?Find the weights, and you will be surprised at how heavy the later GTIs were.
Still love my Golf though!
Well I came back from my 2 week honeymoon and the battery had drained on the Golf. We couldnt jumpstart it as it was blocking the Lupo in on the driveway. And the brakes had siezed.
We had to "shunt" it out of the way with the Lupo (very gently, put a roll of carpet between the bumpers as not to scratch them)
So anyway I got it started eventually and took it for an hours run, I thought that would have charged it sufficiently to get me to work the following morning.
Nope.
Next morning it was dead again. So again we jumped it using the Lupo and I set off to work with the intention of fitting a new battery at work.
As I got to a busy roundabout at the start of the M65 I slowed to stop at the junction, as I did the car cut out and there was no power to restart it, I had to push it across four lanes to the pavement. Luckily other kind drivers stopped for me.
So thats it, Ive had enough, its going next week.
A friend who has a couple of MK2's and a unit full of parts is going to swap it for a MK3 TDI he has as a daily, bit of cheap motoring for me and he will make a good MK2 to out this so everybody wins.
We had to "shunt" it out of the way with the Lupo (very gently, put a roll of carpet between the bumpers as not to scratch them)
So anyway I got it started eventually and took it for an hours run, I thought that would have charged it sufficiently to get me to work the following morning.
Nope.
Next morning it was dead again. So again we jumped it using the Lupo and I set off to work with the intention of fitting a new battery at work.
As I got to a busy roundabout at the start of the M65 I slowed to stop at the junction, as I did the car cut out and there was no power to restart it, I had to push it across four lanes to the pavement. Luckily other kind drivers stopped for me.
So thats it, Ive had enough, its going next week.
A friend who has a couple of MK2's and a unit full of parts is going to swap it for a MK3 TDI he has as a daily, bit of cheap motoring for me and he will make a good MK2 to out this so everybody wins.
Adz The Rat said:
Well I came back from my 2 week honeymoon and the battery had drained on the Golf. We couldnt jumpstart it as it was blocking the Lupo in on the driveway. And the brakes had siezed.
We had to "shunt" it out of the way with the Lupo (very gently, put a roll of carpet between the bumpers as not to scratch them)
So anyway I got it started eventually and took it for an hours run, I thought that would have charged it sufficiently to get me to work the following morning.
Nope.
Next morning it was dead again. So again we jumped it using the Lupo and I set off to work with the intention of fitting a new battery at work.
As I got to a busy roundabout at the start of the M65 I slowed to stop at the junction, as I did the car cut out and there was no power to restart it, I had to push it across four lanes to the pavement. Luckily other kind drivers stopped for me.
So thats it, Ive had enough, its going next week.
A friend who has a couple of MK2's and a unit full of parts is going to swap it for a MK3 TDI he has as a daily, bit of cheap motoring for me and he will make a good MK2 to out this so everybody wins.
Was just on here having a look at peoples mk2s, I'm a regular on vwgolfmk2.co.uk normally. Have read this whole thread. Are you seriously saying that you're selling the mk2 because it cut out on you? You bought a 16V with a great shell for 600 quid and because it cut out once you are getting rid.We had to "shunt" it out of the way with the Lupo (very gently, put a roll of carpet between the bumpers as not to scratch them)
So anyway I got it started eventually and took it for an hours run, I thought that would have charged it sufficiently to get me to work the following morning.
Nope.
Next morning it was dead again. So again we jumped it using the Lupo and I set off to work with the intention of fitting a new battery at work.
As I got to a busy roundabout at the start of the M65 I slowed to stop at the junction, as I did the car cut out and there was no power to restart it, I had to push it across four lanes to the pavement. Luckily other kind drivers stopped for me.
So thats it, Ive had enough, its going next week.
A friend who has a couple of MK2's and a unit full of parts is going to swap it for a MK3 TDI he has as a daily, bit of cheap motoring for me and he will make a good MK2 to out this so everybody wins.
I'm going to put forward a concept here... the battery needs replacing. That is it. I just put a new alternator and battery on my 90 spec 8V for next to nothing. It now starts as easily as my bosses 2008 Jaguar XF. If you have that little commitment that you sell a car because the battery needs replacing then I feel sorry for you.
P.s I weighed the big bumpers off my car when it was having its winter service. They don't even weigh 100Kg, let alone weigh 100Kg more than small bumpers. You'll find that small bumper cars have a metal front valance too which isn't light.
Anyway rant over, I hope you enjoy the diesel mk3, please try not to sell it on when one of the headlights blows or the windscreen washer fluid runs out.
lewmagoo92 said:
Was just on here having a look at peoples mk2s, I'm a regular on vwgolfmk2.co.uk normally. Have read this whole thread. Are you seriously saying that you're selling the mk2 because it cut out on you? You bought a 16V with a great shell for 600 quid and because it cut out once you are getting rid.
I'm going to put forward a concept here... the battery needs replacing. That is it. I just put a new alternator and battery on my 90 spec 8V for next to nothing. It now starts as easily as my bosses 2008 Jaguar XF. If you have that little commitment that you sell a car because the battery needs replacing then I feel sorry for you.
P.s I weighed the big bumpers off my car when it was having its winter service. They don't even weigh 100Kg, let alone weigh 100Kg more than small bumpers. You'll find that small bumper cars have a metal front valance too which isn't light.
Anyway rant over, I hope you enjoy the diesel mk3, please try not to sell it on when one of the headlights blows or the windscreen washer fluid runs out.
Read the whole thread but failed to pick up the sentient points.I'm going to put forward a concept here... the battery needs replacing. That is it. I just put a new alternator and battery on my 90 spec 8V for next to nothing. It now starts as easily as my bosses 2008 Jaguar XF. If you have that little commitment that you sell a car because the battery needs replacing then I feel sorry for you.
P.s I weighed the big bumpers off my car when it was having its winter service. They don't even weigh 100Kg, let alone weigh 100Kg more than small bumpers. You'll find that small bumper cars have a metal front valance too which isn't light.
Anyway rant over, I hope you enjoy the diesel mk3, please try not to sell it on when one of the headlights blows or the windscreen washer fluid runs out.
Adz said on page one that the car does nothing for him in the way he expected. It doesn't excite him in the way he wanted it to, hence his looking to move it on, not the fact that it has a duff battery. The battery is the metaphorical straw on the camels back.
He's not scrapping it, not selling it to someone who will abuse it, he's swapping it with an enthusiastic owner who will look after it and make it into an all round good example. It's all very well slating someone but you're (that's not aimed specifically at you, by the way) not the one living with a car that you a: don't particularly enjoy and b: don't particularly trust. I was in the same position a good few years ago, always wanted a MK2 Golf, got one, hated it, moved it on in short order.
Really is sad when someone registers to have a rant as the OP's plans don't fit in with what the ranter wants them to do. There really are better ways of putting your point across.
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