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[BigUKG]

Thanks Nick - need an n/s shock first priority though!

[dontpannic]

Aah, didn't realise you still needed one, I was at a scrapyard loaded with MK4's on Sunday! Dartford.

[BigUKG]

Buggeerr, I could actually cry the progress of getting a mk4 shock is bein so slow

Anymore pics of the car TreColl?

[trecoll]

Could get some, but nothings changed lol, plus its filthy - hasn't been washed since FiTP and has done nearly 1000miles since then!!

[BigUKG]

Woah! Well used then Whats the overall mileage and is yours 1.25 or 1.4 mate?

[trecoll]

1.25

Chassis is on 85k Now, engine on about 77k

[BigUKG]

Not too bad at all then,

[trecoll]

Just gave Bassboy from FT a deposit for new sub and amp. Should collect next week

[trecoll]

Correct brake calipers arrived this morning too

[trecoll]

I now have two correct callipers....






However, you'll notice that one of them is missing a set of pads.... They should be with on tuesday.


I should then be able to get the brakes on next saturday with any luck.

[Minstral]

unlucky with the all the agro mate. mine are now fitted just bedding them in will get pics tomorrow

[M1K3Y_B]

unlucky with the all the agro mate. mine are now fitted just bedding them in will get pics tomorrow

How much better are they?

[Minstral]

pics will be online later so will tel u in my post

[trecoll]

Brakes will be done in two weekends time, just haven't got time at the moment..

However, I need to speak to wayne I think, or anyone for that matter.

I want to defilter my rear lights, so bought some LED bulbs on autobulbsdirect.

There website says that my brake lights and rear indictors are 382s
Fine, so I bought 382s and indicators comes with resistors..

swapped the brake lights over and they dont light up...
noticed the indicators were 343's, but they are the same size and shape etc, so fitted them but they dont work either

Brake lights work in the fog light hole (which currently has an LED bulb in it, a 382...


Any advice?

[mada01]

ive defiltered mine too, but i used the chrome bulbs, they are ok, but dont last very long. my brakes now light up pink!
so the standards are back on, but looking at leds too.

have you got the oppostie pin oness?

[trecoll]

Yeah oposite pins...

Just replaced a blown bulb with a standard 382 and it works!?

One thing I have noticed though is that when my bulbs blow (brake lights only, and quite often tbh) they go creamy inside!?

[trecoll]

Ok so yesterday I built my new false floor and put my new sub & amp in

Not finished yet and need to make another piece for the back, but will probs do that next weekend and carpet it too...


This is the extra bit that I need to make;



Now, its not bedded in yet, got another 9.5hours of playback before it is!
However, I turned the volume up to 30% with The Prodigy - Voodoo People (Pendulam Remix) playing...

It vibrates soo fast the camera cant keep up, hence the rippling effect!


I then found the only real use for scotchlocks!! Video is made on my phone so it sounds crap, you may wanna turn your speakers down for this one too!!



I love it!!

[BigUKG]

Looks good mate, like the first song choice to. What HU have you got in the front?

[trecoll]

PC mate

[BigUKG]

[bassboy]

glad to see your having fun with the sub mate!

bassboy

[trecoll]

Indeed, cheers again

Only 7.5 hours left before I can set it up properly



Oh and i've found out the reason why the LED bulbs dont work...
The car is reverse polarized Meaning the bayonet bit which would normally be an earth is power and bit at the bottom is the earth Seems to be the way it would normally be in a mk4/5 too Have ordered some Silvertec red bulbs though.

I found the reason why my O/S brake light bulb blows every week The filter is melted slightly and so when the bulb is in the filter (really hot!) is in constant contact with one piece of the glass on the outside of the bulb and so heats that spot up quicker. As a result the glass gets a pressurised crack in that place and blows (leaving a creamy residue inside! - Pics to follow!)

[dontpannic]

can you not get reverse polarised LED bulbs?

EDIT: I used to have LED bulbs and they were fine...

[trecoll]

I tried making some last night, but gave up!

Asked Tweek if he knew anywhere, but he didn't actually answer that question, just asked about something else I said at the same time

I did a quick search myself but couldn't find any.

If you get a chance, could you test to see if your base plates are reversed for me?

[trecoll]

Carpeted my false floor today...
Couldn't be bothered to make the other bit yet, but theres no rush for that...




Then decided to de-filter my MHWs (Well, the brake lights anyways...)

Since fitting, I have had a problem with them blowing the O/S Brake light which has been getting steadily worse so I have recently left it blown with a spare for the off chance I got pulled for it...

This was the cause, a previous owner had caused the filter to slightly melt, and the filter was concentrating heat into one area on the glass of the bulb, causing a minor brake, but enough to blow the bulb.

I de-filtered them by melting them. It was suggested by Shifty_Babe to use a soldering iron, but she told me she burnt herself a few times! So I used a lighter and am pleased to say, I didn't burn myself!!

The melts in the filters...



The filter, removed...


Brake light, Before...


Brake light, After...


Brake light, lit up (de-filtered)



Will try and get some indicator chrome bulbs soon and do the same for them, or maybe even Diadems. Will see though...

[trecoll]

Heres what I've been doing today.
Forgot to get a pic of when I first picked it up, but the bottom half was already smoothed.



What isn't so clear in that picture is that I have started bonding the rub strip onto the bumper. Some people use Fibre Glass to do this, IMO it will crack. Plastic welding is what should be done. However, I couldn't be botherd to pay someone, nor mess up my only tip for my soldering iron. So I used the next best thing, Epoxy!



Whilst waiting the hour for it to cure so I could add more, followed by filler, I played with my two border collie pups



And how it looked just a few moments ago when I put it away for tonight...



Before anyone asks, my old bumper (mk4 one) is prov. sold to mtbdean

[Minstral]

looks good mate. you getting front zs bumper. ive literallyjust seena frozen white mk4 with zs kit looked the nuts

[trecoll]

No, I dont like it on a mk4

Trying to find RS gear

[trecoll]

Two pictures from today..

Yellow is filler primer and red is red primer





Getting there...

[EUFez]

YES! Smoooothnesss.

Continue with it dude... Looks awesome. Love the DIY work of some people. Just get the boot smoothed next!

[trecoll]

Just get the boot smoothed next!

[jonyb4]

looking good, but personally i would have not smoothed it, i'd just cc'd the bump strip, dont liek the smoothed look of them ones

cant wait to see it on robert

[trecoll]

Nor can I Jonathan.

Each to their own though.

[M1K3Y_B]

Have you lowered the bloddy thing yet?

[trecoll]