Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

Embarrasing today.

After my misfiring issue the other day I thought all was done. Drove to work today to find it's back. Got here. Got under the bonnet and it looked like one of the sparks is blacked at the outside end. Unfortunately I have no telescopic spanners (thats what I said and I'm sticking with it) to get the sparks out. So whilst my mech is local to work I chucked it in with him to do (I know. Embarrasing as hell).

He had a look and it transpires it wasn't the spark (to be fair I could only see the outside connect) and was in fact the HT lead. Will pick her up later, just cannot understand what happened. Maybe a lead was resting against something hot and melted.

Eitherway I go to my mechanic having lost any mechanical credibility I had before and will hang my head in shame.

Unfortunately I'll prob have to spend more money as I was hoping to upgrade the HT's as and when. Might get some nice blue ones! ;)

That should have been the first thing you checked! :)

Embarrasing today.

After my misfiring issue the other day I thought all was done. Drove to work today to find it's back. Got here. Got under the bonnet and it looked like one of the sparks is blacked at the outside end. Unfortunately I have no telescopic spanners (thats what I said and I'm sticking with it) to get the sparks out. So whilst my mech is local to work I chucked it in with him to do (I know. Embarrasing as hell).

He had a look and it transpires it wasn't the spark (to be fair I could only see the outside connect) and was in fact the HT lead. Will pick her up later, just cannot understand what happened. Maybe a lead was resting against something hot and melted.

Eitherway I go to my mechanic having lost any mechanical credibility I had before and will hang my head in shame.

Unfortunately I'll prob have to spend more money as I was hoping to upgrade the HT's as and when. Might get some nice blue ones! ;)

What ends do you want? Roughly what lengths. One of my local motor factors was knocking out lucas 8mm leads for a £1 a pop. Can drop in and see if the sale bin is still there.

Oh been offered a cheap 928 S2, no interior and low mileage later engine fitted think £800

Also 2 944 or 924 I cannot remember which but £500 for the pair.

the cars are in cheshire any interest I can send you his number.

This is like an episode of FIxed Wheeler Dealers.

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What do you think insurance will be like on a 928...?

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Yeah cos I'm making money.

I was ofered the cars and offered them to fellow forum people. Fuck allelse and fuck all to do with me.

my little golf thats off the road now as ive fell in love with cycling :)

Too low, wrong bumpers and stupid wheels to suit the clean lines off the MK1.

I loved my MK1 GTD (non cabrio)import from Italy.

what wheels would you suggest lynx?

My mk1 gtd (which is back in Italy now with english plates) was a standard MK1 body shell, it had the convertible (ghia) side trim and cookie cutter tele dial wheels and standarrd ride hieght (185/60 r 14 i think tyres) and a clean euro look nothing fancy just the clean lines of the car.

The MK1 is an icon, its the golf to have IM in the beauty stakes. It slim, beautiful, sexy and does what it was designed to do.

Google images threw up

http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQr_yR4mp77jBHkwIvX6_kpt_3hkkZyru5ReSn65ybwsa4KV142BoHlBJvdQQ

Nice wheels.Look to be ats optional extras. was a load of lovely oem alloy wheels available for vw's kinda like the 1990 ones on my 1990 golf. factory fitted extras, stupid tyres yes, stupid wheels definitely not.

If it wasn't so low and not a cab I'd like it. Never been a fan of Golf cabs

Nice wheels.Look to be ats optional extras. was a load of lovely oem alloy wheels available for vw's kinda like the 1990 ones on my 1990 golf. factory fitted extras, stupid tyres yes, stupid wheels definitely not.

You are right not stupid, just don't suit the clean beautiful lines on the MK1. The sills, big bumpers and wheel arches IMO detract from the beautiful simple lines of the MK1. This is an iconic car, but i have my opinions that the BBS spoked wheels suit a MK2 of the same age, not the MK1. The MK1 is light, svelt and the MK2 is proof that making something bigger does not make it better.

This is all my opinion.

I like the later GTI wheels and standard thin bumpers but part of likes just the 7 inch flat front hella H4 outers and not the inner lights as they were GTi onlys initially.

yeah i agree with you the bbs look much more at home on the mk2. think my golf only gets away with it well as its the late one with the bigger bumpers etc as you mentioned so the bulkier wheels suit the clipper kit.

thinking of a original gti tintop for next year im craving for one...but it needs to be a series 1 small tail light version and they're getting pricey :(

yeah i agree with you the bbs look much more at home on the mk2. think my golf only gets awaywith it well as its the late one with the bigger bumpers etc as you mentioned so the bulkier wheels suit the clipper kit.

thinking of a original gti tiptop for next year im craving for one...but it needs to be a series 1 small tail light version and they're getting pricey :(

You are right that the BBs wheels and the big bumpers go together, but IMO they try and make it a MK2 and that spoils/detracts form the MK1 clean lines. I've seen some cars without the trim and smoothed off and small rear lights and it looked amazing. Something, in my eye, that looks clean, sharp and subtle.

The original 1.6 gti was an awesome car, just so light and nibble. The diffence between the MK2 and the MK1 was that the mk2 went up to 1800 but the 1600 was quicker but then the 16v came along and that was no longer true but had something a nibble ness and very neutral handling that the MK2 never could replicate.

I had a GL convertible that I loved, 1.3, steel wheels and just had a personality, rare for a german car basic car, but always made me smile. Sold to get a 1975 911 carrera as I couldn't keep both as a lack of parking.

I love a nibble car.

Sold to get a 1975 911 carrera

dream 911.

had a 1.3 mk1 and 1.3 mk2 the difference was night and day.

ah i do love old vw's

dream 911.

had a 1.3 mk1 and 1.3 mk2 the difference was night and day.

ah i do love old vw's

Had a dad that was strange, he retired and bought and sold cars.....but kept a fucking old morris marina cos he liked it. Seriosly being collected from school in an alfa gtv one day, and then the POS marina. I learnt to weld sills and wings to that car as well as rebuild the emgine. In the end it had a 1275 cooper engine out of an austin 1300.

My dad had a 1972 jetta in metallic gold, and sold it to keep the marina.

I was scarred mentally by that.

Lynx, why do you not have any photos of your cars?

Unusual, non?

+1

I like it, mark.

A friend has almost the same car, but smaller bbs wheels and not-so "dumped to the weeds".
i think they are cool as fuck. she struggles for parts, though, i think.

http://www.pistonheads.com/news/default.asp?storyId=23654

^ Beat me to it