My S2 coupe bit of a rebuild and repair thread.

[B5NUT]

Do you know if they sell that in tin's so you can use your own spray gun's? My pet hate is rattle cans I can never get a good finish out of them. Plus why use some simple like an aerosol when you can spend time sorting out the compressor, making sure the moisture traps are empty, setting the pressure, sorting out the airlines, mixing the paint, setting the flow and fan on the gun, cleaning the gun out and finally draining the air & water. All for one simple spray job. I really should learn to use an aerosol

Forums are good and I much prefer them over FB groups. Think far too much good information is lost in FB groups as they are usually private and you have to joint to get access to them so the data never appears on a google search.

So I don't have the screw that holds the jack in place, anyone got one of these for sale?
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[newsh]

Cig lighter light, ISTR the body of the lighter or one of the contacts can be moved so that the power to the cig lighter shorts to the bulb contact, cig lighter power is connected straight to battery, I plug my trickle charger into it.
Worth a look anyway.

Jack goes in a recess behind the spare wheel.

I see Kit got there already!

[K Simmonds]

LOL, I'm not sure if they do it in pot's to mix up mate, the aerosols are excellent, nothing like the rubbish from Halfords etc... Best bet is to see if the address on the can is current as it's probably ten years old and get in touch with them. I'd have faith in it working perfectly though, used some a couple of years ago and clean the nozzle properly afterwards. The tins 3/4's full still, it'll probably last me for life unless it corrodes through, that's going make one fantastic mess when it does go.

Had a tin of lacquer go pop last year, thankfully by chance I'd smelt something afoot out there, spotted the rusty tin in my box of aerosols and taken it outside, when upon being disturbed it promptly decided then was the moment to let go, killed some grass but otherwise I got off very lightly. Though I required an immediate shower and it's very lucky I wear glasses.

I don't see why I couldn't part with the jack screw I have as I very, very rarely use it and I'm sure I've probably got at least another two hiding in my conservatory alone, never mind the boxes and boxes of parts in the attic in my workshop. Sometime I simply use a bolt anyway, it's just happens to be living there currently.

Have found those clips for you, you can have a couple if you want.

Am going to be posting on Tuesday morning if that's okay with you as I have to go to the nearest little town to do a couple of errands and they have a proper post office as opposed to a crappy unreliable van. Who knows what other little odds and sod's you might find you need tomorrow, I literally have all the trim clips and screws etc from at least two Coupes left over having broken several as well three 80's, a couple of Corrado's/Scirroco's and I've honestly lost count of the MK2 Golfs...

[newsh]

Just a thought.
The little bodge loom extensions, were they running to the cig lighter? Maybe they were to fix the issue of the light on all the time?

[K Simmonds]

Cig lighter light, ISTR the body of the lighter or one of the contacts can be moved so that the power to the cig lighter shorts to the bulb contact, cig lighter power is connected straight to battery, I plug my trickle charger into it.
Worth a look anyway.

That would make sense John, the bulb is duel polarity so it could probably find earth back through the positive which the headlight switch then cancels. Definitely the first place to look.

[newsh]

That would make sense John, the bulb is duel polarity so it could probably find earth back through the positive which the headlight switch then cancels. Definitely the first place to look.

Or could be a bad ground coupled with carbonised fag ash

[B5NUT]

Thanks John it must be shorting out incorrectly through the holder, so it getting live rather than natural. It's the most likely place to start looking, and could save me a massive amount of time not having to rip out the console again.

Kit Tuesday is fine, as I say I'm not in a rush. These are all jobs to be ticked off the growing list. This car should be ready by Christmas, as everything I touch just adds another job to the list

[K Simmonds]

Thanks John it must be shorting out incorrectly through the holder, so it getting live rather than natural. It's the most likely place to start looking, and could save me a massive amount of time not having to rip out the console again.

Kit Tuesday is fine, as I say I'm not in a rush. These are all jobs to be ticked off the growing list. This car should be ready by Christmas, as everything I touch just adds another job to the list

Cool, well I'll put the jack screw into your growing parts package, see what else you need might need tomorrow, I have the most obscure of Coupe bits left over and having to try and find stuff is good for me as I tend to find other stuff I'm half looking for or have totally forgotten I have, often of significant value. Unlike IT which instantly enrages me, if I can't find something I'll just give up, might sigh a touch but nothing will get broken.

I don't like being told what to do by machines simple. I can barely order a McDonalds' without spazzing out, first time I had use one of those sodding consoles I literally had a panic attack and had to exit the premises immediately, then send a mate back in to get my order. Oh the joy's of being a Luddite with severe anxiety.

Wish I knew where my air-con stuff is, not just to help you, I really want know where to locate it. Problem is while I was totally broken my farther and the sparky had to shift stuff about down there, which is totally fair enough, but now I don't know where anything in the attic is. However, my arms are a fair bit stronger than when I last tried to have a look so I'll have a poke about up there tomorrow. I'm going be in the workshop rebuilding a K-jet warm up regulator for someone first thing in the morning anyway.

[B5NUT]

Autoglass just turned up with an Avant screen! The fitter that turned up also had done these cars before and said it not a one man job and takes hours and would prefer the car to be at the workshop rather than outside So they now have to order the correct screen and I have to have the car mobile.

[K Simmonds]

That's actually worked well then IMO, as the fitter is correct, I've always maintained it's really a two man job and would take ages to do properly and I'd want the car undercover. I hope he's the guy that ends up doing yours.

It may be inconvenient but after all the effort your putting into everything else the last thing want is a bodged screen that will always leak like I had deal with on my 3B. As I've mentioned on this thread it constantly irritated me, to the point of drill drain holes in the bloody floor.

[B5NUT]

Yes, it kind of a relief to be honest, but also annoying as I told them the Coupe screen was NLA from Audi but they insisted they got one from TPS! The only places to buy the glass is Pilkington & other glass manufactures than make screens. Going over to the depot this morning to sort this out.

[K Simmonds]

Yeah, I'd be kind of torn, annoyed a touched at the incompetence and inconvenience but relived that it's going to be done right in the end.

[K Simmonds]

Here we go, found another OE jack screw as my father has the same trolly jack me and he's obviously taken a shine to one I was using and borrowed it shall we say. I know where there's at least two more so it's no problem. Still can't find my AC stuff, I will get to it though.

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[johne]

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Also is this correct for the boot floor, found this loop of plastic and there is a slot in the floor of the boot so you can access the warning triangle
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Yes

[B5NUT]

Thanks Kit & John, another few things off my list that has now grown!

So got my new sunroof seal with my tradition order, so took apart the "good" sunroof that came with the car. However While I was trying to figure out how to remove the glass panel from the mechanism it became clear the rust free panel was anything but!

So this morning I spent 3 hours slowly removing the frame from the glass.
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When the main frame was removed there was still another section of the frame to remove
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Will try and remove all of the old glass adhesive with a toffee wheel
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The frame I'm going to get basted and powder coated.
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Once that's done then I'll see if I can get a glass company to glue the sections together or I'll do it myself. Thankfully there are some little tabs that hold the frame to the glass so alignment should be easy enough. So what was a simple job of fitting a new seal as turned it a bigger and far more costly job.

On a more positive note, I also got my new rear arb bushes so was able to complete the final suspension job.
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