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omeydz's Golf MK6 TSI - GTI/R20 Hybrid *DSG converted*
omeydz:
Went to my car today to find a puddle in the rear drivers side footwell rubber mat :fighting:
Looking on google plenty of people have had woes with leaking doors/seals on Mk6s. My heart sank.
My seals look fine on the door and car body. Drains dont appear to be blocked and let water through.
Then I saw that some people have leaky speakers where seals have failed on them and let water through to the interior.
I removed the door entry light in the doorcard and stuck my finger in to find it was wet ( raining atm) so can safely say that my speaker seal is shot. (light is right by the speaker so think thats a definitive diagnosis)
So I've put some plastic tucked into the door seal to route water coming from the leak into the rubber mat and when I have time I will strip off the doorcard and fix it.
Seeing as I was going to do a dynaudio setup I may just remove the speaker and put a blanking plate over the hole and seal as an interim measure until I do that.
Will partially strip the door trims and see what the moisture is like in the carpets. To the touch they are ever so lightly damp immediately around the leak area and nowhere else and no damp smell or mould visible so hope that means theres no serious damp issues.
Don't you just hate when stuff like this happens grrrr!!
omeydz:
--- Quote from: teo_parvu on April 01, 2016, 06:44:11 am ---I just finished reading this. Superb job on DSG conversion!
Hat's off to you sir! :congrats: :congrats:
HMMMM...I'm now thinking if it can be done for my Cupra also... :thinking:
Could you please tell me what are the steps for this operation? What wiring needs to be done?
--- End quote ---
It is a very involved modification. You will need
-DSG box with consumables and oils/filters
-Mounts
-Flywheel
-Shifter mech
-ECU software reflash
-Driveshafts
-Wiring and consumables, pins, plugs (built the loom on the car around the components to test before binding and routing the loom properly)
-Mating parts and bolts between gearbox and engine
-DSG paddle-compatible SWCM
-Vagcom
-A proper set of ramps/lift and workshop
-A lot of guts and patience as you have seen
If you decide to go ahead you are as mad as me... think I am the only one to convert a manual engine to DSG so would be nice to have a similarly mad friend haha! :drinking:
teo_parvu:
PFFF....i am mad, but not that mad. :laugh:
If i am going to do this, it will be done during the next winter, because I'm in participating in a small time attack championship. Until then i'll try to find the parts needed, talk to my mechanic and find the budget. Unfortunately, there are no DSG Cupras manufactured, so for example a Cupra steering wheel with DSG paddles cannot be found.
Thanks for the info, i belive u are the pioneer on this forum.
It is a megaproject, all i can say is WOW! :drinking:
omeydz:
Anything is possible including adding DSG paddles with some heavy modification of the wheel.
There is always a way, wonder not... just pluck up some courage, do your homework and you will succeed
(I should make a quote of that :drinking: )
omeydz:
UPDATE: Investigated the leak by taking off the doorcard, drying everything and performing water test.
Water is seeping through the bottom of the speaker due to failed seal and there are cracks in the speaker enclosure around the rivet points which I was very surprised about (and angry!) which were also letting in water.
Rivetting too tight or poor materials but that's disappointing from VW. Especially since water ingress can ruin a car!
Thankfully there is very minimal ingress in my case. As I'm away Iv put a load of tissuepaper around the speaker,ordered some drill bits and will drill out the rivets and seal everything off till I can do the Dynaudio retrofit.
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