Well after 3 years of owning my golf I finally gave up with repairing it and traded her in.
In the end after spending a small fortune in it getting it to run right. Then the turbo starting to fail along with rear brake calipers and wheel bearings starting to go I had enough. The car went from this
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To this
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Now I went and got this. It's a Volvo S40 R design 2.0d. Full leather and feels a lot better to drive than the golf did. Not as quick but nice and smooth!
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Only real plans are to lower it slightly, rear window tints, a k&n panel filter and maybe a remap in the future.
Still be browsing through here for a while, have a load of bits and pieces to sort through off the old golf that may be of use to people on here.