Morgens ED30 No. 1871 - New suspension & audio!

[Trow81]

Looking awesome I always love reading this thread. Gonna be epic when finished not that u will ever be finished lol


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[Morgen]

So, yesterday the airlines were run

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And a clear run at it was had, so here's the suspension going on!

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Finished product!

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Huge thanks to Adam for getting it sorted for me, I'm so happy! I did help a wee bit but I probably just got in the way and slowed things down to be honest

[Morgen]

Yesterday the car went back up on the ramp due to both front bags leaking, turns out the fittings hadn't been tightened 

It's my birthday today so very little progress since yesterday. I messed about a bit while Adam knocked up a sub box for me! Only thing I managed to get done was run some phono cables...

Managed to fit the wood needed on the roof of his e39

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Sub box finito

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[Dogma]

I see bmw drivers still can’t park in the allocated spaces correctly.   Lol

[Morgen]

I see bmw drivers still can’t park in the allocated spaces correctly.   Lol

Haha fair! We had only put it there though to give us room to put the trolley with the wood on it without being too close to somebody elses car! 

[Dogma]

Hehe yeah yeah. I believe you


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[Morgen]

Now that all the audio/airlift cables have been run it was time to put the interior trim back together!

Rear bench back in.

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Glovebox/trim put back in

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The headliner has been out since 2017 when the leak was found! That's it FINALLY back in place

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My Mum bought me a birthday present!

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I bought myself a birthday present, too! Though it's a LOT bigger than it looked in photos..

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All wired up ready for the speakers to go in! They didn't fit without some plastic mounts that Adam ordered up for me.

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Mount things arrived & speakers fitted!

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The new wood put to good use - Finished look of the boot build knocked up!

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However.... I was made redundant this week so there'll be likely no updates with the car until I know what's happening financially. I'll struggle to keep my Mini on the road at this rate never mind mess about with the Golf, so for now it can sit pretty. At least it's used to sitting for long lengths of time 

[Morgen]

Okay so there's a lot to catch up on... First things first - I still own the golf 

After being made redundant I had to trade in my beloved daily driver (my Mini Cooper F56 that I was head over heels in love with) and purchase a van. What else could I buy other than a Volkswagen though, right? I had decided to become self employed and become a dog walker! Can't do that in a mini or an edition 30...

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Shortly after this though the golf in fact did make its way back from the unit with a fresh MOT and returned to my driveway

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I then took it to its first car meet since about 2017.. Though there's a very apparent leak still present here!

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Picked up some helios for £400 - had wanted a set of these since 2014!

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Took some pretty sunset photos

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Broke down on the motorway around April 2021... Had only covered around 300 miles since it's MOT

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The edition 30 hasn't moved since 

The same month we lost our E39 as the engine blew and it's replacement is an F11 530d with cream leather and a pan roof, spicy

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Still in April 2021 and we bought a rustbucket too for the lols - basically spending money on everything and anything other than my golf by this point

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July 2021 - bought a puppy and she's a class little unit dug

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September 2021 - bought a 1.4 polo for £400 as my new daily driver, further neglecting my golf 

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[Morgen]

We're now at July 2022 and the golf looked really sad sitting at the bottom of our ruined driveway... so we got the driveway done!

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Then I felt that after a year of it having an odd alloy on the front I would finally swap it back over and have it sat on 4 matching alloys. What a lucky girl

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Then some silly cow wrote my van off.. Insurance paid out £2500 more than I paid for it though so I was in the money and bought it straight back!
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Had the house painted featuring my courtesy van which i ADORED. Golf could finally sit in all her grey goodness on a grey driveway next to my grey and white house. Grey all the things 

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The F11 also now looks like this for anybody interested

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[Morgen]

So ANYWAY, we're now at present day! Not much has happened with my edition 30 however I do intend to get her back on the road before the end of June. She doesn't actually need anything mechanically but it takes a lot for me to action even the smallest of things when it comes to this car...

A family members mk5 golf failed its MOT and she reached out to me keen to sell it own. She had owned this car since 2009 and I'd expressed interest in it back in 2015 as I of course have an obsession with grey mk5 golfs. So, I bought it.

The new toy is a 2005 DSG mk5 golf GTi in steel grey of course... 75k miles and full service history from a VW specialist garage. She came to me as an MOT fail needing an exhaust rear section (silencer has separated at the side), two rear calipers and a brake light bulb for the sum of £650. This also included a 7/8 full tank of fuel and a genuine VW dog guard. She's got factory fitted sensors, a smokers pack and leathers so the options box isn't heavily ticked. She also came to me with the RUSTIEST exterior bodywork I've actually ever seen on a mk5, however sills are fine and it appears to only affect replaceable panels 

It looks like it hasn't been washed in about 5 years too and that's no exaggeration!

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So we gave her a well-needed bath before having a thorough look round. Didn't want to miss anything under the grime.

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Checked it on vagcom and the only codes that came up were to do with the exhaust leak so nothing sinister found there!

So, Adam and I got to work. We ordered a seal kit for the calipers hoping we could get away with a £12 repair on these. We had luck on our side and it did work! Both calipers now working. Brake lines also replaced as one snapped when removing the caliper, of course.

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Next up - cam follower. We've got a PCV on order too as it broke during fitment of this but waiting for it to arrive

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Picked up an RCD510 as we wanted something a bit prettier but still OEM and got this fitted today. Leaving the dash taken apart for now as we also have a cherry red hazard switch on order and need to sort out bluetooth connectivity.

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The front grill was doing my box in, I've never seen one quite so faded by the sun before so I went at it with a heat gun for a bit. It's not the best result but it's ten times better than before, especially the honeycomb top grill

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Today she also had an oil & filter change as well as fuel filter, plugs and a pollen filter. We had an air filter ordered too but they've sent the wrong one sooooo that's not getting done.

Next up - drivers front window regulator needing done, the exhaust getting sorted and sort out the bulbs 

[Andy]

glad to see you still have the ed30 and love the updates

[Bred Denon]

Looking awesome

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[RBS]

Looking great👍🏻