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So... I bought this GL on ebay... originally went to see it, thinking of buying it for bits. It was far too good for that though, so I bought it anyway.

£720 later and it's mine. Two owners, 60k miles, with every tax disc and MOT cert that it's had. The previous owner was an elderly lady who gave up driving in 2003 due to vision problems. The car is mostly pretty tidy, started up OK even on 10 year old fuel, and runs nicely now that it's got some fresh petrol in it.

The initial job list looks like:

- Grind down and seal up rear arches, which have a bit of surface rust on them.
- rust beater and paint on a few little bits of surface rust on the body.
- Fix a leaky fuel hose in the engine bay (perished rubber) - Done
- Cambelt (not done since 1996, according to the bills with it)
- Weld up a little hole in the battery tray - Done
- Change tyres over to some that hold air. - Done
- Oil and filter change
- Fix indicators and reversing lights (minor fiddling really)
- General check over and fettle for an MOT
- Possibly change the rear shocks. I have a spare pair of NOS VW ones.
- Maybe paint the wishbones and struts, and do tidy-up jobs like that.
- Fix the passenger's window regulator, which is sticky - Done, sort of.

I'm going to properly repaint bits of the body later, but for now I just want to get it sealed up for winter, rather than make it perfect. Once it's on the road I'll use it a bit to check it's all reliable, and it makes it easier to move the car around as well.









Headlight washers and massive washer bottle!


Sun visor trim


Very blue interior









Overall, it's a nice tidy car... it's had a bit of paint in the past, and the original side stripes are long gone, but the other GL specific bits are still there.

Nice find, reminds me of my first MK2 back in 1988.
If I remember rightly I had reversing light problems as well, I had to buy a new switch that fits onto the gearbox (you could buy these from the dealers back then!).

Same sun visor headlining in my Storm as well.

I've got a couple of spare reversing light switches of that type - the plastic one that includes extra connections (for the economy meter I think) ... hopefully one of them will work, or I'll pull them apart and see if I can find out what's not making contact the way it should.

MikeH wrote:I've got a couple of spare reversing light switches of that type - the plastic one that includes extra connections (for the economy meter I think) ... hopefully one of them will work, or I'll pull them apart and see if I can find out what's not making contact the way it should.

That's the one, mind the carbed model ones are different to the injection models.

Are they... I think the two spares are from an injection... will see what I can figure out. Thanks for the tip.

EDIT:

VAGCAT is suggesting a slightly different story - 9A is an injection box but 4T is carb I think. Looks like you're right that there are two different types though.

31 ---------
no longer available
/ FN,FJ,FK,6G, 7G

(31) 191919823
switch for gearshift and consumption indicator- back-up light
/ 7A,8A,9A,4T, 4Y

So I've been fiddling with this, on and off... just general fettling and little repairs.

Rubbed down, sealed and zinc primed the surface rust on the bodywork (rear arches and windscreen scuttle mostly)

Changed the cam belt and tensioner (last receipt said 1996, so only 18 years old - thought it best to change it). Changed the cam cover gasket for a rubber one while I was in the area.

Welded up a 1" hole in the battery tray, sealed it up and painted.

Replaced a broken spring on the rear (changed both springs for some spares I had lying around - they were pretty rusty).

Changed the front top mounts for NOS genuine VAG ones. I think the ones on it were the originals.

Chucked some BBS 13" rims on it with tyres that hold air. They'll do to get it MOT'd and on the road.

Painted a few bits
- front and rear struts
- cam cover
- cambelt cover
- airbox and brackets
- wishbones are next.

Still to do:
- Fix reversing lights
- Give the brake pipes a rub down and re-grease
- Re-stonechip a few bits that are scuffed off (sills, mostly)
- proper paint job after it's got an MOT. Right now I'm just rubbing down, treating and sealing up the brown bits to stop it rusting.

Overall it's coming together nicely. Taking a little longer than planned, but I'm doing lots of things it doesn't actually need for an MOT.

Will get round to uploading more pics soon.

Nice Mike. Found something quite similar myself, although not in as good condition as yours...

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Looking forward to updates dude.

Well, there's been a complete change of plan on this.

I had it ready to go for an MOT, but the car has now been sold to go on to better things. I'll update on that later.

MikeH wrote:Well, there's been a complete change of plan on this.

I had it ready to go for an MOT, but the car has now been sold to go on to better things. I'll update on that later.

Bugger. I was just going to offer to buy this from you.

Really - any particular reason?

MikeH wrote:Really - any particular reason?

Fancy something to polish.

Bless... needed painting first before polish, really.