9K 1.9 TDi daily project of sorts

[snuffegull]

Took me a solid 9 months or so to track down a set. I managed to find a ton of Mexican vendors who carries these, but after countless emails, the answer was always no international shipping, if i got a reply at all.
in the end i managed to find a Mexican VW enthusiast who helped me out

[snuffegull]

Was super tired after work today so didnt get all that much done, but welded the last peice i fabbed up on the van, and started testfitting the "new" hinges, and door. They fit pretty good sideways, but the top hinge bracket could do with a slight relocation further out, maybe 2-3mm or so


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[snuffegull]

Not much progress recently, but i have moved it to my dads garage now, hope to get some work done soon

[snuffegull]

Due to a new paintshop beeing built and some other projects in my dads shop taking up space, not much has happened recently, other than that i trashed the gearbox in my Ibiza, so im breaking it for caddy parts now, and i just bought a beat up Polo estate as a new daily/future caddy parts car, Will get a fair few bits needed for the caddy from these two cars

[snuffegull]

So, my parts car for the caddy also turned into a parts car for my new parts car haha

The Polo estate i got to replace the Ibiza. Whole front end smashed and overall quite a beat up car, but up to date MOT and in fairly good mechanical condition, so was worth the 300 or so pounds i paid for it.

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Swapped most of the front end over from the Ibiza to sort that out, also took the exhaust from it as the cat had fallen off on the polo haha.
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Basically just need a grill and its good enough, might take the one from the caddy for now, as it will be a while untill i need it back on the caddy anyway, and by then i will probably have scrapped this car.
It really is worse than it looks in the photos.
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Have a vw event coming up this weekend so decided to cut the springs a bit and slap my RM's on it.
Could do with another coil cut up front however, and the rear tires are 195/50's that are only temporairly on there, tomorrow a fresh set of 195/45's will replace them. Center caps will be installed aswell.
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[snuffegull]

Wheels good to go for Bugrun. Now i just need to get red/gold emblems for them and they are good to go for how i want them on the caddy later
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[RetroRides]

Excellent, nice to see things done properly and welding work to a high standard. Cant wait for more updates

[mitty85]

Excellent, nice to see things done properly and welding work to a high standard. Cant wait for more updates

I think a few of us are waiting for updates.

[snuffegull]

They will come sooner or later. Been up to a lot this summer, i went to the uk last week for war and peace revival, were i actually met a fellow 9k man who is on this forum haha!
Small world!

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[snuffegull]

Havent done much to the van the past few months, i have picked up a cover for it, so i can take doors and such off and bring em to work to bodywork them, and i have dissmantled the Ibiza for all the bits i can use, including the dash.
Plenty of parts has been purchased, i'll do an update on that once everything has arrived.