What did you do to your MKIV today?

[jmodge]

Mini space heater plugged into the cigarette lighter?

Sounds feasible, but I’m beyond giving up comfort to save a car from rusting out. I’m sure it has ten plus years of solid service left in it

 

[jmodge]

ain't nothing to it but to do it, get your mitts into that dashboard and glormbulate a new (used) one in there
it is a one-day job
Kinda surprised you had a heater core go bad though, got like 4 of them on the shelf from partouts that I just can't bring myself to scrap even though I've never had one go bad

Nope, not investing the time into it, have other things that are more important

 

[jmodge]

True.
Option B: Copper coil sent through the firewall to the passenger floorboard area. Attach copper ends to the heater core lines place a small fan behind the coil and blow the heat towards the passenger seat.

Option C: Run hoses through the firewall and place the replacement heater core on the passenger floor until you can replace the actual unit. Use a mini fan to blow air through it.


@jmodge Is your leaking or just not making heat anymore?

I bypassed earlier this year because it was leaking. I’ll have less time into fluidfilming the Golf

 

[GlowBugTDI]

I bypassed earlier this year because it was leaking. I’ll have less time into fluidfilming the Golf

Ya, won't be bad. The wagon took me maybe 1.5hrs. I removed all the liners and things too. Spraying only took 30min maybe. I did some prep before hand.

 

[jmodge]

Ya, won't be bad. The wagon took me maybe 1.5hrs. I removed all the liners and things too. Spraying only took 30min maybe. I did some prep before hand.

I’m using my airless sprayer. I’m not painting any houses anymore

 

[GlowBugTDI]

I’m using my airless sprayer. I’m not painting any houses anymore

Ok, should work good, I used a 14$ harbor freight sprayer and a turned down compressor. Worked minty...mostly (cheap worthless sprayer).

 

[Sting]

I’m using my airless sprayer. I’m not painting any houses anymore

Ok, should work good, I used a 14$ harbor freight sprayer and a turned down compressor. Worked minty...mostly (cheap worthless sprayer).

Hei guys... I'm thinking about doing this as well.... so, airless sprayer? Like a plug in paint sprayer you mean? Do you need to thin down the Fluid Film at all? I can also get access to a compressor at my base auto club - would be air sprayer end up cheaper? I can always hit up Princess Auto for that.

Thanks in advance!

 

[jmodge]

Hei guys... I'm thinking about doing this as well.... so, airless sprayer? Like a plug in paint sprayer you mean? Do you need to thin down the Fluid Film at all? I can also get access to a compressor at my base auto club - would be air sprayer end up cheaper? I can always hit up Princess Auto for that.

Thanks in advance!

Mine is a sprayer that is normally used with 5 gallon pails of paint. No need to thin it

 

[Mozambiquer]

My brother in law sent me this photo at around midnight this morning. He smashed an 8 point buck at 70mph.

 

[Sting]

Holy ****... Is he ok???

Check out this BS I found this morning. Driving to work, the car is moving like ass, get a CEL. I think maybe the pancake pipe came off again.... Nope... God damn mice got at my new vacuum lines I got from Nuje overnight. At least 2 lines I found now have holes in them.

Any suggestions on how to mice proof them? Maybe something I can spray on?

 

[Mozambiquer]

Holy ****... Is he ok???

Check out this BS I found this morning. Driving to work, the car is moving like ass, get a CEL. I think maybe the pancake pipe came off again.... Nope... God damn mice got at my new vacuum lines I got from Nuje overnight. At least 2 lines I found now have holes in them.

Any suggestions on how to mice proof them? Maybe something I can spray on?

Yeah, he was fine, the car not so much...

 

[J_dude]

Holy ****... Is he ok???

Of course, he was driving a MKIV!

 

[northern diesel]

Holy ****... Is he ok???

Check out this BS I found this morning. Driving to work, the car is moving like ass, get a CEL. I think maybe the pancake pipe came off again.... Nope... God damn mice got at my new vacuum lines I got from Nuje overnight. At least 2 lines I found now have holes in them.

Any suggestions on how to mice proof them? Maybe something I can spray on?

We get pack rats nesting in vehicles up here - and apparently they can’t stand the smell of Irish spring bar soap.
Not sure if that holds true for mice.
But maybe worth a shot - just build a little soap tray bracket in the engine bay .
We just leave bars in the glove box - seems to do the trick.
But yeah critters once it’s cold will try to find nice predator protection zones and then nibble away.

 

[Sting]

We get pack rats nesting in vehicles up here - and apparently they can’t stand the smell of Irish spring bar soap.
Not sure if that holds true for mice.
But maybe worth a shot - just build a little soap tray bracket in the engine bay .
We just leave bars in the glove box - seems to do the trick.
But yeah critters once it’s cold will try to find nice predator protection zones and then nibble away.

Yeah, I was talking to a guy at work, and he said the same thing about the Irish Spring. Worth a shot!

 

[Nuje]

Any suggestions on how to mice proof them? Maybe something I can spray on?

I've tried lots of things (Axe body spray - repels women, why not rodents?; eye-wateringly over-scented fabric-softener sheets; etc.), with the only proven method being bait blocks.

 

[Boosty]

I've heard strategically placed bags of moth balls also works on keeping critters at bay.

 

[Sting]

Well, I tried the Irish Spring... no new chews this morning. I'll take that as a win.

 

[Zak99b5]

Not a Tdi, and not mine, but r & r'd a radiator today on my duaghter's 05 Golf. Took 2:45 from walking out to the driveway till the start of the test drive/up to temp test. Not bad for an old man in the driveway.

The service position bolts from IDParts were very nice to have (didn’t when I did my own rad). I was able to install the rad from up top. I wouldn’t recommend it, but I didn’t want to scrape the aluminum fins on the ground. I should’ve just used the cardboard box it came in to lay it on, but oh well.

 

[Fix_Until_Broke]

You'd be surprised. You could fold the factory steel one up with your hands like taffy. And as P2B stated, the Defenders aren't available anymore. I love my Aluminum and have never heard of the concern you stated, not saying it doesn't exist though...

You're not bending a factory steel one with your hands unless it's using your finger to push the button on the press brake
I've demolished several things over the years and never had to re-bend it.

Agreed it's a moot point since no longer available. I've put a few aluminum ones on other's cars and they're nice and much stronger than the factory plastic one.

If you whack something with an aluminum (or steel) skidplate and it starts rattling on your oil pan, be glad that you can simply take it off and bend it back instead of replacing an oil pan, whole engine or a significant delay in your trip. It will take a long time to wear a hole through the oil pan so it's not like you have to do it immediately.

 

[Fix_Until_Broke]

It was an example - a TDI will sound like an IDI if you physically advance the pump timing too much.
We're all in agreement that injection timing is important

physical pump timing? that's only setting the available window tho. if you take timing logs you can watch spec/actual timing (assuming sensors all working accurately). i've never heard in a car i have driven what i would call knock - only "strained" on what i would say are over-advanced tunes. have seen and heard (remotely) many issues of stutter which is almost always duration/timing not right. too retarded is more of a "chug" compared to "stutter". timing is always relative tho. if durations are too much, then timing needs to be more (in general). but that will also throw off boost control since the pid maps are relying ony accurate consumption numbers (gearing included) to calculate stuff. and if its a vnt15 or is it a larger turbo...

i wanted to also mention this is very true. however at the same time...what you are often given is not at all done right. 5 min hack of a stock tune pawned off as something tried and tested. very evident once you've read in so many of them and they're all the same regardless of fueling/turbo. and then you get 2 sentence emails at best (usually "rod length" or "hammer mod" or some bs about your injectors being wrong). and the logs they want are usuallly the most useless 3rd gear WOT pulls (not so good for safety)... and then you're on you're own fighting it for a long time... lol, or settling, or not knowing better, etc. some mix of all the above, maybe with hardware issues (often minor, sometimes not minor but also simple to fix)... **shrug**

 

[wonneber]

Almost had the front buttoned up, had a guy come to buy my excavator and it was about 2 hours on deciding. Now to do the dash and radio, and to redo the door wire.

My son has some numbered 30 wire bundle, going to redo every one with a unique number.

I used 2 wire lamp wire when I installed my Kenwood.
Took a bit to pull the pins out and solder the lamp wire which I ran to the 4 speakers and the Crutchfield adapter. (no sub needed in a car, the Kenwood has enough base for me.)

 

[wonneber]

Wow, I knew we were dealing with inflation, but even still, a $60̷,0̷0̷0̷ belt seems a tad much.

Must be the super dupper extra heavy duty belt.

 

[CanadianALH]

Installed some used rokblokz mud flaps today and I am very happy with how they look.

 

[pkhoury]

Of course, he was driving a MKIV!

These cars will literally save your life. I speak from experience! I was told that had I been driving something else 3.5 years ago, I would've died.

 

[pkhoury]

I've heard strategically placed bags of moth balls also works on keeping critters at bay.

I used a bag of mint in one car. Elsa did a boo boo and accidentally sat in some mint my stepmom was drying (Middle Eastern cuisine stuff). So instead of tossing it, I opted to take it. Apparently, mice hate the smell of mint, and it made the car smell good.

As for what I did to my mk4 - took the b!tch for a ride in the front seat. She liked those junkyard leather seats!

 

[pkhoury]

It was an example - a TDI will sound like an IDI if you physically advance the pump timing too much.
We're all in agreement that injection timing is important

Ha, my pump is so retarded, even Forest Gump is jealous. But it's retarded per my tuner/@burpod's suggestion. Definitely made a big difference in fuel economy on both Golfs, as well as power.

 

[[486]]

there was a time I was taking notes from the 7.3DI's timing maps and I was running a flat 10 degrees across the entire lower end of the maps
wanted it to turn the white smoke from mongo injectors into at least black (it didn't really), make better heat at idle in the winter, and also wanted it to sound cool (which it never really did)

Ran fine, low enough EGTs and all, no coolant pressure with reused head bolts and gasket, torque limit maps kept it from blowing up, but it sure put some severe constant load on the crank journals, shells looked okay but the journals were .003" out of round, and I'm fairly certain all that steel drained out with the oil over the preceding 100k miles.

 

[IndigoBlueWagon]

Ha, my pump is so retarded, even Forest Gump is jealous. But it's retarded per my tuner/@burpod's suggestion. Definitely made a big difference in fuel economy on both Golfs, as well as power.

My understanding is that over 1600 RPM the ECU dictates pump timing, not the mechanical setting. As long as the pump isn't so advanced or retarded that the ECU can't achieve the timing written into the tune, it will do what the ECU asks.

 

[GlowBugTDI]

Check out this BS I found this morning.

Any suggestions on how to mice proof them? Maybe something I can spray on?

Pepermint oil driped onto cotton balls. Place the cotton balls in various areas of the engine bay. Re-apply as needed, once a month is probably plenty for over the winter. I usually apply in the fall and then don't touch it till spring, but if your driving the car pushing air over them maybe more would be better every now and then. I've used this for everything that sits and seems to work well.

 

[GlowBugTDI]

I used 2 wire lamp wire when I installed my Kenwood.
Took a bit to pull the pins out and solder the lamp wire which I ran to the 4 speakers and the Crutchfield adapter. (no sub needed in a car, the Kenwood has enough base for me.)

Happen to remember which kenwood model speakers?