Uncle has a 90k mile Rado G60.
My cousin used to lease a 3 door golf, but went without a car for a year and is now leasing a Jetta MT. Once he is done with college and gets a job he will make the right move and get a GTI.
And I used to have a Mk4 GTI neva lose edition. Miss that car but the...
Mass manufactured German cars are generally easy to work on. Ex. GTI, BMW inline 6 non turbo, MB 6cyl.
difficulties do arise when awd is added into the mix, twin turbos, V8’s, etc.
Yeah from reading the post the only reason you are justifying the gli is for 2k in savings. Why not buy a used gti to pocket some more savings? Like a 2018 model?
Every track is boring after going on the Nordschleife!
I used to do some laps at Watkins Glen and I would always look forward to it. Now, I have no interest haha!
This thread is awesome!
Bravo malaka, you keep making this golf more and more badass!
I really digged the C55, got any links on that build or was it just suspension and brakes?
Hey mate,
Let me show you some images so you know whats what.
ballast:
igniter:
If the problem is the bulb, then it wouldn’t flicker. Usually bulbs that fail will just turn purple over time and eventually go out. The fact that it is flickering means that there is power going to the bulb and...
This thread is legendary. OP, small price to pay for a lifetime of experience. Just make sure it doesn’t happen again. And if you are young just sacrifice some drinking weekends and pick up an extra shift to make up the money. In five years you won’t even care about $400 but you will care about...
I used to retrofit multiple headlights. Issues were usually bad connection where I had to bend back a pin, canbus cancellor, or ballast. Since you have a stock setup I would generally disregard first two and go with ballast.
You can diagnose by swapping ballasts and seeing if problem follows the...