Renrubicer: Purple Power

[swcrow]

Gutting to put a cage in? Notbad

the first thing I thought about when I saw how much it was stripped....dang

 

[riceburner]

"WHILE YOURE IN THERE" came to mind a good few times; do more sound deadening, re-do the 'doomed to sag eventually' headliner... and sure, a cage lol

 

[snobrdrdan]

Look at how much fun im having
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[19birel]

"WHILE YOURE IN THERE" came to mind a good few times; do more sound deadening, re-do the 'doomed to sag eventually' headliner... and sure, a cage lol

You should do the sound deadening. I had a vibration coming from one of the rear door cards in my A4, fixing that escalated into lining the inner and outer door skins as well as the door card with Kilmat. I had already done the trunk so I had the material left over but I think the whole box was $60 shipped iirc and it did the trunk and doors. The difference was quite noticeable. I'm sure it would be night and day doing the floor of the tig with the doors.

 

[riceburner]

fine, butyl and closed cell foam sound deadener ordered since it was only ~100 bucks and will be here today. i'll do the floor and whatever exposed sides i have enough leftover material for.

 

[riceburner]

Dammit just when i thought i was done and going to assemble, i found out there are these foam pads near the firewall, i thought they were just rubber or plastic, but nope turns out they are foam underneat a rubber layer, and soaking wet so i gotta wash and let these dry lol

 

[DIB's]

Well, crap

Glad ya found em! Ya done poking around the rest of the car to be positive there's nothing else?

 

[riceburner]

Pretty damn sure there better be nothing else lol the only shit not removed by now is the dashboard and door cards

Well im glad i am doing the sound deadener because a) probably wouldnt have noticed the issue above if not and b) having the entire shit apart means you can do the firewall, driveshaft/exhuast tunnel etc.

Sure is gonna be a quiet car. Heres just the butil done

 

[riceburner]

ok, it is finally all back together! what a fun two weekend job.

i only have 3 leftover mystery screws. i only broke ~3 clips, two of them were for the dead pedal which gave me a good excuse to buy an aluminum pedal set lol

i broke 1 connector (ripped the visor off which just tore the vanity light connector our whoops lol. Found another broken/corroded connector where the passenger seat plugs are; which explains why the passenger seat recline doesnt' work.

the sound deadening was a great idea overall; the road noise would be gone, sans for hearing it through the doors now which is honestly kind of funny and total proof to me and how effective sound deadening is! but now of course that means i'll have to do the doors one day.

 

[El_bigote_AJ]

ok, it is finally all back together! what a fun two weekend job.

i only have 3 leftover screws. i only broke ~3 clips, two of them were for the dead pedal which gave me a good excuse to buy an aluminum pedal set lol

i broke 1 connector (ripped the visor off which just tore the vanity light connector our whoops lol. Found another broken/corroded connector where the passenger seat plugs are; which explains why the passenger seat recline doesnt' work.

the sound deadening was a great idea overall; the road noise would be gone, sans for hearing it through the doors now which is honestly kind of funny and total proof to me and how effective sound deadening is! but now of course that means i'll have to do the doors one day.

Yeah, doors are known to let a ton of noise in when I did just the front doors with the 3 layer approach(damper/ccf/mlv/ccf) it was a huge dif. alone and that was only front doors.

Roof and glass take in lots of wind noise after you quite the rest.

 

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ok, it is finally all back together!

It at CarMax yet then?

 

[riceburner]

Why in the world would it be at carmax? The correct question is, is it listed on FB marketplace yet!

Yeah i will probably cave eventually and do the doors and hatch eventually then regret not doing the roof; then again the roof is like 70% glass

next on the list, figuring out if it is actually just a total dog at non-full throttle or if the dv is ripped or something. would a torn diaphragm not throw a code?

 

[riceburner]

First 'mods' on the mk1.5 tiguan going in lol

Had to get a round of replacement parts due to old stuff either being worn out or previous status unknown or bad brand replacements found

81k miles
Truck is doggishly slow, sometimes misfires or feels like misfire, so either coils, plugs or fuel cut.

Brakes are about gone, squeaky, shuddery, dont feel too strong, lost of dust.

Struts are visually leaking in the rear, the ride is SO sway heavy which tells me its just riding on the springs

Trans seems to slip a bit between gears, moreso when cold. Yet another VAG automatic i am just not pleased with. Cant seem to do a relearn on vagcom, and doing the gas pedal trick when the truck is in acc mode did nothing. So hoping a flush and filter helps...

Bilstein b4 struts
FCP brakes, akeboro ceramic pads
Apr ign coils, ngk plugs
6.6 bar fuel filter
Trans flush/filter
Sway bar endlinks
Fresh diverter valve

Today doing brakes, flush, rear struts, coils and plugs, fuel filter

The autolite spark plugs arent too bad but were gapped to .045 vs .032 per spec
Also seeing oil on most of the threads at least which tells me theres likely a valve cover leak to tackle soon

And the ignition coils had been previously replaced with duralast brand, and i know oem/+ is really the way to go. I couldnt be bothered to remind myself with objective evidence that the apr coils are good/oem quality, but they were cheap enough (like 120 for all 4? Maybe too cheap, which may be telling...)

 

[riceburner]

Oh and the roof leak is back so i gotta redo at least one sunroof connection. Fack

 

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Oh and the roof leak is back so i gotta redo at least one sunroof connection. Fack