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Volkswagen Golf: We Support Universal Health Care for Clunkers Aug 17, 2009

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With 165,000 miles on the clock, our Golf is long overdue for some basic service. We’re going to be replacing the ignition wear items (plugs, wires, cap, rotor) as well as the timing belt, serpentine belt and coolant temperature sensor. We found the best deals on replacement parts from Mike Potter at Parts4VWs.com. Mike is a longtime friend and autocrosser.

The coolant hoses are also starting to age out, so we’ll be replacing them with new silicone hoses from Samco Sport. The Samco Sport package is a cost effective way to replace all of our aging hoses at once—with higher performance.

This past week, we visited the junkyard and happened upon a 1996 Golf GTI that had a decent grille as well as a Techtonics Tuning exhaust—complete with a Borla muffler! The exhaust set us back just $14.90. How’s that for bargain shopping?

While we were performing all of this maintenance, we also replaced the engine mounts with new polyurethane version from Black Forest Industries (www.blackforestindustries.com) The Stealth series mounts are soft enough to keep the engine from vibrating our fillings loose, but stiff enough to keep the engine from rocking around during acceleration.

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Comments

alfaholic:

Got a 98 Jetta with the same basic pkge as your project car, so I'll be watching intently on the results.
Aug 18, 2009 10:34 p.m.

ansonivan:

Hear, hear. Parts from the Potter people come with candy, liquor may be more rapid but nobody every received a DUI for excessive M&M consumption. Keep up the good work folks.
Aug 26, 2009 midnight

Decahedron:

That's an obscenely good deal on the exhaust. Depending on how budget-minded you want the build to be (like on the final tally) you could probably sell it to put elsewhere.
Sep 3, 2009 8:03 p.m.

Per Schroeder:

This isn't going to be challenge legal (the oilcovers are about 3/4 of that) but we certainly don't mind saving money where we can.
Sep 4, 2009 5:04 a.m.

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The exhaust set us back just $14.90. How’s that for bargain shopping?