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as the title says, just got a 1989 golf 4 door, 130k miles, 5 spd, gold exterior sweet retro brown interior, picked her up for 750$. has a little bit of rust, nothing that cant be fixed tho, very solid body, should be a good little car for college. here are the pictures:





and the bad:
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Modified by 92mkIIjetta at 1:45 PM 6-12-2007
 
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Re: got my self a golf (92mkIIjetta)

Quote, originally posted by 92mkIIjetta »
should be a good little car for college.

Hell yes. Excellent choice for a little run about rig. Just get all the maintenance knocked out and don't be afraid to use the search function. Get yourself a Bentley repair manual and you'll be golden like a shower.
The brown interior in gangster for sure.
 
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Re: got my self a golf (VegasJetta)

hey thanks guys, hte car has new fuel pumps, timing belt, and oil changed every 3k http://****************.com/smile/emthup.gif i'm from bethel maine, car is in old orchard beach i'm pickin it up tomorrow. i'm so pumped, it has no headliner so i'm doing a custom plaid headliner to match the brown interior
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i cant wait. gotta love the 13 inch rims and manual steering too
oh and dont worry i'll be getting a bentley very soon.


Modified by 92mkIIjetta at 1:56 PM 6-12-2007
 
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so wheres the best place to find bentleys? and what do you guys think about 16v flairs on this beast? it has quarter flairs and i dont really like em, i'd wrather have full flairs. and i also need to find bigger rims for it, like some tear drops. i'm gonna try to keep this sucker retro lookin, plaid roofliner, respray the shell in a nice brown/gold.
does anyone have a picture of a car like mine all retroed out?
 
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Re: (UTdubbin)

If you had 16v flares you would need to find a set of big bumpers, but in my opinion tear drops and 16v/g60 flares don't look to nice. 16v/g60 flares tend to look better when running a wider wheel. Nice car though it looks like a decent one to start with. http://****************.com/smile/emthup.gif
 
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Re: (JersyJetta)

i drove it home today, car was awesome on the way home, then got to a stop sign and went to stop, yea brakes went to the floor and were gone. pissed me off so i drove home and used the ebrake and downshifted to stop. tomorrow is gonna b e cleaning it up and fixing the brakes.
 
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ouch! sorry to hear that man. at least you still managed to get it home. now grab that bently and start taking things apart asap in true vw style!!!
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damn you guys on the east coast get shafted on the rust...

yea tell me about it, the reason i got this car was because on my truck (95 nissan) the frame had so many holes and cracks there was no way it was passing inspection or that it was really safe. on the way to picking this car up we stopped to look at a 91 golf wolfsburg, the guy wanted 2k for it and it was so rusted out that it was unbelievable. east coast ftw!
 
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on the way to picking this car up we stopped to look at a 91 golf wolfsburg, the guy wanted 2k for it and it was so rusted out that it was unbelievable. east coast ftw!

some kid in maine wanted to trade his rusty cut springed gti which probably didn't run for my jetta... needless to say, i kept my jetta
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so today got the golf on a lift at my friends dads shop, checked out the underside, fixed some surface rust and fixed the bumper hole that is pictured up above. well as i was spraying the underside with some undercoating my friend calls me over to look at my subframe. lucky me, the subframe has a hole in each side where it bolts to the a arm. so now i have to debate as to whether i want to patch it for now or find a newer one and put it in which i hear is a pain.
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man i love my mkII's!!
 
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Quote, originally posted by 92mkIIjetta »
the subframe has a hole in each side where it bolts to the a arm. so now i have to debate as to whether i want to patch it for now or find a newer one and put it in which i hear is a pain.
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man i love my mkII's!!
replacing the rusted out subframe now (especially if you have acess to a lift) is a lot less of a pain than picking your engine or suspension components off the side of the road when it finally gives out. i vote to replace it now & save a lot of trouble.
 
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