MK2 Golf daily

[Darkside]

Did an oil change. Then a wash and wax. This old girl looks pretty good

[Darkside]

finally installed the 99 relay from a mk3 and have programmable wiper delay in the mk2. Also was putting on a f. swaybar from a mk3 2.0. got stuck cause my weak arms can't get the subframe bolts loose. It is winning...for now. I am sure I will soon have the swaybar installed as well

[MT-Getto]

What a lucky little Golf

[Roadhog]

I think I see some dirt on it.

[Darkside]

It rained as soon as I finished waxing .... as expected

[Darkside]

Owned the car for months and just found out that the cd player works. haha
This car has never had a working odometer....it has always been on my list of things to address just never at the top. Jurgen came up with a spare CE1 cluster (imagine that Jurgen has spare mk2 parts) of course his was much too fancy, 16v 140 mph speedo, MFA features and such. We tossed it in but it didn't work properly, at least not without more modifying. So we hit up a DIY on fixing the odometer on the old one. Soon we found ourselves balls deep into tearing apart the instrument cluster and speedo. Found the metal gear was slipping on the shaft. The other end has a red gear that can slip too, that one wasn't slipping at least not when we started... so in my 1st attempt to glue the metal gear, I didn't get it all the way in place before the glue dried, so I had to pull it back apart, now the red gear slips too and all the dials of the odometer (the things with the numbers) flew everywhere...good times. 2 more attempts and I think I have it and of course painstakingly reset the mileage ....I glued the red gear on the other end too shaft too. Both gears glued, and everything set. Reassemble the speedo and cluster....Drumroll and test run....FAIL odometer still is useless, most likely glued in place. Which brings me to my next mistake. FREE ADVICE: Don't remove the speedo needle* they are pre-tensioned. Success....fully jacked up my speedo now too. I had no idea and so I set it at zero and pushed it back on, so now it is way off. More dubbers to the rescue...Wade comes through with another CE1 cluster this one has the 120mph speedo...and the stupid MFA..uhhh. So this time I pulled both clusters apart and swapped out the speedos. It was pretty straight forward and now both the speedo and odometer work perfectly. Thanks Jurgen and Wade and thanks VW for making the clusters easy to remove...I forgive you for the whole pre-tensioned needle thing.

*This can be done but get proper instruction 1st.

[MT-Getto]

I got a non MFA ce1 cluster for ya

[Darkside]

of course you do...now but mine is all fixed.

[Jd3]

that diy said nothing bout the pre tension on the needle.... jackwagon internet

[Darkside]

Trevor you still have that cluster? My speed o makes noise...