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2x B5 1.8 20v 1x B5.5 1.8t And now a B5 1.9tdi And I still maintain that they are the best cheap cars you could spend your money on, my latest B5 cost sub £500, has 220k on it, has had the rear exhaust box chopped/rusted off and a side exit fitted, the bonnet catch sheared off and the bonnet is hel...

Check the pulleys, are they V belt ones or multi rib belt types? I had this on my mk2 for ages, swapped the v belt pulleys for mk3 golf multi rib ones and the belt grips well and got rid of the problem (then I ditched the pas all together for a manual rack but that's besides the point [emoji38] ) Se...

And a socket set...

Jack the car up, support on a stand.
Put the jack under the lower spring plate, undo the lower shock mount and lower the jack, pull the spring out

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I read that above, but what do you Consider fine? The 2e should be around 850rpm idle.

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Rule out the obvious, was the clutch carefully and properly centered when fitted? Will make no difference, the only reason you need to centre the clutch plate is to get the gearbox on. Once the clutch is operated and the plates separate it will self centre anyway. If it was miles out you wouldn't g...

Brand new ones are ok, the plastic gets brittle with time, I found my new one was VERY flexable compared to the old one

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[emoji38] good point!

Not uncommon for older autos to idle higher when the drag of the transmission trying to pull the car foward isn't engaged.

2k does seem high though, what's it sit at when it in neutral or park? Above 1000?

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Is it an auto?

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It won't matter, it's a different generation of car, engine, management, diagnostics etc. That ECU stands 0 chance of running that enigine without having its data wiped and replaced with that of the b4's. Even then, there will be sensors on the mk4 the b4 doesn't have, and the ECU wiring will be com...

Gotta love Bstar RA'S

Full set of et25's waiting to be home on the mk2




The Santana looks brilliant on them!

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If you really want to convert the car you have, get the 1.8t engine, loom, ecu, clocks, locks, keys, down pipe, intercooler, pipework etc. But I the real world you won't do it. You'd be mad to. Far better to sell the 1.8 and buy a 1.8t. There's just too much to do to convert. And even more bonkers i...

Have seen MUCH wider, larger, and lower offsets on b6's.

You will have no issues at all

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Your not matching up the wires to any other cables, they are being terminated into pin out locations, the colour of the insulation is about as relevant as the day of the week to this process.

Are they all black?

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You would have been fine, the wheels will camber in slightly as the ride height was dropped, so would have cleared nicely. I remember first fitting my A8's to my old b5, they stuck out miles when the car was in the air, once it was down though I found I needed spacers to get them sitting nicely :) S...

Most of the Kufatec kits come with all black wires with a small print on them to say where they go, a pin number, or a few letters for a location etc.

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I would use a timesert rather than a helicoil personally, it's more like a reducer bush but is fitted in much the same way

The loom from the arch to the brakes splits inside quite often. Easy solution is to pop the grommet out in the wheel arch and behind it is the plug where the loom joins, disconnect the plug, cut the plug off from the brakes loom, join the tails together as close to the plug as possible, and plug it ...

Or CHF11S also comma I belive, got a bottle or 2 in the loft

Was a late 2004 run out thing ;)

All of it with a bit of fettling ;)

Pic to highlight. First one is 8x18 et48 all round no spacers, I couldn't fit the rears to the fronts as the different make of tyre rubbed, the fronts as they where had about 3mm clearance :) http://tapatalk.imageshack.com/v2/15/03/18/3e200e6a6241565659a346d4c44df0da.jpg With 20mm rear spacers, none...

8x18 et48 with 225/40 tyres is tight with no spacer, depending on tyre manufacturer (as stated above they are not all exactly 225mm wide) can be the difference of rubbing the arms or having just a few mm clearance. I ran 15mm spacers with the above set up, if I did it again I'd use 20mm ones for a b...

You could be at the wrong end of the car, worn rear beam bushes have a tendency to unsettle the whole car as the back end sways around over the axle
Worth check back there as well

9.5's up front will be tight, merc wheels tend to have high offsets and at that width you will be right in there with the suspension arms, spacers will solve it but then you will be out the arch

9.5's out back is nothing too tricky

Factory,I don't think so, although fords patent had expired by then, you can get switches for it and companies make the screens (looked into one for the mk2 and it's only £156 for the clear screen!) For little more than you would pay for a standard replacement!