key features to report:
218k miles on clock. everything works minus the AC and cruise control because they were both deleted under the hood.
26+ gallon tank. I filled up, from a little under 1/4 tank, and put 20 gallons in
even at 40mpg, thats 1000+ miles per tank.
self adjusting mirrors, sliding rear window, CB radio (need new antenna) bolt through vent windows.
strut towers are ok for now, bit of inner fender rust and rot, but it hasn't spread to the towers yet. dunno how deep the rabbit hole goes, but it's not enough to scare me
no idea on LX or not.
my neighbor helped me unload the jetta from my last trip to canada to see tyler and his part collection, who mentioned to a few guys at work the humor of how much stuff we actually stuffed into and pulled out of a vw diesel. one guy said something like "well, my dad has one of them old trucks, kinda for sale... he doesn't use it any more"
I got his number, happened to be workin a few miles south of where he lived shortly thereafter, called him on my way to lunch, skipped eating and drove up to check it out. made an offer, he said "well i'd like more than that" to which I said, I've only got x, so if you want more, it'll have to wait a few weeks" he told me it wasn't advertised, and I had first dibs, no deposit needed.
two weeks later, I drive up, and bring it home. threw in a second set of wheels, and some le1n paint left over from a respray, along with it.
the GTI badge was glued to one of my cracked GTI grills, it's a lil scraped up, but neighbor is trying to understand GTI/GLI/TDI/GLS/etc differences, so to confuse him, we put the GTI badge on 1.6NA truck.
if we had time today, we were gonna swap manifolds out and throw a lil turbo under the hood. didn't have time...
truck is loaded for mk1m, minus things going where the passenger seat should be. hammock, cooler, tshirts, and a few lil things.
gonna be fun
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