[Guest]

Evening,

My Mk4 R came with VW's tyre weld etc but I actually found a slim 18" spare wheel in my attic.

Does anybody have the piece of hard foam designed to sit around the spare wheel that they no longer require?

Thanks

 

[Guest]

I believe it's number 10 on this diagram if that helps.

 

[Gti Fly]

I think you're referring to some foam bits that never ever came with UK R32s

UK R32's came with a massive one piece foam that took up the entire space where the wheel would normally sit.....

I tihnk it was TT's and S3's that has the smaller bits of foam that wedged up the gaps around the spare wheel .

Have a look on graeme's website (from Australia) for better info .

LEt me see if I can dig up the pics for u?

 

[Gti Fly]

http://www.users.on.net/~graeme86/spacesaver/spacesaver.html

There you go, UK R32's didn't get this set up. We got a massive one piece foam which took up the entire space where the wheel would normally go

 

[PaulW]

And here is the foam

http://www.ebay.co.u...=item27d2148d50

 

[Guest]

Ah I see, thanks guys.

I thought some UK R's came with a spare wheel, or did VW cheap out on all of them?

 

[PaulW]

Just more to do with the Haldex than anything. Tyreweld and the likes is the war forward

 

[Guest]

Just don't like the idea of tyre weld, and now that I've found this 18" spare I feel compelled to use it lol.

 

[PaulW]

Just don't like the idea of tyre weld, and now that I've found this 18" spare I feel compelled to use it lol.

I ran about 300 miles in my last car with Tyreweld. Nothing wrong with it at all. Just tell they tyre fitter you've used it when hes replacing the tyre. I had a phone call from a grumpy tyre fitter coz he had shitty foam all over his machine haha

 

[Gti Fly]

Ah I see, thanks guys.

I thought some UK R's came with a spare wheel, or did VW cheap out on all of them?

mk4's all came with that massive foam cut out, and all the usual tools (inc blue air pump+ bottle of get you home sealent)

I've got a spare 18inch TT space saver too - but I've now taken it out (along with the back seats) as all the weight seems to add up to quite a noticeable difference.

 

[PaulW]

mk4's all came with that massive foam cut out, and all the usual tools (inc blue air pump+ bottle of get you home sealent)

I've got a spare 18inch TT space saver too - but I've now taken it out (along with the back seats) as all the weight seems to add up to quite a noticeable difference.

Carbon Buckets next?

 

[Gti Fly]

LOL, yes the front seats weigh an absolute tonne too. Some nice carbon backed high recaros would be nice!

 

[Guest]

When I emptied the boot and took the rear seats out the Bora the difference was depressingly noticeable! Handle so well and absolutely flew.

 

[PaulW]

Roughly in KG what would you say for the rears? For every 14lb (7kg) is roughly 1bhp

 

[Gti Fly]

I'll go weigh them now

 

[Gti Fly]

Approx 19kg for the rear/ back rests (uprights) (the bum bits weigh next to nothing)

6.6kg and 12.3kg for the left and right back rests

The front seats weigh a hell of a lot more for sure.

Definatly the car stops much better without the rear seats in place, so that small 19kg saving must make a difference. I bet you'd save a massive amount just by changing the front seats, because they weigh a hell of a lot more than the backs

 

[PaulW]

Thats unreal! Well done for braving the cold and weighing them!

your reward is over 3BHP!

 

[Gti Fly]

3bhp? woot woot

didn't need to brave the cold, the seatbacks are in my spare room collecting dust lol

 

[PaulW]

3bhp? woot woot

didn't need to brave the cold, the seatbacks are in my spare room collecting dust lol

Ha dont use it all at once.

 

[VR6Rich]

My Bora 4motion has the space saver with small foam bit, want to get rid of it though and just get the R32 foam bit.

Doubt it has anything to do with the haldex as that would mean 4motions had the same as R32's ;-)