Welcome. Not a common colour . Lots to do by the sound of it. Best of luck .
New Mk5 owner
I've just bought myself a (heavily) used mk5 R32. It's number 4692/5000, and has just over 155k miles clocked. It's going to be a major project as it needs timing and has minor cosmetic issues all over. It currently runs and drives, but misfires on cylinders 2 and 4 due to the timing issue. I believe it's only a bad tensioner at the moment, but I'm going to have to pull the engine to find out. Planning a complete timing rebuild, and will probably replace the dsg clutches while I'm in there. I'll be replacing whatever else I find broken as I go. I expect to find a lot of issues in there- strange things are afoot in the engine bay. The electrics look like they've been dug around in by someone who didn't know what they were doing.
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Welcome to OC 
The car is in the garage!
I picked it up in a city that's 6 hours' drive from me- made a weekend trip of it. However, the trailer I brought had woefully inadequate ramps, as even with $30 in 2x6s extending the ramps, they were much too steep. Dinged up the bumper pretty badly getting it loaded and unloaded. As best as I can tell there's no body damage, but the fasteners near the wheel wells are broken and I might end up getting a new bumper cover. Will have to assess the damage once the cover is off. Looking at the fasteners, this is not a first for this car- previous owner had reattached the bumper using what appear to be wood screws, so that's wonderful.
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Got the garage organized(ish) and parts are in the mail as of today. Waiting on a vagcom cable before I touch the engine, but I'll probably start removing bodypanels tomorrow.
Side question- is this thread appropriate for build progress updates/questions? Is there a better board to post that kind of thing on?
I picked it up in a city that's 6 hours' drive from me- made a weekend trip of it. However, the trailer I brought had woefully inadequate ramps, as even with $30 in 2x6s extending the ramps, they were much too steep. Dinged up the bumper pretty badly getting it loaded and unloaded. As best as I can tell there's no body damage, but the fasteners near the wheel wells are broken and I might end up getting a new bumper cover. Will have to assess the damage once the cover is off. Looking at the fasteners, this is not a first for this car- previous owner had reattached the bumper using what appear to be wood screws, so that's wonderful.
Got the garage organized(ish) and parts are in the mail as of today. Waiting on a vagcom cable before I touch the engine, but I'll probably start removing bodypanels tomorrow.
Side question- is this thread appropriate for build progress updates/questions? Is there a better board to post that kind of thing on?
Good day's work today- Friend and I removed the bumper cover and the bumper itself. Decided against removing the hood because I'd have to pull the hoses and wires for the windshield washers out, and it seemed like more work than it's worth. The clips for the bumper are pretty destroyed.
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Might try to repair it, more likely will just buy a new cover. The grilles and other inserts for the bumper are fine, so I'd just be looking at part and paint cost.
Other than the fasteners, things looked better under the bumper cover than I expected. The drivers' side headlight was held on by a ziptie because the top mount point is broken- fortunately it was still on the screw, just snapped off of the main headlight body. Will probably just epoxy it together since all the other light fasteners are fine.
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Next step is to drain all the fluids and pull the radiator, but I'm going to wait until my vcds cable arrives in a week or so before I do that. Might do some interior work while I wait.
Might try to repair it, more likely will just buy a new cover. The grilles and other inserts for the bumper are fine, so I'd just be looking at part and paint cost.
Other than the fasteners, things looked better under the bumper cover than I expected. The drivers' side headlight was held on by a ziptie because the top mount point is broken- fortunately it was still on the screw, just snapped off of the main headlight body. Will probably just epoxy it together since all the other light fasteners are fine.
Next step is to drain all the fluids and pull the radiator, but I'm going to wait until my vcds cable arrives in a week or so before I do that. Might do some interior work while I wait.
It has been a productive week. Finally got the car up on quickjacks and removed the wheels + inner fenders. Didn't want to evacuate the AC, so I did some research and found that there's enough slack in the AC lines to rotate the entire front clip 90 degrees to the passenger side. Drained the coolant (wound up with a little over 2 gallons after spilling a ton) and disconnected all the front clip's wiring, and today finally pulled it / rotated it out of the way. There are some convenient plywood shelves hanging from the ceiling above where I'm working, so I pounded a nail into them and hung the entire assembly from them with a bungee.
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From here I removed the front clip and radiator from the condenser and put them on the evergrowing parts pile, and now the condenser is the only thing hanging from those shelves.
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Also finally pulled the airbox. The filter appears to never have been changed, so that's wonderful.
Planning to pull the ignition and intake next.
From here I removed the front clip and radiator from the condenser and put them on the evergrowing parts pile, and now the condenser is the only thing hanging from those shelves.
Also finally pulled the airbox. The filter appears to never have been changed, so that's wonderful.
Planning to pull the ignition and intake next.
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