Stripped the PAS rack down completely... Then dropped it off last week with RIX Blasting Services who are local to where I work up in the North East and picked it up again yesterday: Last week I also went to North East Motor Salvage and found a suitable 106 shell to donate a sill and... Continue Reading →

The right parts turned up from Bigg Red this time, it's kit number 204832: Pistons were corroded behind the seals, quite a difference between them: Brakes back ready for reassembly with polished sliders: All back together with a lovely smooth action On the steering rack front I managed to get blanking plugs for the two... Continue Reading →

Frustrating progress, not enough time to work on the body work so trying to get a few other jobs finished. Another steering rack arrived. It's in a terrible state, but all I need is the tension adjuster plug. Came to undo it and immediately sensed the friction - it's been staked! So I will probably... Continue Reading →

So the plan for the top mount bearings did not work out. I picked up a pair of these Meyle top mount bearings which are for a Peugeot Boxer van: Although they fit as I had envisaged, from a mechanical point of view the idea sucks so back to plan B, aftermarket top mounts. Also... Continue Reading →

Not huge progress over the weekend. Finally dressed back all the metal work from having removed the seat rails and cage mounts. I need to test fit the seats again to see if they will clear the reinforcing plate welded on the sills between the two mounting bosses. Found a few patch repairs that I... Continue Reading →

So today I started taking the interior back to basics. This was the starting point. I take back the earlier comment on the seat rails, they were a decent 2mm thickness material but they were drilled a few times and didn't have crush tubes fitted. In my experience without taking the centre plate off the... Continue Reading →

Since last week I ordered a few parts to sort out the steering rack and they arrived during the week. As I went to disassemble the rack it appears the tensioner screw plug had been staked in place. This wasn't apparent until I tried to remove the screw as the damaged threads in the alloy... Continue Reading →

Coilovers are nearly finished, but as I have some work to do I chucked the standard shocks off the GTI on. So this is what I am working with - a very dirty 106 Rallye! I've done some repainting of the door shuts and around the rear quarter windows transforming them from this: To this:... Continue Reading →

So the car's gone nowhere since arriving home as it had no springs on the front struts and the steering rack/column needed sorting. I bought a set of Bilstein B8s about the same time as the GTI which were sat in a box, so I thought that I'd convert the struts to coilovers. Dunc Conway... Continue Reading →

This is the new project car, it is well known in the 106 Rallye Register forum community having been around since at least 2009 as far as I can tell. I bought as a rolling shell from Andrew Mathias. So the history of my second S1, L958KBW, is as below as far as I can... Continue Reading →