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Looks beautiful! I love the color. I had several MK4's as well.. I've owned one of every Golf/GTI generation up until the newest MK8. They make for a great all-around fun car. We have a 2019 Tiguan now which is more or less a lifted Golf haha
I like that the 987s have gotten to a point where many are tinkering and fixing them at home. I'm not about to be paying $250 an hour or whatever the local dealership is charging! I've found the cars to be very straight forward to work on.
In the 90s, the Corado VR6 was one of the cars that I - and many others - lusted over.
I can't tell you the amount of work I did on my car. Within 2-3 years, I replaced or upgraded virtually every part on it.
Armed with my MK2 Bentley, it was how I learned to work on cars.
LOL I actually wore through a Mk2 Bentley and had to buy a replacement one. Totally learned to wrench the same way as you! And yes, the Corrado VR6 was the one to have back in the day. My friend had a G60 in high school and I thought it was the coolest car ever
Any chance you applied the Siless to the wheel wells and have some thoughts to share? Weather is finally warming up and took my new to me '10 CS out the other day and was a bit surprised by the road noise coming in to the cabin. I'm all for adding more exhaust and induction noise, but was quite shocked by the unwanted noises. Would definitely do this if it makes any improvement. Thanks
Sure thing. I applied it to the backs of the liners only, thinking that if it didn't offer enough reduction, I'd just pull them out and add it directly to the body itself. So far, it's fine with just applying it to the plastic bits. That said, big wide tires on coarse pavement is going to result in lots of tire noise and this won't eliminate that. But if you're on decent pavement, it keeps the low level thrum of the tires out of the cockpit.
The biggest change, with the greatest amount of noise reduction in my Boxster was lining the inside of the doors. I removed the door cards and lined both the card itself and the door itself. I think I put pictures back up the thread a little. I also bought some foam things that allowed me to stuff a 2" thick foam disc behind the speakers in the lower door. I then used the foam ring that came with those plugs to better seal the speaker grill in the door card to the inner panel of the door so that only sounds from the speakers come out through the grill. It was surprising to me how much noise is transmitted through the doors. Once I lined those, it was a dramatic enough difference that my wife commented on it almost immediately.
Since it's a Boxster, I started with putting liner over the access panels, as well. That reduced the engine noise some, which was fine, because with less noise in the cabin, I can still hear the terrific sounds coming out of the engine bay.
Sorry for a kind of late response on this, but I hope it's helpful.
I think I paid like $50 for the material and still have about a third of a roll or so. FWIW, as prep, I bought a bunch of the little plastic gizmos that hold the door card to the door itself. I think I got them on Amazon for like $10 for 5 or something. They were cheap and I actually had to use a couple of them, so that was handy.
Did pick it up from detailing shop. Paint correction, polishing, partial PPF (full front, mirrors, rear quarter, side skirts, front & rear lights), ceramic coating.
Nothing particularly exciting, but gotta start somewhere. Installed the OEM trunk and frunk protective liners, a missing wiper arm cap, and replaced a cracked up rear wheel arch guard-a-ma-bob. This thing here...
Next up is paint correction and ceramic coating, and replacement of that yellowed and cracked rear wheel arch ppf. Just can't decide if I stick with clear or go black instead. Need to search out meteor gray Caymans and see what looks good.
No, I thought to do them you need a special VAG tool but according to my mechanic they came out easily. The tool is only needed if they're hard to get out.
05-05-2022, 03:27 PM
And yes, the Corrado VR6 was the one to have back in the day. My friend had a G60 in high school and I thought it was the coolest car ever 
