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#1 ·
As always participation is welcome.

Let's start with the car, a red roadster with 136k fwd and an aum engine.
I didn't know that the TT got so base level.
No Bose, no xenon, no leather, no quattro, no fun.

Gumtree advert was £795, Paid £600.

Engine runs well to 4k, pcv pipes are perished.
Exhaust knocks, needs cambelt
Front tyres bald, pads and discs good
Roof, locks, radio, window drop, all goodies don't work.
Airbag light, brake fluid light and engine light are lit up, display doesn't work and I'm sceptical of tank and fuel.
Bodywork is cleanish but signs of paint, plastics faded.
I'm now the third owner.
Has a cup holder, missing one end cap.
Cd player, doesn't switch on and he is going to ring with code.
Two keys, promises of the booklet and history.
Couple of spots of lacquer peel.
Lots and lots of water inside of it.

I have some ideas I am playing with but currently I just need to get the electrics up and running and a good carpet out drying session.
Boot pop, radio, so many electrics.

I am also going to Google where the drainage holes are and how to clean them.
 

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StuartDB said:
how much to get it okay - £1000 ?
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I can see £2k+ of work in that and that's before you uncover anything really nasty in the depths of the engine/chassis.

I'd also go as far as to say that the last MOT was done as a favour to the previous owner; many of the faults listed on the failure, which were rectified within a single mile, are now apparent at the purchase 9 months later. I'd suggest that someone has listed this whilst it still has some MOT, at a seemingly low price, in order to save themselves the aforementioned £2k in 3 months time.

Personally, I'd have bought it for spares/to weigh in, as even the most eager project-meister is going to have some serious work (and money) on their hands, and even when finished, it'll never be worth anywhere near what's invested in it.
 
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If its full of water chances are that the drain tubes or the drain trays are blocked. The trays are located behind the roll hoops on either side of the car. With the hood up you need to feel around on the shelf behind the hoops. You are looking for roughly 4 inch square plastic trays with a drain hole in the corner. This allows any water that drains in to the car to collect in these trays and drain down the drain tubes. Water then exits down the tubes and drains out the rear wheel arches approx. twelve inches up from the ground. If you pull the wing liner out you will see the drain hole. If the drain tubes are blocked or the drain trays are blocked then water will overflow out the trays and in to the car. Also will flood the CCM which controls all the electrical functions you say do not work.
 
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£600 for a reason, well quite a lot of reasons actually. If you don't mind spending lots of time and lots of money then go for it but imo I wouldn't bother as seems like a very neglected example and sure to throw up more issues. At the end of the day it will still be a base model 180 fwd.

best of luck if you decide to go ahead :D
 
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Worth checking its MOT history online if you have not already.

It must have had some money spent on it to get its through its last MOT in April this year, as it has quite a few reasons to fail and which were all fixed as it passed with a clean sheet. It had done 126k then so has done 10k in 8 months. Maybe it has been run into the ground a bit during those 8 months?

I wouldn't let the poverty spec put you off, I suspect they are fun even without power and quattro. Need to be careful how much you spend on it as it could easily become uneconomic. But good luck, sounds interesting and at that purchase price it must be worth a punt.
 
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Naturally I hit the mot history up before I went, probably has been a neglected tt in its time.
They had a b7 A4 and an 8j TT on the drive.

I'm not going to break it, much easier to shift on as a car.
I do fail to see how it could all come to 2/3k to fix, it's just a fwd base spec 150, there's nothing to go wrong.

Cheers for the directions to the drain holes, watertight is the first goal and I already considered the soaking of the CCM, a bit like having a Passat b5 or the kessy in a phaeton.

I think the plans are dry, clean, fix electrics and chuck a 2.3 v5 in it just to jazz things up a little bit.
 
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Same car here
I like it
On mine
One if the roofrelays went tits up
Drains blocked freed them with bicycle cable outer as suggested by some one on here
Clutch was gone but easy change
I did flywheel but theres no real need to
Seat bolster worn so swapped it to passenger side
Cleaned up all the earths everywhere
Fans didnt come on so fixed them
Got a front half respray and a dent man in
Also changed the injector seals using the tip off on here
Did the wheelsup
Put chinese bluetooth unit init does mp3 etc
Got the cheap cup holder and the airvent plate that hokds a suction phone holder so you can google maps
Renovated and fabsilled the roof
Paid fir belt doing as i knew everything would be on really tight
Did water pump and all pipes under the dipstick tube and a vo,tage regulator went
Finally still had a rich condition after ages of fucking about i swapped pump for a sh one and voila running toalky fine and i cant see me getting rid have got a cat back from awesome and new maf
Totally love the car best ive ever had it pairs nicely with my mapped a2 tdi90 which is a five seater tardis

I really like it and the traffic is heavy anyway so you cant go that fast
 
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pc759 said:
Same car here
I like it
On mine
One if the roofrelays went tits up
Drains blocked freed them with bicycle cable outer as suggested by some one on here
Clutch was gone but easy change
I did flywheel but theres no real need to
Seat bolster worn so swapped it to passenger side
Cleaned up all the earths everywhere
Fans didnt come on so fixed them
Got a front half respray and a dent man in
Also changed the injector seals using the tip off on here
Did the wheelsup
Put chinese bluetooth unit init does mp3 etc
Got the cheap cup holder and the airvent plate that hokds a suction phone holder so you can google maps
Renovated and fabsilled the roof
Paid fir belt doing as i knew everything would be on really tight
Did water pump and all pipes under the dipstick tube and a vo,tage regulator went
Finally still had a rich condition after ages of faffking about i swapped pump for a sh one and voila running totally fine and i cant see me getting rid have got a cat back from awesome and new maf
Also had arear wheel bearing go did all fluids andfilters not misseda beat in 10000 miles feel 100% confidence in it
Totally love the car best ive ever had it pairs nicely with my mapped a2 tdi90 which is a five seater tardis

I would never have believed i coukd do all that when it was registered 15 years ago

I really like it and the traffic is heavy anyway so you cant go that fast
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I have had a 170bhp v5 sitting in a car outside my garage for the better part of three years now, it is essentially the whole point of buying this car.
Granted I would have rather used a 225 as a base due to spec level and refinement but that would be backwards.
Cheap 150 essentially allows me to do as I please.
 
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Well if anyone can birth a Frankenstein its you, good luck buddy looking forward to the posts!!!!
 
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The following items might only come to around £300 to fix which is a normal spend for 18 year old car anyway
Cd player, doesn't switch on and he is going to ring with code.
Couple of spots of lacquer peel.
Front tyres bald

The next group, as you sound a good mechanic, around £200 and a couple of days work
Engine runs well to 4k, pcv pipes are perished.
Exhaust knocks, needs cambelt

Lastly could be fix by unblocking the hidden holes and a new comfort package MIGHT come to £200
Roof, locks, radio, window drop, all goodies don't work.
Airbag light, brake fluid light and engine light are lit up, display doesn't work and I'm sceptical of tank and fuel.
Bodywork is cleanish but signs of paint, plastics faded.
Lots and lots of water inside of it.

So hopefully under £1,000 but a gamble never-the-less, but then any TT is gamble
 
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No supercharger, hopefully someone aftere will turbo it or something, I am going to leave all the wiring oem, everything needs to look OEM, making the engine cover will be fun.

I look forward to birthing this Frankenstein.

I can even see me spending a grand on this to get it done.
Essentially needs tyres, I went under it last night and the rear springs look new so I'm not going to worry too much about the last mot looking shifty, the biggest one will be the clocks but then stepper motors are cheap on the bay and I have a few sets of spares I'm sure I can raid the LCD from.

Electrics are all down due to water ingress, I tipped a fair amount out of the CCM last night and I have had it drying all day, looks to have corroded in the corner, what's the odds this is the power for the whole thing, haven't looked up schematics yet but it's the current theory.

The plugs are soaked and everything is generally just wet, tomorrow the insides can all come out and the drying process can begin, arch liners and drain plugs too.

Going to raid a CCM and see what that does for things with regards to getting the windows to notch up that final bit.

The guy messaged and has said he has found the history and things, even told me the code and not to input it until I have read page 39.
 

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#20 ·
Hi there.
I bought my purple TT 225 for a grand off Gumtree, the guy was a liar though.
My fault for not doing home work but it looks like I dodged a bullet, he said oil pressure light was a loose sensor, I fixed it by doing a quick fix , so far so good.
The merlin purple paint is beautiful and a little bit more rare,its a fast coupé and I'm gonna remap her for some summer fun.
If I end up paying two grand for her, I'll be on top of the world!
Cheers and good luck. Rich
 
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richphela said:
was a loose sensor
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That's the biggest load of bullshit you'll ever hear when buying a car, particularly when it's followed up with ".... and it's only about £30, I just haven't had the time". You almost want to say "You haven't had time, to spend £30, in order to sell your car for £1k more you lying fuckwit".

Sadly, honest sellers are very much in the minority.
 
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Only a bit of daylight these days so no massive progress.

Got the TT stripped down to running gear, exhaust and a bit of wiring, had the roof down/up and the doors open to begin the drying process.

Got the v5 ready to lift out next time, dirty work considering it has been sitting for five years getting rubbish thrown at it.
 

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#25 ·
I have had a problem with my Roadster since I purchased it. The remote locking has never worked. After trying a few people I was told it was the CCM. Finally bit the bullet an d I'm waiting on a used, guaranteed one being delivered. The small board in one of your photos is the RF board which controls the remote locking. Yours looks worse than mine. Caused by water ingress ! You can get one from a coupe and remove the damaged one from yours and solder it on to the CCM. I couldn't do it myself plus my CCM had a bit of damage to some of the male pins. Will have to resynchronization my keys to the new CCM. Will post when it arrives and let you know what happens.
 
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