If you ever thought we had it bad... September 01, 2012, 10:48:02 PM I agreed to help a friend body swap his Mk3 VR6 GTI. If you're familiar with these cars, you're excused; you don't have to click through.Total nightmare. Stripping and transferring has been easy enough for the most part, but SWEET CHRIST the electrical system had to have been engineered by a near-sighted German bishagual on bath salts. It's like trying to sort out a bowl of multi-colored spaghetti with welding gloves and tweezers. He started a thread on VWVortex I've never facepalmed so much over one car. Every relay is different, seriously, not interchangeable from one socket to another. Seven harnesses in the dash, three through the firewall, two to the back of the car, and if that wasn't bad enough the ed Bro's that originally smoothed and filled the engine bay cut off every mount, every harness stud, covered every harness hole, blocked the evaporator hole off, covered every bolt hole and anchor point. And their paint job looks like it was done in a room with no lights after drinking and spinning in an office chair. Some guy on the forum pipes up and says "yeah, my buddy and I did that to the car but lost interest". I would totally not cop to being responsible for that buttshagery, just sayin. Anybody have anything worse to make me feel better about how bad I stepped in it? Quote Selected
If you ever thought we had it bad... Reply #1 – September 01, 2012, 11:09:33 PM Hmmm. S prices must be low in your area.Kidding. Must be a fan though..I wouldn't go through that (again) with my own Thunderparrot. Quote Selected
If you ever thought we had it bad... Reply #2 – September 02, 2012, 08:34:41 AM We're sping all the red parts this week. I get what you mean, and I'd have sped it too, but VW's give him a woody. Seeing as how I'd bodyswap The Bird given the chance, I agreed to help. Quote Selected
If you ever thought we had it bad... Reply #3 – September 10, 2012, 10:50:29 PM vw's are great, but only air cooled ones with sand paddle tires. kinda like having miss america as your accountant. there is a greater purpose. Quote Selected
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