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Sunroof fun yaaaaaay.... End up removing sunroof today and I was surprise that sunroof cables were not broken,however plastic guides and other parts were broken. On my spare sunroof assembly both cables were rusted and broken but tray it self with other parts I need were in good condition. After I dissembled both trays I cleaned and washed and dry all pieces and they are ready now for assembly. I end up taking good cables to work and I had them in hot water parts washer for three hours,then I blew water out of them with compressed air and soaked them for 5 hours in Prolog mixed with 10w30 motor oil. Unfortunately all 4 plastic guides are broken so I need to come up with good used set. I’ll take headliner to same shop that got my headliner done on Wagon and red MI16 on Friday.

...installed H4 LED bulbs in Euro headlights then forgets to test them out that night... lol ?

I’m not sure about diameter of those washers but they do work with my factory wheels and they are designed to work with factory wheels. You can try emailing them for advice.

Powder coated rear brake calipers and heat ceramic coated rotors. I forgot to send out dust shields:-( I do have caliper repair kit and brake pads.

Replacement bumper and support is installed,also I found good set of corner lamps and fog lamps.

Yeah these are bulky and heavy. They need to withstand 5MPH impact with out any damage to vehicle.

Today I removed front bumper and found broken support which made this bumpre salvageable and I’ll definitely use it on something else in the future. While I was there I scrubbed and washed front radiator support and front of support behind front bumper. I did find small amount of mice damage which got addressed right away. Also I installed Euro had lamps and new side corner lamps with LED bulbs and while I was repairing mice damage I added additional connector for parking bulbs in Euro headlight,US cars never had these. I haven’t mounted replacement front bumper yet but I did wash it and painted inner lower grill. I’m still waiting for headlight and fog lamp LED bulbs to come in.

I’ll get it decent enough,definitely not gonna get crazy like I did on my red one or my wagon.

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Bryan is bringing good set of bumpers tomorrow for free :-)

Installed wheel spacers and gave it a wash and quick one coat of wax. Some day I’ll have it buffed out and have paint less dent company come out and take care some of the dents.

Make that trip and we can make copies:-)

I really don’t have any vintage stuff like this so it’s pretty cool to find something as cool as this poster :-)

SavoSpec will buy this :-) Can you give this to Marc? He’s gonna come up my way in a few weeks. Thank you.

I’m trying to duplicate this bump steer kit that I stumbled across on 306 GTI forum. I did send out measurements to machinest and I’m hoping to have this back soon,

Wheel spacers came in today,I got same brand on my wagon but for this car I got them for all four wheels. This company is located in UK.

Very nice sir :-) well done rescuing this old girl.

Don’t you fear MI16 SavoSpec is here to rescue you ;-) What is next thing to do-repair? First thing on the list is to remove interior and wash it so I don’t get syphilis,then repair sunroof and take head liner to upholstery shop. Second thing on the list is to replace rear windshield and get speakers and radio. Once this is done I’ll tackle engine,brakes and suspension. Edit: I should add that it does have hard cold start,high idle and engine cooling fans come on with full speed at random times. I’ll definitely attend to these items after interior repairs. Definitely not a priority at the moment.

Almost one year later I decided to clean it up a little and replace that terrible muffler that was repaired by previous owner. I had great Magnaflow rear box out of red parts car that end up working great on this car with zero exhaust leaks. Next thing to replace or should I say remove was all wiring for god know what purpose they surved which after contacting original owner was for turning on and off A/C compressor,huh? A/C is functioning just fine on it’s on. Few weeks ago when I was organizing my parts,garage and shed I stumbled across my first coiovers that I made and light bulb turned on above my head “deth to wheel gap” so naturally this last weekend I lowered the front :-) At the same time I swapped original 14’s with 15’s out on my Sorento Green 91 MI16. So what does the future hold for this MI16 you may ask? Well I definitely won’t spend the money at it as I did with my red one or my wagon but I’ll make it decent driver and keep it in life. Unfortunately this MI16 has some rust under neath that I don’t intend on repairing,we still have decided California non rust bodies so fixing rust would be a waste of time. However I did order timing belt,water pump,belt,seals,gaskets,fluids,and hub centric wheel spacers as these factory wheels looked like they are sucked in.

Here we go again :-) I found this MI16 on Copart and it was located in New Mexico Albuquerque,to be honest I only purchase it because prices was very low and if memory serves me correctly with auctions fees it was in low $400 range. To have it here in California that pleasure was only $600 and at the time my new place wasn’t available so i had it stored at my friends house. Once it got unloaded it was definitely in the same condition as it was on Coparts pictures. Right away I replaced battery and added fresh fuel and repaired rodent damage on engine harness but no life from the fuel pumps. Quick trip to parts store got me some fresh engine oil,fuel filter,MKII Golf intank fuel pump and main pump out of red parts car and she fired right up. This car had terrible exhaust leak but at the time I did not care about it as I knew she ran strong and I knew I would not have any time for it any time soon. Edit: I did found original owners address in the glove box and I did send them latter with my information and status of he’s old MI16. I end up receiving email with full history of this MI16 and they were wery happy that it did not end up at the crusher. As a matter of fact the deal with donation company was if this vehicle is donated owner must be promised tha it will not end up at the crusher.

I end up repairing it yesterday. Used my hammer to move it forward while motor was moving left side,end being just dirt from years of stuff collecting. End up taking both seat rails a part cleaning and lubing them. Works really well and it moves pretty quick considering how slow this seat motors are. Interior cleaned up nice I’m not regretting time invested but it did take lot longer then expected.

Decided to clean up Sorento Green MI16 and install manual seat belts and ran in to trouble removing D/S front seat. First of all seat switch did not work,took it part and cleaned it with scotch bright pad and WD40 which made the switch to work but seat would still not move. Looking around I found broken plastic part between two shafts,took the parts of parts car but plastic part was too short and rods were longer. I end up shortening original (loneger white plastic part) and using parts car longer rod that got shortened and that did the trick. However it appears that right side door track is stuck and only left side moves. FML! Ran out of time so I’ll deal with it on Saturday.

SavoSpec’s :-) both unique and one and only,no duplicates.

Once this junk is painted I’ll install my new set of chrome emblems,I like chrome ones better.

I’ve been extremely busy last two weeks with organizing garage and parts cars. Last three years I had them stored in three different places and every time I was looking for something I was short on time and these parts end up overflowing and not even god him self could fined what part I needed.Now engine/gearbox parts are in red 91 MI16 and body/interior parts are inside of 91 Wagon. Everything is in boxes and easy to fined,a lot of parts I gave away and a lot of it end up in the trash can at work. I also moved them a part of each other so I can open the doors if I need anything. Missing parts that got robbed over the years got installed back on 91 Wagon. Door jams and engine compartment was full of leafs so I cleaned up that as well. These buckets got new tarps as well :-) XU9J2 A/T is going to be picked up by Hugh.