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I assume you're talking about the holes there and not the actual wheels? :whistle:

While there does seem to have been quite a bit of parts bin roulette going on, when I bought mine new back in 1999, I was looking at cars in a number of local(ish) dealers. 3 Forest Green 8v's at different dealers, all with same wheels. Interestingly (well, maybe "interestingly" is stretching a...

Just had a trawl back through and spotted that I don't seem to have posted my fave colour. Which is, of course, Forest Green - it's a dark green metallic but with a slightly purpley/bluish hue about it when the light catches it. Was one of those odd colours that was only available for a year or...

Jeez, I know Tornado Red fades like crazy but... :cheeky: I'm now trying to imagine the colour that would result from mixing kiwi and copper :sick:

Oh, and as for the Sibson Inn, someone knew the people that were running it at the time, which was why a lot of folk stayed there. Being a northerner, I used to stay with a mate who lived down the road for free.

AFAIK, the site changed hands a few years ago and the new owners were far more interested in using the place to store shipping containers or something. The track days that were run there were generally pretty low key events put on by various owners clubs for their members - this is back in the...

As a general rule, if there's enough power in the battery to turn the motor over on the starter, there ought to be plenty enough to give you a decent spark. This does, of course, assume that all is well with the ignition circuit. Try turning it over with a spark plug out - preferably testing for...

Dunno what kind of Ibiza you have but mine (2.0 8v, AGG engine code) tends to leak a little pressure from the fuel system if it's been stood for a few days. It seems to start better after allowing the pump to repressurise the system. Insert key, turn to first stop and the pump repressurises the...

You're both kind of right, but looking at the problem from different directions. As offset is measured to the middle of the width of the wheel (as is track), as the wheels get wider, you need to decrease the ET so the inside edge of the tyre clears the suspension and steering. The downside of...

Worth noting that the cupra/gti's have an anti roll bar within the rear beam which most (all?) 1.4's. An aftermarket rear anti roll bars straps onto the rear beam and, in the case of a cupra sport of a gti, is supplementary. On a lower spec'd car, the OE bar isn't there within the beam, so...

Unusual location for a battery isolator - but then I guess I'm more used to seeing them on cars used for motorsport where they're used to remove the live connection for safety reasons rather than an isolator to stop the battery draining during periods when you're not using the car. As an...

No, you can't fit the lens from a H4 single lamp unit onto the back of a H1 twin lamp unit. It might physically fit, but the lenses are different. The beam pattern will be all over the shop if you do. Your choices are replace the lens with the correct lens, replace the whole unit with the right...

You can actually adjust them, by packing shims inbetween the beam and the stub axle. It's a right old time consuming ballache of a job though... If the rears are out, the most likely culprit - assuming your wheels are round and run straight and true - is a bent stub axle. The stub axles...

Most coilovers use standard diamater springs. You could always swap the springs. You could get a set of longer springs at the same rate or same length with different spring rate. Could be an uphill struggle and get through a lot of pairs of springs unti lyou find the right compromise tho

Being concerned about Ibiza's carrying more weight than a Polo is more valid at the front end - 6N Polos never got either AGG or ABF engines. When you crank up the ride height on a set of coilies, you do so by compressing the spring. This increases the spring rate and is most likely what's...

Once you've disconnected the wire to the back of the bulb - should be a single spade connector in a black shroud - and released the bulb holder clip, just pull on the exposed connector on the back of the bulb.

Get an exhaust that fits properly? :whistle: It's possible that it could just be an assembly error - if one of the sections is slightly rotated, the bends will be all over the shop. It could be the exhaust rubbers - being rubber, they can get sloppy over time, but as you've recently had...

orangemuffin - I'm assuming from the pic in your signature that these are the 2xH1 lamps with one bulb for dipped beam and a separate bulb for main beam? I've always found it easiest to pull the connector, pop the clip and then pull bulb out straight. The bulbs sometimes don't sit quite right in...

Talk about a can of worms... There's been many a thread along these general lines on here over the years, but in summary... The GTI Cupra Sport editions replaced the GTI's, being mechanically identical but generally less well spec'd (GTI's tend to have sunroofs, GTI Cupra Sports generally...

Sorry, should have been clearer - that was to take a mk2 Golf 16v one, which you could then weld some extensions into the vertical sections of the four pipes to extend the collector to make up for the height difference between an ABF and a KR, the ABF being a bit taller. I assumed that this was...