Everything wrong when I got the car, 240,000 miles.. Thats more than it would take to go to the moon.
Last owner hit a deer leaving the hood and grill damaged
cats had been cut off
both rear wheel bearing were far over due
valve cover gaskets leaked bad
throw out bearing was making noise
the trunk had a dent in it
Paint was far from perfect
Drivers side door had been replaced and painted at some point, along with that came someone elses rust
interior was trashed, missing panels, things unscrewd and left, broken misc parts
central locking pump broken (turned on but only locks gas door and drivers side rear door
The passanger side rocker looks like somone put and axe through it
rear spring on passenger side snapped a coil
Passenger side front seat no longer heated
hand brake didnt work
air bag light on
rear abs had been CUT OFF
drivers side headlight didnt work.
missing the gas pedal, last owner taped a peice of wood or plastic too it.
the radio was ripped out with the amp
heat didnt work much at all
one wheel was spray painted black for some reason and it looked terrible
all wheels were badly curb rashed
car didnt drive stright
Thats all I can remember as of now, and yes.. That is a LOT wrong with it. But being a rare Aquarell green I had to save it!
Now that I have had the car for over a year now.. What has happened to it? The first thing I did was weld in metal were the cats used to be. Then the standard oil change. for about a month I didnt do any more to the car, it drive pretty good, and being winter I wasnt going to work on it in the cold garage. Sometime in febuary I was in a friends back yard messing around in the snow and I blew a power steering line, luckily the pump didnt stay running and break itself from running dry. I didnt bother with trying to fix it in the cold so I left it and would come back to it. After it warmed up a few months later, I detailed the car to really clean up the paint and it looked better than ever, but still not perfect. Sometime near the end of june, the throw out bearing got really bad making a terrible screeching noise, I parked the car for the summer planning to come back to it but didnt until just recently.
So, recent maintanence, put the car in the shop on the lift and got to work, the car was from alabama originally so the michigan rust had not taken over the car. The trans came out relitivly easily (as easy as it could be for a first trans pull) replaced the clutch woth an oem clutch and pressure plate and replaced the slave cylinder. FINALLY the car was back on the road again! Not for long though, I wanted to sort out my bad rear wheels bearings. The next week I went to harbor freight and picked up a hydrolic press to press in and out wheel bearings. What should have been relitivly easy wasnt. The car came apart with ease, but the cheap press had the mount for the jack welded about 2cm off center. I ended up taking the press back and taking the bearing and upright to my local machine shop. I got a call back from them saying the bearing was wrong! Turn out I have a 95 production year car, which uses the smaller bearing size. I took the bearing back and ordered what I thought to be the right one, went to pick it up the next day and it was a cheap bearing so I told them to order a better one. I got the right brand but again the WRONG SIZE! It took four days but i got one right bearing. I had it pressed and back in the car wothing a couple hours. When putting it back together I noticed that the hand brake mechanism was compltly seized, no amount of PB blaster adn prying would break it free. Another thing I noticed was that one pad one significantly worn down than the other, so I switched the pads around and ill check out how its doing in the future. After that, the very next day I blew a coolant line! I ended up fixing that in a parking lot in below 20c temps. I got another week out of the car and I blew a power steering line again, so I got fed up and replced it with steel line to end my problem hopfully for good. I plan on doing new bushings on everything I touch from now on, I want to have a brand new feeling car to make it last another 200k.
I plan on updating this regularly and have many mods and maintancence things planned in the very bnear future! I just bought new wheels and tires along with Tein lowering springs and Bilstein sport shocks. Ill probably upgrade brakes while I have it all apart. I plan on doing S4 uprights to run bigger brakes front and rear.
For the far future I plan on adding a little life to the 12v v6, I know there arent many mods for it but I want to do something different that other people have done. I plan on doing a single rear mount turbo with its own oil and coolant loop mounted under the car. Ill run on 8psi and see how long I can get the car to live, after that engine goes id like to do a full s4 swap but thats getting way ahead of myself. Id like to make it clean and sorted before I do power mods.
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