Don't think golf variant parts should be TOOOOOO hugely expensive to source.. You handy with doing work on the car yourself?

I could but I don't have the tools and a proper place to lift the car. Only thing I can do is that I search and buy the part my self to save something if I can at all. An old car like mine surely will have some other issues what will come to light now that someone is looking under the hood. Price will rise I'm sure of it.

That's a shame, I'd help ya if I could dude, some axle stands and a good jack would make it all pretty straight forward for any tinkerings that need to be done on the underpinnings.. Do you know exactly what went wrong?

Aft right shock absorber broke and lost hydraulic fluid. Coil spring shows heavy corrosion too, and on one the coil spring mounting also broke part of it missing.

Dang, that'd need a weld for the mount but the other components are replacable easily enough.. Maybe you should consider commissions for a few slots or something, everyone loves your art, it's really epic :3 I'd love to throw money at ya too but I've a project car that has all my financial interests atm

If a vehicle can withstand any type of road for 18 years then it’s a good car.

Yeah, shame that I wasn't the owner of it in the years when this "good" car was in good shape to.

True but for a nearly 20-year old vehicle to through everything it’s been through and still be going is a good car. A number of part in the suspension system have endured 20 years of punishment and only now has just failed.

I had my grandfathers 1989 Chevrolet celebrity Station Wagon (estates to europeans). The alternator and starter failed after 12 years. Those were oringal parts. The first brake line broke when it was like 14 years old and it was original. Where I live the winters are pretty snowy with a lot of road salt used. For a metal brake line to last 14 years of salt is nothing short of incredible.

A few years later I got a slightly newer 2001 Chevy impala. I only had it 4 months when it made a noise when I backed out of the driveway. A-when I got it checked, they said the car was very dangerous to drive. The driver’s side wheel was literally going to break off.

I know the feeling, long story short I'm separated from wife and living with a friend but about 50 miles away and incurs tolls. So I was going to buy a motorcycle because my truck drinks to much petrol. After paying off the last of a few medical bills I thought I was in the clear until yesterday when I found out I have two more medical bills to pay. Like you said money out the window.

Sorry about that, my solution for that is to not to visit the doctors ever. That way they can't find out I'm dying or such.

I try to avoid them as well, but this was an unfortunate necessity.

Guessing you live in a rural area. I know what country back roads are like, I used to joke that if you put ice cream, chocolate syrup and milk in a hug then drive down my old roadyou'd have a proper milkshake by the time it smoothed out.

I'm living in a rural are yes, lots of dirt roads, and potholes all around me, but sadly I'm not in to the milk shake business.

If you don't have the tools, do you have a friend who does? The spring is a bit of a pain to fix, but shocks and struts are fairly easy with the tools to do the job.

NO friends like that. And things usually never that easy as I think.

Damn... and I thought I had issues just getting into the alternator on my '93 Volvo 240... every time I gotta change the belt, I gotta drain the radiator, take it out, take out the fan shroud, disconnect the airbox and battery, and THEN pull off the fan belt just to get to the two alternator belts behind it all while using a basic ratchet set and a piece from a 2x4 to lever the alternator and power steering pullies to put slack on the belts. Last time I had to make sure the belts were a matched set before putting everything back in (took literally the whole day to fight with), and then replace the radiator fluid and get the air out of the system so the engine can stay cool. I tell ya, I don't think the Swedes had serpentine belts in mind when they made my car. Twice now I've had to do the whole routine, first when the alternator froze, and again to replace the belts when they started squeaking.

Hey that quite a hassle, but eat least you seem to know how to do it your self. I, on the other hand, know nothing about these so I leave them alone.

Ah... a magyar utak. Ugye milyen gyönyörűek ?

Nagyon, voltam hollandiában már eleget az utolsó mellék út is jbb mint a fő út amin én nap mint nap közlekedek. Igaz nem is let újra aszfaéltozás után 6 hónappal feltörve csatorna miatt.

Insert slapping meme here.

Inserted.

"this baby can fit so many problems I. It."

Oh, damn.

Dam indeed.

Budapest sem szűkölködik ezekben, bár javul, ám az amcsi sógorom,mikor múltkor itt volt azt találta mondani, hogy ne panaszkodjak,mert ez még jó a New Yorkihoz képest.A főutak,meg ahol a filmeket lövék és a túristák ,ill. a nagyobb forgalom van ok szó-szó,de a többi...nagyon gáz.
Persze ettől nekünk és a te felfüggesztésednek nem lesz jobb persze.
Mc Pherson bácsi nem ilyen utakra gondolt,mikor kiötölte.

JA majd legközelebb vegyek én is telepjárót, aztán kiloghat majd a buza kalász a számból.

Telepjárót ne vegyél,hacsak nem költözöl lakótelepre.
Viszont az én futóművemem nagyrészét is ki kellett cserélni pár éve.
Az utak sajnos olyanok amilyenek.Az önkormányzatiak pláne.

Én már gyűjtöm a pénzt erre, szintén 18 éves, Swift :D Szilentek, lengéscsillapítók, fékbetét. Ha nincs szétrohadva, és a motorja megbízható, akkor érdemes rá költeni, ha nem, akkor szabadulni kell tőle.

Siftet annyiért nem lehetett venni ami nekem volt. Motor jó mert már meg csináltattam, annyira nem rohad csak 2 helyen egyenlőre, ez van jobbra úgyse futja max ugyan ilyenre.

4-es Golf olcsóbb volt, mint egy 2-es Swift? (2000-es ugye)

Bizony, annyira hogy 99-es, ez az igazi szegénység.

Btw, szerintem az nem rossz, "a lot of car for that money" ahogy Doug Demuro mondja néha. Méretben is jobb, meg törésteszten sem a Suzuki kerülne ki győztesen. :)

oh bro... (i have mk4 too) would you be closer I would help you... i have any tool for it

Yeah, the good side of living on the countryside is that literally, everyone is half a day away. I don't remember when I saw anyone personally from this site, but he thanks anyway.

Oof, that's the worst kind of surprise to find. :(

Not the worst it still hasn't gone up in flames.