Owner Member Name: Brian & Rachel S.
Year: 1996
Make: VW
Model: Jetta GLX
Color: Sequoia Green w/ Tan Leather
Summary of the car:
I bought this to replace my aging mk2 last year, and wish I would have gotten a VR Sooner. It is my daily driver, and has somewhere around 125k on it right now. It’s nothing special, nothing out of the ordinary.
About the only things semi-major things I really would like to do yet –
* smoked ecodes
* to maybe lower it a little – nothing crazy, possibly
* add a skidplate if it goes any lower
* respray the front end – the hood clearcoat is peeling off from an old respray at one point
* swap out a gl decklid with all red tails instead of the winged glx version I have now.
Pictures:
the day after i bought it
end of winter
pretty much as it sits now (need to get pics with the moldings and bumpers & hopefully the flares soon)
Engine Specs:
2.8 VR6 – bone stock
Custom Bent 2-1/2” catback w/ 3” s.s. tip (Old Gold in Fontana rocks!!)
Stainless Steel Magnaflow Muffler
Suspension & Wheels
Stock Suspension, although everyone tells me it seems lowered
16” Early BBS RXii’s w/ 205/45 rubber
Exterior Specs:
GTI Front end swap
Stock GTI headlights (for now)
FK Badgeless Grille (in need of some green paint)
Smoked Side Markers
Laminex Tinted Turns / Dummies / Fogs
Euro VR6 lip
Debadged Decklid
Ghetto Textured bumpers
Textured side molding
Textured euro flares (just need to find time to install)
Trek roof rack with bike trays
Interior Specs:
Basically all stock except for
Light tint on the windows - not to much to stand out, but enough to look a little different
MK4 Monster Mats
Old School Alpine CD Player w/ green illumination
Redlinegoods Leather shift and ebrake boots
MK4 shift knob
Graco Highback Boosters
Little Tree Strawberry Air Fresheners
Notable Acomplishments:
yea… about that. I do have the wheels off of a Waterfest Winning Corrado (if that counts)
Comments:
I never learned until one day at the gas pumps that the fuel door locks with the doors – who knew?!? Ha ha! I thought something was jammed, until it dawned on me.