Thought that the Marshall badge would look funny on the grille. I love music, reminds me of amps.

I have thrown away more Techtonics stickers than I've kept..... Just recently decided to plaster my tool box with them.

The Rock Auto magnets are starting to line my garage door.

where do I connect the blue and black (2 together) wires that come from the fuse box that are the “ignition lock/starter relay”. The previous owner bypassed the ignition and now this wire is loose in the dash

I bought this cabby that is missing a steering wheel (and some other things). So I bought a Momo and an 8010 hub adapter. But I'm having some issues.

Picture 1: This horn contact ring assembly thing and the wires for the horn, or maybe airbag, are in the way.

Picture 2: I took of the horn contact ring off and folded it back out of the way temporarily.

Picture 3 & 4: The hub adapter "fits" but doesn't go in enough to close the gap or let the turn signal cancel tab be functional.

Also, the car originally had a contact ring on the collumn , spring tab on the wheel where as for the hubhub adapter has the contact ring on the hub, and there is no spring tab for it to be friends with.

Can anyone suggest a hub adapter that would work here or perhaps a column that I could swap out that would work with this hub adapter?

Looking for some advice on a couple issues that may or may not be related. I’ve only had the car for a few weeks, still learning its personality.

I had a friend ride along with me today to confirm I'm not imagining things. We drove around for about 30 minutes through multiple neighborhoods, doing plenty of starts, stops, red lights, stop signs, and shifting through all 5 gears.

What we found:
The car consistently bucks back and forth in 3rd gear regardless of RPM.

In every other gear, the car drives relatively normally until RPMs go above about 3,000. Once above 3,000 RPM, it starts bucking/surging as well.

The engine continues to pull and doesn't completely lose power, but the bucking is very noticeable.

No grinding noises or obvious transmission noises.

The second issue is a hot restart problem:
Cold start is completely normal.

I'll let the car warm up for a few minutes, drive it for around 20 minutes, then shut it off for about 10 minutes.

When I restart it, the engine fires immediately with no hesitation.

The tach jumps to about 1,000 RPM, then immediately drops to zero and the engine dies.

The only way to keep it running is to hold the throttle and keep it around 1,000 RPM for a few minutes.

Even when I do that, it feels like it wants to stall for the next few minutes before finally smoothing out.

One other observation: the factory oil pressure gauge behaves normally on cold starts, but during these problematic hot restarts the needle fluctuates/waves noticeably instead of holding steady.

Any ideas on where you'd start diagnosing this? Fuel delivery, ignition, vacuum leak, idle stabilization valve, fuel pressure regulator, ECU coolant temp sensor, something else entirely?

There are no obvious cracks in any hoses, all are connected/tight.

What's a good way to test the sender?

Oil temps stay normal, so I don't think the reading is accurate.

Hello all. I have a 89 Cabriolet and yesterday I went to take off and my shifter was extremely loose right to left. Forward and backwards I can feel it catching gears. I was able to limp it home in what felt like only 3rd and 4th gear. Any ideas on if this is shift linkage damage or internal to the transmission.

Any idea good sources for the smaller bright headlights for my 1989 cabby? I have one cracked/broken one and one fully functional. My mechanic said to try to find “he flat ones” because they are better and that is what I’m currently running. I really only need one because of a crack, but would prefer matching. Thanks!

They had always my go-to online store for my Cabriolet. Is there another similar online store?

its a 1989 cabriolet, it blows alot of smoke when i start it so it needs a new engine. im also wondering if anyone knows what that thing is in the last picture

Hi , I recently bought a Golf Mk4 cab (2001, Belgium) and I was wondering what is the fabric of the rooftop? It has not been treated properly in the past and I want to bring it back to life. Can’t seem to find what fabric it is after hours of research on the web. Is it sonnenland fabric or simple Vinyl ? Thanks

Looking to install one in my cabby but I'm worried the upper lip of the dash or the ac controls will be in the way. Does anyone have experience here?

My other option is to fab a setup for a single-DIN one that I was given, but I would have to mount it on the dash or in the center console insert since it has a fixed screen that hangs straight down.

I just got my 1993 Cabriolet back from the shop after replacing the ECM, spark plugs, ignition coil, ignition rotor, and a collapsed vacuum tube (I don't have the invoice in front of me so I may be getting these slightly wrong, if more details would be helpful please let me know).

Driving home, the acceleration felt sluggish. Overall, the machine felt to be running more smoothly - previous to this repair, I was experiencing some issues idling and it would occasionally stall when the RPMs dropped too quickly; this often occurred when I was shifting down to stop at a light or stop sign.

I live on top of a hill with a considerable grade; typically I'm in 2nd gear for most of the ascent. Today, I had to stay in 1st, and even then it was definitely struggling to get up to speed.

Is there something in the nature of these repairs that would cause this? Does it indicate further issues, or am I lucky and it's something that will work itself out?

These all look beautiful by the way

We're living in luxury, boys n gals!