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Cockpit removal
Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2005 8:00 pm
by TheFog
Has anyone ever removed cockpit on polo mk1. I removed all screws, wires, everything, but it won't come off like something is holding it right at the top, near the windshield.
Please help so I don't need to brake it
Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2005 9:25 pm
by ste mk1lx
hi Fog, here goes open the bonnet and remove the black plastic splash shield and the battery, along the fire wall (bulkhead) they are some nuts remove these (i think theres 4) and the cockpit can be removed.
Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2005 9:43 pm
by TheFog
battery is removed, heating system also
what is bulkhead? fusebox?
perhaps you could take these two pictures and mark where are these nuts located, although I think I removed them all, because I can lift the cockpit very high (like "rotate" it round it's very top end where something is still holding)
please don't comment car's condition
Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2005 10:05 pm
by ste mk1lx
unfortunatly I can post your photo's back up on the forum.the bulkhead is the panel that the fusebox is fastened to.I won't comment on the condition of your car mine probably just as bad under the carpet's
Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2005 11:01 pm
by TheFog
can you email the picture at
[email protected] sorry if I'm bothering you too much
you have done this before and it came off easily then?
Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2005 4:55 pm
by TheFog
ste mk1lx> I got your e-mail, I'll let you know in a week if I solved this because I won't be at home till then.
Thanks a lot, m8!!!
Posted: Mon May 02, 2005 11:33 pm
by ste mk1lx
your welcome hope it is of some help to you, you should post your pictures of the mk1 on here (the one that are on club gti) good luck with the project
Posted: Thu May 05, 2005 11:34 pm
by D4V1D
to remove the dash on a mk1 (my mk1 anyhoo)
i had to take out the ash tray and undoi the screw behind that.
then undo the screw either side of the dash by the doors.
mk2's and mk3's is when you start havin to faf aboot under the bonnet
Posted: Mon May 09, 2005 8:45 am
by TheFog
ste mk1lx wrote:your welcome hope it is of some help to you, you should post your pictures of the mk1 on here (the one that are on club gti) good luck with the project
I looked for those two bolts you said and it came out that I removed them already just as I supposed, didn't have time to remove the plate holding fuses though, but I doubt that's what's holding the cockpit because as I said alredy I can "lift" it very far up but there is something still holding it at its' very top near the windshield
how did you remove it, pulling it towards where?