{"id":4390,"date":"2019-08-05T08:47:39","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T06:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=4390"},"modified":"2019-08-05T08:47:39","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T06:47:39","slug":"bad-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=4390","title":{"rendered":"Bad design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4391\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/IMG_8957r.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/IMG_8957r.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/IMG_8957r-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The intercooler on my Golf 4 has been dripping oil for a while. Lately it also developed a whistling noise. Time to investigate.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4392\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/IMG_8958r.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/IMG_8958r.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/IMG_8958r-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The plastic cowl presses against the aluminium intercooler and after about 400 000km, wears right through the aluminium.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4393\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/IMG_8961r.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/IMG_8961r.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/IMG_8961r-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Replacing this thing is a bit of a pain in the arse. According to Haynes, the front bumper and right-hand side headlight has to come off, and that&#8217;s the way I did it. But I suspect one might be able to do the job by pulling the windscreen washer bottle instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The intercooler on my Golf 4 has been dripping oil for a while. Lately it also developed a whistling noise. Time to investigate. The plastic cowl presses against the aluminium intercooler and after about 400 000km, wears right through the aluminium. Replacing this thing is a bit of a pain in the arse. According to Haynes, the front bumper and right-hand side headlight has to come off, and that&#8217;s the way I did it. But I suspect one might be able to do the job by pulling the windscreen washer bottle instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4394,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4390\/revisions\/4394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}