Category: VW Lupo Forum

Servus! After many phone calls with me VW drivers I ended up here after all. My girlfriend and I have come to the position to have to buy a new car. After a long search we are on a VW Lupo 1.4. Year of construction 01/99,Tuning…etc.! The VW has got a new engine which has up to now about 22000km and the coach has already 180000km on the hump. The seller was very honest and told about the park beule at the driver side and from the paint place, also driver side, under the window which throws already light bubbles. what I think is normal after the runtime. In any case he offered himself that we can inspect the Lupo on an existing lifting platform what speaks for the seller. The price amounts to approx. 500€ NOW MY QUESTION: WHAT MUST I NOTE WHAT ARE THE CHARGES??????

Hello men, I hope one of you can help me a little bit! And I am looking for a radiator grille in red for my Lupo Gti. Like the old and the new 5er Gti have. I know this border is there, (I have seen it on ebay ) but can’t find anything at all in our big, great net now Does any of you know a shop or someone who has such a border? Thanks for the help!! ciao and merci lg sa

Hi you! I’ve been informed about the Golf 4 key for the Lupo for a long time. Since I have “up and up to 2”, so ZV with radio I just have to buy a new key. Exchange the transponder from my old key and learn it. But now to the subtleties, if I buy now a Golf 4 key with 3 keys, can I use the original control unit the third key or not? one could connect to it e.g. a coming home function Because extra the ECU exchange is already happy, especially expensive! What special features would I have with the Golf 4 ECU? Have read something from window automatically to etc…. Thanks for the help! Greeting Fabi

Hello am new here in the forum. Have already read around a little, however, my questions about the Lupo GTI are not answered, or I am too stupid with the search function…. :/ Have to buy a used GTI before me. Now to my questions: – What experiences are there for the 5-speed transmission. Is it in some form “bader” than the 6-speed transmission? – What about the sound of the “gamma” system or the boxes. Is it a rather bad or rather good standard system? – Which Werkas The car I’m interested in has 72t km down. What other “weaknesses” does the Lupo GTI have to offer? What damage can be expected in the foreseeable future? Thanks already, if jmd still has tips to buy —> please write me or send me links

Hello, I would also like to install loudspeakers in the rear area of my Lupo. Normally you can use the trunk for this, but this is very often used by me and the rear seats are also folded quite often. So of course also the possibility of the hat rack falls flat… Well my question…has someone ever installed loudspeakers for the rear rows and if yes how??? Greeting

I thought that topic with the dirty throttle flap to pick up and how to clean it. Background is that the day before yesterday the check light went on and the error code 16891- Idle speed control over set value Causes throttle flaps control unit – occurred. In the workshop they wanted to order parts again, install them and I quote: “Let’s see if the error is gone”. That smelled for me immediately after arbitrary repairs with thick prices without But luckily there is MT and I also found out immediately that a dirty throttle valve or a broken vacuum hose can be the cause. I removed the throttle valve, cleaned it (that was bitterly necessary!) and re-learned it. I found how to do this in this very useful guide, which helped me solve the problem.Instructions The instructions refer to golf and bora, but the throttle valve is also with the lupo (at least 1.0 AUC) quickly found. In addition, simply decompose the engine cover and you can see it already. During the removal I also found a broken hose, which I initially covered with Tesa, until I bought a new one. After I had installed the hose and the throttle flap again, I had still learned the throttle. by disconnecting the battery also the error message was deleted and the check light is off. The throttle flap now and again I become sour I have the feeling that the motor is running a little more spooky. But it can also be imaginable… So if the mistake occurs in you, clean your throttle first, you could save a lot of money….

Hello, I bought this lupo here, and a colleague now said to me that I can’t buy the car at all or he can’t sell it because the airbags are not in it. It would be forbidden to sell a car without airbag because it’s legal if a car has an aribag that it has to have it or something like that. Wanted to secure me for a moment and pick me up with you, certainly know you better with it.

My girlfriend bought alu rims for her lupo (7×15 ET 35; 195/45). the car is about 60mm deeper (or more? The wheel center to the fender edge is 300mm). and now the tires in the wheel box are grinding during curvatures and bad roads. where exactly do I not know but it sounds like the plastic in the kotflügen. what can you do there? to make track spreads, spring travel limiters or suspension (many) harder? It’s not the only thing that’s gonna happen.

Hello, Can one explain to me how the exhaust gas return valve functions.My exhaust gas return valve is always on when the engine is running and hot.

Hi, everybody. I decided today to re-engine myself. I’m currently driving an Audi A3 8l, but the car just got too expensive for me in consumption. I then thought about what it should be and finally ended up at the Lupo GTI, in case I should sell my Audi. Would be if someone could tell me briefly what he thinks of his GTI. Of course nobody will say “I hate my car”, but such a small description was a lot Is the GTi a good choice? Furthermore, I would have 2 more questions: How much budget do I have to plan in order to get something proper? It should be the black 6-speed Lupo if possible. Last question: I drive on my A3 17 tariff in chrome and would count this if this were done without too much effort (bull, in case you can be quite sure then to get the rims registered I don’t count Is there something that someone can do? Can someone say something about it? Should I not use the rims and first leave the lupos on it, what does it look like with the standard draught? Is that enough for the general GTI driver, or are many cars also brought closer to the ground, if so how much? Will you arrange a test drive as soon as possible, but would I be very happy about the answers! PS: I know these are v iele questions at once, but such a car purchase just wants to be well thought out…