Thanks

The golf continues to provide me with enjoyable everyday motoring, the cam belt is now changed along with the super stiff perished alternator belt and i have racked up a good few km recently.
No power assisted steering, no electric windows, no radio, no plastic cover for the engine to hide under, no problems, unless. Some a*#hole decides it would be a good idea to break into the golf despite it not having a radio or anything else much inside apart from a pair of elcheapo sunglasses and the parking permit for work, which they naturally took with them. That isn't so much of a problem, what is ever so slightly irritating is the fact that they stuffed a screwdriver into the drivers door lock after which it was fubared.
Great, thanks a bunch.
The lock was useless as the key no longer went in so i had to lock it from the passenger side (no central locking you see, remember those days?) a real pita.
Every cloud and all that. I got to take stuff apart a find out how it fits together.

 

So off with the handle

 

 

the lock gubbins

 

the brass tumblers from inside the lock barrel, four of which were beyond repair. A bit of internet searching gave me the info that there are only four different tumbler types so a quick call to a locksmith turned up some of these, unfortunately the lock barrel was also mashed and unobtainable from VW so i'm in the process of hunting one of these down. Until that time i reassembled without four of the tumblers, so you can probably open the car with a lolly stick now if you wanted, but at least i could lock it again. To be continued.