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[dontpannic]

This thread is the biggest pile of crap ever.






















Jokes!

I'm absolutely loving your car, James, very well done for the hard work on it, looking brilliant! Very shiney! Hope to see it in the flesh at FITP!

Keep up the good work - shame about the rust patch. Think yourself lucky you aint in my shoes!!!!!!!!

Nick

[knuckles]

This thread is the biggest pile of crap ever.

[dontpannic]

This thread is the biggest pile of crap ever.

You forgot to quote the "Joke" part... :D

[Jeroentje Racing]

Jeroentje - I am not accepting that from the Mad Dutchman!! :lol:

Neh allready thought that.

[heeman10]

Think yourself lucky you aint in my shoes

I do, every morning when I wake up


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Jeroentje -

[knuckles]

This thread is the biggest pile of crap ever.

I didnt scroll down that far

[heeman11]

Don't like red.

[heeman10]

Don't like red.

Me neither, it's as though we have something in common

[knuckles]

OMG another heeman !

one is bad enough - is this a wannabe or your alter ego james ?

[heeman10]

It's one of two people! I will kill/sedate both individually in a process of elimination Trouble is, one lives 160 miles away, the other lives 280ish!

[knuckles]

That milage is nothing - worth the petrol to find out

Just realised the piss take in the sig too !

[dontpannic]

Think yourself lucky you aint in my shoes

I do, every morning when I wake up

[heeman10]

[heeman10]

And I return, with a big grin on my face!

How the rust patch was looking after some grinding/sanding/rust gel treatment:



A skim of filler (preceeded by metal filler to fill in the cleaned-out pits):



Sanded back:



A few skims went on, trying to build up the multi-faceted nightmare that is this particular area! So it was filled and sanded back quite a few times:



I then gave it to the bodyshop on Thursday morning, around 8am. At 9:30 the following day, I got the call to collect it! He touched it up further still, then primed and sprayed it! I still can't bring myself to touch it, as I've spent over five years making sure nothing goes within a foot of this rust patch, but I'm absolutely over the moon with the results!!







He's done a stunning job of it, and if I'm still living here when I decide to "put the car through the bodyshop", I'd be more than happy to give it to him. He has a Mexico in storage that he's fully re-working and bringing up to better than factory mint...which is always nice to see!

If anyone in the north is interested, he's called Ian Bainbridge, and works in Shap. http://www.yell.com !

[mike_wall15]

Looks a hell of a lot better! Glad it's all turned out for the best

[Ghost]

what does he charge for doing that little gem?

how well was it blended??! we need some daylight pics

[heeman10]

Mike - You're right, I think this is my all-time favourite mod!!!

Ghost - I don't know the cost yet, I'll await an invoice. Hopefully under £200, but he said in passing that pretty much anything is £100 minimum, given the materials and time involved in such a job, which I fully appreciate. The blending is invisible. Granted, it had been sat in the rain, but from twenty metres away to up-close, there were no visible lines anywhere. As I say, he's capable of extremely thorough, painstaking restorations, so anything less than perfect is a bit of a mystery to him it seems It'll be hard not to ask him to spray my front bumper properly, and to spray my rear bumper when I've smoothed it and touched up the chips etc!

[Excursion]

Nice match! Finding a good bodyshop is priceless, contacts to keep

[Sphinx]

Glad to see you removed the rust instead of 'converting' it
Those are some shiney metal pits....

[Ghost]

Excellent!

Nice match! Finding a good bodyshop is priceless, contacts to keep

and fully agreed, thats why I asked. I may need a good body shop in a few months and it may be worth me travelling to get the job done right!

[MarkRS2K]

looks good mate

[RS rob]

nice to see a good match james,

some further back daylight pics will be good now,
saying that pics still might not show it,
as my car looked ok in pics before the bodyshop when really it was one dog full of filler lol .

[mk3modda]

that looks mint cant wait to see your car at FITP

[heeman11]

Yea it's so good, I may even put an appearance there myself to check it out.

[MAD_Adamski]

BANG and the rust is gone

[knuckles]

BANG and the rust is gone

Rust never sleeps

[Brammer]

Excellent work, so your finally having it painted then???

[heeman10]

Thanks everyone

sphinx - Indeed!

I've done 50 miles or so since the car was painted, and it's had a night in the rain, so it needs a good washing and polishing, then I'll get some proper pics to show it off, but it looks great where he's painted it.

Chris - That's always been the plan...sort out the mechanical side of things, then sort the cosmetics, so that's up next. Not before this show season's out though, I'm trying not to spend money on the bugger!!

Had it out for a really good blast in the blinding sun today and had a whale of a time. These days are what it was built for, and it rocks the little wiggly mountain roads!

[Brammer]

Chris - That's always been the plan...sort out the mechanical side of things, then sort the cosmetics, so that's up next. Not before this show season's out though, I'm trying not to spend money on the bugger!!

its inevitable

[sLec]

God damn right it looks good, would never of guessed anything went on there

[heeman10]

Update

The last three weeks have been majorly frustrating. As usual, the car's been sitting there all polished up to the max, ready to be driven, but nancy boy here decided he'd had enough of despising the chrome charge carrier, so chose to have it powder coated. The very next day, this incredible band of amazing weather landed in the UK, and I only got it back this morning, so it's been very frustrating missing out on all the sun! Even so, at least it's done now, and although the quality isn't spot on, it beats the chrome hands down

Lightly placed in position:





I've also been playing with the rear bumper; it needed the top recess filling, and the whole bumper needed a bit of a tidy up as you cane see:





Light rub marks in the long oval:



Top strip removed to leave the usual scraggy mess:



Cleaned up a bit:



Let the sanding begin! Most scratches and chips can be sanded out with ease, and at the same time I decided to sand back the ridges left at the corners where the separate mouldings are joined:







Then it was off to Halfords in the Mk6 to choose the best match possible from their many, many colour charts!



The choice was "Hip Hop Red", 'cos I'm gangsta like that.

So I was getting into the swing of things, and while the bumper was drying in the sun, I decided to hack off all the old, dried filler from my mixing board...using a flat blade screwdriver. We all know the scenario Push...push..PUSH...skid...ow...blood



2.3 seconds later:



It's just about stopped bleeding now, taken a good couple of days though! So work can hopefully resume tomorrow. I plan on repairing a chip to the front bumper and respraying it in its entirity if the colour match on the rear bumper is better than the colour I chose from the front, and I'm still hoping to get a set of thoroughly mint Escort GTI 15s to replace my current "vgc" set in time for FITP

[Sphinx]

I rekon you'd have done the entire job in half the time if you didn't stop to take pictures of EVERY SINGLE THING!

[heeman10]

It only took about 40 mins to get it to where it is now, and I ran out of materials just before the skidding incident, the photo's were just to ease the boredom

[bakewell001]

If you're feeling rich James you can buy a set of GTI wheels off Fordpartsuk.com - £459.96 inc p+p

[Excursion]

Excellent stuff, get the charge carrier bead blasted mate, give it that showroom look. I've been busy welding/cutting/grinding today...shame that working in the garage means I don't get any dun