Riley's 225 quid Corrado valver - Sold.

[Guest]

Coming along nicely Neil, best way to get the door back into shape is going to be by using a dolly and hammer like pre weld shaping etc, doubt it will ever be perfect as it will have stretched the metal already but with a bit of patience and a skim of filler 9or lead if you want it perfect :norty: ) and it should look pretty damn good, I know your quite handy with the paint!! as you must have painted nearly everything on your black one :lol:

[Riley 0]

Haha cheers guys :D

 

Aqua, yep..was thinking of holding a block of wood inside the door and keep tapping away with the plastic hammer (nice weighty one). Ive already knocked it back flat quite a way...but a little more would be good. 8)

 

Will clean the bare metal up, flat it off, prime and skim some filler over/prime as you say.Then paint. 8)

 

The handle isn't sticking open anymore either 8) It was catching the door but its spot on now, all wd40'd too.

 

Is it tornado red this one guys?

 

Neil.

[waynos 0]

looks like tornado red, have a look in the boot at the sticker benath the lock - should have a paint code

[Riley 0]

Aye, will do :salute:

[Guest]

Looks like flash red to me? LY3D is tornado and LP3G is Flash red :grin:

[Riley 0]

Cool, forgot to check earlier...going back up later though...

 

Its up and running again now :D new expansion tank/thermostat/radiator fan switch.

 

 

Neil.

[Riley 0]

Its Tornado Red - LY3D 8)

[Riley 0]

Started getting into the nooks and crannies...

 

Spoiler is well past being saved so ill probably paint it.

 

Removed it to get in underneath, removed the wiper arm too.

 

Can see the crap and faded paint.

 

 

Looking a bit better.

 

Here you can see the crap under the lights/faded paint.

 

Removed.

 

Minted.

 

Refitted.

 

Had to break off the number plate as the screws were well rusted.

 

It was at this point i thought, looks alright that...And then had a word with myself. Im going too far with it man...

 

Neil.

[Martyn_McG 0]

did this used to be sat on a little country pub carpark near me in bolton, the brake calipers and disks had become 'as-one' and all sorts of bits wer piled on the seats!!!

i kept meaning to go in and ask about it and then one day it was gone!

could be another very similar one .. .

[Riley 0]

I don't think so mate? I bought it from Manchester, and it had sat there unused for 4 months i think it was...

 

Neil. :)

[Jon_R 0]

It came from Bedford

[Martyn_McG 0]

as bolton is near manchester i assumed it was that one, strange coincidence! anyway it dissapeared a month or so ago, which was annoying as i was gonna see about buying it!!

[Riley 0]

Spoiler prepped/plastic primed, then painted with halfords sh|t.

 

 

 

 

[Trickygti 0]

Looking good mate, still looking forward to seeing this :)

[Riley 0]

Cheers Rick, its not as mint as it looks in the pics but its a damn site better than it was...

 

Neil.

[Riley 0]

I was just uploading these pics when i was told that my Grandma has just passed away.

R.I.P Grandma. :(

Here they are anyway...

 

Spoiler not turned out as well as i wanted, was too cold when i painted it.

 

 

 

 

Minted one of the headlights...

 

 

 

[g60greeny 0]

sorry to hear about ya gran neil :(

 

but i would like to say woooooooooooooooooooow what a turn around we the rado!!!!!!!!!!

[dirtytorque 0]

sorry 4 your loss.

 

Car looks good.

Has shown me that it can be done.

I'll have to try and clean mine up.

[PiercedWinky 0]

The car cleaned up very nicely!

[Riley 0]

Thanks...

 

Don't suppose anyone has a couple of grill rubbers spare? Misplaced them, had some spares but ive lost them as well.

 

Cleaned the other headlight, and the grill.

It looks a lot better than it is in the pics.

 

 

Need to paint the vw badge black as its crappy peeling silver.

 

[Philuk 0]

looking good mate, amazing what you can get for such a small amount of money!

[VWRETROMAN 0]

Really looking nice, shows what can be done with time, money and I imagine bags of patience! What did you clean your lights and grill with?

[Riley 0]

Hi mate, Mer bumper and exterior vinyl cleaner. Ive banged on about the fact that plastics need cleaning before dressing for ages but not many people listen or believe me or sommet, i don't know. But plastic needs cleaning before dressing, not peanut butter which after a few years will see your plastic a nice baked grey.

 

Decided to knock the door in/rough it up so i can skim it over.

 

Bit of primer before i skim it.

 

Plastic primed/painted the grill badge vw black.

 

Rear one was tatty, so i painted a spare.

 

[Riley 0]

Fitted the front and rear badges.

 

 

 

 

 

Threw (literally) a skim of filler on the door.

 

 

Flatted off with rough paper.

 

 

Bit of primer which i will take off to reveal high/low spots before another skim of filler.

 

 

[Grey 0]

Looking good, there. It's shining up like a new cherry!

 

On page 8 when you show taking the lights off to get to the faded paint - could I ask what products are you using to get the paintwork back like that?

 

Cheers