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    17 hours ago, Cressa said:

    How did I miss this thread before.  My car was from Dovercourt too, I will post up a pic. Are you missing yours yet Chris?

    Missing my what mate?

    do you have the original dealer plates by any chance? I’m having some dealer plates made but would like to see what the original logo was.

  3. Posted

    Hi all,

    wondered if there would be any interest in some 17” speedlines. These would be identical to the OE corrado speedlines just bigger.

    B star wheels who do the bigger BBS wheels and Sebrings would do a limited run if there was enough interest.

    chris

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    5 hours ago, Wild-Animal said:

    That looks great, its a real pain of a job. I can see why it took 40 hours. I am in the progress of doing mine. So far i have had the most success with a citruis based cleaner liquid. What did you use to get thoses results? apart from plenty of elbow grease....

    Thanks, I used a toothbrush with bilthamber Surfex HD and also white spirit.

    have plenty of rags on hand too.

    I did it once to get As much off as possible then went back over it with a clean toothbrush to finish.

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    26 minutes ago, fla said:

    what a transformation!  How high does the car need to be to do this comfortably?  I have some height adjustable ramps but i'd likely end up dropping all the road grime in my eyes and ears! Looks like the sort of thing that would need  4 poster?

    If you look in my earlier post you can see how high the car is. It’s not that high and I can just squeeze under. You have to work to the side of you so it doesn’t fall in your face 🤣

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    22 minutes ago, tonedef said:

    Think I’ve got my original callipers kicking around the garage still Chris if you’re looking for something in a hurry.

    Cheers. Not in a hurry just forward thinking. When I get the back end back down I’m refurbing all the front.

    it’s had a new caliper at some point and suspect it’s not OE.

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    38 minutes ago, Keyo said:

    Few I was feeling for you then ha - how many miles has the moonlight blue done it looks like it seen a relatively easy life-  I think the biggest cause of bad rot is bad jacking and screen fitters- over sized alloys can cause some nastiness as well on the arches- I take a spare set of alloys now for tyre fitting as they always seem to jack the cars up with little regard to the under belly- saves a lot of stress. 

    It’s got 92k miles on it. Seems pretty straight and honest really. Not had many owners and the last guy had it 10 years and barely used it.

  14. Posted

    20 minutes ago, Keyo said:

    Mate if its not peeling dont have to kill yourself taking it all off. That would be an horrific job but good luck with the job if you do. 

    Hi mate, I’m not taking the stone chip off, just cleaning all the oil and factory wax oil off. It’s perfect under the filth.

  17. Posted

    43 minutes ago, seanl82 said:

    Yeah I used Dinitrol too. It's easy enough to get the texture the same as the factory stuff, but my underseal had yellowed quite a bit and was heavy with factory overspray. I went for white Dinitrol and it was too bright and obvious, so a heavier covering of overspray just made it look very patchy. As I had literally everything removed anyway, I just painted the lot!

    Did you spray the underneath? If so did you use rattle cans? Did you lacquer it afterwards?

    I'm thinking of the mess in trying to spray the floor as it is now.

  18. Posted

    10 minutes ago, seanl82 said:

    I'm sure you will mate. Matching the colour of the underseal may be a bit of a challenge. I just painted it all instead! 😆

    Cheers Sean, did you spray all the underneath? Might be awkward to do in the garage.

    a lot of the areas are covered by heat shields so might not be too bad. The original vw stuff isn’t available so got some dinitrol stuff that’s supposed to be like OEM 🤞

  20. Posted

    2 hours ago, fla said:

    Agreed. As an aside Chris any news on your previous cars?

    Hasan

    Cheers, they both sold at auction and fetched strong money. Think the storm went for around £27k

    not sure where they both are now.

    need to get this to the same standard.

  23. Posted

    1 hour ago, seanl82 said:

    😯 modifications!!!!

    😆 In fairness, they're not very elegant and you would never miss it! About time we've had some progress since the garage has been finished! 👍

    Yes, this is not going to be standard, more OEM+. Ideally get it to like the Blackberry one.

    hopefully more progress soon 👍

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