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Paint my wagon .... the rebuild... bug*er

Posted: 26 Mar 2009, 22:53
by syncropaddy
Well she went in on Tuesday for a complete repaint, doors off and windows out .......

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I hope to have her back in a week so I can start reassembling her

Re: Paint my wagon .... almost there!!

Posted: 15 Apr 2009, 22:47
by syncropaddy
The primer stage .....

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Re: Paint my wagon .... almost there!!

Posted: 15 Apr 2009, 22:50
by syncropaddy
And finally a few litres of Marsalla Red ..........

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and now the hard work starts ...........

Re: Paint my wagon .... almost there!!

Posted: 16 Apr 2009, 13:15
by peasant
Shiny, new Marsalla Red IS nice, I must say ...

Any particular reason why you're not painting the roof? High roof already waiting for it?

Re: Paint my wagon .... almost there!!

Posted: 16 Apr 2009, 15:25
by axeman
feels good when they come back all nice and shiny, looking good

Re: Paint my wagon .... almost there!!

Posted: 16 Apr 2009, 17:43
by jebiga41
mmm marsala red nice colour :ok didn't know you were going for that, thats the same as my bus have to start calling your bus mini me :rofl

Re: Paint my wagon .... almost there!!

Posted: 16 Apr 2009, 18:49
by syncropaddy
Didn't paint the roof cuz it only needs a machine polish, the paint is fine and there are no dents.

I went for Marsala Red cuz that's what the colour originally was!!

Re: Paint my wagon .... the rebuild ... bu**er

Posted: 17 Apr 2009, 21:34
by syncropaddy
I love this bit !!

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And the sticker is about right .....

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Re: Paint my wagon .... the rebuild... bug*er

Posted: 18 Apr 2009, 22:07
by syncropaddy
The new windscreen wont fit, the rear washer pipe has stuck in the rear door and the genuine VW rear bumper has the bolt holes in the wrong place.... :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: ................. but apart from that its going well.

Re: Paint my wagon .... the rebuild... bug*er

Posted: 18 Apr 2009, 22:18
by syncrosimon
At least you didnt have to wait 6 weeks for the paint to harden like I did with my 60 quid rustoleum paintjob,

it is looking great imho, new paint is such a joy. :D

Simon.

Re: Paint my wagon .... the rebuild... bug*er

Posted: 13 May 2009, 12:17
by syncropaddy
... and Bug*er again. Fitted a new LLE dash last week which took ages to do and get everything working again and yesterday I was fitting the wiper arms and managed to shear off a wiper spindle. Now the dash has to come out again to replace the spindle and its raining :( :( :( :( :(

At least we are nearly there ...... :D

Re: Paint my wagon .... the rebuild... bug*er

Posted: 13 May 2009, 18:28
by KarlT
Looking good mate, Nothing worth while is ever easy. (As I'm finding with my own re-build!)