Joe's Gti Progress Thread- Leaky

[joe2612]

Thank you all for the nice comments- Just been working in Kent for two days and the fuel economy there and back was much improved after having in cruise most of the way..

Once we have some consistant weather- i'll finish the detail, take some good shots. I have always thought of doing some interiro upgrades- but i'll leave some plans undercover for now
Would like to get some legal pressed plates and the bumper resprayed

[ButlerGTi]

Awesome car man, just read the whole lot very impressed, not so much it's nearly 2am!

Just a quick question, stupid as it may sound, the red surround you have on your grille?
Where do you get it? I brought one off eBay and it's the thinnest tube ever and can hardly be seen! Yours looks awesome?

Cheers bro, keep up the good work
Paul

[joe2612]

Awesome car man, just read the whole lot very impressed, not so much it's nearly 2am!

Just a quick question, stupid as it may sound, the red surround you have on your grille?
Where do you get it? I brought one off eBay and it's the thinnest tube ever and can hardly be seen! Yours looks awesome?

Cheers bro, keep up the good work
Paul

Hi Paul, cheers for the comments. With the red surround: i bought mine off ebay too. However i found they tend to fade after a while, so i sprayed mine with halfords high temperature red paint, along with a few coats of laquer. It keeps it nice and red for ages and if you paint your calipers with the same paint it matches perfectly I superglued mine to the grill section by section.

[ButlerGTi]

Sweet man, thanks for the advice!
Not sure what you mean? Glued it bit by bit?
But I'll try spray it a few times and then see what I can manage! Cheers bro

[joe2612]

Glued bit by bit as in i glued a small section at a time a superglue is practically unworkable lol

[joe2612]

Few more pics of the detailing which i managed to get on with yesterday as it finally stopped raining for at least 7 hours..

Drivers door handle before:




Drivers door handle after!




Boot lid:



The miracle stuff itself- about 1000000000000 times better than the poorboys i've always used.


Horay for reflection shots!



This is how she stands from the back on 17mm spacers:







Primered rear badge:




Old vs new:


Colour coded badge:


Oh and my other new toy



Have a few bits in the post so will reveal soon! Better go outside now while the weather holds! Joe

[gregperkins]

Looking good mate A big improvement! Havn't seen a pic of your BBS center caps on the car yet

[nigelelliott394]

A true inspiration... seeing your progress makes me want to detail mine!

[joe2612]

Looking good mate A big improvement! Havn't seen a pic of your BBS center caps on the car yet

I'm teasing ya Greg, i bought them to use as tea coasters

[joe2612]

A true inspiration... seeing your progress makes me want to detail mine!

Its such alot of effort but worth it! Especially if your paintwork was as bad as mine which i doubt Nigel

[Verity]

Looking soooooooooo good!
And loving the colour coded rear badge!! Looks spot on! Really like it
I've been tempted before to do it to mine, but not sure if it works as well with silver :/

[gregperkins]

Looking good mate A big improvement! Havn't seen a pic of your BBS center caps on the car yet

I'm teasing ya Greg, i bought them to use as tea coasters

Haha they were expensive tea coasters then

[red6n2]

That one bottle lasted the whole car ?. Did you machine it or use a cloth and some good ol' elbow grease ?.

[joe2612]

Have to say the picture does the badge too much justice lol

Well i still have bottoms of doors, passenger side rear quarter and roof to go and about half left. So i reckon I'll have a bit to spare when it's finished.

I'm using a Kestrel Dual action polisher ive had for a few years- only way to go

My technique is basically:

Clay car
Mezerna FG500, compounding pad.
Mezerna final finish, polishing pad
Finishing pad with poorboys black hole
collinite/ purple haze

[red6n2]

Id love to learn to machine polish, would do wonders for my car .