curing the pissed-off-with-your-car blues...?

Tahrey1043 · Post by **Tahrey1043** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 4:54 pm

i've just about had it... wanting to make the mk3 all proper and shiney again (disregarding the sore-thumb of a door) but its just not happening, not even slowly. can't for the life of me get this f***ing aerial sorted and i've just noticed that rust is again bubbling through on the arch where i fixed it before, which basically means "add another week" onto the fixing-up saga before i get to the T-cut-it-and-advertise-it stage (not even counting any engine work) - and possibly an extra can each of primer and topcoat if there's not enough left.
And there was me just this morning consdering getting a cheap dent-puller from machine mart when i go as well. T*ts to that.

thoroughly peed off now. was close to tears when i spotted those bubbles which were nice flat (if badly blended) paint less than a month ago.

help

pettsy · Post by **pettsy** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 6:40 pm

been there, had the same

just ended up paying someone else to sort it for me.then i made myself feel better by buying more wheels and cars

Tahrey1043 · Post by **Tahrey1043** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 1:02 am

part one was solved with a hot cup of very strong very sweet tea, rolling sleeves up and getting down to it with a committed "avit, you bstard"..... 15 minutes later and some pain... the old cable was freed of the wire tie.... another 5 and some wiggling and the whole caboodle came out and the string with it. another 20 and the aerial was sort-of in, after i'd managed to make the best of the old knackered seal/mounting knobule and the incorrectly-shaped new ones... a gentle 10 spent wrestling the new cable through the seals, firewalls, and foam tubing to finish with felt positively relaxing in comparison

ah, closure

now to deal with all the other stuff - including getting the stereo back in for starters. it's all doable. just a pain in the ass and a slog that requires muchos boiled leaves to get the impetus up for