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Re: The GTI! - Alex's Progress Thread NEW PAINT PG54!!!
Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2009 5:30 pm
by Tigz
The paint looks a little heavy on the engine, although its very red!
Perhaps give it a little rub down with some wet and dry?
Re: The GTI! - Alex's Progress Thread NEW PAINT PG54!!!
Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2009 5:33 pm
by alexperkins
When it finally dries, I might try that....just when its dry!!
Then Ill have to paint it up again, so even more time to dry
Re: The GTI! - Alex's Progress Thread NEW PAINT PG54!!!
Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2009 5:38 pm
by Tim_GTi
Does look quite heavy. Can't really tell til it's all dry and put back together though.
On the plus the calipers look awesome
Re: The GTI! - Alex's Progress Thread NEW PAINT PG54!!!
Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2009 5:42 pm
by alexperkins
Tim_GTi wrote:
On the plus the calipers look awesome
I only did one
hopefully gonna get the rest done tomorrow.
Re: The GTI! - Alex's Progress Thread NEW PAINT PG54!!!
Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2009 5:51 pm
by Tigz
alexperkins wrote:When it finally dries, I might try that....just when its dry!!
Then Ill have to paint it up again, so even more time to dry
You should be fine.
Leave it a couple of days to harden, and just use some really fine wet and dry (wet) flat it down a little and then polish it back up.
Shouldn't need to paint it again
Re: The GTI! - Alex's Progress Thread NEW PAINT PG54!!!
Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2009 5:58 pm
by alexperkins
Cheers bud...ill give it a go!
Re: The GTI! - Alex's Progress Thread NEW PAINT PG54!!!
Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2009 6:06 pm
by Trottagti
Caliper = Good.
Rocker = Not so good pal, Well heavy it looks like!
I wouldnt flat and polish it as that will be very hard to bring back up by hand and will be very hard to acess, I would flat the whole rocker down again and put only 2 coats on, less is more if done right!
Grubby engine alex aswell god get to cleaning lol!
Do like the shinny calipers tho!
Re: The GTI! - Alex's Progress Thread NEW PAINT PG54!!!
Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2009 6:13 pm
by alexperkins
First shot at painting engine parts lol itll never be perfect!
We all like shiney
Re: The GTI! - Alex's Progress Thread NEW PAINT PG54!!!
Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2009 6:41 pm
by Trottagti
alexperkins wrote:First shot at painting engine parts lol itll never be perfect!
We all like shiney
U oh me 10 pounds lol!
SHINNY SHINNY!
Re: The GTI! - Alex's Progress Thread NEW PAINT PG54!!!
Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2009 6:52 pm
by alexperkins
lol
Re: The GTI! - Alex's Progress Thread NEW PAINT PG54!!!
Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2009 10:25 pm
by Tim_GTi
The boys right, that bay is quite the grubby one. I'd have a field day in there
Re: The GTI! - Alex's Progress Thread NEW PAINT PG54!!!
Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 9:34 am
by alexperkins
Itll be clean before the weekend.....hopefully
It seems to have come out ok (at least on the bit you see anyhow!)
Re: The GTI! - Alex's Progress Thread NEW PAINT PG54!!!
Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 12:42 pm
by Tim_GTi
Does look good. Any close up pics buddy?
Re: The GTI! - Alex's Progress Thread NEW PAINT PG54!!!
Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 6:50 pm
by alexperkins
Tomorrow or thursday
Update:
Spent a good few hours washing and claying the paintwork
Its looking beautiful already
Tomorrows plan:
Detail whole car as follows...
Full going over with Megs Step 1 Cleanser
Then Autoglym SRP
Then 3 x Klasse AIO
Then 3 x Collinite 476S
Do all glass, plastics, rubbers, and metal work on exterior
Remove wheels, clean properly, and coat with SRP and collinite
Thursdays plan:
Detail interior with full valet, polish, etc
Re: The GTI! - Alex's Progress Thread NEW PAINT PG54!!!
Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 7:05 pm
by Tigz
Looks good!
I'm currently in the process of thinking about cleaning the car.. not sure if I'll get past that stage
