not bad. 2 spots about the size of a 50p.
day 4
ground back the 50p sized holes and they are more like £50 notes now! never mind, we have the technology.
didnt get a lot done tonight as i had to sort the wife's car out. back box dropped off on the way to the workshop (7pm) so had to bodge a replacement. the old one was well and truly seizxed in place so it was a bit of a pain. also spotted driveshaft bolts coming lose so possibly a blessing in disguise...
anyway onto the golf.
i had discussed the wheel/arch interferrance issues with my mechanic friend. we talked about rolling the arches out and running the car without the arch trims or side trims. i do like this idea but the whole point of this excercise was to create a stock looking car and let the wheels do the shouting. with budgets firmly on our minds we decided that trimming the return lisp off the arches then bonding the trims on was the best option. hope i dont get shot down for that :embarassed:
so arch trims off and straight away this seems to be a pretty good plan. tin worm has taken its toll on the return lips so they would need to come off anyway. felt a lot better about it after seeing that.
after the metal was trimmed back we gave it a quick squirt of paint to protect the bare metal. we are going to seal it all up properly shortly.
while the car was in the air i removed the rear bumper mainly to make sure the bolts had not seized. thankfully they came out relatively easily.
after refitting the wheels we dropped the fcar back down. filled the boot with wheels and i sat on the edge of the boot. this resulted in no rubbing. (previously with 50kg in the boot the arch was hitting the tyre to such an extent it felt like the handbrake was sticking)
