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UPDATE: Car now up for sale/Part EX    Please PM me if interested

Thanks JV!

Right, I picked up a P reg GTI Colour Concept last Thursday.

The car has a FSH and a huge stack of receipts for all work done on it (except the mysterious respray on the near side, that has faded badly over the years)

In March it had a refurbish gear box, new clutch, cam-belt, water pump etc which cost £500, so I think I got a pretty good deal, as the car drives and sounds great.

As you'll see below, most of the work is going to be on the bodywork.

Quite stupidly, I didn't really get any photos of the car before I did anything to it, but here we go.


Comments and questions here: http://www.golfgtiforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=158415.0

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Heres a few terrible photos of the car before I really did anything to it, just a quick rinse.



Front grill/valance removed as it in very bad condition, photos in a future post



This side of the cars in pretty good condition, few rust bubbles on the lower part, which im getting sorted when the left side is resprayed.



Panel behind the Golf badge is dented in, getting sorted along with the paint. Have some new plates which i'll put on when its time.

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Tracking was all to pot and the way the front tyres are worn suggest they may be a bigger problem. Luckily it was just neglected tracking and this is all sorted. I have new Toyo tyres which ill get fitted when I've finished the alloy refurb.

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I removed all the seats except the drivers seat to clean up.

The seats are filthy, but in excellent condition considering the cars age.

Here is a little before and after of the passengers seat. I used warm soapy water, followed by Auto Glym leather cleaner and Auto Glym leather balm.

All other seats came up just as well, but 2 photos are enough!

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While the seats are out I decided to give the carpet (and under the carpet) a good hover and remove the mini disc player (lol) and CD changer. I may run some speaker cable while they are out if I get hold of some in time.

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Right, I was going to just buy a new grill but all I could find on eBay were debadged ones, so I decided to try cleaning it up.



Firstly I tried taking a heat gun to it, but after about 5 mins the gun broke, and hardly anything was achieved.



So I just decided to take an angle grinder to it, and it worked a treat.



I should have used a finer sanding disk, but the damage was done, so I needed a lot of filler.

After some sanding and priming, its all ready for spraying. Plastic parts were very easy to prep

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Alloys were in surprisingly good condition, with just some corrosion where the weights were and slight curbing.





All prepped ready for priming.



Optimus Primed



Finished wheel with new Toyo tyres fitted.

Brought some good quality rubber centre cap stickers to bring them back to life.
EDIT: They seem to be not so 'good quality' as they are coming loose already, will try something a bit more industrial to hold them on asap.

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Photos of the engine bay before degreasing. Totally forgot to take any 'after' photos, but will soon

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I have ordered various new lights for the front which will go on after the bumpers been redone



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