My mk3 1.4 banger

[murraymint]

lookin good, the rocker cover looks pritty smart

[dom]

Rocker cover looks good

Looks to me like your spraying waaay too much paint onto your badges. Lots of very very thin coats are much better than a couple of thick ones, it's particularly bad on the rear badge

[Ferdinor]

Thaanks guys, its not the best but it will do for now 

As for the badges i have another idea that the misses suggested yesterday si might try thattomorrow after my DRIVING LESSON! come on! aha 

Will post more tomorrow 

[stow1985]

Nice work on the rocker!

When spraying the rear badge take the backing plate off and colour code it, or remove altogether, other wise it looks like a black blog on the car 

keep it up

[Ferdinor]

Hi guys, its been a while since i have made an update on this, im on the forum but rarely have anough time to make an update, but here it is

So i thought i would find all the rust on the car and make a start on getting rid of it, for looks mainly but i think some of the patches may have been questioned on the mot. So i began to grind the patches down until i got right down to the clean metal, i then applied some stuff called krust? my dad told me to coat it on it goes on blue and ends up turning black so i did this on all the patches then painted red oxide on, just to help protect them a little, after this i then got on with filling and sanding filling and sanding filling and sanding and so on...... most are now done and coated with red primer but there a couple more patches that need a little more filler but no biggy. so here are some before and afters and just general progress 

So first front right wing before



Now it looks like this, nearly done just a little more filler 


Rear right wing before

Now

Again not finished but pretty close

Front left wing when i had applied krust

Now

Im pretty happy with this one 

Rear left wing

Now


And the worst one witch i did not get a photo of was passenger front door sill but it looks like this now, not done but again very close


I jhust found this litle bit of rust aswell so might do this at some point 


Aswell as all of that me and sam (rcsammy) Made a hole for my cold air feed pipe, not fitted yet but im going to get it through the mot first 


Whilst all of this was going on my girlfriend kindly offered to paint my badges and re do the paint on my headlights for me ( she enjoys art and painting) 
Joey mod now done

And this is how my badges look now, i like them well chuffed 


This is all for now, need to do a full service on it at some point though not sure on what oil, plugs, leads and air filter to go for, so if anyone has any advice i would very much appreciate it 
Thanks for looking 

[GrandMstRamRod]

looking better all the time dude, good work on filler!

[Ferdinor]

Small update

Have not done a lot to the car really, bought a few parts from the scrap yard like a radiator (have not fitted yet) New left headlight as i f**ked the other one up, gti rear lghts and a really nice headunit 
Also done a little bit of work on the rust patches, 2 are now complete leaving me 3 left to do either tomorrow or thursday, will post photos when they are all done.
So here are a few photos 

new head unit (£20  )



GTI rears


joey modded headlights done better and now complete.


And a few bits i bought from work for when i have finished all the body work 

Not bad for just under £10

Will update tomorrow or thursday 

[RyanVW]

great thread mate, car is gonna look pretty neat when your done 

[Ferdinor]

Thanks 
Im trying to get it all done whilst im doing my driving lessons so i can get straight on the road, but its not easy having a job, friends and a girlfriend 

[RyanVW]

Thanks 
Im trying to get it all done whilst im doing my driving lessons so i can get straight on the road, but its not easy having a job, friends and a girlfriend 

Tell me about it I'm constantly messing around with my car after work till dark soo glad it's staying a bit lighter now!