micra man
Golf GTi Turbo
Well as you may know my car went back into the bodyshop for its latest and hopefully final batch of bodywork. The work that Wayne has done was infact crap, and far from satisfactory, and as it turns out most of what has been done will need redoing again. The arches were not even fg on, and everything else was just really a mess. Hopefully I have now found a decent bodyshop, and although I know them, they have had much more experience and seem to know what they are doing.
They started trying to sand the old paint back but its on that thick that in the end they have had to take it back to bare metal and start again!!! I think in one part of the car they counted 19 layers of paint, including blues, reds and a few more colours!!! You could literally take the layers of paint in your hand and peel them away layer by layer. Not very happy about it at all for obvious reasons, but the lad at the shop seems to work very hard, and is prepared to do many late nights to get it done before Donny, which is what I like to see.
He has said it should be in primer by the end of the week ish, so it should still be done in time for Donny weekend.
I will update this post to a certain point but after that all will be revealed at Donny hehe... so you will all have to wait and see the finished product. I went to see it tonight and they have begun the long process of taking back the thick paint which must have amounted to about 3-5mm thick!!! Here are some pics to show progress anyway, still lots to do but I am hoping that he can perform miracles with the car, so it will be done and finished finally. He should be able to get a nice finish on it doing it from bare metal also. Not impressed at the moment but excited to see the final finished result. 
They started trying to sand the old paint back but its on that thick that in the end they have had to take it back to bare metal and start again!!! I think in one part of the car they counted 19 layers of paint, including blues, reds and a few more colours!!! You could literally take the layers of paint in your hand and peel them away layer by layer. Not very happy about it at all for obvious reasons, but the lad at the shop seems to work very hard, and is prepared to do many late nights to get it done before Donny, which is what I like to see.
He has said it should be in primer by the end of the week ish, so it should still be done in time for Donny weekend.