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jim painter · by **jim painter** on Sat Mar 14, 2009 10:43 pm

I wish i had bionic arms, would make it so much easier. :lol:

Anyway i went on my road trip for my new door. I got there everything fine, leo behaved got the door paid me money and off i went and returned home. Now i was told the door had had a slight scrape on the filler over n old repair so i looked and thought i will just flat it off and refill it. !0 minutes later and i find that i now have 2 scrap doors. The old repair hadnt been done right and it was all rusty underneath and wafer thin and about 2 foot square of rust. So i have got to make one good one out of the 2. I will put some pics up later.

No 1 · by **No 1** on Sat Mar 14, 2009 10:50 pm

how guttin - sorry to hear that Jim - that's rubbish!!!

Bronzed_god · by **Bronzed_god** on Sat Mar 14, 2009 11:20 pm

jim painter wrote:I wish i had bionic arms, would make it so much easier.

Anyway i went on my road trip for my new door. I got there everything fine, leo behaved got the door paid me money and off i went and returned home. Now i was told the door had had a slight scrape on the filler over n old repair so i looked and thought i will just flat it off and refill it. !0 minutes later and i find that i now have 2 scrap doors. The old repair hadnt been done right and it was all rusty underneath and wafer thin and about 2 foot square of rust. So i have got to make one good one out of the 2. I will put some pics up later.

we have a number of a guy in preston who is breaking 40
t25's, he has all sorts of parts and is very helpful ,

however, he does know how much these parts are worth
to people in the vw comunity ...........

(if your are stuck for parts i'll ,PM, the number)

jim painter · by **jim painter** on Sun Mar 15, 2009 11:01 pm

Cheers i might give you a shout if i cant sort something with both doors.
Anyway replaced one of the bushes on the new trailing arm, what a barsteward of a job. :evil:

Done now so a quick clean up and paint and we will be rolling again.

jim painter · by **jim painter** on Mon Mar 16, 2009 11:45 pm

Right heres some pics of the "solid" door that i bought. Its amazing what filler cn hide.

And this was the back

As you can see its hardly solid. :evil:

Here is my repair panel

Can you guess where i got it from???????

Panel tacked on. Got to fully weld it oh joy..... :lol:

No 1 · by **No 1** on Wed Mar 18, 2009 11:31 am

well done that man - atleast you'ver managed to salvage something from what was supposed to be a solid door

its lookin good jim can't wait to see the finished article

jim painter · by **jim painter** on Tue Apr 28, 2009 6:20 pm

Quick update,
Things have been a bit slow with moving house etc.
I have bought some parts off nick, so now i have a roof to fit, a complete sidepanel with a factory fitted window, and a few other bits.
I have just finished fitting the drivers side front arch and step, so progress is moving again.
will add some pics soon.
:lol:

jim painter · by **jim painter** on Tue Apr 28, 2009 6:21 pm

Quick update,
Things have been a bit slow with moving house etc.
I have bought some parts off nick, so now i have a roof to fit, a complete sidepanel with a factory fitted window, and a few other bits.
I have just finished fitting the drivers side front arch and step, so progress is moving again.
will add some pics soon.
:lol:

jim painter · by **jim painter** on Sat Jun 20, 2009 8:21 pm

Got van moved to nicks and started some work today. We managed to get the drivers side rear arch off so we just need to do a repair to the inner arch then put on the outer arch.

So much easier when there is 2 of you doing a job, i think a lot of beers will be in order for nick. :lol: