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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.

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

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)

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

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.

Here is my repair panel


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



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

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

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.

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.

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.
Forgot my camera so will take it with me next time and take some piccys

Got some pics now
Welding curtesy of nick



Another rear arch fitted

And started to make a unit

A few more seems to be getting there now. And got a new motor cause the old 1.6 is fubar soon to be replaced by a 1.9 polo motor.






More to follow soon.......................