my crapy 1978 mk1 GLD

[MiKe1_golf]

you wont have a porblem with that mate - must be 50% of all mk1's have that dent

siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiick.

bought a few more supplies today, not alot of progress yet. taken the windoes out and all the trim off and started adressing the more serious rust!

[MiKe1_golf]

Pic dump!

the beast! lol



the rustyness!



the rustyness unpainted! the paint stripper i ued was useless (do i just slap rust converter all over the rust spots and paint over it? or is there more to it than that?)



the lack of progress




surprising lack of floor pan rust the rest of the floor is much the same




the paint stripper i used was crapolah!
my mate is hooking me up with some aircraft stripper to make it a little easier

[TheSledgehammerMessiah]

R31VW Club, Me and you will be rolling in these machines like a babybel cheese down a hill.

Get rego and then get it mega low,

http://www.venommotorsport.com/manufacturer_product.php?manufacturer=JOM&category=suspension&product=Coilovers&make=VW&model=Golf%20Mk%201

Cheap cheap man, i've got some steelies here i wanna get quotes for widening. Let me know how you go and i'll come over one weekend and see how they look!

[Jarred]

looks kinda like my diesel when i bought it, in terms of surface rust at least.

its a whole lottta effort getting rid of it all and spraying it up. if mine car was your colour, i would have left the surface rust and just repaired all the major rust areas.

[16v_kid]

those rust spots on the bonnet, they were similar like what i had on my roof. You need to sand them more down mate..go all the way to the metal.

[MiKe1_golf]

looks kinda like my diesel when i bought it, in terms of surface rust at least.

its a whole lottta effort getting rid of it all and spraying it up. if mine car was your colour, i would have left the surface rust and just repaired all the major rust areas.

that still may end up happening haha.

i'm just not sure what the F i am doing.




yeah Tim coilovers are on the cards, have to wait till after the snow season but. till then i'm broke. im ditching the forester soon, and putting some cash into this thing and some sort of daily. possibly buy back my old 31 if i get the chance.

while photobucket's open
the forester


the ole 31

[16v_kid]

NICE R31

i love em

[MiKe1_golf]

those rust spots on the bonnet, they were similar like what i had on my roof. You need to sand them more down mate..go all the way to the metal.

yeah dude bit there would be say i dunno 999 billon spots like that on the whole thing. what about these rust converter things.

[16v_kid]

yeah dude bit there would be say i dunno 999 billon spots like that on the whole thing. what about these rust converter things.

check out my thread...might help you out.

what i did was, i would sand down it to the metal then put pr15 rust ready over it and then when i would put exoky paint i would get thinners and whip it of. When i wipe it off, a thin layer still stays on. This makes sure it would never rust there again and plus with the exoky...it will never rust in it life.

[Jarred]

i just sanded all the rust spots off, should have used a bare metal protection product as well, but i didn't at the time.

[MiKe1_golf]

yeah ok thanks guys.

i'm only (only ) doing the roof and hood to bare metal, if i sanded each rust spot the roof would be to bare metal anyway , the doors etc i'll just patch up and paint.

[MiKe1_golf]

got some mk3 14inch steelies, and one of the small ?chin? spoilers today the spoiler has a big chip out of it, i think the chip adds to the rat style
wont mount it till the car's painted up though.

steelies...dirty but in good nic they just need around 2-3 inch more lip >

[16v_kid]

cool....keep it up

[MiKe1_golf]

as embarrasing as this is i have to ask.

how the **** do i get the front seats out!

[Peter Jones]

Undo the M6 nut and bolt at the very front of the centre rail at the front edge of the seat.

Pull the adjuster handle and slide the seat all the way back.

If your car still has them you should remove the plastic covers over the runners first.


Pete