Hi chaps
Sorry I have not posted for a while. I have been super busy clearing my garage out and general family life to get on much.
SO! I picked up the car, what can I say, its a beautiful machine. Really love it. It drives absolutely amazingly, managed the 400 miles from Buckinghamshire to Outside Glasgow with no issues whatsoever. Got a nice thumbs up from a guy in a BMW i8 that slowed down from North of 100mph then shot off into the sunset.
Well I'll start with the good points, the car is tight as a nut to drive. no knocks clunks or bangs anywhere, there is enough supporting documentation to fill a library. A nice surprise was that it had a banging sound system with a 15 ins sub and amp in the boot! the car attracts comments everywhere it goes.
The bad
I wish I had not started Prodding, The pictures make it look immaculate, while the general paint work is incredible, there are some areas of concern. Under the rear chrome arch covers there was some corrosion, these were previously repaired badly. I have done a job of tarting them up for now but in due course I will weld in new ones.
There was an area at the rear of the offside rear arch where it meets the floorpan that was quite badly corroded. this has been cut out and a patched for now and well protected.
Before
After
The nearside front wing is toast, I have a new one sitting at home waiting for me.
(no pics)
while tending to the rear arches, I prodded about and ended up poking a hole above the sill in the inner arch. This "hole" ended up with me cutting an 8"x3" ins section of arch out and doing a terrible patch. (I ran out of gas for my mig and could not get the gassless welding right. It was terrible quite ashamed of it. I am a bit of a welding novice. I will of course be tending to these curse word repairs properly. The corrosion was hiding under an area of accumulated mud
Sorry I have not posted for a while. I have been super busy clearing my garage out and general family life to get on much.
SO! I picked up the car, what can I say, its a beautiful machine. Really love it. It drives absolutely amazingly, managed the 400 miles from Buckinghamshire to Outside Glasgow with no issues whatsoever. Got a nice thumbs up from a guy in a BMW i8 that slowed down from North of 100mph then shot off into the sunset.
Well I'll start with the good points, the car is tight as a nut to drive. no knocks clunks or bangs anywhere, there is enough supporting documentation to fill a library. A nice surprise was that it had a banging sound system with a 15 ins sub and amp in the boot! the car attracts comments everywhere it goes.
The bad
I wish I had not started Prodding, The pictures make it look immaculate, while the general paint work is incredible, there are some areas of concern. Under the rear chrome arch covers there was some corrosion, these were previously repaired badly. I have done a job of tarting them up for now but in due course I will weld in new ones.
There was an area at the rear of the offside rear arch where it meets the floorpan that was quite badly corroded. this has been cut out and a patched for now and well protected.
Before
After
The nearside front wing is toast, I have a new one sitting at home waiting for me.
(no pics)
while tending to the rear arches, I prodded about and ended up poking a hole above the sill in the inner arch. This "hole" ended up with me cutting an 8"x3" ins section of arch out and doing a terrible patch. (I ran out of gas for my mig and could not get the gassless welding right. It was terrible quite ashamed of it. I am a bit of a welding novice. I will of course be tending to these curse word repairs properly. The corrosion was hiding under an area of accumulated mud
