what did you do to your 944 today
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simdel1
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I finally got round to replacing the horn button. The final straw was getting cut up by an Audi and finding that the button went straight through the steering wheel when I tried to honk at the rude man... Old mangy, bodged horn with off-centre faded logo.
New shiny one
It wasn't as easy as it should have been because I had to fabricate a new retaining ring for the button. I'm now thinking about taking the steering wheel back to its original satin black finish.
JamesO
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Power steering belt snapped, then the heater clip broke, making for a very uncomfortable drive. Clip bodged for now with chemical metal+ cable tie, the belt will have to wait. Stripped the Bailey bypass valve and the bore looked like a ruined 944 cylinder, a bit crap really. I wont buy a Bailey valve again, ignoring the fact that it makes the car sound like its got a cold. I swear this car sulks if not worked on daily. All it needed next was the DME relay and clock to die. The heater clip also showed me the error in fitting the ECU in the glove box.
Hairyarse
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Nice job Simon, how's things? Long time no see! Today my buyer had to postpone as done his back in. Sounded genuine and he was gutted but hopefully coming next Saturday. If that all goes to plan then I may find myself buying the turbo I saw today local to me. Fingers crossed [8D]
Hairyarse
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LOL, there's a queue of people offering to help pull my finger out of my ass!! Week off in August planned to crack on with it Pop up any time for a brew [ORIGINAL: simdel1I'm keeping my fingers crossed for you! I'm not too bad. Still recovering from my trip to Egypt a couple of weeks ago. I'll have to find the time to pop up to give you a hand with the Mk1[]
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peanut
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damn thats gonna be expensive. I'd take a sledge hammer to it if it was me. Bluddy Councils have cost me my first 944 Lux written off and countless tyres , a steering rack , alloy wheels etc doubt you'll get much joy from a claim as they'll say you should have kept to the road grrr[]
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simdel1
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Found out today that the hatch glass has detached quite significantly from the frame. Emergency (black[]) gaffer tape is sealing the worst part of it while I try to negotiate the time I need to attempt to reseal it. This will probably a good time to swap the boot seal, pins and struts too.
]) gaffer tape is sealing the worst part of it while I try to negotiate the time I need to attempt to reseal it. This will probably a good time to swap the boot seal, pins and struts too.
utopia
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Removed the badge and Porsche sticker off the back off the car and took the car to a local bodyshop to have a little dent and a dodgy paint repair rectified. Looking forward to getting it back tomorrow night hopefully looking as new. Will be giving it a good clean and polish, putting the badge and new sticker back on ready for a small local car show on Sunday if it ever stops raining!!!!!
The car is in the booth and now sitting in primmer.Most of the body repairs have been done ( taking out of small dents ripples high and low spots etc) so it is looking straighter than it ever has.I think my mate said he was going to give it a coat of white in order to show up any imperfections he has missed and then it's into it's new colour.Aparently it's to get 3 layers of paint flatted and then painted between coatzs and then 4-6 coats of laquer flatttened between each layer in order to get a really deep shine.Can't wait to see what it will look like after it's done.Then just interior windows engine and bits of pipe-work to go back in.
422hp944
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Colin, Does your mate do painting for a living? I ask because his process is staggering long winded and wrong! If it's a pro bodyshop he will be using waterbase paint for the underlying colour coats, you do not in any way sand these coats...never! The clear coat process will be slightly different as you can sand between coats, but again, not needed to get that deep shine you want. 3 good coats of clear is all thats needed, in fact, the tech sheets on every clear coat system i've ever applied advises 1-2 coats for good coverage but it's no problem to put a final 3rd coat on for extra millage before wetsanding it out to a glass like finish. So to sum it up, the primer should be flatted/sanded with 800-1000 grit prior to basecoat/colour coat being applied and then the next time it's flatted/sanded would be after the final coat of clear to level out any orange peel, dust nibs etc. The finish will be deep and glass like shine should you do it that way....no need for all that extra work and definitely do not sand the base coats!....I hope you get the results you want either way, I'm just trying to help you...not critisize....cheers John Daly.
Hi John. Yeh the garage that I am in does show standard body and paint work mostly on VW campervans Ie split window vans.You are probably right in what you say and no doubt I have probably given the wrong sequence of events regarding the paint job.My mate was talking to me the other day about how he was going to get the finnish I want and I may have mis interpreted his process as the compressor was running and at least 2 angle grinders going so it was not easy to hear what he was saying .All I know for sure is that the finnish will be glass smoth with a very deep look to the shine.We have prevoiusly wom best paint and also peoples choice at van fest as well as having several customers project go on to win prizes at other VW shows.
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