Midlands Touring Slaaaag - Wust Wepairs

[Rav335uk]

Looks nice

[oomz1975]

A nice dark red interior would look cool.

[Jim320i]

Just looking at dyes...

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Leather-Colou ... 3453wt_986

Might try this stuff out, medium brown? I think it would look pretty cool with black carpet, black door cards and black everything else

[Meatballs82]

Mmmmm, medium brown!

At least it might hide the stains!

[Kedge]

Aren't you going to b e devaluing the interior though for when the inevitable happens?

Brown or red would look good though!

[Kedge]

Aren't you going to b e devaluing the interior though for when the inevitable happens?

Brown or red would look good though!

[Jim320i]

Aslong as the last mot was a dodgy one then it should be alright for a few more years, although I've not checked anything over... It'll still look cool though
Going brown too, red is a bit too much and every gay in the village has it on here, plus its only comforts so brown would suit them better

[Kedge]

Aslong as the last mot was a dodgy one then it should be alright for a few more years, although I've not checked anything over...

You mean wasn't?
Was a pukka MOT, hence the failure and still having the balljoint advisory! Good job you're currently well practised with wishbones

Personally I'd just clean the interior rather than change the colour, save those pennies for running costs!

[Meatballs82]

Good job you're currently well practised with wishbones

[Jim320i]

New one was well easy as wel, I could have throw it from the top of the drive and it would have landed in place

Although, the handbrake shoe pin popped out on the test drive Slightly battered pad on the new shoe and the pin was a bit mangled, bit of blutac and twigs, everything was sorted.

And the running costs, I dont go anywhere to warrent it costing me much

I will have to remove the carpet though to dry it out and dye it! That will be interesting to see what lies beneath

[Kedge]

I will have to remove the carpet though to dry it out and dye it! That will be interesting to see what lies beneath

The carpet is an integeral structural item from what I saw!

[Meatballs82]

I'd love to come help you lift the carpet on this beast

[Kedge]

The footwell "repairs" are interesting to say the least!

[Jim320i]

I've got the carpet from the chromie that can go back in as thats already blacked up and dry... Although I'd like to see why the current carpet has a current running through it :

Matt, i'm free all weekend, its suppose to be raining from tonight onwards

Also might get the 'move' done before I start stripping the car too much.

[Meatballs82]

Lets have some pics of the under carpet bodgery then Jim!

[Rav335uk]

Lets have some pics of the under carpet bodgery then Jim!

+1

Is it worse than mine

[Jim320i]

Bear with me pickle...

But be warned, its good And the bodgery to fix it involves seam sealer as weld


Im currently just about to get the carpet back in, well, different carpet in black. I say I have given the car a few more years of life though after cleaning out the rust.

[Rav335uk]

LOL.
I need to pick up my carpet from you know, as I chopped up the other on and skipped it.

[Jim320i]

Definately come and get it... Im moving again soon with any luck and I dont fancy moving house with it again



Now... Time for a rusty treat!

I started off by passing a bit of time and was going to level the sunroof as its sits low on one side. Opened it up and there was water and rust sitting in the tracks, cleaned it all out and checked the drains, all worked fine. Think it was just a build up of water and a very rusty sunroof tray. Got another to switch it over to so will do that at some point.

So after I finished doing that I thought I would try and have a quick nosey under the carpet driver side as its soaking.

Removed the wet carpet



To find...





Which seems and looks like it has some slight surface rust





Driver side seems pretty bad, one spot inperticular, so with the idea of getting my Aldi Arch welder out and making it perfect, I chopped the bad bit out. The rest is mainly due to the water thats been sitting. Its been patched from outside



Realised I only own a wire brush and my drill is with Matt still and I couldnt be arsed to wait for another battery to charge up for another drill so wire brush it a bit and used some kurust.





Now realised my welder isnt for normal plugs and that I have never used a welder so thought I would give it a miss... I did have some metal and seam sealer though

Fixed...




Then some paint








All hoovered out and dried... Need to seam sealer the underside, but ran out of the stuff.

Carpet went in. Nice and dry Although I doubt for very long














Still need to grab some more dye for the back section of carpet, the boot lining and the shelf blind thing.

Door cards need changing to black ones too which I have and will do at some point.

Have a replacement driver seat and need to get the dye kit I linked and get the interior done. Should look nice

I'd say it was now on par with x-works M3 with todays quality repair.

Polsta's & Matt's Sports only wish they had this time and effort on them!

[Jim320i]

Oh and I dont think the cream carpet had ever been removed in its whole life no cuts, perfectly fitted. Must have just been lifted on the edges when the welding was done

[jonny323i]

Jim I'm surprised that amount of rust would normally signal the end for the sorry turd

[Jim320i]

It has MOT so making the most of it. Finding the secret rust doesnt change the fact that it drives, its mot, taxed and insured, so may aswell use it until its dead

Its been repaired to the highest of standards now so should last a little while longer...

[capri_rob]

Nice work bruv

[e30topless]

Epic seam sealing, Cold repairs FTW

much safer than burning the turd to the floor or getting Arc eye

[capri_rob]

Whats the bulkhead wiring loom grommet like ? or didnt you want to look

[Kedge]

Love it! I'd seen the passenger side mess when I bought it as the carpet wasn't back in properly, I took the refit and forget approach!

Got seam sealer here if you want to finish the job

[bmandy68]

Nice quality work as per factory spec should help to keep her on the road for a few more years.

[bmandy68]

Nice quality work as per factory spec should help to keep her on the road for a few more years.

[Jim320i]

Passenger side bulk head! Grot around the loom bush, used a Hoover to get the loose off and the relay bracket fell off. If you look at the picture of the interior fitted you can see its dropped down need to tuck it back in.

There was a hole, I seam sealers it up! water tight now.

Kedge, I might do that dude, just so the underside is water tightish, would be a shame for all my hard work to be a waste of time!

Might switch the sunroof tray and get the door cards switched tomorrow if the weather is ok.

[Kedge]

No worries dude, I'm off work till Friday so anytime between now n then should be fine!

Surprised you've never looked at the sunroof, it used to rain down rust onto the back seats when I had it

[capri_rob]

Who makes seam sealer - looks like I'll be needing to buy some shares

[Jim320i]

No worries dude, I'm off work till Friday so anytime between now n then should be fine!

Surprised you've never looked at the sunroof, it used to rain down rust onto the back seats when I had it

Its been on my list of things to do, but seeing as you and Matt both said it use to drip inside, I was expecting it to be rotten as hell, but it wasnt

New tray should sort it out. I checked all the drain holes and they are working fine, air compressor on them and then water down them and it ran out where it should. I did get covered in rust as I openned it though, then it wouldnt close after

[The_Diddler]

Jim, epic repairs!!

[Rav335uk]

Foooook, that's worse than mine

[Jim320i]

Foooook, that's worse than mine

Was*

Now its factory fresh!