Camel

Got let down by the person who I was gonna buy the Audi from and saw this. Thought I'd get an insurance quote for a laugh and it turned out to be quite reasonable. Went to see it this afternoon
 
Noticed a few things wrong with it and pointed them out as he only got the car in yesterday. Mainly the electric windows being stuck and there being white/yellow mayonnaise like stuff on the oil dipstick which points to head gasket problems. But he's booking it into an MG specialist garage that he uses and getting those fixed along with checking everything else on the car is working fine before letting me have it. Comes to the tune of between £800-£1000 work at no cost to me.
 
Paint has small chips around the usual areas which is expected on a 9 year old car but the interior is perfect apart from the lalala lighter cover missing and the pedals being a bit scuffed.
 

 

 
Will be perfect parked next to my Mini when it's back on the road.

Got let down by the person who I was gonna buy the Audi from and saw this. Thought I'd get an insurance quote for a laugh and it turned out to be quite reasonable. Went to see it this afternoon
 
Noticed a few things wrong with it and pointed them out as he only got the car in yesterday. Mainly the electric windows being stuck and there being white/yellow mayonnaise like stuff on the oil dipstick which points to head gasket problems. But he's booking it into an MG specialist garage that he uses and getting those fixed along with checking everything else on the car is working fine before letting me have it. Comes to the tune of between £800-£1000 work at no cost to me.
 
Paint has small chips around the usual areas which is expected on a 9 year old car but the interior is perfect apart from the lalala lighter cover missing and the pedals being a bit scuffed.
 

 

 
Will be perfect parked next to my Mini when it's back on the road.

Both of my copies were left in the back of a van. But the postie came back out to deliver them for me! So they're not all bad.
 
He said all he'd delivered was a van full of GTA today and nothing else. :lol:

Both of my copies were left in the back of a van. But the postie came back out to deliver them for me! So they're not all bad.
 
He said all he'd delivered was a van full of GTA today and nothing else. :lol:

Both of my copies were left in the back of a van. But the postie came back out to deliver them for me! So they're not all bad.
 
He said all he'd delivered was a van full of GTA today and nothing else. :lol:

Both of my copies were left in the back of a van. But the postie came back out to deliver them for me! So they're not all bad.
 
He said all he'd delivered was a van full of GTA today and nothing else. :lol:

Both of my copies were left in the back of a van. But the postie came back out to deliver them for me! So they're not all bad.
 
He said all he'd delivered was a van full of GTA today and nothing else. :lol:

Yea, Amazon shipped all orders to NI, Isle of man etc. by the looks of it where post usually takes longer and for some odd reason RM delivered it faster to other islands than they sometimes to do mainland.. Ahh RM :lol:
 
I just don't get why game devs/publishers get all uptight about shops selling early. I mean they still get the money and sales figures in the end and paying customers get to play the game rather than making their paying customers wait longer than the people who pirate it. :confused:

Yea, Amazon shipped all orders to NI, Isle of man etc. by the looks of it where post usually takes longer and for some odd reason RM delivered it faster to other islands than they sometimes to do mainland.. Ahh RM :lol:
 
I just don't get why game devs/publishers get all uptight about shops selling early. I mean they still get the money and sales figures in the end and paying customers get to play the game rather than making their paying customers wait longer than the people who pirate it. :confused:

I looked at it and now I feel sad. :(

Murica!

Murica!

Ooooo shiny.

It must be. I don't even know what this GPA 7 thing is. I just know I'm going to be mysteriously ill starting Monday afternoon on the 16th.

I just got another 12 months of gold for free so I'm sorted for GTA. :D
 
3 other people in my team at work have suspiciously booked the week off. Now there's only 1 person based in my office out of 4 for that week. :lol:

Can't have many senses then. :cheeky:

Can't have many senses then. :cheeky:

Can't have many senses then. :cheeky:

Can't have many senses then. :cheeky:

I tried to heel and toe in my car. Didn't end very well...

I've been a busy Camel!
 
Almost ready to remove the rear subframe. Just need to wait for my brother to get a cargo pallet to support the floor of my car. Then I can remove all the old underseal, grind out the rusted areas and weld new metal in it's place getting rid of 100% of the rust. Then give it a few good coats of underseal to protect the new metal from rusting. The same with the subframe, gonna use a sanding disk to get all the surface rust off then coat it with underseal before putting it back on the car followed by putting on the new brakes.
 
Then onto the front of the car. Going to life the car body over the top of the engine so the engine and front subframe are out of the car. Cut out all of the rust on the front end of the car and weld new metal in and also weld on the front wings and front panel as they weren't even welded before. Just held on by filler and 3 small blobs are crappy weld by the previous owner... Under seal the front of the car and paint the engine bay matte black or blue(still unsure).
 
Then onto the engine, taking the sanding disk to it to get all the rust off then I'll be painting the whole thing blue as well as cleaning the rust off the subframe and painting painting that black again.
 
Then once both subframes are back in the car I'll be cutting out the old floors, sills and doorsteps to weld in new rust free ones in their place before under sealing the middle of the car. Then it's time to prep all of the body work ready for it to be painted properly inside and out.
 
And then all that's left is to put it all back together again which I imagine will take several weeks and several thousand pounds to buy all the new parts that I need.
 
Pictures!
 
Rather bare looking engine bay. Just finished taking most of the engine ancillaries off along with the exhaust and intake.

 
Hole in the boot floor under where the petrol tank sits.

 
Two pieces of metal completely rusted away. They were both solid 6 months ago but it just goes to show how fast rust can destroy metal if not treated properly

 
The front wing should be welded on all the way around. However both of them had 3 small blobs of weld and the rest was just filler.


 
This A pillar is also supposed to be spot or seem welded all the way up. No weld at all, just small metal clips.

 
This isn't supposed to happen. Supposed to be welded, not stuck together with filler.

 
 
Tl:dr
 
I went crazy with a mallet and chisel poking holes everywhere.
It's going to cost a lot of money to put right because I'm doing it the proper way.
I still love my car. <3
At least 2 more months to go, maybe 3 or 4 or December if I'm unlucky.
 
Photo Album Of Restoration

Booked the week off work. =D

Booked the week off work. =D

Enjoyed last nights quite a bit.
Good guest. Good SLS AMG and SLS E test/comparison.
Hovervan made me laugh a lot … love seeing them cause carnage like that. Waits for the inevitable 'it was all staged though' comments.

My car is magic...
 

 
Tada!
 
Yes, that should all be welded. But the front body work on my car is literally held together with filler. Not for long though. :)