Project '96 Refurb

[willg54]

New wings being fitted and a dent in the sill nicely pulled out.
Progressing!

[rynaqui]

Cool wheels! I'm glad to see everyone has got some work going on with their S2s as of late

[Error404]

Niiiice

[willg54]

New rims have arrived!

[willg54]

She's gone in! Going to be an exciting wait.

[willg54]

Don’t forget to drill the holes before the wings are painted! ( guess who didn’t.. )

Ouch, not what you want to find when putting them back on!

[willg54]

You should come to Portugal on vacations and have the car painted here, in the oficial Audi body shop won´t cost more than 3,000 € to get the car painted and probably half of that outside the oficial network!
Book it in advance and for that kind of money you can spend two weeks sun bathing in Algarve in a 5 stars resort while your car gets painted an still have some change for lobster and wine!

Told the misses about this... That was a bad idea

[newsh]

Keep the clear ones I have

Don’t forget to drill the holes before the wings are painted! ( guess who didn’t.. )

[psiconauta911]

You should come to Portugal on vacations and have the car painted here, in the oficial Audi body shop won´t cost more than 3,000 € to get the car painted and probably half of that outside the oficial network!
Book it in advance and for that kind of money you can spend two weeks sun bathing in Algarve in a 5 stars resort while your car gets painted an still have some change for lobster and wine!

[willg54]

Unfortunately they all want 10k +. And most still take it back to metal.

[Error404]

I would suggest that this is not the case, otherwise you would never be able to do paint repairs.
Hence my suggestion earlier to take the car to someone who knows them well.

[willg54]

Interesting, most info has been to take it back as the old primer often reacts with the new paint. But you do make a good point about the galvanised body.

[Error404]

Good to hear you are making progress Will
I would strongly suggest not going back to bare metal. Sure the painter will prefer it as its a nice place to start and but don't forget the shell is galvanised and you will loose that hugely protective and irreplaceable surface coating.
Also the original EPD coating (the e-cote primer) is unmatched by modern primers which have been weakened by regulations (in my opinion) - try and remove it and its tough as **** - Just my 2c.
Looking forward to seeing the finished article, sure it will look stunning

[willg54]

Heated windscreen picked up,cheers terrybullwon , replacement roof seals collected, good 180mile round trip!

Car goes in next Friday, hopefully 2 months later out comes a mint s2!

[willg54]

Where's the body shop?

Body shop is Attention to Detail in Rugby. Their work is mightly impressive, several cars in there which were/are going through complete restorations. They were very sensible on price too, having quotes up to a laughable £12k... It's going to be a full glass out and back to bare metal job. Engine etc is staying in as the engine bay is good from when I sprayed it during the rebuild. New jacking rails are getting welded on too.