MikeyBoy's Black Gti

Bought my Gti last November, it was my first golf and I must say it was love at first drive!

Thought it was about time I stuck a couple of pics up!

My paintwork was so bad I'd resigned to the fact that a full respray was needed to get it looking half respectable.

The car is absolutely covered in really deep swirls and scratches on every panel which I tried to get out using "safe-cut" which didnt resolve it, so just out of curiosity I gave it a very quick polish with some old "Colour Magic". Couldn't believe the difference!

Thought I'd just put a few before and after shots up!



The entire car is like this…



During :







It's by no means perfect, but for the sake of a fiver and a quick 20 mins elbow grease I'm over the moon! …just need those silver side stripes now.

there is a lot to be said for colour magic,

When I had my old black tintop the guy used colour magic once a week. When I got it I clayed the whole car and it took all the years of colour magic off, leaving very swirly paint. I gave up and went back to colour magic. LOL

It's cheap and works!

Nice gti by the way

you could use G3 which is a professional cutting compound that should remove most of them.

then a good waxing after to give it a nice buff!!! 8)  8)

I used g3 on my cabby, mopped the he'll out of it! But on a old car/ paint I'd be worried about going through the paint

i see what your saying funkstar it's worth a try, might save hime from having a respray.

i haven't gone through any paint when i been using it.

just an idea  :dontknow:  :dontknow:

The primers showing through on the edges of a few panels after the Tyvek cover I bought from Halfraud's rubed away at it for a couple of months so bit nervous about using the cutting compound, as the paint seems a bit thin!

The bottom half will definately need spraying as it's had a DIY spray job at some point, then I can get the side stripes on which is the bit I'm waiting for, it will be like the icing on the cake! God I sound sad…

Where it's had a diy paint job it might be worth wet flatting and compounding it, as I bet they have ploughed the paint on!

I changed the waterpump yeaterday (while I was at it I thought I might as well change the thermostat for a brand new one)

Took it out for a drive this afternoon, after about 15 mins into the journey cruising along at about 50mph the water temp guage was up to 3/4's - also noticed condensation in the three guages in the centre console by the gearstick???




My first port of call in the morning is to drain the system and put the old thermostat back in to see if that makes a difference - or would that not cause the symptoms?

Its full of coolant and the fan kicks in to try and cool it but I'm sure the temp never went much abpve half way before…

Anyone got any other ideas?

Also, not sure if its related but when I fired it back up and rev'd it after a few minutes cooling down it sounded like it was only running on 3 cylinders? Hopefully its unrelated and just needs new leads or something simple rather than anything terminal! (Fingers crossed) It had new plugs and dizzy cap a few months ago.

Appologies for the quality of the second pic - I left the Mrs in charge of the camera.. :roll: