Luke6n

Well the fabia is sold! Got offered a friends car I couldn’t refuse. Hopefully the right decision 😬

Martin I meant to say that little bottle is panel wipe and is essential to ensure you don’t get any silicone marks in the paint and cleans off all grime before coats. Also mind use rust converter once sanded down. I used bilit hydrate 80 which was good

Hi Martin, The first sill I done was paints 4 u own can which was okay but went on a little thin. Second one I used was upol and found that to be better. Colour I used paints 4 u and the paint match was great can get made up cans directly on eBay for v reasonable price if a paint shop isn’t close by to mix for you. Filler I used upol David’s isopon p38 I think it was I’ve still some left in one can doing both sills. Easy to use and come with instructions. to get it down to the metal I used a 60 grit flap disc on the grinder then filled with filler. Used then 80 to get bulk of filler down then 120 through to 500 before primer goes on. Once it’s primered I wet sanded it with 800 all over including existing paint to blow it in. If you are not happy with primer re do I done this a couple times. Paint and then lacquer I used best part of whole can of lacquer to get it shining. One sill I didn’t have to flatten at all but last one I flattened with 2000 wet then polished and it’s been fine since. Hope that helps!

Just batter in mate it’s not so bad!

Quality read this, would love to do something similar in future. Wiring gives me the fear though! Great job

Looks great, nice example you have. Keep it up

I know you are all waiting with bated breath so I’ll put you out your misery! 🥴😂 Now I used a different high build primer and lacquer for this one and was worried after looking at the final result I had to do a lot more flattening than the passenger side but I think I’ve achieved a reasonable finish in the end after some polishing. I’ll be honest I half arsed the bottom of the wing because those are easily replaced 🤷🏻‍♂️ Ive still got the two bits where the quarter meets the rear bumper to sort now but those can wait. Should only take a couple days to do both weather permitting! Next up is new interior though, just anything that’s not those horrible standards will do. and just maybe some driving comforts for long miles as I plan on travelling all over he uk this year to go biking fingers crossed!

Hi all, been on this forum a while and finally decided to post. Long story short I bought my vrs on New Year’s Eve in 2016. It’s fair to say that I bought an absolute dog at the time, drove fine no bangs etc but since I think I’ve nearly replace every single thing on the underside of the car( should have seen the first MOT) since owning I think I’ve now replaced. discs and pads all round x2 shocks all round. 2 springs consoles and bushes. 3 callipers drop links replaced the alloys as majority were buckled! 3 wheel bearings. probably more missing off this list! anyway for the last 3 years I’ve treated the poor thing as a workhorse and heavily neglected it while travelling for work. Now I’m not doing nearly all the miles I was I was tempted to sell it but I’ve had a change of heart and decided to tidy the thing up and fix all the little bits I’ve been wanting to do for ages! First up is the sills again after it ignoring the issue. Don’t have any photos of it when I bought it but here are a couple of the neglect.