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Old 30-10-2010, 03:38 PM
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Default My series 2 resto from 2 year ago!

thought i would start a resto thread from when i got my S2 couple years ago!



RS has first got it, no tax or mot!







Put new bumper and headlights on as didnt like the morretes.





Ill get the pictures uploaded from when it was in the body shop,













Fuel tank area











Drivers and passenger side footwell soaked!!






















Some pictures of floor finished sort of, got it waxoyled so you will see this later on in the pictures!!

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Old 30-10-2010, 04:08 PM
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damn that thing was rusty undernieth...not too bad though.

and to think it looked mint before you started. damn good work though.
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ill be posted pictures up from when it was primed, painted and put back together in abit















First thing Sprayed!! lovely shine.







Inside of the car, not entirely sure what the black things are for.



Starting to go bacl together.









Floor been waxoyled, looks so much better then what it was like at the start.



When i picked it up from the body shop!

ill find the picture when i did the suspension etc

Hope you like what you see, im currently doing a engine resto so ill be adding pics of my progress through the winter.

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Old 30-10-2010, 05:32 PM
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Looks great ,wheels are crying out for a refurb now with that nice shiney paint
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wow, very very uber clean now mate well done.

how was the roof for rust before you started? i know they rot through from the inside just behind the sunroof.
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The wheels have gone now, the car sits on a set of RS7 softlines,
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nice work mate
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Looking ace mate pics of new wheeks on needed !
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a for the roof, that is being done in couple months, ran out of money for the roof to be done, but the bloke who did my resto,said the roof aint bad at all.
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a for the roof, that is being done in couple months, ran out of money for the roof to be done, but the bloke who did my resto,said the roof aint bad at all.
awsome mate, bet that was good to here as i've seen a few horror stories on here. the only way to deal with them seemed to be chop the skin off to gain axcess, chop out the rot and either weld in new metal or replace with non sunroof.
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great work mate, love the colour
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Very nice mate


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Thank for the comments have found some more pics, so ill upload more today,
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nice job there mate
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just been stripping the front end today, had to stop cuz the bloody rain!!!
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adding more pictures of stripping the engine bay


Engine bay as it was when car was on the road last year,


Start of the stripping down!!


Battery out.


Metering Head out,and Serve off.




Took bumper off and was happy to see it survived the horrible snow we had last december and january.


FMIC, rad and starter motor out.

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