Cossiep

Fellas,

I plan to do a slight restoration on my saff to make it mint once again, and wanted to know what sort of money I'm looking at and best methods for dealing with the following areas;

Restoring the underside of the car i.e. slight surface rust etc, what's the best way to do it i.e. strip underseal and hammerite or strip off underseal and get sprayed to match the body and then protective coating etc.

Chassis rails similar procedure plus any welding that may be needed ?

Inner wings - I havn't seen them but would of thought that after 15 years they probably could do with replacin, so hat sort of price would I be looking at to get the outers removed and the inners replaced etc.

As said I'm not after a full on concourse restoration, just smartning up some of the bits that have suffered over the years.

Cheers

Paul

cossiecrew

go morland classics they will do anything you want top money but you pay for what you get

Cossiep

Cheers mate, any contact details ???

JAP CRAP

Any idea of a rough price for doing this???

Maybe you could let me know if you find outCossiep, as I'd be interested too

Cossiep

JAP CRAP - Will do mate

As well as specialist restorers, anyone any advice on doind it yourself ??? as I would prefer to let me own fiar hands do the work also be a lot cheaper too

Andymancos

My mate had his sapph sprayed by moorland in imperial blue look the dogs but it cost him £4000 which to me is abit over the top

goto this site theres everything you wanna know
http://sites.yell.com/passport/goto/...8&mapable=true

cossiecrew

like i said you pay for quality you could have a £800 respray down ya local arches but within 2 weeks its gone dull shit starts coming through well you know everyones been there at some point but moorland realy are the doggs bollox imo ive seen alot of there work

Andymancos

And im currently doing a full restore on my sapph its been total stiriped inside and out then i had the moonstone blue paint sprayed over with sapphire blue, not far off the crystal blue all i can say is it takes along time alot more money than you think to complete im still going hard at it now which remeinds me does anyone know if you can still get the bumper fitting kit

Heres a few pics of how far i am

Andymancos

And yes them crap wheels have gone its now got a set of white Speedline chronos

Cossiep

Pretty much the ame state as mine mate

Anyway, why are you doing a resto on it ??? it looks pretty much mint anyway.

I take it the underside's seen better days or something ??

JAP CRAP

they have no prices on their web site though. fook paying thousands to paint the underneath of the car. its only a saph

Cossiep

Agreed mate, like I said I'm not looking for concourse and to be onest I couldn't e bothered to do a full on restoration with full re-spray etc...... nice if you can afford it

Just looking for a bit of tidying up here and there to prolong it's active life

Andymancos

No just fancyed a change in color, as its the same as the focus and mondeo my mate said that would look nice so here we are (i wanted go black really but it looks ok) currently spendin all me money on bling bits lol

Cossiep

Anyone, know of any places in or around Croydon that could do this type of thing..... obviously with a good reputation not a bunch of monkey boys

Andymancos

Just get on your back with a wire brush and scrub away i would take the rear diff cradle etc off to make things easier then you can hammerite that while its off then underseal it

Cossiep

Sounds fair enough to me just hope there's no unexpected holes developed in the floor pan

cossiecrew

for the guy who asked about the bumper brackets yes you can still get them from ford think there about £50 a side

Andymancos

£50 a side

Cossiep

That's not bad, I was quoted around £70 a side not so long ago

So got the old man to fabricate me some, as he used to work in a machine shop