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Re: What did you and your MKV do today?
« Reply #12840 on: February 19, 2025, 01:30:57 pm »
Dropped car off at body shop at the start of Feb to replace rusty side sills / bonnet / fenders and fix misc other rust spots they found. Full respray coming. Should be all done next week. Getting wheels refurbed after so she'll be looking fresh.













Would you be willing to share cost of this work? I’ve thought about this but my car isn’t in a bad enough condition yet to warrant it but I also have no intention of getting rid either.


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Re: What did you and your MKV do today?
« Reply #12841 on: February 19, 2025, 02:50:55 pm »
Parts were ~290 euro's (new bonnet, side sills and one front fender). Other welding etc labour + full respray cost around 1800 euros... so around 1750 gbp all in all. This is eastern europe btw, UK price I don't even wanna think of :D
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Re: What did you and your MKV do today?
« Reply #12842 on: March 10, 2025, 02:35:37 pm »
Got her back finally. Love how it turned out.









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Re: What did you and your MKV do today?
« Reply #12843 on: March 10, 2025, 06:48:25 pm »
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Re: What did you and your MKV do today?
« Reply #12844 on: April 02, 2025, 02:59:00 pm »
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Re: What did you and your MKV do today?
« Reply #12845 on: April 02, 2025, 08:05:46 pm »
Had an unrepairable puncture , which resulted in two new Goodyear Asy6’s @ £97  each fitted, so not too expensive , and now all 4 corners match
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Re: What did you and your MKV do today?
« Reply #12846 on: April 02, 2025, 08:08:32 pm »
Got her back finally. Love how it turned out.










Looks amazing.
It was definitely worth doing. Hopefully you'll get many more years out of her.

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Re: What did you and your MKV do today?
« Reply #12847 on: April 02, 2025, 08:12:30 pm »
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From those pictures your car looks like it's in mint condition I don't think you're ready for any bodywork yet, even the underneath looks pristine.

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Re: What did you and your MKV do today?
« Reply #12848 on: April 02, 2025, 08:15:00 pm »
Had an unrepairable puncture , which resulted in two new Goodyear Asy6’s @ £97  each fitted, so not too expensive , and now all 4 corners match
Every cloud has a silver lining I suppose 😄

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Re: What did you and your MKV do today?
« Reply #12849 on: April 02, 2025, 08:23:12 pm »
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From those pictures your car looks like it's in mint condition I don't think you're ready for any bodywork yet, even the underneath looks pristine.
Thanks - I’m lucky I have a company electric car as a daily so this gets garaged and doesn’t come out when it’s bad weather. I’m only the second owner and the first had it for 10 years. Last year I replaced all the rear suspension arms and year before the fronts. I should have dropped the rear subframe and had it wire brushed and painted as that’s now annoying with everything else new. I might just do it in situ anyway. Only thing left is to do front end paintwork as there are stone chips. Sills have some slight blistering and I’ve already got some R32 side skirts so that can all be done together too.


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Re: What did you and your MKV do today?
« Reply #12850 on: April 02, 2025, 08:53:26 pm »
That's good that you can wait for nice weather and go out and enjoy it. Plus hopefully you'll get many more years. It's nice you've had it so long, you don't have to think about what work may need doing and wether it had a hard life.