Suggestions for new tutorials?

Owen

This place is starting to bounce with all the DIY tutorials everyone's throwing in, which is great. Does anyone have any request for another bodywork tutorial, given that the scratch/scrape repair, and alloy refurb ones are done?

Hal1

Colour coding door & bumper trims would be a good one. Stone chip repair to bumpers?

Eire-Dearg

Something from here perhaps

langdang

I did just buy a car with sun cream (I think) paw prints every where and some scummer's attempt at scratching a word on the bonnet*..... any definitive PD remedies without doing yourself outta too much business?

*Hey, it was cheeep cheeep

Hal1

langdang wrote: »

I did just buy a car with sun cream (I think) paw prints every where and some scummer's attempt at scratching a word on the bonnet*..... any definitive PD remedies without doing yourself outta too much business?

*Hey, it was cheeep cheeep

I'm sure PD will be on here shortly, but my €0.02c would be to wash the bonnet really well, clay it using some good lube to avoid maring (streaks), and polish with autogylm super resign polish and high gloss finish on afterwards with a machine polisher. A suitable HD wax then should bring it back to it's former glory.

Some more suggestions from recent thread: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056284386

langdang

Hal1 wrote: »

I'm sure PD will be on here shortly, but my €0.02c would be to wash the bonnet really well, clay it using some good lube to avoid maring (streaks), and polish with autogylm super resign polish and high gloss finish on afterwards with a machine polisher. A suitable HD wax then should bring it back to it's former glory.

Some more suggestions from recent thread: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056284386

There is a clay bar and SRP in the kitchen but her MINI has first preference on that - my car has no former glory! How about Isopropyl Alcohol and Lidl's finest W5 car polish?

richardsheil

PaintDoctor wrote: »

This place is starting to bounce with all the DIY tutorials everyone's throwing in, which is great. Does anyone have any request for another bodywork tutorial, given that the scratch/scrape repair, and alloy refurb ones are done?

Sorry for this question: Where are the tutorials?

Buford T Justice

I think an ABC of sanding, filling, priming and painting would be good.

I know I've posted this before, but a definitive guide would be good.

Say I have a rust hole in my car and I want to fix it. If there was a guide to say:

Cut out the rust using x method, making sure y is completed

Sand down using x grit then y grit.

Fill with filler using x amount of coats spading them in y way.

and so on and so forth.

I'm having issues with my filler bubbling and I'm convinced that its something that I did or didn't do, and a basic guide for this would be excellent. If you look at the link in my sig, you can see what its for, but its not something that I can afford to have a bodyshop do, and I'm quite willing to tackle it myself.


My 2c

MetzgerMeister

Fingers McGee wrote: »

I think an ABC of sanding, filling, priming and painting would be good.

I know I've posted this before, but a definitive guide would be good.

Say I have a rust hole in my car and I want to fix it. If there was a guide to say:

Cut out the rust using x method, making sure y is completed

Sand down using x grit then y grit.

Fill with filler using x amount of coats spading them in y way.

and so on and so forth.

I'm having issues with my filler bubbling and I'm convinced that its something that I did or didn't do, and a basic guide for this would be excellent. If you look at the link in my sig, you can see what its for, but its not something that I can afford to have a bodyshop do, and I'm quite willing to tackle it myself.


My 2c

Depending on the size of the rust hole, cutting it out and using filler mightn't be the best option. The best idea would be to weld a new piece of metal in its place, then use filler to smooth it out if neccessary.

Buford T Justice

Fair Enough, but its the bodywork aspect of filling and sanding onwards that I'd be interested in.