Golf GTI Mk2

[cormac81]

The inner side of the rear strut towers rotted out along with the mount for the petrol tank and in behind the petrol flap.

All cut out.

 

[cormac81]

The rear end getting build up. Fabricated into sections piece by piece

 

[cormac81]

Inner tubs repaired and new lower corner sections in place.

 

[cormac81]

Floor section, inner and outer sill in place.

 

[cormac81]

Inner arch ground back after repairs.

Bottom of the A pillar that was cut out, now replaced.

Passenger side with a smaller repair in comparison completed.

 

[Rigger]

My condolences on the passing of your mother fella. You'll never stop missing her, but it will get easier with time.

Hopefully working on the car becomes easier as you go along too. Some work done so far. Hat off to you.

 

[Ben P]

Sorry about the passing of your Mother. Horrible.

Nice to see the Golf making some progress

 

[civicglacier]

Cormac, I didn’t hear about your mum, really sorry lad.

Car is looking great. Cannot wait to see this done. Such piece of mind when it is knowing that it’s in tip top shape.

 

[cormac81]

Thanks lads. It's definitely been tough.

Some further pics of the progress that was made with the car.

I sourced a pair of good roof cuts from Brendon from Dubstock and John some how got the channels that hold the sunroof drainage tubes in place!

 

[cormac81]

The boot lid washer and the surrounding area had rot, so again all cut out and new pieces fabricated.

Front drivers arch with repairs completed and ground back and getting prepped for paint.

 

[cormac81]

The car was slowly but surely taking shape with all bads of the car cut out and the whole car was completely being taking back to metal.

I had a genuine new rear repair panel but the decision was to use it for cuts, particularly as the typ19 1984-87 has a different upper section for the badges. With no recess for VW badge in the middle but with lettering on the left hand side. It was also good to keep the original seams lines to keep it looking factory.

 

[cormac81]

Genuine arch lips installed with the factory mounting holes for the plastic GTI arches.

 

[cormac81]

Rear strut inner panel repaired with the correct fold. Tank mount and area repaired.

I wanted the car to be white underneath so it was stripped back. No easy task as the car was steeped in factory wax.

 

[cormac81]

As I preffered everything to be genuine, used front panel and sunroof panel were stripped back.

The new genuine door also getting prepared.

Roof taken back with a small pin hole on the gutter lip repaired.

Bonnet.

 

[civicglacier]

Absolutely fantastic lad.

 

[Gambit]

Sorry to hear about your mum

The work required that wasnt visible is what scares the life out me about mine. At least you got someone willing to take it on for you, that's half the battle and work done so far looks brilliant. Will be class looking once complete!

 

[cormac81]

Sorry to hear about your mum

The work required that wasnt visible is what scares the life out me about mine. At least you got someone willing to take it on for you, that's half the battle and work done so far looks brilliant. Will be class looking once complete!

That's it, it annoyed me what lurked below. I knew there were bad bits but not as bad as it turned out. The car was solid and was MOT'd but things weren't just quite right the further you stripped it back.

 

[cormac81]

Further sanding back.

The inside getting prepared for paint.

The rear turrets and boot area.

The engine bay was fine hence the engine still in place but with the nightmare wax and the risk of the colour being off it was decided to also freshen it up.

 

[cormac81]

The genuine used wings now in better shape.

Primer time.

Underneath primed.

 

[Tufty]

Sorry to hear the about the passing of your mum.

There has been some amount of work gone into that Golf. I take it John locked him self away for awhile todo the work on it. This will be a credit to both you and him when it’s finished. I can’t wait to see it finished and wish you all the best when building it back up again.

If you haven’t already got them I would recommend doing the Polo GTi stub axle upgrade it make such a difference.

 

[martybelfastsri]

sorry to hear about your mum mate sad times indeed,,,,,some amount of work on the golf looking round it would never thought needed that extent of work

 

[cormac81]

Now for some shinyness and will bring us up to date to the stage the car is now at..

The underneath and front end painted..

The stages of paint progressing

 

[cormac81]

 

[cormac81]

Absolutely delighted with how the bodywork has turned out. There was so much to do the car and I can see already pieces of work that I havent included here!

Delighted with the fabrication that John Peden did with the car and the final finish is just as impressive.

And now it's back to me for the next stage of the journey and trying to remember where everything goes!

 

[svensktoppen]

Happy days, that's a big transformation already. The rest is just bolting bits back together

You'll find yourself hunting for brand new bits for everything now the shell is looking like that