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All finished shots.
Golf R32 - a fixer upper
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Great turnaround. 
Love them seats.
Love them seats.Gambit
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clean fairly lifted it!
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Yeah it's definitely a nicer place to sit now. Feels more mine now aswell.
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Great work!
Can’t beleive the wear on that door handle area, my Ed30 had 102k miles when I bought it and there wasn’t a mark on the door handle area! Weird!
Can’t beleive the wear on that door handle area, my Ed30 had 102k miles when I bought it and there wasn’t a mark on the door handle area! Weird!
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Fantastic turnaround, looks great!
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Theres like a soft coating on there and its worn off. The paint on the wing mirror switches is bubbling too. I'm wondering if they've scrubbed it with something bad. Have a spare passenger handle but I think I'll just sand them down and paint.
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I'd be lashing half a can of satin black on the drivers floor mat @CharlySkunkWeed
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What paint are you thinking of using?
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It's actually a new mat , just the way the light is hitting it in the pic.
Thought about plasticote but think if it's just grey it'll look wrong. Will probably just use car paint to see. At least I can get a close colour match
Suncream/makeup should be banned from cars.
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ProXL do a good range of plastic colours in aerosols, smoke grey or mid grey would probably be a good match.
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Search "1K4868050C 75R" on ebay
karl7900
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My Touareg is the same. Headlight switch, heater controls and the window switches are all worn. Affects a lot of VW/Audi models of that era. My grab handles are leather though
.Hopefully come next summer I'll be in a position to treat myself to a nice motor and these are very much on my radar. I'll be paying close attention to how you get on with yours Adam. Health to drive
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This would pretty much be my perfect spec and colour
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Some miles on it mind you !
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Sorry Adam. That's not the car I was trying to link too. Blame a numpty with a new Macbook Air he's trying to figure out!! The car I was trying to link to was reflex silver, sunroof, DSG, MSFW, 80 odd K miles and under 9 grand. I'll try and find it again here
Should be it now.
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You'll find plenty to choose from at that price, and it'll be pretty good condition too.
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Plenty to choose from and I'm liking the Reflex Silver in them. That one I eventually managed to link to seems to have a good history and spec for my needs. If it was summer next year I'd be inquiring about it. Just need to stop looking at them now cos another car on top of the two I already have really wouldn't be one of my better ideas
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I'm amusing myself more at the 'nah I'll just buy and not really care about it that much...just use it' 1 week later you're knee deep into bringing it back to it's best
Worth it tho
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It's a constant battle not to do what I've always done , get a car sitting perfect. I might just leave the wee parking ding to classify it as the family shi7boxI'm amusing myself more at the 'nah I'll just buy and not really care about it that much...just use it' 1 week later you're knee deep into bringing it back to it's best
Worth it tho
I hit an absolute stinker of a pothole to get the nice egg in the tyre,imagine if that had been the scooby with either set of wheels on. I'd have been raging. Whereas in this I was like "meh, the tyres were going in the bin and the wheels are rough anyway"
It's really just all my mind frame has changed in not having so much tied up in a car. Like I'll keep it tidy but to a cheaper degree.
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Would a new handle not be cheap enough ?
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£25. But need new switches too, and the gear stick surround needs replaced aswell. I'd say a rattle can would fix them and just leaves switches to buy.
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a rattle can will look gack, you need plastidip to give the nice rubber feel.
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That ProXL plastic gear is designed for this sort of job though, but yeah a normal rattle can will be for FA.