gday all! yup, its me again! with another Hopefully helpful post!

ok, so this time im wondering, where in sydney is the best place to get a respray. and do u have any idea of the costs?

I.E. my mechanic says he has a mate in concord that will panel beat and respray the whole car for approx 3k? is this a good price? or i can just get then panel beating done for i think 700-800? which includes:
new right rear guard and sprayed
Front right guard beated
rear apron beated
front left guard beated a little (tiny little dent that gives me the shits)


i also have a friend who's dad is a panel beater but i havn't asked him yet as i want AVD's opinion first!

So im looking to get the car's dings and what not fixed up. but as i was cleaning it the other day, it occured to me, sure the parts that are getting fixied are going to look nice, but what about the rest of the car?, iv got paint chips all over it! some on the door from rocks on the freeway, on the insides of the doors when ppl just let go of the seatbelt and it flys n hits the door. (retractable seatbelts)

my paint has many, many imperfections, most of which will come out with a good detailing, but the chips of paint missing wont! sigh... this is all courtesy of my brother who owned it b4 i did, he didnt care about it all all. now i have to pay to fix it

SO!!! what does AVD think?

ill post pics! to give u all a better idea! but i need an oppinion from experienced VW'ers! help a dubber in need


Once agian!!! Cheers all!! Loves yas!

NuZo out!

OK... i kno theres alot of photos here, but i made them all approk 26kb so it should be too bad on ur net! but these are all the imperfections i was talking about.... and they all effect how the car looks so, what do you AVD's think?



Rear left gaurd, some idiot decided to sit on it with jeans that had keys in it!...........................Rear right guard, brother hit a few poles comming up my drive way..



Rear apron, no idea how this happend, but it did .................................................left hand side door



Left hand side door agian.................................................................Left hand door hinges


Right hand light.......................................................................................Right hand door hinges



Fuel Cap and bottom of windscreen


bottom of windscreen agian.............right hand morror


front right guard...................right hand door



right and left inside doors



right hand side of bottom windscreen

where r u in Sunny Sydney ???

sorry! im in abbotsford, which is neer fivedock, concord, burwood all those kinda places.

3grand isnt too bad but you need to look at his previous work. i know i paid 2500 for the paint job on chaos but i got lucky with the guy that did it.

Peeling paint I would remove all paints existing to bare metal, and then you start getting into $10,000 if you have to pay someone else.

hmm....go buy a $40 5inch grinder from supercheap and one of those "brumby" blue scotchbrite pads...oh and safety glasses...anywhere you got peeling paint buff it down to shiny metal...then you will know what needs repairing before you can paint this experience can be very interesting

oh yeah and get a spraycan of primer to protect the shiny metal and at least then you can drive around saying work in progress

haha ok so... if i sand back the paint to bare metal, is it only the parts with peeling paint? or the whole car? and if i do the work myself? how much do u think it would cost then? do they need to do anyhitng special or is it just the same as a normal respray?

thats what mine was. just a spray job with a little body work. my old man and i did all the prep work including rust repair.

Mate if you have no panel beating expertise go to a professional, 3 grand is dirt cheap if his work is good,if not it is bloody expensive .Particularly in 6 months time when you have bits of bog starting to drop out,rust showing under the shiny paint and it goes on.You get what you pay for. I don't know any tradesmen in Sydney but after seeing the vehicles at the shows some of the guys on the forum must be using a good shop they will recomend.

like i said...take the bad bits back to bare metal and see where it goes. nothing wrong with a bit of good bog but not if its hiding rust. your car looks pretty good in the pics and you may just have a couple of places need fixing before you spray expensive paint on it

OK find a place close to you so you can keep eye on the progress