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MaverickFSI:
Also in reference to the above post, where did you get your inserts & deadrest from? Cheers Ste.
Tfsi_Mike:
Gulfstream11 on here :happy2:
StevenW007:
--- Quote from: Dan on July 27, 2011, 04:24:34 pm ---When you got there to vw customer service, did you speak to anyone in particular?
Dan
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No mate didn't speak to anyone in particular. The girl who answered knew what I was talking about but then requested a callback for me.
Ste
StevenW007:
Thanks for all the kind comments guys. High temperature paint turned up today so hopefully tomorrow I can get the hubs painted then wheels back on over the weekend. Might have to wait though as i'm off to Zante on Monday.
With regards to the seat inserts I actually got mine off the bay. Just used sticky pads to stick them down rather than superglue as if I ever want to remove them that will be much easier than superglue. Did use superglue for the red lettering though.
Ste
StevenW007:
Back from a heavy week in Zante now and thought right I need to get the wheels on. Just before going though I did manage to clean the exhaust and paint all 4 wheel hubs.
First job was the wheel hubs. This took me a good 5 hours as I had to give each hub 2 coats of paint allowing 30 minutes in between coats. When you only have 1 decent jack (not including the rubbish scissor jack that comes with the car) and no axle stands it proved a time consuming job. Anyway I don't have any before pics but I'm sure you can all picture the surface rust that builds up on them almost instantly.
Here is a shot after I had finished painting but still has all the masking tape on.
Then I decided to clean up the exhaust and leave the wheels until I got back off holiday. Here are the before pics, and as you can see the pipes were looking a little sorry for themselves. I used Autosol metal polish which was great stuff.
During cleaning
Finally after lots of elbow grease and some assistance from a trusty dremmel here are the results
Now I landed home at 15:30 went straight home dumped my suitcase and got straight to work on putting my freshly refurbished wheels on. These were done by a company called aerocoat and I am extremely pleased with the result. Hope you like
Ste
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