@@DGRetroCustoms thank you bud 👍👍

This sounds awesome

It’s possible to do for sure but a blend like that largely depends on confidence and prep. Also depending on what colour the car is can have a drastic difference on how much of the blend can be seen if any, But I always say if you are unsure even slightly then just scuff the rest of the panel and clear it. The time it will take to do that compared to the time it can take to rectify an issue with a massive blend will be minimal bud, if I’m honest I only blend if I absolutely have to nowadays 👍👍

This is the issue I’m having, I share that opinion, it’s a really nice colour on the mk4’s and I’m really in 2 minds wether to just repaint original or do something special with it, plenty of time to decide I guess as it’ll take some time to do all the work

Few things bud, mainly that the car never seemed to have any boost so I knew somehwhere along the lines the turbo wasn’t engaging properly when it was supposed to and then a visual inspection of the actuator trying to move the vein arm and not being able to due to it being seized up and quite often I could hear the actuator trying to move it for a minute or 2 after the car was turned off, this whole issue also ended up causing the egr controller to go aswell because it was constantly receiving incorrect readings etc

@@custombodyrepair thanks for the reply. It looks like I have the same issue. Should I be able to move the actuator arm while the engine is not running?

@@MrBaffango if you disconnect the actuator then the arm should move without any major resistance yeah, if it doesn’t then like in mine either the arm is seized up or the inside of the turbo is jammed up with carbon deposits 👍

@@MrBaffango if it won’t move freely with the actuator disconnected then use a spanner or similar and get it moving back and forth and suddenly you’ll have boost again and that will confirm the issue but it will only last a matter of days, if the arm moves freely then it’s likely to be that the actuator itself has blown

@@custombodyrepair thank you!

That’s awesome that you had a showroom nearby mate, you’d probably pick one up nowadays for fairly reasonable money 👍

We’ll be getting going properly on this very soon mate so should be lots of content coming shortly 👍

@@custombodyrepair awesome! get ready for the things you never even thought you'd need to replace that need replacing lol Good luck with it, have subscribed!

@@MK2GolfStories story of our lives that is lol, my plan at the moment is to replace almost everything, underneath I’ll be basically turning it into a brand new car so full new subframes and suspension etc along with any and all systems rebuilt like power steering air con etc so that by the end it virtually a new mk4 😁

@@custombodyrepair awesome! that should cover everything then, sounds like great build! im in the process of rebuilding a mk2, never done anything that in depth before

@@MK2GolfStories good stuff mate, it’s all worth it in the end when you get the car you want out of it

Just basically make sure it’s nicely centred and when I do them I pull both the plastic adjuster and the treaded rod toward each other just to take out the play between the 2 mate 👍

Sia air for the 1500 and 2000 mate and 3m trizact for the 3000 👍

@@custombodyrepair ok... What is the benefit of having a foam disk instead then a regular one? And as I noticed that the price is not cheap for those foam disk.... how long do they usually last? Ta

@@meguinness1116 these seem to last absolutely ages to be fair and the foam backed means it has a nice cushion for going over lines and curves etc without having to add an interface pad and gives a lot more confidence you won’t sand through the paint or clear and they are just a bit more gentle on the paint in general so won’t leave you with really deep pigtails like non foam discs can do mate

We’re very much seeing the same results bud, mega pleased with it so far 👍👍

I reckon that might be worth a look for a potential colour for sure 😁

Thank you mate 👍👍

That eureka does look good 👍

We use a few different ones bud but our main one is a snap on ultra 👍

@@custombodyrepair do you do mutch on the spraying side love to see some videos on them

@@ANDY-we7mr that pretty much all we do mate but have had a few issues like this to sort recently so they’ve made good videos

No problem at all

Definitely mate 🤣

I’d have to agree if I’m honest that I’ve very much gone the same way in recent years and my opinion on colour tends to be that less is more, those scuff plates are definitely one of the first things on the list 👍👍

I do like the vortex kit to be fair 👍

Me too mate I’m dying to get started properly on it 😄

Yeah there ain’t much that phases me mate 🤣🤣 I’ll be ripping the whole thing apart anyway and turning it into pretty much a brand new car 😄 I just can’t wait to get started on it now

@@custombodyrepair so glad you see the jest, so so many people on this platform are snowflakes, look forward to your progress, I do genuinely hate all vag though lol

Yeah it’s going to be a fun one this mate, I just have no idea where I’m going to find the time to fit it all in lol

Most of the codes came back to boost pressure actuator, I think on my snap on diag it was 483c and there were a few pointing back to egr controller position from the incorrect turbo readings mate and the car kept cutting engine power and throwing up the half coloured in engine management light in the little centre screen on the dash, mines totally sorted now from doing this and driving lovely 👍 anymore help you need with this mate just drop a comment here and I’ll help where I can

@@custombodyrepair that’s the exact problem I have and also that exact code, all of a sudden I’ve got plans for tomorrow at 6 in the morning, cheers u really helped out here!

@@carlqvisander4886 absolutely no problem at all mate, that’s what we are here for and what we are aiming to do with our channel, hopefully help as many people along the way as we can and hopefully build some cool and fun projects, if you get stuck at all during the job just reach out mate, I don’t mean to assume anything I’m just not sure how handy you are or aren’t when it comes to things like this, you might be a whiz in which case ignore me lol 👍

@@custombodyrepair thanks for the heads up, I’ll reach out incase anything goes south or is successful.

@@carlqvisander4886 no worries Carl, good luck mate 👍

Or….connect it to Alexa. Oh Alistair 😂

It’s definitely on for a colour change Tim, we just can’t make up our minds as to what colour to paint it yet 🤣

Sooner rather than later is best mate, I just usually wait until the clear coat is touch dry and then I know I can remove without causing and damage or impressions in the finish 👍 most the clears we use that within about 45 mins or so

​@@custombodyrepair Thank you, what brand of clear you use ? Standard or fast hardener ?

@@meguinness1116 so we use a few and we pretty much always use fast or extra fast hardener, the clears we use are final systems ultimate, spectral 565-00, they are the main 2 but we do sometimes use others when needed for different finishes such as Matt or satin etc multi mix has also been very good for us in the past

@@custombodyrepair I through that fast hardener is better to use if only spraying a single panel, and standard hardener if spraying the whole car

@@meguinness1116 it depends a lot on environment also if it’s colder use a faster hardener as it’ll slow down flash off times anyway, we can paint a full car with fast due to experience but if you aren’t spraying every day then perhaps go for a slower hardener if doing a full repaint bud 👍

You can leave them in of course but it’s best not to because you aren’t able to prep under them which in the long run could lead to those edges lifting and delaminating bud 👍

You know what they say mate, it’s definitely a small world 👍👍

@@custombodyrepair you literally are 2 mins away too

@@AnthonyCrowley-xj1kq good stuff mate, you know where we are if you need us now 👍👍

@@custombodyrepair yeah deffo mate… need some body work doing on my car at some point

No problem Geoff and thank you so much bud 👍

Have you changed them to electric linear actuator or hydraulic rams and hinges like on our nova ?

@@custombodyrepair I have electric linear actuators

@@user-do1pg4vr9w ok so it should be easier to get the actuators running evenly compared to the hydraulic route as with the hydraulic pump it naturally delivers fluid to the closest ram first or at least that’s how it usually seems on the canopies as usually the right side hits the top position just after the left side but obviously with electric you are just delivering 12v to each actuator and wiring length should be fairly similar so you shouldn’t have to factor in any real voltage drop to any one particular side, I apologise in advance if I ask anything that might seem like it has an obvious answer but I just want to understand exactly what’s happening so we can help if at all possible, firstly when mounting the actuators have you measured and mounted them at exactly the same height on the body on both sides and also could it be possible one or both of them are shifting around on the mounting points causing the canopy to rise unevenly, I seriously doubt either of these will be your issue as you are obviously really capable to have even gone down the electric actuator route and installed them but if we start at the most obvious possibilities and work back from there hopefully we can help with it

@@custombodyrepair I am pretty sure I measured and mounted them correctly, the problem is the driver side is coming down further than the passenger side, and I can't figure out why, hopefully you can help

@@user-do1pg4vr9w so there’s going to be a few options to get where you need to be I think so do you know which actuators you have, brand/model etc or can you send me a link of which ones you purchased so I can check out wether they have built in end limit switches ?

That must have been epic mate 👌

Aw man what a shame after all that work going into it as well 😭

It certainly can mate it’s a bit of a trade off though with speed bumps, the last one we had with fully lowered pans was a total pig over the bumps whereas this one seems great over bumps but I guess we’ll have to choose one way or another, concussions or scraped floor pans 🤣

Easily one of the best colours ever to grace a car 👌

Definitely a good strong colour that mate, we’ve been bouncing round the idea of sort of a BRG pearl over dark base to make it have sort of a deep emerald glow but there are so many options and ideas now lol it’s getting really hard to choose

If we were in aus I’d say you are correct 🤣