Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 16:57:56 -0800
Reply-To: Tom Forhan <fourwdvw@YAHOO.COM>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Tom Forhan <fourwdvw@YAHOO.COM>
Subject: Re: A Day of Vanagon- Seam Rust repair/auto paint
In-Reply-To: <d1ea9acf0801071617h33641e63vce321aafac7e7997@mail.gmail.com>
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Here is a secret source for matching VW paint - but
don't tell anyone:
Your local VW dealer.
I got two cans of flash silver and a touchup kit for
about the same price as paintscratch.com, except I did
not have to pay for the shipping. Took about a week.
BTW, I haven't seen what they do for flash silver, but
I Derek Drew has some paintscratch burgundy that you
can see is off from about ten feet away. He went the
dealer route too and it is a much much better match.
Tom F.
--- craig cowan <phishman068@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> Well guys, today was a wonderful 60* day here in PA,
> so i spent my day on
> vanagon projects.
>
> So while i had the wire wheel out and mounted to the
> drill, i thought it
> would be great to try my hand at some rust repair on
> the body. I started in
> a very inconspicuous area, under the sliding door
> track. I ground it down to
> shiny (but in parts pitted) bare metal, so far no
> holes. I'm then going to
> hopefully come back to it tommorow with somekind of
> primer, i've heard of
> self etching primers being important. Than after a
> coat or two of primer and
> a little sanding, i'm not looking to get it
> perfectly smooth and not worried
> about using any kind of filler, i'll be painting it
> as close to the VW flash
> silver body color as i can. I'm told that there are
> places where you can
> have autobody paint mixed up and put into aerosel
> cans, but i'm not sure
> where these places are. The only place i know of is
> paintscratch.com, but
> i've heard that NAPA does it. Anyone know for sure
> on this? Alternatively, i
> have a decent spray gun so i might be able to get a
> local body shop to mix
> me up a bit, mask off the sections in question, and
> make the seams not look
> rusty and the car look decent up to 3 or 4 feet
> away!
> Any input on my methodology? I just want a repair
> that can at least last a
> few years, and looks better than the previous owners
> HORRIBLE idea of using
> silver POR15 to paint the seams (on the outside). It
> looks terrible, and
> just held the water in.
>
>
> I've been cleaning up a pretty good set of steel
> coolant pipes i have, wire
> wheeling them to the bone and rust proofing/
> painting them up. I also went
> to replace my speedometer today with a replacement
> that has a funcitonal
> odometer, but after taking out the stock speedo, i
> was able to rip it apart
> and fix it! I removed all the gears, put them back
> in line, and epoxied the
> axle in place therefore giving me a functional
> odometer and trip meter.
> While in there, i fixed and lubed the cables (that
> had kinks in them) coming
> from the heater controls, and now their silky
> smooth! I also repaired the
> mirror flop i had going on on both sides of my
> vehicle with rubber gaskets
> from the home depot, and tightened up my muffler
> mount that was shakin like
> mad. My sliding door has been having some trouble
> latching shut, i think the
> bearing is bad in the track....but it randomly keeps
> fixing itself, and it
> fixed itself again today. Another day of vanagon
> will follow tommorow.
>
> -Craig
> '85GL
>
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